trying to explain this since they anected gruzia
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He's been the Russian dictator for over a quarter century, and before that he was in the KGB for 15 years.
A Putin does what a Putin does. It's naive, to think that we can control him by being nice.
It's naive that we can control him by any means.
(btw. I'm very familiar with his whole "career", 1968 was a big deal for us)