Comment by wokkel
15 hours ago
Those can also be explained by favouring usa/venezuela oil while still supporting Russian politics. For example: in the Ukraine war he is constantly seeking ways and arguments to support putins position even though he is one of the few leaders worldwide who do this.
They're not favouring - they're even enforcing secondary sanctions on Russian oil on China and India, which is difficult and expensive.
The fact that you can divine pro-Putin things from his speech means nothing compared to him performing massively powerful economic action against Putin.