Putin rise in status was based on him blaming the West despite...

Putin rise in status was based on him blaming the West despite most Russians polling USSR socialism and Gorbachev perestroika as the worst country in terms of economic benefit in the 1990s. People will always believe in short term fixes when desperate despite the lack of factual substance in the alternative. The US economy has not been a disaster under Biden policies such as Inflation Reduction and Affordable Health Care Acts despite the GOP claimed it was a disaster.