What is it about Putin, if anything, that you do not agree with him on? Are you an American, by the way? Do you favor Soviet/Russian/Putinista hegemony in the world?
“What is it about Putin, if anything, that you do not agree with him on?”
See? You are at it again.
Anyone that doesn’t agree with the party line as determined by YOU is a “putinista”. I’ll bet you are really popular over at KOS, where Groupthink is the order of the day.
I don’t agree with Putin, but I do understand what is causing him to act. Is it to his advantage? Hell yes it is. Don’t think “rules for radicals”, think Machiavelli. “The Prince that is feared, is far more respected than the Prince that is loved.”
I’m on the other side of the world from this, with no personal stake in it, trying to observe the facts that are available to me, and interpret them as best I can.
You should try it sometime.