At least he acts like and talks like a man, unlike what passes for leadership in DC, and I don’t mean just Obama. When he says Russia prefers “a conservative approach to introducing innovations into the social order”, do you think that means there will be openly gay Russian soldiers anytime soon? Do you think he’s just bluffing?
We have a President who fits your description quite well, and an uncomfortably good chance that his replacement will be no better. So if your opinion is correct, Putin won’t be all alone.
He’s full of bluster, but that is not my definition of a real man.
He’s a leader that hjas manipulated his system to maintain leadership for sixteen years. Real men play by the rules and step down with their term is over.
You can’t bastardize the system, do immoral things to circumvent the rules, then come to me and claim the high moral ground.
You can’t trash others for not living the right type of life, when you have manipulated the system to your own advantage. He is as morally corrupt as those he seeks to denigrate. And I’m not defending their life-style any more than I am his.
He got a burr under his saddle to invade Crimea and annex it. He did so against international law. This wasn’t the act of a man with high morals. It was the act of a child striking out for whatever reason.
We have a guy that circumvented the laws governing his ability to hold power, circumvented the international laws to annex another nation’s territory, and has circumvented international laws to invade still more of neighbor state’s Eastern territory.
He has brought back the bluster of the U. S. S. R. He has ordered his strategic bomber fleet to violate the air-space of other nations.
These are not the acts of a man.
These are the acts of a person who not only can’t keep himself under control, much less the armed forces he commands.
He’s a rogue head of state on a number of levels.
This is not a man’s man. It is a child pretending to be one.