He's the CEO of a shit tier country that can barely deal with some backwards Chechens. This rhetoric of Putin's hyper competence just plays into his dear leader judo propaganda.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @vgr
Doubt he could get a dog park built in NYC let alone an ice rink.
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He emerged as top-dog warlord, through oil oligarchs into jail, and runs a terror state. He doesn’t need shitty ice rinks. He can coerce billionaires to do far more. It is a big mistake to judge people by the contexts in which they rose to power. Empires fall for such mistakes.
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Eh, top tyrant in a two-bit country will maybe make VP at an F50 in the big show. He's no Stalin.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
Evaluating politicians on a metaphoric business competence scale. He may not make mailroom clerk as a businessman. But he isn’t in the business of business. Politics eats business for lunch when conflict sharpens. Just ask Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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In the words of Frank Underwood, choosing money over power is a waste for the politically talented. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnnm3L12fA …
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That show had a few good lines; I found it hard to watch, not because it was so 'shocking,' but because the writers had such a puerile sense of shock. You reference the book of a half-billionaire small-fry loser who got got. CIA bag men disappear his ilk as a larf.
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @vgr
If you are accustomed to thinking in terms of power and control, as Putin surely is -- and Trump, too -- it should be evident Russia is nothing but a weak little dog. America can kick it for sport. And I doubt any amount of spy-ops or kompromat will change this realty:
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Replying to @PereGrimmer
Totally disagree. America could not even kick the Vietcong for sport. There’s a difference between having military muscle and a militarist mind. That weak little dog is currently holding a demented elephant at bay. When you lose your mind, your muscles don’t matter.
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I would suggest that, due to your tender nature, even around privation and want, you may have a poor grasp of how psychopaths understand the world. This is to the good! I would not force such perspective on you, as it may throw those things you see so clear out of focus. But --
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OK. Sorry for my patronizing tone! Not my intent, just poor phrasing due to haste. I enjoyed the convo & your perspective, as per usual. I shall try to be more agreeable next time! Nice evening.
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