"In the country of blind men, the one eyed man is a king".
In other words, an ex-head of the KGB appears to be normal because the entire world has gone nuts. Pretty soon Obama will appear to be Rush Limbaugh.
You can say that again.
We are certainly "the land of the blind" right now. Even someone chock full of natural wisdom and/or virtue would appear near-saintly by comparison.
But we must keep things in perspective. Still, someone like Putin has a lot of truth to offer, if you know how to weigh and sift it, how to interpret it. We do have to use our brains -- we can't expect the MSM or anyone else to spoon-feed the truth to us, like baby food to the mouth of a 6 month old baby. Not gonna happen.
Bishop Williamson often addressed this -- "We have to think!" "But it huuuuuuurts!"