Do you like Putin?

@ButterFly2023 S

LOLOL...You accept RT is the real deal? You know it's Putin controlled right?

And you think Western Media is telling you the truth? It all bullshit, you have to make your own choices. Truthfully I got annoyed when commenting was banned on youtube with a PBS doco, Rt and AlJ rarely do that, it's open slather. If you ban arguing with your premise, you're talking shit.

@ButterFly2023 You support the mouthpiece of someone who has political opponents and journalists that write things negative about him imprisoned and/or killed? Seriously? And then denies the air accident investigators access to an airliner he had shot down, so the bodies literally rotted in the sun?
Then had a defector and his daughter poisoned in England that actually harmed over 200 others?

You really need to take a look at your news gathering sources 'Alison'.

I could debate here but what the point really. What are your sources? It's all relative.

@ButterFly2023 The topic is the veracity of Putin. You said based presumably on what you see on RT, which just happens to be his own TV station...The way Fox is for Trump.

The Russians like him more than Americans like Trump. Why should I as an international citizen say they are wrong just because Western Media tells me too? They live there I don't.

@ButterFly2023 You know don't you the Russians 'like' him because they know the consequences of not liking him, right?

I work with a lot of Russians in Australia with connections back home they all love him.

@ButterFly2023 I'm sure they do..They're in Australia. 😀

with connections back home They all came over in the soviet era.

@ButterFly2023 You know don't you that most only read and watch what Putin want's them to know? And until it affects them directly and negatively most won't care. But those who do watch and read stuff Putin doesn't want the world to know, they're smart enough not to be too vocal in their opposition.

And who is in a different place you? The world is complex. Russians are a strange breed, they have a collective mentality and love a strong leader: It's probably a throwback to the Romanov era for all I know. Perhaps their attitude is wrong, I don't know but I know enough to be not judgmental about it: My country Australia is far from perfect. And for sure Russia and it's people are basically unintelligible from a American cultural perspective and I can't help that.