[Tailgunner Joe]

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an illegitimate war crime and therefore Putin is complicit with the atrocity he is an accessory to. Putin is a war criminal and a genocidal mass murderer who must be executed for his crimes.

Your comparison of him to the hero Ronald Reagan is disgraceful and you should be ashamed, if you had a conscience. Putin and Reagan are complete opposites and are nothing alike at all!

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Putin, for all his many many many flaws is at least a patriot. Putin is in my mind not an opposite to Reagan, he is an opposite to obama.

In the wide multidimensional spectrum that makes a human, Putin and Reagan share a few leadership characteristics, that does not make them close, does not make them bestest buds, does not make them both someone I'd want to associate with (Reagan YES!!! Putin... well... no, never).

Does that mean I'd like to hang out with Putin's polar opposite, obama? Ummm, no, although the word hang might be in there somewhere.

Don't read too much into my post. ALL I'm saying is that Putin does not have direct personal culpability for this particular incident.

He has plenty of other blood on his hands that he is directly accountable for.

And he did set the stage that allowed this to happen, but he didn't order the murder of innocent civilians this time.

Besides, like Nixon, he can legitimately be held accountable for the cover-up!