“There are too many on FR willing to believe Putin”
True...even one is too many for me, but the support seems to be waning.
I thing initially, the support from a lot of them came as a (anti-Obama) play that made sense to them. After all, Putin seems to care about his borders, curtails most all social movements like the “Gay” business, Certainly does not allow the Muslims to gain much power.
So to some of them, Putin is good role model, but unfortunately for them, they don’t see that he a authoritarian fascist akin to the Mussolini government.
They also don’t seem to understand that he’s a product of the times after the fall of Communism and the USSR.
For all those reasons and more they should temper their enthusiasm as it applies to Putin and Russia where once again they are creating a Sino-Russian, as opposed to the Sino-Soviet pact against the US. It’s a sign that nothing has changed but the “name and description”.
Just goes to show you how people allow themselves to be manipulated, simply to oppose Obama.
I agree. Most of the support for Putin has to do with the way he stands up to Obama and usually wins. We don’t have Reps doing something similar. Still, Obama may lose to Putin, but the reality is that America loses as well. I take no satisfaction from Obama’s humiliation by Putin.