Mike @Doranimated
I believe this | Ex-KGB officer:
Putin respects only two people, one of them is Erdogan.
| Sergei Zhirnov, a former employee of the KGB and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, believes that there are only two leaders for Putin in world politics. One of the few people respected by the President of Russia, he says, is Turkish leader Erdogan.
Putin's respect for Erdogan reached its highest point in November 2015, when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet. At the same time, according to Zhirnov, there is not a single person in the West whom the Russian president does not despise.
The ex-KGB officer added that apart from Erdogan,
Putin fears and respects only Xi Jinping.
Putin is more jealous of the leader of China, because the PRC is a large country with a large population.
China “is a country that plays its own game, and it is quite difficult for Putin to play this game,” Zhirnov said.
9:42 PM · May 17, 2023
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