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Yes he is a bad guy, though I doubt he favors Trump. (Hillary tried to bribe him with OUR uranium.) It's more that he makes people that speak out against him "disappear" (something he shares in common with the Clintons, though he's worse) and also because he hurt religious freedom by greatly restricting all but the Russian Orthodox Church.
So, not a big fan of him. The only sort of alliance I could see with him is to join up to get rid of our common enemy: Soros and the UN.
As No_Recess said, he is a politician like the rest of them. Russia is just like America. It has the same power structure, it has the same institutions, it has the same interests.
It's arrantly astonishing that the above view at all enjoys widespread endorsement in modern America.
Regardless of the level of corruption or insidious dealings in American politics, it's nothing like the situation in Russia. Russia never had a functioning democracy, and Russian culture takes a dim view of the very idea that "democracy" is a rational or attainable situation. Putin rules Russia, less from direct threats or impositions, than from a cult of personality, where he is seen as the only option, the only serious solution to a raft of problems. It's not that Russians are incapable of self-government, but rather, that the plurality view is that self-government inevitably degenerates into something chaotic and vile. Thus, Putin... the anti-Gorbachev, and even more importantly, the anti-Brezhnev.
Yes, I think Putin, and the Russian leadership are the enemy. They are certainly not our friends, and never have been. They hate us, and Trump because we are now allowing our fossil fuel energy to really compete with theirs, and it is hurting the only thing they care about. Their oil, and natural gas revenue.
So because you have never personally met them you have no opinion on Hitler or Charles Manson?
Good grief, what a stupid position to take. You do not need to have met someone to have enough information to form an opinion. Now you need to be convinced that Vlad Putin is a bad guy given all we know of him? Are you serious?
Donald Trump has caused you to think completely irrationally.
I've read Hilter's book and done a little more research on him, making it a little easier to ascertain an opinion despite never having met him or knowing anyone personally who did. I can't say the same for Putin although my instinct would be to distrust him based on his background and his country's history. The Russians have always seen themselves as an adversary to the US even dating back to WW2 era and I suppose nothing has changed.
Yes he is a bad guy, though I doubt he favors Trump. (Hillary tried to bribe him with OUR uranium.)
Nonsense.
Everyone knows a lie repeated often enough becomes true ... NOT! ... it's still a lie.
We are actually NET IMPORTERS of uranium from Russia. Our Uranium just isn't that good. The whole story is a 'trumped up' bogus hoax perpetrated on the people who trust the fake news generators the most: right wing Trumplodytes and Tea Partyers.
In the end it is an ugly world and we are only getting an extremely diluted truth. None of it is fake news, just manipulated to fit the authors opinion. You have to read everything and do your own research to piece the truth together along with a touch of common sense
Never met the guy and don't personally know anyone who has, so anything I think I know about him is hearsay at best. So who knows.
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Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry
So because you have never personally met them you have no opinion on Hitler or Charles Manson?
Good grief, what a stupid position to take. You do not need to have met someone to have enough information to form an opinion. Now you need to be convinced that Vlad Putin is a bad guy given all we know of him? Are you serious?
Donald Trump has caused you to think completely irrationally.
Cult 45 will twist themselves into depravity to defend anything related to Trump and his Russian cronies.
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You do not need to have met someone to have enough information to form an opinion. Now you need to be convinced that Vlad Putin is a bad guy given all we know of him? Are you serious? 