Lets re-read this article about Putin in 2015

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https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/FIRg6fJPcQ8SqBqsam2VXm109GQ=/0x17:3500x1986/1920x1080/media/img/2015/05/29/02b8cbd94/original.jpg

HOW THE MEDIA BECAME ONE OF PUTIN’S MOST POWERFUL WEAPONS
After decades of wielding Soviet-style hard power, Russia is developing a subtler form of influence.

By Jill Dougherty
APRIL 21, 2015

Vladimir Putin is a news junkie.

The Russian president’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, didn’t use that expression when we talked by phone, but that’s what he described to me: a man at the center of an ever-churning machine processing vast amounts of news and data at his command.

“Sometimes we’re wondering what is the limit for a human being for absorbing this huge amount of information,” Peskov told me, “but, well, it’s really a very, very, very heavy job.”

Peskov, speaking fluent English, described the operation. “First of all, the information and press department of the presidential administration prepares digests on print media, on Internet sources, on domestic media—federal and regional.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/how-the-media-became-putins-most-powerful-weapon/391062/

And today the world heard this narcissistic asshole utter the word "peacekeeping".....