At this point Putin can just put out whatever BS he wants using the image we all in some way endowed him with and this BS will be seriously discussed. This guy is by no means a fooll but definitely slowly gets into lunatic zone
Like you say, he is no fool. But the lunatic part is only what he sounds like sometimes.
If they really developed a vaccine, who cares? Vitamin-C + zinc sulfate + vitamin D3 cures/controls Covid - or hydroxychloroquine + zinc sulfate. Putin's talk is simply trying to get us to realize that vaccines are a stupid idea that won't work, and that we have the cure already.
