It seems that Putin is hated for denying the CIA it’s regime change tool. “Presidential term limits.” This 22nd amendment was introduced in 1947, along with the CIA. It was designed to cripple the presidency, and allow the CIA to become the 800,000 strong clandestine organisation its become today. Putin realised, that if Russia was going to become a real democracy, it would need to follow a doctrine, either a Marxist one as China and the late Soviet Union did. Or the church as in times of yore. Whatever he did, required continuity and consistency. The CIA has its decades old Fascist doctrine, whereby it rules the world for American industries, and a pseudo democracy to appease the masses. This wasn’t possible for Putin. He couldn’t leave Russia in the hands of a corrupt KGB, anymore than he could hand it over to the CIA, so he opted for the church and a tenuous presidential continuity whereby he was able to keep his hand on the helm, to guide the Russian ship of state, through the myriad of minefields laid before it by those who would break it up and plunder it. My greatest fear is that this well intentioned man will die, and Russia fall into the hands of unscrupulous scoundrels.