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Old 11-04-2016, 04:52 PM
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Why Vladimir Putin’s People Love Him
The knee jerk demonization of Vladimir Putin has reached absurdity on this forum. It's about time somebody posted a more even handed POV.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/13/...ople-love-him/

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By certain traditional measures, Russian President Vladimir Putin is the pre-eminent statesman of his time. When he took power in the winter of 1999–2000, his defenseless and bankrupt country was being carved up by its new kleptocratic elites, in collusion with its old imperial rivals. Much as Kemal Atatürk had done in Turkey seven decades earlier, Putin rescued a nation-state from the ruins of an empire and gave it coherence and purpose.

He disciplined his country’s unaccountable plutocrats, restored its military strength, and refused, with ever-blunter rhetoric, the subservient role in an American-run world system that foreign politicians and business leaders had drawn up for Russia. His voters credit him with having “saved his country.” So do many of his Russian detractors, although they worry he has stayed in power too long.

He is among the more popular democratically elected leaders in the civilized world and, incidentally, a hero to certain right-wing rebels against the international order, particularly in Europe. This is awkward for him and for them, since, unlike Atatürk, Putin has no programmatic ideology.
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I'm thinking you enjoy the absurdity.
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I'm thinking you enjoy the absurdity.
I need the eggs.

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Don't we all.
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The Weekly Standard guy?
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The Weekly Standard guy?
You attack every source that you disagree with no matter where on the political spectrum it comes from.
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Horse pucky. You're just pissed that someone noticed that your source is a far right nutjob.
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Horse pucky. You're just pissed that someone noticed that your source is a far right nutjob.
Yeah, you kinda do, Bob.
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It's Russia. In Russia they always love their strongman leaders.......even when they don't.

Next your going to tell me why North Koreans "love" Kim Jong Un.
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It's Russia. In Russia they always love their strongman leaders.......even when they don't.

Next your going to tell me why North Koreans "love" Kim Jong Un.
Virtually everything you hear about Russia in this country is a lie put out by our government in order to create the illusion that they are Boogeymen, so that they have an excuse to feed the insatiable monster that is our own Military Industrial Complex.
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