Originally Posted by Vendot

He did say that in so many words.

He's very smart and not at all an aggressor. Trump shocked a lot of people when he said he could work with Putin but the fact is that many of the elites can see Putin is not the problem.

There's thousands of videos on youtube about the demonization of Putin and how this is a covert strategy by the US to divert attention away. Think about the militarization of the police in the US, all part of the strategy to prepare for a collapsing empire, etc.

History always repeats itself and Putin is a far more easily represented as a bad guy for one (amongst many) simply reason: He doesn't speak good English so he can't relate as easily to English speaking nations.