You want to try and interview me?
“In his annual year end press conference, he showed beyond the shadow of a doubt that he is in fact mentally unhinged. For three hours, by turns he demonstrated signs of schizophrenic paranoia, pathological dishonesty, deep seated passive-aggressive tendencies, woeful ignorance of world affairs and economics, and delusional confidence in Russia’s future prospects.”
I thought this was a description of Obama!
Putin Is Mentally Unhinged.
Yeah but Obama beat him to it.
What about our own tyrant? Is he mentally unhinged?
Putey is just talkin to his base. He knows exactly what he is doing. Too bad he doesn’t spend his time generating new things for Russia to produce to grow the GDP and build some infrastructure and jobs.
Obama is ALSO!!! At Least Putin LIKES his country!! Obama sure doesn’t!!
So in 0bama in a different way - doesn't make for an ecouraging 2015.
Does anyone believe Russia should be governed by saints while our own country is governed by a bunch of monsters?
Putin is evil.
Now Putin’s unhinged?
When the propaganda gets to that level, expect a war soon.
You want to try and interview me?
The lefties showed up and made sure that this thread was about nothing.
Russian leaders had their American groupies in the 1980s, 1970, and 1960s, and all the way back , so it is nothing new to have some of them here, even on FR.
Just let it be a reminder that the grovelers and peace niks never change.
Bork Obunga is merely “Putin-lite” (as in “Bud-lite”).
They are of the same left-wing cloth. Marxists. Obama is a wannabe communist, but Putin is the real thing. Both Obama and Putin are pathological narcissists too.
And, by the way, in terms of socioeconomic policy, Bork Obunga and Hitler were of the same left-wing cloth:
“We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.”
—Adolph Hitler, 1938
—Barack Obama, 2014
(Hitler was a Democrat).
Putin is crazy?
Perhaps.
But he figured out the most important part of staying in power.
When you have nuclear weapons, the rest of the world won’t mess with you.
By the way, some of the numbers quoted by the author are absurd.
$50 billion spent on the Olympics? $20 billion spent on the World Cup?
Even if that’s true, how could anyone outside the Russian Treasury make a verifiable estimate?
It provides an easy way of condemning one's enemies but doesn't really have much to do with psychopathology.
Look at the system that produced Putin and that he functions in, or the game he's playing, or the presuppositions and principles he works under, rather than simply throwing around the word insane.
That doesn't make him any better a person than the writer thinks he is, but it does describe Putin in a more substantial way.
Thousands of nukes controlled by an insane tyrant.
Putin is a psychopathic imbecile.