Trump gave an interview on FOX where he made sure to say that "Putin is not the same Putin I was dealing with. He's a different guy." He has used similar language re: Biden

Then, in what's supposedly some epic war if you believe the media, Putin goes under apparently for cancer treatment and someone else takes control of Russia. (I forgot the other dude's name)

Does the supposed leader of a country going under seem like something that would normally happen in a war?

It's obvious from decades of photos that just as Joe Biden is no longer Biden, the Vladimir Putin we see today is not the same man.

So, if for the sake of argument we say that the organic robotoid replacement theory is legitimate, and that Vlad is one, is it possible that the shifting contradictory opinions of Russia from leftist media orgs are due to uncertainty whether the Putin puppet is being controlled by "white hats" or "black hats"?

Is Vlad going under the knife for the same reason Biden did? That is, to undergo a reprogramming?