| | '''Dr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Ph.D.''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) affectionately know as '''Uncle Vova''', is the socially [[conservative]] president of the [[Russian Federation]], a position he's held since 2012, after serving as prime minister since May 8, 2008, and previously serving as [[president]] since December 31, 1999<ref>[[Boris Yeltsin]] resigned from the presidency on that day, and Putin was later elected president by 54% of the electorate on March 26, 2000.</ref> Putin holds a doctorate in [[economics]] focusing on energy and particulallry the field of oil and gas.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250171761_The_Putin_Thesis_and_Russian_Energy_Policy</ref> | | '''Dr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Ph.D.''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) affectionately know as '''Uncle Vova''', is the socially [[conservative]] president of the [[Russian Federation]], a position he's held since 2012, after serving as prime minister since May 8, 2008, and previously serving as [[president]] since December 31, 1999<ref>[[Boris Yeltsin]] resigned from the presidency on that day, and Putin was later elected president by 54% of the electorate on March 26, 2000.</ref> Putin holds a doctorate in [[economics]] focusing on energy and particulallry the field of oil and gas.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250171761_The_Putin_Thesis_and_Russian_Energy_Policy</ref> |
| − | Putin has been criticized for running the Russian Federation in much the same manner as [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] have been criticized for running the state of [[Arkansas]] and the [[United States]] government - taking money from [[corrupt]] [[oligarch]]s and eliminating political opponents, critics, and journalists. | + | Putin has been criticized for running the Russian Federation in much the same manner as [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] have been criticized for running the state of [[Arkansas]] and the [[United States]] government - taking money from [[corrupt]] [[oligarch]]s and eliminating political opponents, critics, and [[journalist]]s. |
| | Vladimir Putin's decision in February 2022 to commit troops to the [[Ukraine]] was precedented by the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventative war, the UN sanctioned doctrine of R2P (Responsibility to Protect), as articulated by [[Samantha Power]] during the 2011 [[Libyan war]] and the 1998 Clinon incursion into [[Kosovo]], to protect civilians in the [[Donbas]] region who had endured eight years of atrocities by the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup|Maidan regime]] and was preparing a large scale military action against Russian-speaking civilians in early 2022,<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> and Article 51 of the United Nations Charter which allows for collective security arrangements. According to the Biden regime, Vladimir Putin sabotaged the production of baby milk formula in the [[United States]] in 2021, more than year in advance of the [[Special Military Operation]] in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/14/2097914/--All-roads-lead-to-Putin-even-if-baby-formula-might-be-more-important-than-bombs</ref> | | Vladimir Putin's decision in February 2022 to commit troops to the [[Ukraine]] was precedented by the [[Bush Doctrine]] of preventative war, the UN sanctioned doctrine of R2P (Responsibility to Protect), as articulated by [[Samantha Power]] during the 2011 [[Libyan war]] and the 1998 Clinon incursion into [[Kosovo]], to protect civilians in the [[Donbas]] region who had endured eight years of atrocities by the U.S.-backed [[Maidan coup|Maidan regime]] and was preparing a large scale military action against Russian-speaking civilians in early 2022,<ref>https://www.anews.com.tr/world/2021/12/01/russia-ukraine-has-deployed-half-of-its-army-to-donbass-conflict-zone</ref> and Article 51 of the United Nations Charter which allows for collective security arrangements. According to the Biden regime, Vladimir Putin sabotaged the production of baby milk formula in the [[United States]] in 2021, more than year in advance of the [[Special Military Operation]] in Ukraine.<ref>https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/14/2097914/--All-roads-lead-to-Putin-even-if-baby-formula-might-be-more-important-than-bombs</ref> |