Putin's Lies

In his studio in Baghdad, Iraqi artist Mohammed Karim Nihaya puts the finishing touches to his portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin (2015) taken from a photo on the Internet. Mohammed sees Putin as a hero, having swallowed his lies about attacking IS (CLICK). In fact Putin is supporting his chum, the foul Syrian dictator and war criminal Bashar al-Assad, who has starved, bombed, gassed, tortured and slaughtered thousands of his own people in order to cling to power. Is Putin the most deluded and dangerous fruitcake on the planet? Russian media dare not contradict his lies. So his popularity remains high.