What the fffffffff???
Putin?!?! The guy who was a KGB agent?? The guy who is currently pushing NATO and in the West into a Corner?!?!? Last I checked he would summarily execute any agent he thought was working against Russia or to deny the West intelligence.
You are farking delusional...
I was gonna say something about "be nice and polite to fellow members". Then I re-read the quote. Uh. Wow. Thank you for being so polite and reasonable in your response.
Uh. Wow. Uhm. KD5NRH? Mr Putin is not the "bigger man". Ever. Unless he cannot murder someone relatively discretely for specific reasons. While he's not strictly speaking a genocidal tyrant, he's not exactly kind towards journalists, defectors, spies or informants. When possible, he murders them.