Putin’s the worse there is, unless he’s replaced by a mullah of course. What Russians want is irrelevant. They are too used to the yoke to recognize the value of liberty, or, they emigrate. The only middle ground is among those who want to run the criminal syndicate that is euphemistically called the Russian gov’t, or those who want to replace it with a different label but the same basic functioning.
The poured stone theory has never been debunked at all. The stones are difficult to study, of course, because Egypt’s antiquities are under regime control, but the only real studies have shown results consistent with a poured origin. Period.
Call your Putin and raise you one Stalin ...