Yeah, Russians have a long history ofrulers who have “Russia’s” best interest at heart
Like Stalin and Ivan the Great. Putin may just follow their mold.
It’s just those pesky inconvenient individual humans who get in the way of the best interest of the Motherland and the Collective.
Got to break some eggs, you know
Well, I don’t see Putin as a Stalin or Ivan the Terrible type, of course as time goes on, things can change and I’ll have to revise my take on things. Still, right now, my current take is as it stands for now.
Was in Moscow in the mid 90’s when a tv show showed kids in an orphanage about age 7 and called them “little criminals”.