I like your plan outline, and sincerely hope you are right.
I’ll add one scenario on this. The treaty framework likely chosen? It’ll be the same reading as the one for France or Germany. So when the treaty is done and signed by Trump and Putin....the Senate has to get it and approve it.
Well...you can expect both the GOP and Democratic idiots to say absolutely no. Then Trump will release the little trap....saying it’s identical to the one that we have with France. Then he’ll ask....is the French extradition treaty unacceptable as well? All of this could be done by late October, and focus the fate of the Senate election on some extradition treaty business.