Putin Has Been Good For Russia

Intelligence Squared ^ | THURSDAY MAY 23 2013

[elhombrelibre]

You commend Putin for his great economic success. So just how great is it?

Russia per capita income: $18,083

US per capita income: $54,609

Yet Putin's cronies are doing quit well. And the biggest problem is that Putin is not a conservative despite the fawning praise he gets from some here. Property rights in Russia are subject to the whim of Putin. It's why so many rich Russians live outside Russia. Guess where the wealthiest ones live. They're in London. So the Socialist UK respects property more than Putin the action hero of the dilettante fawning Putinistas.

[Marguerite]

In the news: “US and the EU imposed travel sanctions on several dozens officials from Russia and Ukraine”

Can anyone catch the irony of all that?

During the Communist era, the Soviet Union and its satellite countries were forbidding their citizens to travel abroad.

Now, it’s the US and EU, those paragons of personal freedom, who do it. THEY are showing to Putin how THEY respect the international laws!

Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly, including the United States and ALL the European countries, reads,
“EVERYONE has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”

[olezip]

He might have been a KGB snake and now somewhat of a jinoist, but based on what he SAYS, in fact Putin is much less hostile to Christianity than our own President.

I saw nothing wrong with putting those "Pussy Rioters" in jail; those girls have never experienced adult supervision I suppose.

Putin also knows that men and women are different.

[trebb]

He might have been a KGB snake and now somewhat of a jinoist, but based on what he SAYS, in fact Putin is much less hostile to Christianity than our own President.

On the surface anyway.

Note that all his anti-homosexual and pro-Christian news bits seemed to start popping up during the last 6 months or so - got him a lot of respect in some places before the recent forays into expanding his hegemony.

[bert]

-——and runs a corrupt government——

Is the Putin Government more corrupt than the Obama government?

I don’t think so. Putin is a piker compared to Obama. If Putin had the money Obama has raked from the national treasury Russia would be in high cotton.

Corruption has degrees. I would postulate the current Russian corruption is less pervasive than before.On it’ worst day, the take in Russia pales in comparison to the corruptive theft of Obama et al.

Putin is saving Russia corruption and all. Obama is destroying America while laying up vast hoards somewhere off shore.

[sergeantdave]

“t’s why so many rich Russians live outside Russia. Guess where the wealthiest ones live. They’re in London.”

Wealthy individuals can buy a UK visa for £2 million and a £500,000 gift to a designated charitable cause. The program is run under the home secretary’s migration advisory committee, which is considering auctions to sell UK visas. The visa scheme is popular with the global super-rich from Russia, the Middle East and China.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/25/uk-visa-sell-off-defended-government-advisers