He has restored Russian strength, prestige, pride and wealth.
All of that without apology. Russians respect someone who is strong. By winning Crimea back for Mother Russia without firing a shot - Putin has already ensured his place in Russian history.
The Russian economy has been tanking for awhile now, even before the recent invasion from the Czar. There is also a huge amount of corruption in Russia. The Olympics, for example, cost more than all the other Olympic events combined since 1924, with much of that money actually being siphoned off by Putin's buddies. Russia is a gangster state, and, therefore, has a gangster economy.
All of that without apology. Russians respect someone who is strong.
Who would Putin apologize too? People he does not like he simply gets rid of, one way or the other, if not by sending them to insane asylums, then by beatings, and if not that, then by murder, which frequently happens.
y winning Crimea back for Mother Russia without firing a shot - Putin has already ensured his place in Russian history.
Oh man, just replace "Mother Russia" with "Germany the Fatherland," and Putin with "Hitler," and you would have a good case for why Germany was better off under the fellow.
Your hero worship of a KGB blood thirsty monster is real sick.
You need to seek help.
This KGB monster would kill a western while ordering a cup of coffee that includes you useful idiot as the Soviets used to refer to fools like you during the cold war.
Gold state, I don’t know how old you are, but our memories our old nemesis differ greatly. I remember 100 divisions of combined arms aimed at the heart of Europe, and 13 warheads per mid sized city in the US. Russia is nothing close to the old cccp, and that is a good thing.
They are a paper tiger puffed up on artificially high oil prices. Had it not been for Obama/pelvis I and $10t in new debt binding our hands, this would be a joke.
He has restored Russian strength, prestige, pride and wealth.
Sadly, FRiend, you are channeling the wookie obama. She says near verbatim the same about the kenyan.
Russia per capita income: $18,083
US per capita income: $54,609
Yet Putin's cronies are doing quit well. And the biggest problem is that Putin is not a conservative despite the fawning praise he gets from some here. Property rights in Russia are subject to the whim of Putin. It's why so many rich Russians live outside Russia. Guess where the wealthiest ones live. They're in London. So the Socialist UK respects property more than Putin the action hero of the dilettante fawning Putinistas.