So you are just trying to hijack any thread that deals with Russia and Putin to talk about the usual politics.
That's going to be annoying to those of us with an interest in global issues and NATO, and Europe and military and foreign affairs issues.
When you start a thread with “there are too many on FR willing to believe Putin” you are inviting a dialogue along the lines of what we just had so, no, I didn’t hijack anything. And no, we do not trust Putin, we just trust Obama less. You know, Obama, the guy who said to Mitt Romney “the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years”.