It says in the article that his comments in closed meetings with Ukraine were conciliatory and that his pro-russian comments were for his domestic audience.
That's because he is hoping to help with rebuilding of Ukraine (because money). At home he is shit talking them, saying they should negotiate, stop fighting and cede territory to Russia all the while enabling local arms companies to export weapons (because that brings money again).
Seems like they either have inconsistent quality or it went down over time. My 6-7 years old g502 is from a mechanical standpoint in perfect shape, I've just worn out the rubber sides and had to replace its feet once. I'd even say it's seeing fairly heavy use considering I use it for both work and gaming.
Tech illiterate people are screwed either way because windows will leave their high refresh rate screens at 60Hz (unless something has changed).
I just checked, it's 5 (or 6 if it's not your main display) clicks to enable gsync, nothing hard.
Realistically it wouldn't be a good thing, Russia and pro russian idiots would blame Ukraine and it's not like we'd get someone better in charge either.