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.
Agree. Opposition to Obama doesn’t make Putin any less dangerous to world peace.
Part of it is also because of opposition to those who want us to start up with Russia. It’s a bad idea but it’s not because Putin is this amazing ally.
Poland and Czech are our real allies. Obama screwed them by taking away missile defense. We should reverse that policy