This is taken from a recent Putin interview with the BILD newspaper, the biggest in Germany.

BILD, which has close ties to the CIA, and actually has written into its charter that it is required to support NATO, has been one of the most hysterically Russophobic German publications for decades now, and since the Ukraine war started, it has been off the charts.

This is the kind of journalism Blome produces

BILD Editor Nicholas Blome: Unabashed NATO / Pentagon Tool

The fact that they gave Putin a relatively fair hearing indicates that they are responding to the massive criticism in German society against what has been blatant war-mongering.

BILD's Editor in Chief, Nicholas Blome, the guy on the right, is a real piece of work. He is one of the top 5 German professional NATO ass-kissers who run the top German media outlets.

Before this stint at BILD he ran Der Spiegel's (Germany's largest and hugely influential news weekly) Berlin Bureau, where he was responsible for the notorious Spiegel cover about the downing of MH17, which ran the headline: "Stop Putin Now!" with potraits of the crash victims.

That Putin will even sit down and talk politely to this moron demonstrates extraordinary self restraint, because what he really deserves is presidential knuckle sandwich.