FWIW = I just scanned Putin’s Wiki Bio. Putin might be a tiny little freak - but he has a very colorful resume.
Putin does appear to have kept Russia from going broke - by promoting its natural gas & oil resources - pushing his influence where the US withdrew. And he appears to have modeled his policies on the US except for the individual freedom part.
He is rumored to wear a crucifix that his mother gave him.
He’ll need that crucifix.
Here’s some of Putin’s clorful resume:
Tortured to death by Putin’s jackboot state: Inside the rat-infested Gestapo-like Russian prison where eight guards beat lawyer who exposed Moscow’s gangster regime