What you wrote was indeed so simplistic that I offered the article as a way out of your profound ignorance - a conundrum that seems to especially infect those stuck in the past.
You may be playing chess with yourself but you seem like one easily beat at tic tac toe.
‘conundrum’. The classic verbage of liberal mind-set. Sure, from this point of liberal thinking Putin is great for the world.
The article was based on a liberal slant toward Putin, and boy how those liberals love to love and appease the communists. I am surprised your here at FreeRepublic but I see more Americans thinking this way these days.
Read more history in liberals wishing to capitulate to the Soviets in the 70’s and 80’s and see how your thinking about this man and country are identical to what Russia is doing once again. Communists are communists and act like communists. Same goes with capitalists in the West. Both have their inherent flaws but I will take freedom over slavery any day of the week. Putin’s restored Russian empire will be a short one, but keep admiring! The responsible here in America know what to do.
History just repeats itself, but your complex liberal thinking does not allow for the true study of human nature which is simplistic in design and eliminates having to read between the lines. A pity, you’ll like perish along with the rest of the masses by the hands and actions of your good komrads at the Kremlin. I guess in the end, natural selection works and my attempt to educate your folly in trusting an evil individual whom will directly end or ruin your life was in vain. Thanks for continuing to validate my point about human nature. It is also why it took mankind 10,000 years to invent the wheel. The obvious truth can be the most difficult to find in this media bombarded planet.