The book claims that Putin’s ‘real worldview’ can be determined by peering into his private life. OP is saying that it doesn’t matter wtf his private life says about his real worldview. What matters is that he is behaving like a tyrant, it doesn’t matter if he secretly thinks tyrants are horrible people. Essentially, judge them by their actions, not their thoughts.
How so?
If he’s actually trying to keep it private, then that’s a direct mandate for journalists to pry into it as it should be known.
Think you’ve misunderstood OP. They didn’t say it’s off limits, they said it’s irrelevant.
And I’m saying that it is relevant. Maybe op meant that their privacy is irrelevant,…
But their private life is incredibly relevant
The book claims that Putin’s ‘real worldview’ can be determined by peering into his private life. OP is saying that it doesn’t matter wtf his private life says about his real worldview. What matters is that he is behaving like a tyrant, it doesn’t matter if he secretly thinks tyrants are horrible people. Essentially, judge them by their actions, not their thoughts.