FSB Whistleblower Confirms Suspicions about Putin’s Personality

We learned that he is very typically Russian

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For a while now, a formerly Moscow-based whistleblower from the Russian Federal Security Service, otherwise known as the FSB in Russian, has been sending internal reports about Putin to a contact in Washington, DC.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the infamous KGB was disbanded and quickly renamed the FSB. The KGB was the organization where Vladimir Putin was trained to be a spy. It was the club he was a part of when according to him the most cataclysmic event of the last century occurred, the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Putin became the head of the FSB shortly after arriving in Moscow in the late 1990s and just before replacing Boris Yeltsin as president on January 1st, 2000.

The FSB is very happy to have one of its own leading Russia. The FSB, however, is not very happy about Putin and even less pleased about his war that many of these surprisingly rational-thinking professional spies consider an unwinnable proposition for Russia.

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