"Using the same logic..."

Instead of counting angels on the head of a pin, you could actually bone up on Putin's rise to power. He's a gangster.

" you don't become the US president by being a good person."

The Soviet Union was a crucible of brutality, the US considerably less so. (E.g., the CIA is depraved, but had to keep it under wraps. The KGB was overtly horrific, and feared.)

"BTW, Putin never was ahead of the Soviet Union."

You overlooked the "né".

"Using the same logic, you don't become the US president by being a good person."

Instead of counting angels on the head of a pin, you could actually bone up on Putin's rise to power. He's a gangster.

"BTW, Putin never was ahead of the Soviet Union."

You overlooked the "né".