I understand what Putin has been reported to do, but those reports come from the same people who have told us that wearing a worthless cloth mask for almost 3 years will save you from a virus that only kills a very small portion of people. When the people who were supposed to inform us lose credibility, they lose it on all stages, not just the ones we want to agree with.
Gorky Park
The British press is not beating the drums to go to war
The things I cited came from foreign reporting
Moreover you can chose to believe whatever you want. I’m sure you will do well under a dictatorship