Vance notes high level of support for Putin in Russia in his new book

Vance notes high level of support for Putin in Russia in his new book According to the US vice president, every independent and objective effort to assess the popularity of the Russian president "had found high levels of support among rank-and-file Russians"US Vice President JD Vance© Dmitry Kirsanov/TASSWASHINGTON, June 17. /TASS/. US Vice President JD Vance, in his new book, noted the high level of support for Russian President Vladimir Putin among Russians. "Every independent, objective effort to measure Putin's popularity had found high levels of support among rank-and-file Russians," he wrote in his book "Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith," which went on sale in the United States. Vance noted that during his participation in the Munich Security Conference in 2024, he met with a "Russian dissident," whose name is not specified. Vance, who was a US senator at the time, added that at this meeting he "learned more about the psychology of the Russian state than in weeks of reading American coverage." He also noted that he wondered at the time, in particular: "Why was Putin so popular?" Vance reported that at one of the meetings at the conference, he drew attention to Putin's popularity and was "immediately chastised." In this regard, he emphasized: "Munich had become a place where people trafficked in comfortable lies rather than accepting uncomfortable truths. This was psychologically satisfying, but it made wise decision-making hard to come by." In his new book, he talks about how he became a Catholic, as well as the influence of religion on his political views. 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