It doesn't actually achieve that, it just makes you look like an ignorant Westerner. Similar to all the "-ski" stuff that Americans, for some reason, seem to believe is indicative of Russian.

If you want to troll Putin, call him Vovochka.

Putin is not in fact the intended audience, so the diminutive should be tailored to the audience, not to Putin.

Kind of like calling him "Putain", or "Poo-tin", which are also not his name.

Well, If you can't win in the battlefield, I think this is a good cope mechanism.

NATO should have stayed with their time-honored tradition of bombing the shit out of sheep-herders with AKs instead of starting a proxy war with Russia.

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