re: #220 HappyWarrior

Yeah I’ve read about the rampant problems with alcoholism and drug addiction too. Putin, I think combines a sentimentality for the old USSR combined with the Romanov dynasty with his appeals to church. Putin to me is someone without a really set ideology except for power and Pan-Russianism.

More like ideology for power and using Pan-Russianism as the cloak for gaining and holding it.