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Originally Posted by HRH_H_Crab
Couldnt agree more. It's not like Putin has helped America invade Iraq for oil, and lied to his people to justify it!
Im pretty sure he is capable of doing something equally shit, but we really need to give him the chance to do it before giving him the same status as our Tony.
Appalling as ordering the murder of Litvenenko would be (if it were true) it really pales in comparison to the innumerable innocent Iraqis / Afghanis that have been murdered by Britain, America and pals, not to mention their own citizens whose lives have been indirectly put at risk due to reprisals, so before going apeshit at Putin and the Russians, it might be nice to take a little step back and look at the big picture.
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Don't remind him of Chechnya, the noble Russians are standing up for the poor and oppressed of the world !
Comparing Blair and Putin erodes any credibility of future posts, it’s not shocking and edgy it’s just a stupid comparison to make. Blair made one huge mistake in following George Bush into Iraq and a number of minor mistakes in terms of civil liberties. How on Earth you can compare this with Putin who invaded Chechnya, installed a brutal warlord as leader who keeps his people in check with methods that would be more than at home on the streets of Baghdad. He’s made the world unstable holding democracies in Eastern Europe to ransom over oil and gas because they won’t do as he says, he’s aimed nuclear weapons back at Europe because they won’t do as he says. He’s encouraged nationalism at home as a way to distract from the massive inequality in Russian society this in turn has fueled the growth of neo nazi skin heads who terrorise immigrants, when he’s been criticised by journalists or activities they have a nasty habit of turning up dead or being caught evading tax. Most of all though Putin has symmetrically rolled back democracy and freedom for 100 million people, he’s filled the government with his spook mates and put Russia on the road to dictatorship, Blair messing up and following Bush into a war that he genuinely believed in is what pales in comparison.