Why is Russian President Vladimir Putin so grateful to his American counterpart Donald Trump? Because the latter diminishes the United States' standing in the world, making little Russia look larger.
Leave it to American analysts to explore major news events in great depth — and miss the main story. Case in point: the testimony of former FBI Director James Comey.
Virtually everybody has been concentrating on Comey's interactions with Trump. Doing so not only misses the main point, it also means that most people are inadvertently buying into the Republican talking points.