A universal rule for politicians is to watch what they do, not what they say. Putin is an exception, in that he generally does what he said he was going to do. The Western media by and large ignore both, and instead demonize and propagandize him. From Patrick Lawrence at consortiumnews.com:
The Russian president’s time in Pyongyang and Hanoi gave clear evidence of the turn away from the West that Lavrov, the country’s foreign minister, announced at the start of the year.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arriving in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on June 18. (President of Russia)
It is never a good idea to turn to corporate media for an understanding of Vladimir Putin — his thoughts, his intentions, what he does and the outcome of what he does. Whenever the Russian president is the topic, you are always going to get reports so distorted as to obscure vastly more than they reveal.
This pervasively Western–centric work makes it impossible, for anyone who relies solely on it, to see either the Russian leader or the nation he represents with any clarity, just as they are. One is invited to think Putin never acts but for the damage his chosen course will inflict on the U.S., the rest of the Atlantic world, and by extension the non–Western allies of this world.
The net effect of this unceasing exercise in misrepresentation is to place a nation of 144 million people, and most of all its leader, behind a screen similar to a Japanese shoji: It is translucent, so one can see the movements of those on the other side, but there is no making out what they are doing. They are reduced to shadows.
The consequence of this induced blindness is easily legible in the dangerous shambles the policy cliques in Washington and most of the European capitals have made of their relations with Moscow since, I would say, the winter of 2007. It was in February of that year Putin gave his famously frank speech at the Munich Security Conference, wherein he attacked the West’s “almost uncontained hyper use of force — military force, force that is plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts.”
Too honest. It was inevitable that the shoji would immediately be put in place such that the man and all he did and said could thereafter be rendered illegible — grist for the propagandists.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
The Doji said to be not concerned with the opinions of the world, the great Econo-Punk legends the Minutemen said the roar of the masses could be farts.
Know them by their deeds is another one.
Some who never set foot near a blue and yellow recruiting office prattle on about rootin’ for Putin, I like Rasputin myself.
He was a kind and generous man and the Romanov family were grown adults, plus what is so bad about easing the pain of someone by any means necessary.
Now even Putin is warning about false flags to suspend the (s)election, can’t wait to see/hear the enemedia spin for that one.
Breaking from The Minutemen:
History Lesson Part 2 (Econo Version)
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