Putin seems Reasonable swimming in this sea of corruption and insanity.
I have no misconceptions about Putin. He is an entirely corrupt man, but Russia is a nation reliant on corrupt leadership or government systems throughout its history.
He is an anti-globalist much like Trump and both are viewed with a burning white hot hatred from elites everywhere. He was also the victim, just as Trump was, of the Clinton machine and the American left who concocted a ridiculous conspiracy that Putin somehow changed the US election when it was our own intel community, media, and bureaucracy that birthed and nurtured a lie. Pulitzer level stuff.....
The sad fact is that the Clinton’s made the world a far more dangerous place in an effort to cover for her own crimes and weaken her hated rival. America had many common interests with Putin such as China, the war on terror, and even Israeli peace agreements to stabilize the Middle East and curtail Iranian interests but those bridges were effectively burned by Clinton to hide her own failures.
What could have been? A safer and more stable world with less globalism and risks of nuclear war. What exists now? A new Cold War with the other nuclear superpower, a more dangerous China, and less prosperity for regular people.
Trade with Russia could have led to stability and an improved standard of living in Europe and Russia for the average person, but the globalists would not hear of it so they kept pushing NATO east and interfering in places outside of our direct interests. A half a million dead (and counting) in the Ukraine and Russia would agree with me if they were still breathing.