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Originally Posted by klinton
b) history will tell - next 100 years ? - how Putin will be judged by next generations. IMO such reigns are necessary sometimes to pave the road for the next changes (maybe not necessarily worse, hahah  . Same with Trump...I may understand all attacks on him etc. but he is still- an American president. So people should remember about that. |
I think he will not be judged as long as people are not able to falsificate history (what was done after WW2 in germany i.e).
I think the most improtant person of the past 100 years in russia was gorbatschow - he was not only the most realistic politician there he was also the most human.
BUT:
the west has interpreted his reason and his will for peace as weakness and russia would today be a poor, exploited peasant state if a man like putin had not come.
russia is the largest country on earth with all the raw materials available on the planet.
if it were a weak country, all these riches would have belonged to the west for a long time.
unfortunately, the west has always seen every friendly door opened as an invitation to rob. only globalisation has brought at least some to the idea that only a healthy and prosperous country can also be a customer with purchasing power.
most people have still not understood (above all, trump) how globalization works.
offsetting directly 1 to 1 is not possible here because global trade is too intertwined and only the sum under the line counts.
if this sum is negative then you have done something wrong and don't have to look for a guilty person. because no globally acting country is so stupid not to know
that a starving customer can't be a long-term customer.
and now i hear again the voices arguing that germany has such a big export surplus that it doesn't fit with this statement.
but that's not true, because germany pays back the debts it has made to get the country back on the right track and secondly you have to see that a large part of these surpluses goes to economically weaker countries to build them up as future customers.
the way the germany and the EU are going here is not only smarter but also more peaceful because our main export articles are not weapons that you can only sell when war rules.