...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Speaking directly to President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...'s request for Russia to spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in the Kursk region, President Vladimir Putin says they will be spared if they lay down their arms and surrender.
Notice how Putin draws a distinction between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.
Putin says, ''we are sympathetic to President Trump's call to be guided by humanitarian considerations,'' and then Putin shifts the emphasis on the absence of this plea from bloodthirsty Zelenskyy. ''There must be an appropriate order from the military and politicianship of Ukraine to its troops to lay down their arms and surrender,'' Putin said.