Before you rush to embrace the Russian, you might take at look at who he is.
Remember when Ronald Reagan told Gorbechev to “tear down this wall”? You would never guess who was a KGB agent in East Germany during that time. Remember that whole ‘evil empire’ thing? Putin was a member of that apparatus that made it evil.
I’m not saying believe Kerry, but I am saying don’t make Putin a hero because you share a common enemy.
Putin served his country. He has stated that Communism was a failure and could never work.
Many have misunderstood his statement about the fall of the Soviet Union being a catastrophe....It wasn’t because he missed the Soviet Union, and wanted to return to it....it was more a statement on just how badly mishandled the transition was in the first few years after the fall, I think he has some legitimate points there.
I don’t make Putin a hero, but he is a man, there is some doubt about our boy.