Why is Obama NOT a tyrant? Both meet the classic definition of being relatively unaccountable to the electorate as a whole, and especially vindictive to those who choose to challenge the imperial decisions that are issued with only a thin veneer of legitimacy.
At least in Russia that’s more or less par for the course.
I don’t hold other countries to the same standard as the US....Government is not a “one size fits all” thing. What works here won’t work there, and vice versa. Heck, I don’t even know what works here, anymore.