you could say the same thing for USA
Not exactly.
People marvel at the vast wealth of Bill Gates, but we all know how he attained those unimaginable amounts of billions of dollars over his 40 years as a computer giant.
What we don’t know is how Putin managed to amass about the same amount of wealth as the famous Microsoft entrepreneur.
Has the US government nationalized the biggest oil company in the country like Putin did in Russia? The entire Russian economy is based on oil and gas and the Kremlin runs it. The US government does not control the US oil and gas industries, or any of the other major US industries either.
Obama only wishes he had as much dictatorial power as the tyrant Putin does.