The Russians' Manipulation of the Russians

Puchin: The russians on do a lot bare now these days, toon americans all worked up. I think that again, on te the manipulation has been in the re branding. It's been put in presenting himself as this manly manand you canjust, ea, trice tat is or ito say your matin word in becs. That's just branding. He says there's a difference between creating a story out of whole cloth and repositioning yourself. But i think that it amounts to the same, same kind of manipulation.