I don’t see Putin as a real man, I see him as a man of a type, but Reagan was my version of a real man, and I don’t mean their politics and political positions, but the guy things, like quiet masculinity versus shirtless blustering, posturing, etc. I think Reagan of 1985 would devour Putin, as would have many past American presidents.
Unfortunately Obama has almost no good human qualities of any type, masculine or any other, he isn’t totally weak, because he became president of the United States of America, but he is a mixture of indifference to America and the West, and being guided by that sentiment of dislike and a desire to hurt us, as much as the shallow man can feel, which he doesn’t, at much depth.
The world hands him opportunities to hurt us, and he can passively accept them, it is win/win for him, he doesn’t have to work hard, and the left is generally advanced in the big picture.
“I don’t see Putin as a real man,”
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Well, as opposed to Obama, he is a REAL man, and nobody is going to roll over him. I do, however, see your reluctance to recognize a potential adversary as such. Obama is the greatest disaster for America in modern times. I also agree that Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime, and I am pushing 70.
There is another outcome that could happen here too. Obomba could go all out to show his “strong side”. My thought is based on the coming election. He knows his party is going to get destroyed and what better way to keep them in power then to get engaged in some, in his mind, limited war. Unfortunately, not begin anything more than an average citizen of military strategy and being surrounded by a sea of yes men and women, he may lead us into a real disaster as we don’t have the military “check” for him to write because we don’t have the resources. A confrontation with the Ruskies now given their manpower superiority plus their geographical and logistical edges could easily escalate quickly beyond a local limited engagement IMO. If this were
a chess match, Putin has control of the center of the board and our mental midget has been relegated to defending the margins.