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>[Putin] declared that he and Mr Xi were “as close as brothers” 

That's nothing. The US elected someone who shared "love letters" with another of the Putin/Xi types in North Korea, and then went on to attempt a coup. Authoritarians love authoritarians.

Putin is just a *removed* these days, and Xi ~~is~~ isn't much better.
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