Someone told me here on FreeRepublic that these reports were not correct. I know they are. I provided an open source to prove it. Why do some people blindly believe Putin and Putinism is without any flaws? His authoritarianism runs completely contrary to conservative values of the rule of law. He has set himself up as a president for life, yet there are some who seem to think that’s what a great leader does. It’s weird.
We’re playing with him. Once the Iran deal goes down and China’s shenanigans are stopped, Putin won’t have any major allies
It's envy of Putin's nationalism. Now that we have a nationalist of our own, we can rightly view Putin with suspicion.
Putin has one task. Save Mother Russia from dying.
At this point his degree of actual success is not at all clear.
I agree. I’ve been away from this site for several years (came back a bit around when the votes were coming in) and the site has changed. Lots of people acting like Putin is the good guy. How did this happen? Because he opposed Obama? Gee, like that’s hard to do! Just because someone outmaneuvered an idiot doesn’t make them a great leader.
That doesn’t change who Putin ~is~. A murderous authoritarian, the kind of person that we ~used to~ oppose here.
The people who disagree with Putin most and tell scary stories about Russia being a threat militarily look pretty foolish based on the information in this post.
Their aircraft carrier is a rickety old ineffective weapons system we are told.
Who builds up this nonsense about Russia being a threat?
Neocons who want the Middle East rearranged for Saudi and Qatari benefit.
The defense contractors (”military industrial complex”) get to do a lot of business in this kind of environment, too.
My gut feeling is that Russia should not be pushed because they may end up in with China even more than they already are.
Powerful people seem to want to make the world a more dangerous place.