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In reply to the discussion: The Putin Contingent on DU: WTF? [View all]Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Once he gave asylum to Ed Snowden (who had the nerve to actually *praise* Russia's human rights record)...It's also worth noting that Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange, Trevor Timm and the rest of that clique have been notably silent if not shamelessly spinning reports of human rights abuses/invasions of privacy/press freedom crackdowns in that country, which helps reinforce that mindset among many of Snowden's supporters...
Other DUers got that way because they believe everything they read on Russia Today as God's truth...So Putin has been an innocent bystander with clean hands while the United States and their EU puppets, jealous of Russia's resurgence, conspire to denigrate a great leader and his people and throw the planet prematurely into World War III...Because clearly there wouldn't be any problems if the United States and their EU puppets didn't stage a coup against a popular and innocent sitting president...
Other DUers (the really ignorant ones, imo) see Putin as some kind of heroic leftist bulwark standing against U.S. expansionism the way Castro and Chavez did in years past...
But I think deep down, Putin's fans on the right and left are full of admiration and secretly envious at how easily Putin can get things done by force of will, circumvent any international obstacle, and wish for some magical world where Obama could do the same...But they forget that Obama has a much more diverse populace to cater to, that Obama can't silence dissent and singlehandedly control his national media through the threat of kidnapping and murder, and that Putin isn't hampered by an obstructionist congress who can't agree on the color of the sky...
My only consolation is sooner or later Putin will do something so heinous and unforgivable that even support from his truest believers on the left will evaporate