If that ever happened (Putin being elected in a "democratic" setting), I'll run the length of Western Road
in soiled underpants shouting "yes, we have no bananas"!
Indeed. When I watch the news, almost all elderly people (well a high percentage) love Putin because they've
been fed his bullsh*t propaganda for 20 years and look back at the 70s and 80s with a perverted sort of fondness. While that mentality persists, things I don't think will change...
I think we're not far off a tipping point with the war where Putin's authority will to be undermined when the
new military hardware starts coming along for the West. A stark realisation that the war cannot be won. A desperate search for a way out.
I hope I'm right.
Also, Putin didn't suddenly wake up one day and think "wouldn't it be nice to have all those countries back under our control - let's invade one". It's his long-held belief. So your argument falls down a bit there too.
Sooner or later surely we're (i.e., US, Europe etc) going to have to step in and stop this pri*k and his joke army in their tracks.
I can't see any way around it.
I hope one day we can say that it was when the world finally started to get its act together on ridding this world of an absolute **** and his
murdering bastard regime.
I have a friend in China who moved there 20 years ago. Originally from Notts. It's staggering the shit that he spouts
about Russia etc and is clearly brainwashed by the one-sided media there. He also supports Leeds which means when
he's not spouting bollox about Russia, he's spouting entitled...