Putin is a rabid sewage rat on its last legs. Domestically his terror and persecution of political dissidents outdo all of the USSR dictators bar Stalin&Lenin. His corruption, greed and nepotism outdo those two as well. In terms of foreign policy he handcrafted an upside down image of Russian society that he sells to gullible Westerners as an alternative to the globohomo, a development the globohomo itself enabled by being overly aggressive and losing the center. Friction rises, extremes grow, the middle dwindles, in 10 years we'll all be greedily licking crumbs out of a tin can in a nuclear wasteland. If you only knew how bad things really are.