{"id":26770,"date":"2023-09-22T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertraining.net\/?p=26770"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:59:59","slug":"i-worked-for-putin-and-he-was-rational-i-cant-understand-how-he-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertraining.net\/world-news\/i-worked-for-putin-and-he-was-rational-i-cant-understand-how-he-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"I worked for Putin and he was rational \u2013 I cant understand how he changed"},"content":{"rendered":"

An ex-employee of Vladimir Putin says he couldn't understand why the once "rational" dictator started "destroying the country he is ruling."<\/p>\n

Abbas Gallyamov was part of the Russian dictator's speechwriting team for three years and attended dozens of public and private meetings with him. Now living in Israel and working as a political consultant, Gallyamov said he has struggled to come to terms with Putin's behaviour after the despot launched his war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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"[Putin] seemed to be absolutely rational \u2013 perfectly logical and always in search of reasonable decisions," he wrote for Newsweek. "Had somebody told me in those days that the time would come when Putin would be literally destroying the country he is ruling \u2013 and that's exactly what is happening now \u2013 I would have never believed it."<\/p>\n

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Gallyamov recalled a time when a "warm and friendly" Putin would listen to his ministers and even invite feedback from regional leaders in a bid to better Russia. But the writer said after the Ukraine conflict, beginning in February 2022, everything changed.<\/p>\n

"I spent a lot of time trying to understand how it could be that someone so normal could turn into someone so abnormal," Gallyamov continued. "Now I think that it was not so much a matter of dynamics but rather of Putin's duplicity."<\/p>\n

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