Putin is a loser. His economic policies have been a disaster and now he is screwing up Russia's foreign policy. A competent president would have been able to maintain good relations with the Ukraine.
The guy's a joke and how anyone can admire him is a mystery to me. I suspect some (middle-aged homosexuals) get the hots when he takes off his shirt for them. Maybe they want to lick Putin's testicles, I don't know. Any attraction to Putin seems very strange to me.
They have been showing pre-crash videos of some of the wonderful people who were murdered because of Putin's incompetence. All I can say is that if you think he's some kind of genius, his peculiar genius killed a lot of wonderful, innocent people.
I agree. Putin is a genius. An evil genius.
What you say is correct but it's quite beside the point. Do you imagine that anybody can become the President of Russia without having walked to the Kremlin office over human remains? Dmitry Medvedev had lots of people killed in his fight for huge forestry resources that became ultimately the plinth of his political power. I lived in Russia during his rise to power. The favored method was "suicide" by drawing in a swimming pool with the "suicide's" hands and feet tied. There were several of those "suicides" as I recall. All of them were ruled suicides, in a fine Orwellian display of in-your-face doublethink. Just dare to call it murder in Russia. Make a big stink about it. Any journalist that did wound up dead.
Lots of journalists killed in Putin's Russia.
No, Putin is an evil KGB apparatchik with enormous designs for the world stage.
The West can either stand up to him now, stand up to him later when he's much more powerful, or simply knuckle under. Given our current leadership, there's no hope that anybody will credibly stand up to him now. Given the current trends going on here at home, I have to say I'll probably be too busy dealing with tyranny at home to care much about what happens half a world away. It seems quite likely that Europe will knuckle under. Europe knows it, too, but they're such wussies that they'll never admit it.