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'''Dr. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, J.D., Ph.D.''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Владимир Владимирович Путин) (born October 7, 1952) affectionately known as '''Uncle Vova''', {{fact}} is the [[Christian]] socially [[conservative]] president of the [[Russian Federation]], a position he has 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 law degree where he specialized in international trade<ref>https://www.forexlive.com/news/a-little-known-but-scary-fact-about-vladimir-putin-20220920/</ref> and a doctorate in [[economics]] focusing on energy and particularly the field of oil and gas.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250171761_The_Putin_Thesis_and_Russian_Energy_Policy</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]] which 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 US and EU imposed [[Russian sanctions]].<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>
===Political career===
{{See also|Speeches of Vladimir Putin}}
In the Yeltsin years during the transition to capitalism, corrupt foreign and domestic [[oligarch]]s took control of the country. Putin's rise to power as a [[populist]] was by taxing and driving out corrupt foreign oligarchs whom the public viewed as looting the country, and throwing in jail corrupt domestic oligarchs as tax cheats. {{fact}} The oligarchs were his political enemies. Putin's success as a leader in Russia came about by reigning in the power of oligarchs. {{fact}} He allowed them to run the Russian economy provided that they stay out of politics, unlike Western so-called "democracies". {{fact}} Contrary to [[Western]] and [[CIA]] propaganda, Putin is not a friend of or controlled by oligarchs; rather, the oligarchs bow to his instructions and demands.{{fact}}
[[File:Vladtheimpaler.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Putin at a conference]]
Putin has many controversial statements on [[Communism]] and has a good attitude toward the [[Muslim]] minorities living in the Russian Federation. [[Alexander Dugin]] argues:<ref>http://www.aspeninstitute.it/aspenia-online/article/russian-conservative-view-putin-interview-alexander-dugin</ref>
Long targeted by [[globalism|globalists]], Putin was the subject of a controversial and scandalous [[International Criminal Court]] arrest warrant issued by it in March 2023.<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2023/03/international-criminal-court-hits-putin-arrest-warrant/?utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=push_notification&utm_campaign=ICC_hits_Putin_with_arrest_warrant</ref> The legitimacy of the International Criminal Court by law is not recognized by the United States and several of its [[vassal state]]s.
Putin has been accused of 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 and [[journalist]]s. Like [[Joe Biden]], Putin has been criticized for using [[law enforcement]] to harass political opponents. [[Nazi]]s and [[neoconservative]]s are among Putin's most vociferous critics.{{fact}}
==Political views==
Initially relations between [[George W. Bush]] and Putin were good, with Putin lending support to Bush's war on global terror. Putin was restrained from giving much assistance outside the Russian Federation, being pre-occupied with the [[Islamist]] movements waging [[jihad]] inside his own borders.
In Bush's late second term, Putin was concerned about jihadist infiltration from [[Turkey]] and [[Syria]] through the [[Republic of Georgia]], {{fact}} and intervened. Former members of the [[Warsaw Pact]], who were more supportive of the war on terror than even the US population, then asked for deployment of missile defense systems on their territories, which the [[Bush administration]] was inclined to favor as a reward for their help. Russia considered missile defense deployment on their borders overt acts of hostility. Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, in competition to outdo each other, condemned George W. Bush and [[Condoleezza Rice]] by sidling up to the Russians and Islamists whom the [[Democrat]]s portrayed as oppressed victims of a [[globalism|global]] [[neocon]] [[conspiracy]].{{fact}}
===Relations under Barack Obama===