[Lazamataz]

Someone told me here on FreeRepublic that these reports were not correct. I know they are. I provided an open source to prove it. Why do some people blindly believe Putin and Putinism is without any flaws? His authoritarianism runs completely contrary to conservative values of the rule of law. He has set himself up as a president for life, yet there are some who seem to think that’s what a great leader does. It’s weird.

It's envy of Putin's nationalism. Now that we have a nationalist of our own, we can rightly view Putin with suspicion.

[RedWulf]

>It’s envy of Putin’s nationalism. Now that we have a nationalist of our own, we can rightly view Putin with suspicion.

It’s actually quite straightforward: Russia’s PPP is less than California’s. China’s PPP greater than the US’s and continuing to grow. China screws American workers and consumers everyday of the week while Russia just buys our stuff and keeps thier meddling to thier own back yard. Russia isn’t a threat to us while China is. People who get riled up against Russia are not seeing our strategic situation clearly.

[elhombrelibre]

They misread Putin. He’s not a nationalist. He was a communist. When that gig wasn’t working out, he needed a new one. As Milosevic had done, Putin traded in his commie ideology for chauvinism under the guise of nationalism. Like Napoleon and other tyrants to include Hitler, he even pays some symbolic homage to the Christian Church, while making sure it doesn’t oppose his kleptocracy.