Why would you think 'so many of 'you' still swallow' anything like that? An opinion is just that - an opinion.
Again, the big difference between you/klondick/OhNo/Skidmark and many others here is you four are very happy to criticise anything western/American yet are loathe to afford the same to China and Russia.
Most others are happy to criticise the US/their own country as well as Chin and Russia
What also still beats you and keeps on beating you is that this is a Putin thread