What’s driving Russia’s Vladimir Putin?



ABC News’ Byron Pitts reports on what has propelled Vladimir Putin’s rise to power, and his use of force to crush any dissent of his rule over Russia.

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37 comments

  1. Who’s the guy standing next to khrushchev at 1:28? Looks familiar.

  2. What's driving Putin, his evil predisposition. We want a peaceful earth not this foolishness

  3. Thanks for the biography the life of Putin

  4. Putin is sending young kids around 18 years old to fight in a war they don't want to 'rebuild the glory days' of a USSR they were never alive for. This is a boomer war where he's sending young people that want nothing to do with it. Meanwhile Ukrain people care desperately to preserve their freedoms. Zelenskyy is a national hero.

  5. Why are short guys always so traumatised?

  6. I dont fear Putin he dont scare me

  7. You really want the answer? Satan.

  8. Putin can't just kill all russians in order to force them for fighting..

  9. He must have a very little thing (P) to do such thing. Men who do horrific things to other incident people lack in self-confidence! They always need attention.

  10. Putin wants to rule the world, same as the chinese ccp. Wanabe world powers!

  11. They all look inbred

  12. Put Putin on a Gluten free and Dairy free diet and he will be good as new. No need for World War 3 😁

  13. Pro-russia. Ukrainian President should tell Putin as long as they can keep their democracy, he will agree not to join NATO and to abide by the terms. No more NATO expansion and militarization breaking their terms of agreement. The US flipped out over the Cuban Missile Crisis. Imagine if China said oh we're going to put bases in Canada or Mexico, it's not an aggression it's just to keep you in check America. United States would flip out. Of course Russia is acting. The US has started many aggressions in the name of BS so Putin is not going to trust NATO aka the United States.. he's not a p** like Justin Trudeau or the French president

  14. Putin's campaign for power and antagonizing democracy is eerily similar to what that "Orange Peel" and his base supporters did to the capital on January 6th, 2021

  15. Putin believed the prophecy of the witch Baba Vanga

  16. “The modern-day Czar-”

    That says it all, folks.

  17. That's how world War 3 will begin

  18. Putin the Russian leader has 2 faces.. one the national leader, business man….the other a selfish , self seeking individual who wants more power, more wealth and to get this he will tell his people a Lie.
    Russian dont be like the gullible
    people
    like the german people of the 1930's believing everything they were told ?
    A country that had a form of democracy and free elections…Gone !!
    Putin made himself ruler for life
    Russian people this so is dangerous
    Putin if he doesn't like you or agree with you he has and will demonize someone or some other people or another country and use that as a pretense to attack and take regardless if they dont want it or deserve it.
    Example Putin says..the Ukrainian leader is a "Jewish Nazi" and Ukrainian people are evil…
    why because ? He says so…because it is easy to hate and attack when you can label some one or a people.
    History has been full of evil personalities like these we all know who they were and Putin is just the same old.
    Good will always Triumph over evil…History has proven that !! ..😊

  19. He just made himself completely and utterly dependent on China to survive.

  20. Little Stalin wannabe 👎

  21. Cocaine, dog assholes, and cheap boxed wine.

  22. We had this info along time ago and we now putting it out there and making it look bad !?!

  23. Vladimir Putins' very young picture looks like he could have been one of the Beatles, far from it; He is a killer poisonous snake, who may incinerate our entire planet someday soon.

  24. New age hitler . Russia needs to over throw this fucked up mind or war will knock on there door step.

  25. Putin has imprisoned himself. He will spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. There is a target on his back.

  26. Putin loves his country, his heritage and his people, which is why he seems so foreign to the American press, who overwhelmingly hate their country, heritage and families.

  27. Nice anti Russian propaganda