I think you’re right. Though I do think that Putin is smarter than most people give him credit for, and I feel like ironically he might protect Zelenskyy to an extent, since no matter how Zelenskyy would die, Putin would be blamed.

Why would Putin want to assassinate the one person that could end this bullshit, dangerous war?

You neoliberal bootlickers have no capacity for thought.

It still confuses and amazes me that some communists seem to like Putin, let alone tolerate him.

Yeah, you should.

You didn’t say any of this until after I heavily criticized you, and you can’t blame me when you seemed to be apologizing for one of the worst dictators. Your gaslighting isn’t helping you.

It’s kind of like the shy and awkward kid at school, trying to put himself out there and stand out more. Adorable.

Wouldn’t them kowtowing to Putin make them less likely to be raided, in their eyes?

Though I suppose it’s a double-edged sword kind of thing.

Very imperfect implies there were redeemable aspects or traits.

Very imperfect? He was a horribly evil piece of shit, and while I hate to use language that might seem even percent 1 slightly ableist, he was a complete lunatic, and that’s coming from someone on the autistic spectrum.

He did some good by nationalizing over 200 Br"i "tish corporations, and selling guns to certain communist movements, but that doesn’t negate the proven horrific atrocities and stupidity of himself, his policies, or his government, or his selfishness.

He was a fucking horrible and evil piece of shit and a complete nutjob dictator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and I’m pretty sure he suppressed communists and revolutionary movements.

I’m also pretty sure that he only helped the USSR and USSR-affiliated communist movements, because he received money from selling them guns, and he was a thorn in Britain’s side.

He was a two-faced douchebag, and he only somewhat came to his senses after the damage had been done, and only because consequences caught up to him.

Same here.

I think Putin gets a metric-shit ton of bad rep for stuff that isn’t his fault or isn’t exclusively his fault, and he has done alot of genuinely good things for his country that people don’t talk about much.

But I also hold the opinion that regardless of him constantly being slandered and demonized by the western mainstream global capitalist news media, he is a still a fucking horrible, manipulative reich-wing dictator who belongs in prison or in the ground, and he isn’t a good person or an ally, just a tool.

I have serious problems with how alot of Russian communists seem to be socially reich-wing, but I understand that some of that could be just trying to survive in the bourgeois Russian regime.

But yes, Russia’s communists are the main “good guys” here.

I remember that first incident, it was funny AF.

I was hoping there would be more funny ones, but yeah, all of this checks out.

I’m not necessarily doubting you, but I feel like you have some examples of Putin being rude and disrespectful during diplomatic meetings, and I’d love to see them.

Of course not.

Edit: I mean of course there are no excuses. I’d like to think that maybe Russia only invited Israel to talk down to them, but I think that’s extremely wishful thinking and unlikely.

I don’t like this, but I’ve also read that Russia invites countries to it’s Victory Day Parades as a pseudo-summit for political purposes.

In economics terms, 1 percent growth is considered very good. Yes, 0.8 isn’t 1 percent, but it’s pretty close.