In fact, he's getting his ass kicked.
@Weird Tolkienish Figure And has been,since the Neo-Soviet invasion started.
Truth to tell,if more than one generation of Soviet worker bee had any experience at all with actual freedom,Putin would have been hanged a long time ago.
Another important truth that people need to be made aware of is that even though Russia is now ALLEGEDLY a "free nation",the truth is that nobody there believes it. I went to Russia the first time right after what was declared to have been "the collapse of communism",and while every Russian I met but one celebrated it,not a single one I talked to believed it was real.
Seems like their suspicions were based more on facts than declarations, doesn't it?
Neither Russia or any other Communist nation is going to be free of communist control until more than one generation has "lived free".
Much like the US of today. We were a genuine free nation of free people until the property theft know as "The Great Depression" created the conditions that turned us into a socialist nation that at times borders on Communism.
As with today,it was the globalist money managers that created the conditions that lead to the financial collapse because they had piles of cash stacked away with nothing to spend it on,so why not destroy the economy so they could buy up real property at bankruptcy sales and then create more profits by selling it for a profit after writing their purchases losses off their taxes for more than a decade?
"The Great Depression" was created by a cabal of NYC bankers and their investor friends. It started because the big farms in the south were starting to ship their cotton to Europe themselves and bypass the NY banks in order to increase their profits.
THAT was the "beginning of the end" for personal freedoms in America because once people/a political party gains strength and power,they will NEVER give it up. They will only expand it.