Nothing Putin has done the past 2 weeks has changed my opinion about him.
I used to think he should burn in hell for the rest of eternity and that for the rest of his life the decision on his fate should be decided by a War Crimes tribunal. So somebody please get him and his cronies into custody right now and taken to The Hague.
I still think this way, except that now I think he ought to get a furlough into some isolation paradise for a few hours each week where he can look through the window (but no touching) at some beautiful Ukrainian women to see what he’s missing & then go back to hell until the next week.
There may be some on FreeRepublic who support Putin. But such people are evil and/or ignorant.
Yes Ukraine is a terribly corrupt kleptocracy. But I agree that Putin was wrong and a mass murderer to invade. He should’ve tried to solve these problems through diplomacy. What he’s done is evil evil evil.
The only reason I can imagine any leniency on Putin is if there is some big picture reason why it’ll greatly reduce human suffering to allow some leniency. My focus is #1 on what’s best for the blessings of liberty and prosperity for all of us and our posterity.
There is a big picture reason. Deep State going down for the count.