Vise is American English.

Home country is listed as USA. Thank you for the info.

and not nutz ?

The Republicans new in DC are all followers, the leader is way out of sight.

https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/william-barrs-personal-ties-jeffrey-epstein/

I still want to know why Ron Johnson and a contingent of reThugs spent Independence Day in Moscow a couple of years ago. His “win” over Russ Feingold gets more suspicious with every laundered Russian tactic he employs.

... calamity or anything close.

I saw a translation of these things during one of Russia's talk shows in 2016 and was floored at how much Trump has given them what they want

Money, power ? If Putin's the eventual winner where does that leave them ?

Americans will lose but Trump will take the hit because of the economy will go further into the dumps without being propped by US debt

Two big name contributors are Oleg Deripaska and Len Blavatnik. In the end it leaves a fair few of our Congress reps beholden to the Russian mob and/or Putin. Don't forget that when the DNC email servers were hacked in the last presidential election, the RNC servers were as well. Only the DNC emails were released. Somebody still has the RNC emails, but has held them back. Isn't kompromat adorable?

You nailed it.

Look no further than greed and power and you'll have your answer, no one is 'pulling their strings'.

YES! My first time to be THE GRAMMAR POLICE instead of a grammar offender!