The Analysis of Putin by the Western and American Governments

i spoke to scott redder about the way western and icly governments analyze, or don't analyze russia. i would definitely say that american so called expertise on russia is extremely wanting a, it seems to be based on personalizing everything to poton. And people who are supposed to be, even academic experts, aren't a lot better. I've seen ridiculous contentions about, you know, he's got sburgers, and he's,. you know, got various forms of cancer, and he’s a narcissust and all sorts of diagnoses thatthat, it's just ridiculous.