What follows is a photo of President Vladimir Putin taken just prior to the date of

Now here is a photograph of Putin taken at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 5, 2025 only sixteen years later.

Notice his eyes of “strength and courage” in the top photo compared to his eyes of “fear and cowardice” in the bottom photo. Clearly these are two different people. No one changes that much in less than 15 years.
Here’s a photograph from 2013:

And every photo prior to 2010 captures Putin in the same way as the top photograph…just as every photo captures him in the same way as the bottom photograph starting in the year when he was replaced (that year is being nailed down with certainty by our forensic investigators).
Another big clue concerns how clearly attached Putin’s ear lobes are in his younger photos whereas the lobes are “detached and free” as seen in the 2022 photo that follows. That doppelgänger’s ear is also longer and more narrow compared to the wider ear in the preceding photo.

Conclusion
This is why Russia has completely abandoned Iran throughout this ongoing US-Israeli military campaign, just as the Kremlin did during the Twelve-Year War in 2025. Inasmuch as Iran is a full-fledged member of the BRIC alliance, such an abandonment during their moment of greatest need is quite despicable especially exposing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei to his pre-planned assassination by the Trump-Netanyahu junta.
It’s also why Russia did nothing to assist President Nicolás Maduro and his wife from being kidnapped this past January. And why he abandoned President Bashar al-Assad of Syria so that country could be taken over the Zio-Anglo-American Axis.
All three leaders mysteriously met with President Putin just before they were removed from power, incidentally.
The original Putin is also credited with the arrest, conviction and incarceration of Zionist oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky; the current Putin would never have undertaken the nationwide purge of the Russian Zionist oligarchs who systematically raped, pillaged and plundered the nation.
Submitted by An Armchair Geopolitical Analyst
State of the Nation
March 2, 2026