Good grief!
Whaaadya expect??
Just what kind of turd do you think rises to the top in that kind of a punchbowl?
>>Just what kind of turd do you think rises to the top in that kind of a punchbowl?
If the turd is an indicator of the quality of the punch, then our turd isn’t any better.
Just what kind of turd do you think rises to the top in that kind of a punchbowl?
Their punchbowl gave them a tough, megalomaniac, acquisitive narcissist who is a patriot to his country.
What did our punchbowl do for us?
Putin is, in a perverse way, representative of the Russian mind. Russia has long been a country subject to invasions from the east by unproductive people bent on conquest. Eventually, Russia became a country which only understood conquest as the road to wealth. The creative minority has been selectively eliminated by emigration and revolution. The eight decades of communist rule were the most intensive for selection against civilizational characteristics, and the destruction of healthy traditions. Never forget that Putin is a KGB man, and their personnel were not picked for humanitarian characteristics.
It is sad to say, but the Russian people are easily led, and admire and hug the lash.
This is not to imply that our own current ruler is any better, though he is different. It is a good debate. Which is better as a leader: a paranoid madman with vigor; or a lazy, inexperienced, narcissistic weakling?