His point was that Putin generally lies instrumentally to foreigners and pathologically domestically, whereas the west lies pathologically in both areas: https

His point was that Putin generally lies instrumentally to foreigners and pathologically domestically, whereas the west lies pathologically in both areas: https://web.archive.org/web/20230320140205/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31020283 https://web.archive.org/web/20230320140205/https://www.bbc.c... Here you can see a link from the BBC where Putin admits that of course he was lying about the little green men. Because the lie no longer serves a purpose, it is thrown out. He is a gruesome thug, but he lives on planet earth. Whereas respectable western foreign policy figures and politicians are still to this day lying about the 75+ coups against democratic governments orchestrated by just the US in the last 120 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/28/trump-russia-ukraine-bernie-sanders https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/28/trump-... Or are wikipedia and the BBC well known kremlin propaganda outlets?