Okay, so I'm not on that Russia collusion bandwagon but this exchange was weird to me.. What does Trump mean? Does he mean he talked to Putin as president or something else?

Here’s the transcript:

No general got fired for the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, Afghanistan, where we left billions of dollars of equipment behind; we lost 13 beautiful soldiers and 38 soldiers were obliterated. And by the way, we left people behind too. We left American citizens behind.

When Putin saw that, he said, you know what, I think we’re going to go in and maybe take my – this was his dream. I talked to him about it, his dream. The difference is he never would have invaded Ukraine. Never.