To quote Putin from his 2017 interview with French broadsheet "Le Figaro":

« I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, we…

A sort of long-winded way to statements about Russia "breaking international rules" and threatening to nilly-willy throw nukes around and about. Just in case., if it matters, they don't like it when the "half a million dead children"-country overthrows the government of a neighbouring country under false pretenses (there was no majority …