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‘Trump is terrified of Putin. I’ve seen it first-hand’

‘Trump is terrified of Putin. I’ve seen it first-hand’

US president’s former Russia tsar believes World War Three is upon us as White House struggles to secure peace with the Kremlin

Vladimir Putin is all smiles after his meeting with Donald Trump in Helsinki in July 2018.  AP

It could, of course, have been pure coincidence that when Vladimir Putin unveiled Russia’s first hypersonic missile to the world, he did so with a simulation of the weapon plummeting into an unnamed peninsula bearing an uncanny resemblance to Florida.

The similarity was not lost on Donald Trump, whose face whitened as he watched on, presumably with visions of his beloved Mar-a-Lago resort reduced to an atomic wasteland flashing before his eyes.

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