I understand that line of thinking, and in principle it makes sense. A strong hand to handle an existential threat is sometimes necessary. There's probably plenty of examples of this with leaders during say WW1 and WW2.
With that said, in practice, a strong hand implies a certain level of authoritarianism & big government, which could become problematic. If you had a choice, taking the risk associated with the strong hand could quite possibly be the right choice, but I'm not 100% sold on that. Open to hearing other thoughts on this.
I can't speak for the Russian people obviously, but it could kind of be a similar situation as we would be if we had Trump stay in as Emperor, lol. We would be pretty much be okay with that if it weren't for the constitution and us purposefully staying away from any one person holding onto power for too long. In Russia, things may work differently.
We'll see over time how it goes, and hopefully, before too long we can actually start getting some good honest reporting on it.
You're more right than you think, fren.. Russians had the same situation (staying away from any one person holding more than two terms) but they have changed the constitution about this recently..
Of course they have.. They want to get rid of Putin as badly as your DS want Trump gone forever.. But it's quite comical to see liberals crying about Putin's additional terms, while completely ignoring Frau Merkel holding the position of Chancellor of Germany since 2005 without interruption..
I understand that line of thinking, and in principle it makes sense. A strong hand to handle an existential threat is sometimes necessary. There's probably plenty of examples of this with leaders during say WW1 and WW2.
With that said, in practice, a strong hand implies a certain level of authoritarianism & big government, which could become problematic. If you had a choice, taking the risk associated with the strong hand could quite possibly be the right choice, but I'm not 100% sold on that. Open to hearing other thoughts on this.
I can't speak for the Russian people obviously, but it could kind of be a similar situation as we would be if we had Trump stay in as Emperor, lol. We would be pretty much be okay with that if it weren't for the constitution and us purposefully staying away from any one person holding onto power for too long. In Russia, things may work differently.
We'll see over time how it goes, and hopefully, before too long we can actually start getting some good honest reporting on it.
You're more right than you think, fren.. Russians had the same situation (staying away from any one person holding more than two terms) but they have changed the constitution about this recently..
DS panicked calling him a dictator, they know now they're about to be double-teamed, and not the fun kind. ;P
Of course they have.. They want to get rid of Putin as badly as your DS want Trump gone forever.. But it's quite comical to see liberals crying about Putin's additional terms, while completely ignoring Frau Merkel holding the position of Chancellor of Germany since 2005 without interruption..