kraftiekortie wrote:
Putin is an unprincipled person.
He's an "ends justifies the means" type. He'll say anything under the Sun in order to gain some advantage. This trait is why Donald Trump admires him so, and believes he is "smart." And why ex-US Secretary of State Pompeo called him a clever statesman.
He spoke of a "genocide" of Russian speakers in the far-eastern portion of Ukraine which was demonstrably not true.
He's spoken so many demonstrative untruths in the lead-up to the present war.
I would take anything Putin says with more than a smidgen of salt.
We have to get out of the Autocratic mindset, so Mankind could evolve further.
We don't need Putin/Trump types in any position of leadership.
pootin is a clinical psychopathic killer, and that is how he wants people to see him.
He was advertising how he could assassinate any dissident he wanted to throughout the world.
Another stalin.
pootin absolutely revels in his notoriety.
pootin is 99% ego. lol
Did you see the news clip where he was humiliating his own cabinet members, toying with them as a cat does with a mouse, making them change their position on the spot to whatever he wanted them to say?
This is the mark of a clinical psychopath.
A total power monger.
I have experienced this type of person/creature first hand on a number of occasions.
A smidgen of salt?
Are you serious?
You can't trust *anything/k* a dictator says.
If they happen to speak the Truth, it is a sheer accident or a method of manipulation.
The same applies to xi, obviously.
How can *any* reasonably intelligent person consider the idea that dictators have *any* integrity or credibility whatsoever?
The simple rule of thumb, and a total constant throughout history:
"Might makes right", no matter how many people hug trees.