repulsewarrior wrote:...indeed corruption and elitists go together; from one corruption to another, it is what defines elitists, isn't it?
...and what is any different to any effort to end Hunger, or Disease, for example? It is said on average one must spend ten dollars to assure oneself that those in need get one.
...intentions must change, so far it is merely a war over power; the elite is not yet prepared to change their motivations for money and how to get it.
Putin is no Hero and he is a wicked player; it is no wonder that the rest of his contemporaries find him disruptive. My disappointment with him is that he does not invest in soft power, doing good on issues 'we' care about. Moving the technological frontier in a manner where their efforts toward global sustainability lead the world. Wanting Russian supremacy, while wanting Ukraine demise has no appeal to the rest of us who are next; to but it bluntly he is not saving the planet, he just wants more of whatever it has to give.
...if he were to "retake" the Ukraine, the corruption will be better in terms of it getting worse.
It's a myth that Putin personally decides in Russia. This myth was spread deliberately by the West to stir things up within the Russian public, hence prepare the ground for "regime change'. The Americans became experts in instigating 'regime changes" all over the world... look what happen to Pakistan within a week when Imbram Khan refused to "sanction" Russia.
Putin is the head of the Russian state who takes the final decisions already studied and proposed by other high ranking officials. Whatever is going on now is not for Russian supremacy, but to prevent further collapse of the ex USSR. Nonsense about Putin's presumable personal aspiration of becoming a new Peter the Great, are just that: Nonsense.