I don’t think there could ever be a bigger contrast than Obama and Putin
Only in certain respects. In others, they are quite alike.
They are both very effeminate in their own different ways, Putin seems to want to pretend to be butch though (to an hilarious extent), while Obama doesn’t worry about such things and seems more comfortable in his own skin.
Vlad is the man that the US military always feared would become the leader of the Soviet Union. The Soviets spent in relative and often absolute terms a lot more money on preparing to militarily defeat the west than NATO plus the US ever did and they were a lot more serious about fighting the Cold War than we were from LBJ until Reagan. We were very very lucky that the massively armed USSR got into an existential economic crisis just when there was a succession of Romney/Mclame type gerontocrats who had to be given their ‘turn’ to run the country into the ground. This was climaxed by Gorbachev a man who believed his own press clippings and was just a vain, shallow and conceited as the US political/intellectual class. (Which is why the lamestreams and the NE liberal establishment fawned over him the way they do about the Mahdi. He was ‘one of them’. What ever he was Gorby had the guts of an Easter egg and when faced with defections inside the Eastblock and turmoil in the Socialist Motherland he acted like anything but a Russian and much like the sh*ts in the self elected ‘global governance class’ in the US and Europe. With someone like Putin in charge the Cold War might not have ended and the Euroweasels would have been effectively terrorized into providing ‘credits’ and purchasing cattle feed grain for the Soviets> Putin may be the fellow who will put the fear of Allah into the ragheads. If so one can only applaud his ruthless and Machiavellian resolve to bring those pos’s to heel.