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I hear that, and looking at how he helped to illegally dissolve the soviet union as a Yeltsin protege, it's super-true. It also means unless the US falls, there's no way to reliably replace him; the West introduced Putin to the world in the first place.
We should recognize that the West wants a further-right figurehead and they only support rebellion to that end; if we don't defend the people of the world from the USA, there will be very few global gay liberation wins.