yeah, he will need them because they will want to kill him like Salman Rushdie.
they'd better wake up to the hard harvest they are sowing because the old excuses aren't going to work anymore. Putin is (ex-)KGB and you can bet he can be ruthless. there will be no P.C. Stockholm Syndrome like what we've had in America.
Was channel surfing & stopped on CNN & they were doing Man in the street interviews in Moscow & the general opinion was that the USA was doing the right thing as far as fight terrorists & that Russia should join the fight on OUR side against the jihadi's . Things are gonna get very unpleasent for the jihadis before to long, as they have seriously pissed off there main weapons supplier & the Russian army while not the most speed of heat in the Special Ops area has the basics down for the most part.