Why on earth would Putin commit a high publicity assassination attempts, days before the Russian elections and weeks before the soccer World Cup?.
This would be the the act of a fool, something g Putin is certainly not. He’s w committed Christian who believes in the nation state and fighting Islamist terror. He is a strong man who only wants peace with us
This has the grubby fingerprints of the deep state attempting to frame Putin all over it
Either your post is being sarcastic or you’ve never stayed in modern Russia long enough to understand how it operates and what the general mentality of the population currently is.
Putin needs a constant “Cold War” to remain relevant because his State’s relevance entirely rests on the premise that they were never “defeated” and that whatever was lost in 1991 is conditional and must be avenged.
The 20th Century’s traumas have never healed in the country...and there’s never been a true divorce from the State established by the Bolsheviks in 1917. It’s not uncommon today to see Stalin statues re-erected steps away from the very restored churches he once had destroyed.
Spiritual schizophrenia.
And no, Putin is NOT a Christian. And neither are many of the current leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church, especially Moscow Patriarchate... they’re ex KGB in black Pharisee robes.