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“Which indicates he’s on a steroid and probably, maybe, a combination of both.
“And we ought to fess up to it, that carries with it, particularly anabolic steroids, bodybuilders, aggressiveness that comes through.
“I think his personality has changed, but don’t believe he’s mad.
“He’s very clever and able, and somebody who you don’t want as an enemy, and he’s ruthless.”
Rumours of Putin’s alleged use of steroids or plastic surgery have been around for years, and one popular joke in Russia goes: “In response to the charge there are no new faces in Russian politics, Vladimir Putin got one.”
In 2019, top UK cosmetic surgeon Gerard Lambe told The Sun Online Putin’s face displayed the signs of cosmetic surgery.
Pictures of a 22-year-old Putin from 1972 show him with much heavier eyelids and fuller lips.
In comparison, more recent images show a much tauter face with thin lips and less visible eyelids.
Look at his face, see how that has changed - he now has an oval face
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“Putin’s facial contouring has clearly changed over the years and while our face shape can become thinner with age - his is noticeably wider and plumper,” he said.
“This would largely be down to cheek fillers. I’d say he’s clearly got a dedicated aesthetic surgeon on his team as these fillers were certainly quite subtle to start.
“In images from about seven years ago he certainly looks much more gaunt and craggy but some work has been done to create a youthful, fuller contour with fillers.”
The Russian leader’s love of macho photo opportunities is notorious, whether it be him topless on a horse, hosting public judo sessions, or hunting with machine guns.
A photo of Putin riding a horse shirtless in Siberia’s Tuva region in 2009 became one of the most infamous images of the “strongman” President but was far from a one-off.
That same year, pictures emerged of him fishing shirtless while on a trip with Prince Albert II of Monaco.
In 2011, he was seen riding a Harley-Davidson trike in full leather while in a motorbike convoy with youth organisation The Night Wolves.
The group is extremely controversial owing to its extremely nationalistic and anti-LGBT views and previously fought as Putin’s paramilitary forces in the Donbas occupation in 2014.
Immunodeficient?
What's up with the shirtless thing, though? That's a little unusual, isn't it?
Ever heard of age related decay? Happens to all humans. This is so dumb.
“Gaunt” is never an adjective I would have used to describe Putin.
Ripped would be more like it.
It seems as of there has been an embargo about this subject for some reason. His change in appearance was stark and immediately evident to me.
Of course, there could be many reasons for this. The Intel Community chatter seems to indicate that he will be undergoing surgery soon. They don’t have a stellar record so we will see what happens.
This is my understanding,:
There has been a civil war in the eastern part of Ukraine.
Once Covid died down, the civil war flared back up.
The Russian government demanded the Ukrainian irregulars stop fighting the Russian residents and their informal governments. The fighting continued. The informal governments declared their formal status, allowing them to request foreign (i.e. Russian Federation) help. The ‘help’ came in the firm of the invasion.
Bear in mind the 1990 USSR breakup originated from self-declarations such as Lithuania and Ukraine.
Now do John Kerry, who served in Viet Nam,
He should have got some tips from pelosi or maybe Cher?
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I’m more worried about OUR clown.