Best Leader on the Planet

[ReptilianKittenEater]

Putin. Got to hand it to him, pretty well every one knew the attack was coming and warned him of it, he just told them to fook off.

Chatting with a buddy of mine who thought Putin had a hand in the attack. I don't think so. I judt think he is that incompetent.

[sparrow]

All Scandinavian Countries, no contest.

You see what happened at the UN right? Looking just like the Republican Party. Authoritarianism trying to take over.

Money and power. That's all it's all about..


Also, Putin isn't a real government. He is Mafioso. HE is the law in his "territory".

[sparrow]

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[Kurt]

USA: You gonna get attacked by Terries.
Russia: Bullshit. You don't know shit.
Terries: * pew pew pew pew fuck opera pew pew*
Russia: This was Ukraine with USA support.

Also, it seems like China and Russia really want Palestinians killed huh? The US introduced a ceasefire resolution in the UN and it got vetoed by China and Russia.
Normally the USA is the only veto of any ceasefire involving Israel.

[gnaruki]

Putin's approval rating is higher than Kim Jung Un's! How he can be a bad guy?

Look's like Modi is the best leader on the planet if you look at reliable polls.

[Michael]

Not sure what constitutes "best," but I do know it definitely is not Joe Don Bidentrump.

[seektravelinfo]

Do you all remember the terrorist events in Russia that happened in the aughts?

The theater siege in Moscow (2002 I think) when Chechen separatists held hostages for days with Black Widows scattered around the room wearing suicide vests, and the Russian response was to pipe gas into building to put everyone to sleep, and once help arrived they evacuated citizens onto school buses instead of ambulances, where quite a few of them died from effects of the gas.

Then, in 2004, the extremely cruel and vicious siege of the school in Beslan took place. Government response was pitifully weak and slow in arriving. Townspeople were trying to descend on the school armed with what they had: Axes, shovels, hammers, rakes. Putin could hardly be bothered. He treated it as a public relations issue and was more interested in spin than he was in saving the lives of those children.

Putin hates democracy with its checks and balances, thus he fails in developing robust anti-terrorism plans, measures and actions, which require strong collaboration amongst law enforcement (and military when called for). <gotta be careful with that, the Kent State anniversary is coming up to commemorate that day in May when Governor Rhodes of Ohio ordered the National Guard to shoot Vietnam War protestors>.

But Putin, newly “re-elected” Putin, says that he and he alone decides what’s to be done and how to respond, while willfully ignoring the warnings of others who brief him of imminent threats. Instead, he spins, after the fact, like he is now by placing blame of the most recent carnage on Ukraine.

[el3so]

siege of the school in Beslan

Russians went in heavy-handed, lots of hostages died.

Kent State

Handful of dead after a tense protest situation escalated and 60 or so years after the facts, it still gets touted as an example of government power running amuck/amok.

Hard to compare IMO.

[Chimborazo]

Do you all remember the terrorist events in Russia that happened in the aughts?

The theater siege in Moscow (2002 I think) when Chechen separatists held hostages for days with Black Widows scattered around the room wearing suicide vests, and the Russian response was to pipe gas into building to put everyone to sleep, and once help arrived they evacuated citizens onto school buses instead of ambulances, where quite a few of them died from effects of the gas.

Then, in 2004, the extremely cruel and vicious siege of the school in Beslan took place. Government response was pitifully weak and slow in arriving. Townspeople were trying to descend on the school armed with what they had: Axes, shovels, hammers, rakes. Putin could hardly be bothered. He treated it as a public relations issue and was more interested in spin than he was in saving the lives of those children.

Putin hates democracy with its checks and balances, thus he fails in developing robust anti-terrorism plans, measures and actions, which require strong collaboration amongst law enforcement (and military when called for). <gotta be careful with that, the Kent State anniversary is coming up to commemorate that day in May when Governor Rhodes of Ohio ordered the National Guard to shoot Vietnam War protestors>.

But Putin, newly “re-elected” Putin, says that he and he alone decides what’s to be done and how to respond, while willfully ignoring the warnings of others who brief him of imminent threats. Instead, he spins, after the fact, like he is now by placing blame of the most recent carnage on Ukraine.

Every one of these examples is how I can see Trump responding. Not based on pure speculation, but based on how he responded to events while in office.

The first seems like a hairbrained idea Trump would embrace. You know, like injecting bleach.

The second seems like a bother where he could say "nothing to see here" or using it to create more anti-other sentiment.

Third is very Trump. Hates checks and balances and can't develop robust plans for anything because he won't collaborate with anyone who disagrees with him, which is anyone with two brain cells to rub together.

Fourth is also very Trump. Agree with him or get the fuck out. Covid warnings ignored and then spun into blaming everyone else. More interested in blame rather than problem solving.

Yeah, I'm bringing Trump and US politics into it. Because he needs to be seen for what he is, which is a horrible leader (he really isn't a leader at all), an authoritarian, not very smart, extremely low emotional intelligence, and most of his success can be chalked up to having inherited a lot of resources and breaking the law to succeed. He's a decent snake oil salesman for those predisposed to snake oil and a cult of personality, but that's it.