Is anyone surprised Putin is eager for this? This is a man who was a junior officer in the KGB. Young enough to be bought into the propaganda of the USSR, smart

Is anyone surprised Putin is eager for this? This is a man who was a junior officer in the KGB. Young enough to be bought into the propaganda of the USSR, smart enough to land a job at the KGB, and yet not senior enough to see through the high level societal corruption and demystify much of the inner workings of the upper eschelon. It's no surprise that he wants to "Make Russia Great Again" after living through the "humiliation" of the USSR's demise. That's precisely why he is dangerous even by the old guard's standards: Lessons that should have been learned were not.