Putin will probably have him killed if he doesn’t follow the plan, but I have a feeling Trump wants to follow the plan regardless.

Putin/Russia doesn’t have this power. I don’t get the conspiracy that Russia is controlling the US government, when the shitshow in Ukraine has shown the incompetence of Russia on a grand scale. If anything this power dynamic is the other way around. The US has way more power and resources to make Putin disappear than Russia does to do the opposite.

I do think you are correct that Trump just want to be allies with Putin and follow his plan. I don’t think there is any coercion involved in this except maybe financial and diplomatic benefits to Trump. (for example, election interference/social media psyops)

Basically, if Trump wasn’t on board with this and allowing this conspiracy to happen, then Russia wouldn’t even be relevant here.