Posted November 09, 2016
sanscript: ... I have to say, and I don't hate Putin personally - but the level of sanctions against Russia is beyond me. Like I've said before, more than often that only hurts the people even more.
I don't think Putin himself wants to derail Russia even further, quite the opposite, I also think he has stabilized the country somewhat - but I think he's fighting others (like most politicians) in the back room.
Trilarion: That's a lot of assumptions. I don't understand what you mean by stablizing Russia? Building up a corrupt justice system, controling the resources by putting key figures in charge of governmental companies, getting rich himself. Seizing Crimea, starting a war in Eastern Ukraine, stopping the abolishment of plutonium. This is stabilization? And the theory about him fighting some unknown threat? That is probably deliberately underestimating his strengths just to be able to blame someone else? I don't think Putin himself wants to derail Russia even further, quite the opposite, I also think he has stabilized the country somewhat - but I think he's fighting others (like most politicians) in the back room.
These back door figures would have to be incredibly powerful if they can derail a whole country against such a strong man like Putin. I don't really believe it.
Besides, a strong dictatorship is still better than the wild west, or the better wording - power vacuum that came after. Like what happened when Prussia fell.
Theory? Only King Jung has none to argue against him, I'm thinking, so believe what you want...