I figured it was going to be another nothingburger until I got to that. Why did you even mention the other stuff? Of course NATO members don't want him talking about the fact that their parliaments won't honor their commitments. It is embarrassing to them, and embarrassing that they would pass off their own failures as if it is his fault for not understanding, and silly of you to pass that on to us as if it indicts Trump. Just weird. (And, making NATO stronger by getting them to increase defense spending is against the interests of Russia. How can you twist that into a pro-Russian thing?)
Now, the behavior with Merkel sounds embarrassing, but given that you thought the other stuff was embarrassing, and the twist that was put on it to switch the embarrassment from them to him, I have to assume the same is probably true with the Merkel stuff. Maybe not, but you make it seem like the Merkel stuff might have some background that reasonably explains it since the other stuff is easily explained.