You’re right that no one here (on FreeRepublic) cheered Saddam. The Left has typically cheered and apologized for America’s enemies (Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho, Saddam, etc.). Now, a small clique of “rightists” is doing the same with Putin. And no I do not have any kin in the Ukraine.
I think this “cheering†you see is really hatred for our President and grudging respect for someone who is exposing Obama as a weak President. The sad irony of this is that Obama’s socialist policies would even make the old USSR proud. I am also sure the current Russian regime especially loves the ongoing decimation of our military - it’s fag friendly too. (barf) In short, Putin makes Obama look like the ineffective/elitist and leftist scum that he is. Just remember that you can respect people you dislike, which I think is the case for some on FR and Putin. As Machiavelli said “it is better to be feared than loved.” For Obama, he has an engendered nothing but a supreme dislike and outright hatred not worth any respect.
Please excuse my typos. It is difficult to type on this damn phone.
Obama wouldn’t do anything about Russian expansionism, even if he wanted to. He’s a contemporary politician. Political regulator constituents on all sides, only wanting the pile of debt from renegade trade to continue flowing to each of their socialist factions, are against doing anything about it.
Europe’s similar constituents will stand idle to be gobbled up while waiting for the U.S.A. to get involved. Of course they all praise Putin while spouting fallacious arguments against doing anything about Iran nukes. Other Middle Eastern and African nations see the “progressive” gooshiness in today’s western politics and are joining the party with haste. Nuclear exchanges are far more likely in the near future than during the ‘60s, but political regulators don’t want to know that (might raise the prices of freight fuel, tourist fuel, and motivate people to do some real work).
“And don’t worry ‘bout tomorrow, hey, hey, hey
Sha-la-la-la-la-la, live for today” —Grass Roots, entertaining aging anti-defense hippies