He’s speaking basic common sense from his relatively objective POV. Campaign blather should be taken with a grain of salt and either candidate could go in a completely different direction once in office.
Putin is clearly not thrilled with Hillary and her sycophants using Russia as their red herring existential enemy. He gave a very gentle warning that it could go too far and do real damage but for the most part he’s not worried and can’t take any of it seriously at this time.
It’s politics and Putin is clearly very well versed in politics.
Putin is a lot of things.
One thing he is not is an incompetent.
But isn’t this current pi$$ing match mostly about Syria? Hillary wants to over throw Assad. He may be an a$$hat but he’s their a$$hat. She started that whole Arab Spring that turned the Middle East into a cf after the foundation got their check from the Russians and the Russians got control of 20% of US Yellow Cake.
That woman is evil.