Fascinating...thanks for this.  I'll be watching.

In a nutshell: because of his sad shortcomings and personality, Donald Trump is just a puppet--for Roger Stone, for two Russian operatives visiting the White House, for...well, for just about anybody who knows how to stroke him just the right way, buttress his vulnerable ego. This is good, for our PM and the NAFTA people...heck, Justin Trudeau's  phone calls ensured NAFTA is still on the table!  Flip...--"The Prime Minister of Canada on the line, sir..."--flop. 

Roger Stone characters aren't new.  But they are more public, today.  Canada's had its own. Canadian MP Ian McKenzie was quietly ensuring that Japanese Canadians would be interned--over a year before Pearl Harbour.  PM McKenzie King was Ian's puppet. Just before Japan fell, Ian was toiling quietly away on a plan to deport every single Japanese Canadian back to Japan at war's end. And was shocked when it didn't happen. These guys, they're always at work. Just more publicly now.