“I like this man....I really do.”
It is a funny feeling for a lot of us old goats, who spent our youth and beyond in a Cold War against the USSR.
Now Herr Obozo and his thugs in DC appear to many of us to be more of a danger to our country/our families than Vlad.
Very true, but It doesn't mean the history is going to stop and wait till we get a pebble out of our shoe.
I grew up in the Pittsburgh, PA area in the 1970s and 80s. Needless to say, I was a Steeler fan and it was a good time to be a Steelers fan. I look at Putin in much the same way I viewed Tom Landry and Roger Staubach. They were, "the enemy," but I had the utmost respect for them, because they always acquitted themselves well, and their competence was always on display.