At the same time, Putin wants to stay in office forever but cannot find an excuse to do so. So Putin exported his idea of legislative change to his confidante: Xi and Benjamin Netanyahu. Xi changed the constitution in 2018 and Benjamin Netanyahu is doing it right now. If either of these two men succeeded, Putin will have more justifiable reason to tell his people, “See other countries did it, so should we”, in order to achieve his goal of life-time appointment.