Putin is a former KGB agent who oversaw the Most brutal monsters called Stasi who murdered and tortured German fleeing Communism !
He is a murdeous thug.
Who are you trying to fool here !
“Putin is a former KGB agent who oversaw the Most brutal monsters called Stasi who murdered and tortured German fleeing Communism”
Uhhh...
You do know that Putin wasn’t appointed to Dresden in East Germany until after Gorbachev was Premier, right?
Putin was part of the “Andropov Levy”, a young group recruited to the KGB by Andropov, who saw the Soviet Union collapsing from within, to help reform it from the inside.
He was not a “Golden Boy” being groomed for higher office, like Ivanov was. As such, he was an outsider, not part of the nomenklatura. Putin never served in the central apparatus of any of these entities, and he never rose to the KGB’s highest ranks during his official service. His formal postings in the KGB were always on the periphery, in Leningrad and in Dresden.
He supported Yeltsin during the coup, even though he despised the Oligarchs then in power.
Learn about the guy, then you may begin to understand why he is doing the things that he is.
It is CLEAR that those advising Obama haven’t done this, or more likely, Obama isn’t listening, and is trying to apply the same tactics to Putin that he has used successfully against everyone else.