Posted on 12/20/2017 8:26:58 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Can’t argue there. Putin does seem to go his own way with Russia, which I hoped we would always do with our country.
Please live in Russia as I have before praising Putin. Living there made Obama’s America look good in comparison. And now with Trump, the MAGA movement is going full speed and America is re-discovering her inner greatness.
Putin and his oligarchs have robbed the Russian people blind but Russians had such little self-worth following the USSR, they were easy prey for the ensuing propaganda and rhetoric of recovering their former so-called superpower glory.
Plus oil prices were good enough for awhile. But in exchange for acceptable living standards, Russians willingly gave up their freedom and their voice. The insurmountable corruption is biting very very hard right now — among other social crises we hardly hear about in the West: an HIV epidemic affecting up to 1% of the entire Russian population, low birthrates + demographic crisis, 3rd world conditions beyond the big cities, broken relations with their brother nation Ukraine, and fragile race relations between ethnic Russians and Muslims (both native and immigrant.)
Moscow has the highest number of Muslims of any city in Europe.
That all being said, Russia’s post-Putin future is quite bright!
But let’s not allow for the leadership vacuum in the West (pre-Trump) distort our view.
For all his fake touting of Christian values, Putin has been a two-faced nightmare and represents every tendency our American founding fathers wanted to guard posterity us against.
I have no idea how to fix it..
combine that with the fact that some women just do not want to procreate, and its a devastation for our culture..
Please. Do not misunderstand me. I DO NOT praise Putin. I abhor him for the KGB thug that he is.
My post that may have seemed like praise was nothing more than acknowledging that he does seem to act for the primacy of his country.
While true, in and of itself has nothing do do with his policies, actions or intentions, and the same “acting for the primacy of his country” could be said of some very bad people, of which I believe he is one.
If you read my post in the contexts of other posts, you may see that I acknowledge that Putin does just that.
I have nothing but contempt and distrust for him.
Additionally, one of the reasons I appreciate Trump is that he does appear to be conducting himself to the benefit of his country, but since I am an American and think our values are worthwhile, I am all on board with this.
Point is, Fidel Castro acting in the interests of his own country is quite a different thing than Donald Trump acting in the interests of HIS own country!
Trump doesn't need the money, and seems to sincerely want to bring back an America he once knew. Driving the left insane is an unintended consequence we all should love.
And I do!
Just to be clear, I don’t think Little Ray is much of a Putin fan either...I don’t want to speak for him, but I suspect we are more on the same page than not on this...!
Nope. I’m not.
I think the poster just took the context incorrectly...which I can understand.
LOL, if one says Stalin was the best as eliminating opponents to Communism...someone might take that as a favorable comment!
I understand the poster’s point of view. “Live under tyrants, and you will understand...”
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