India, Sept. 13 -- London: When asked a question about the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last week, President Donald Trump gave a rambling response mentioning China, North Korea and Afghanistan, before returning to the question saying "we haven't had any proof yet", echoing the words of the Kremlin. This was despite the fact that his officials had earlier been briefed by Germany giving them "unequivocal evidence" that Navalny had been poisoned in Russia by the Soviet-developed nerve agent Novichok. Donald Trump has never criticised Vladimir Putin. Nor has he yet confronted Putin about intelligence reports that Russia paid bounties to the Afghan for killing American soldiers. As reported in the New York Times last w...