Red carpet for Putin?

The Trump world is so hard to decipher. First of all he wanted to be friends with Putin, then, after even he had to agree that the Russians had interfered in the US 2016 election, he went along with all the new sanctions put in his in-tray to punish individual Russians and organisations, then he took a tough stand against the Salisbury poisoning and kicked out 60 Ruskie diplomats/FSB/GRU spies from Washington; and then rang Putin and invited him to the White House! Red carpet stuff, dinner, bands playing perhaps. It makes so little sense. I expect Putin was quite surprised too. "Hey, Sergey," he probably shouted to Lavrov, his lapdog foreign minister, "You won't believe this but Trump has just invited me to Washington. How about that? I said yes. So get it sorted." If the Brits are clever, they'll serve a summons on him to be questioned by the Wiltshire police in connection with the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter as he comes out of the White House! The thought of Putin being gladhanded by Trump on a visit to the White House really does stick in the throat. But anything is possible with Trump. This is the political world we live in now. Protocol has gone out of the window. Everything now is done according to instinct. The leader of the free world, as the president of the United States used to be described, does what the hell he wants. It's great news for Putin. He'll get on with Trump like a house on fire, and will then go back to Moscow and carry on as before, plotting and planning and cyber-attacking and denying any knowledge of anything so nefarious as launching a nerve agent attack on British territory.