Analysis: The much-scrutinized relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is …

WASHINGTON — They tend to gush over each other in public, but their private dealings are often opaque. Both are brazenly transactional, and cling tenaciously to grudges. Each likes to keep everyone around him guessing.
Of all President-elect Donald Trump’s relationships with world leaders — which are coming into sharper focus as he prepares to take office again in less than two months — that with Russian President Vladimir Putin may be the most consequential, and the most fraught.
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Analysis: The much-scrutinized relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is …