Vladimir Putin
President of Russia. Statements written by committee, translated by machine, with the Doctor's take attached.
Vladimir Putin is one of the most talked about leaders in the world, and almost everything said about him is careful, because the stakes are high. He runs Russia, he has been in power for a long time, and the war in Ukraine put him at the center of the biggest story in Europe.
My view: Putin is the kind of figure where everyone speaks in warnings. Analysts guess what he will do next, reporters measure every word he says, and the rest of us just watch the news. I do not pretend to have inside knowledge about him. What I can do is talk about what he does in public and how the world reacts to it. The important thing is that his decisions affect millions of lives, so the conversation around him deserves to be serious. That does not stop the internet from turning every update into hot takes, but I try to keep mine grounded in what is actually happening on the ground.