I just don't think the Russian government, and it's intelligence services in general, are as much of a monolith, as they are being painted as. Even your commen

I just don't think the Russian government, and it's intelligence services in general, are as much of a monolith, as they are being painted as. Even your comment makes it look like Putin is personally responsible and in oversight, of literally every single thing going on in Russia. Which is usually a narrative used to make him personally responsible for literally everything negative Russia as a state does. I'm not a fan of either of those two, governments and countries, especially of that size, are way too big and complex to run them in such a direct "in person" style.