Just like a leftist, YOU change the subject. You were the one who picked the dictators you chose to compare Putin to. I'm not even sure Putin is a dictator in the sense that you suggest. He might be but Russian government is something I really don't understand.
But speaking of dictators, why do you think have been the top five American Presidents?
(Clue: the one usually rated at the top WAS a dictator and has many more deaths that should have been attributed to him than Putin does.)
ML/NJ
No, that is the subject under discussion, but just like a leftist you start off with ridiculous false accusations.
ml/mj: " I'm not even sure Putin is a dictator in the sense that you suggest.
He might be but Russian government is something I really don't understand."
By all accounts, Putin rules Russia with an iron hand, tolerating no dissent and allowing no freedom in the media.
He is reported to be the wealthiest man in Russia, making him a kleptocratic oligarch.
Putin has invaded at least two neighboring countries (Georgia & Ukraine) annexing territories from them.
He is reported as meddling in other countries' elections, including possibly our own, and as threatening such weaker countries as the Baltic states.
So, by all accounts he is a dictator and thug, has been described on this thread as a "czar", but without any of the old royal trappings.
A "czar" with no trappings is just a thug, period.
ml/mj: "...the one usually rated at the top WAS a dictator and has many more deaths that should have been attributed to him than Putin does."
That would be a certain Mississippian named Jefferson Davis whose wartime rule in the American tradition of that time, however, is not to be compared with anything going on today.