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Belleoffreedom 409 points ago +422 / -13

Putin is not "our guy." He is a foreign Head of State. That State has some interests in common with us, and some opposed.

He is former KGB, and if he is not a killer, he has certainly cultivated that aspect of his public image.

He's smart, he's reliably loyal to the interests of his country, and for those reasons we can have a little bit of comfort in our dealings with him.

He is not, for example, going to turn ballistic missiles loose on us, like the Mad Mullahs in Iran will do if they get the power to do so, nor is he going to set a bioweapon loose to crash economies worldwide.

So, right now, Russia is in better hands than Iran and China, which is an awfully low bar.

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Nainya 24 points ago +24 / -0

Basically, he is a guy with two working eyes and Intelligence Agencies that are actually telling him the truth.

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RedditIs4Retards 19 points ago +21 / -2

They have no choice, he disappears them for attacking the interests of the country 😂 too bad the same doesn't happen to ours

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ShanghaiJoe -1 points ago +4 / -5

Our countries interests are other countries interests. America first is the only way forward and I didn't even really see Trump doing that. Did he say it ? Yes. Did he do it in action ? No. Everyone got what they wanted out of Trumps presidency except the average hard working American. Israel and the wealthy got everything they asked for.