I certainly find the public persona Putin wears preferable to that donned by most other politicians, but when I look behind the curtain I am less impressed. From his massive personal fortune, entirely derived during his public service - which cannot be honestly gained - to last year's revelation of rape and torture in Russian penal institutions by an escaped prisoner who smuggled recordings he had made for his captors of those crimes out of Russia, and the response of Russia to that disclosure being to end the practice of using slave labor to record torture, I find insuperable personal failings.
Even worse is the advancement of the biometric digital surveillance state in Russia, including CBDCs, utter prevention of free speech, and his inclusion in the WEF Young Global Leaders, which the WEF has now clumsily disavowed, much as the enemedia cast shade on Trump which caused people to support him as the enemy of their enemy.
I do not consider Putin any different from Zelensky in principle. He is just senior and more practiced at corruption. I appreciate that we will see these details differently, and hope our differences strengthen our agreement that facts show Russian military action in Ukraine has been driven by Ukrainian terrorism, corruption, and Western political machinations.
As I said, I do appreciate we will not mirror each the other's beliefs, and it is our disagreement that best illustrates where we do agree is robust and based on obvious facts.
I certainly find the public persona Putin wears preferable to that donned by most other politicians, but when I look behind the curtain I am less impressed. From his massive personal fortune, entirely derived during his public service - which cannot be honestly gained - to last year's revelation of rape and torture in Russian penal institutions by an escaped prisoner who smuggled recordings he had made for his captors of those crimes out of Russia, and the response of Russia to that disclosure being to end the practice of using slave labor to record torture, I find insuperable personal failings.
Even worse is the advancement of the biometric digital surveillance state in Russia, including CBDCs, utter prevention of free speech, and his inclusion in the WEF Young Global Leaders, which the WEF has now clumsily disavowed, much as the enemedia cast shade on Trump which caused people to support him as the enemy of their enemy.
I do not consider Putin any different from Zelensky in principle. He is just senior and more practiced at corruption. I appreciate that we will see these details differently, and hope our differences strengthen our agreement that facts show Russian military action in Ukraine has been driven by Ukrainian terrorism, corruption, and Western political machinations.
As I said, I do appreciate we will not mirror each the other's beliefs, and it is our disagreement that best illustrates where we do agree is robust and based on obvious facts.