Lately I have been seeing a lot of shit about Biden calling Putin a "killer". My thinking is like "okay, the guy was in the KGB, he likely has been involved in killing in some way". Why is this a "gotcha?". Guess what, I have killed. If that makes me a killer, then so be it. I'm not a murderer, just a former artillery officer. I don't fool myself into believing the 155s we fired were actually filled with gummy bears. Is this some woman bullshit? That killing is the ultimate evil but for them the ultimate good as long as it is an unwanted baby or somebody who donated to FOX news? I do not really have a point, other than this is just more bullshit.
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Recently this video came out which explains the Russian oligarchs who basically plundered Russia from 1990-2000 under Yeltsin. It was Putin that stopped this and arrested them, that's why they hate him.
Oh, and he's also very possibly the richest man in the world today. Other top richest oligarchs in Russia today include for example his (Jewish) judo instructor from his childhood (and also his brother because why not). Another is his sort of adoptive son and an Islamic king of Chechnya. They all agreed to keep him in power because if he ever went away all hell would break out as everyone among them would fight each other to redistribute their loot and turfs. He is the sole guarantee of the stability in cleptoctacy.
Medvedev for example was a weak nobody and a fake president, today only remembered from his "nanotechnology" pipe dream. Back around 2000 many people thought Putin was also a fake president, a public face controlled by those in the shadows around him, but turned out he is firmly in control of this system ever since he's taken it over. He controlled the puppet Medvedev too. And he only rid of those who have been too ambitious to accept his ambition (to be a real tsar among the barons, now many from what they call the "new nobility" that is the ex KGB men, or the Chekists as they proudly call themselves going back to the good old Lenin era when the Chekists exterminated the old nobility).
Dude, he literally worked for Yeltsin, helping to ensure the "security" of this system from uppity citizens. (Before and after his stint as a gangster, when he helped doing the literal plundering.)
Yes, that's why he was recommended to run for Prime Minister by those oligarchs and Yeltsin. It's just that he wasn't as friendly to them as they expected. It's obvious that you can't just steal from a country forever, you actually need to build it up too.
He gave Yeltsin and his family life immunity and he kept his word.
Remember that Yeltsin had less than 2% popular support in early 1999 and if any opposition came to power he and his (crime) family and drinking pals (actually called "the family" as well) would get bad ends for their many crimes.
Even the incredibly corrupt (the symbol of this era, who after a journalist wanted to expose him just sent his "honest" officers to give him some "leaked documents", really a briefcase bomb that killed him in a train station because why not public terrorism when we're at it, and these officers got convicted for that yet he stayed at the post until the dismissal in 1996 for just how much he bungled Chechnya after helping Yeltsin to convince to invade Chechnya in first place when he promised he will pacify it in 1 day) Yeltsin's defense minister "Pashka Mercedes" (the nickname from how he got many luxery cars from selling the East Germany garrison's Soviet arsenal on black market) got to head the state arms export industry until near his death. He was buried as a Hero of Russia.