I did too. I know he’s a communist, I just thought he was an honest communist, if that’s possible. I guess Putin has given us the “Trey Gowdy Treatment”; all bark, no bite.
Putin is not a Communist, he’s a Russian Nationalist. He admired the power the Soviet Union had on the World Stage, but not their economic policies.
In fact, just the other day, Putin said that Lenin himself destroyed the Soviet Union.
He is far from a communist, but of a nationalist.