My preferred phrasing is that Trump looks at Putin like a schoolgirl with a crush.
I'm not sure why you start that with a "No" though - I don't think we disagree.
I said that Putin won't cede anything to Trump because that's specifically what he (won't) do. Yes - he doesn't overtly shut Trump down - he doesn't even seem to challenge him much. He's smarter than that. He knows that Trump is a shallow, emotionally immature narcissist, so he feeds his ego and jollies him along, and counts on Trump being so pleased about being treated like a big boy by his hero/crush that he won't notice that he isn't sctually getting any meaningful concessions at all. And it works.
Ah... got it.
Wow.
You might just be on to something there.
I use a lot of psychosexual imagery to describe their relationship, but that's just because it's both convenient and, to conservatives, demeaning (and to non-conservatives, amusingly ironic). But even though it consistently conjures up very accurate imagery, I hadn't really considered the likelihood that that's because there really is something to it.
Oog. I missed that bit.
And yes - it sounds exactly like what someone would say to an abusive ex with whom they want to get back together.
That's just plain creepy.