It dropped a lot lower than that but spiked back up once he became the leader of America

Yes, that does appear to be one of his goals

As opposed to the one where Putin is a smart guy and a great friend to anyone who isn’t just a freeloading meanie?

It’s not known either way yet, but unless they offloaded it to a separate firmware like Nvidia or Intel, it’s not possible for them to do in Linux due to HDMI patents. The way the other vendors avoided this is to use a separate component that does everything internally, so none of the code is in the drivers. AMD doesn’t do that historically, and thus can only support such features with closed source drivers/OS.