re: Russia Says Eff You Biden. You Will Take Our Oil and Be Happy.

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Thing is, Putin is a KGB guy, right?

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That’s actually a tricky subject I’ve come to discover, and it may well somewhat seriously alter my understanding of Putin. I’m not so sure he is the “KGB guy” I’d assumed him to be. As the story goes, he was indeed KGB when he was a bit younger and was eventually stationed at East Berlin. Apparently he was the station chief there, but didn’t enjoy that relative success for very long because the break up of the Soviet Union happened almost right away. And then apparently during the melee surrounding the fall his building became surrounded by protesters and it quickly became a very dangerous situation for Putin and others, so of course he immediately attempted to call out to Moscow for immediate backup and assistance. He never even heard a single word from anyone whatsoever, and that supposedly soured him very badly on the subject of KGB and loyalty and pride of the entire system.

He swiftly thereafter shifted gears and went headlong into politics, and the rest as they say is history. The point of all that is to propose that he actually didn’t have an extensive career as a spy as I once thought. It was rather short and unspectacular.