As a person who has traveled extensively in the former USSR, owned a business for 6 years intricately linked to Russia, observed and studied the politics and so

As a person who has traveled extensively in the former USSR, owned a business for 6 years intricately linked to Russia, observed and studied the politics and social structure of this region . . . Putin is directly responsible for the lost lives of Russian soldiers and over 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers, not to mention the outright theft of Crimea. Putin made the Sochi Olympics a key part of his agenda, obviously the doping contributed to Russia's overall win, but recently many medals awarded to Russia have been retracted by the Olympic committee, in fact, Russia leads the historical list of medals retracted by the Olympics committee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stripped_Olympic_medals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stripped_Olympic_medal... Russia's recent loss of medals due to doping findings at the Sochi Olympics has now reduced Russia to 4th place and propelled the USA to 1st place. https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/11/27/sochi-olympic-medal-standings-russia-medals-stripped-doping/ https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2017/11/27/sochi-olympic-meda...