the 'Elites' are not smart

[Steppenwolf]

also, it's hilarious to me that the article you linked me has its highlight on something which is not on the prompt – it highlights as "Putin makes holocaust denial illegal!" when what is written is that he signed it to be that any "NAZI crime denial" is illegal, which isn't relevant to the dialog you are trying to shift to, since Russia isn't Nazi-Germany, and Nazi-Germany wanted to annihilate the Russians