Or more exactly envy... When was the last time that Putin power and projects were questioned... It starts to make too long time in office. The transition will be sudden and unexpected for every outsiders. One morning Putin will be gone. Having foreign ennemies is the best thing to prolong power indefinitely... Everyone knows.
Putin could be replaced, but what alternative? Communist Party, vision: communism
Liberal Democratic Party, vision: greater russia (invasion of Finland, eastern Europe, Asian countries etc)
A Just Russia, vision: social welfare, strongly supportive of Medvedev
That is why he commands an approval rating of over 85%, despite inviting Western sanctions by annexing Crimea. The Russians still remember the horrors perpetrated by the American puppet Yeltsin, who ruled Russia before Putin. Russia lost some 15 million people in just 7 years, as a result of high death rates, and hundreds of billions of USD worth of national wealth was looted by the oligarchs. Putin may be bad... but he is much better than Yeltsin.
