No, you haven’t missed anything specifically about Putin. But if he is ballsy enough to invade Georgia and peal away an ethnic province, more than likely Russia is up to its old tricks in other, more familiar destabilization efforts.
Russia has politically interfered in other country’s elections for decades. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if George Soros, like Armand Hammer before him, was a conduit of Russian money into the pockets of politicians.
Did you know that Hammer’s company, Occidental Petroleum, had close financial ties to (of all people!) Al Gore’s father, who was Senator from Tennessee?
It was Hammer’s money that set the Gore family into the horse business and the land they own.