If you’re Vladimir Putin, you think you’ve done a great job. You think that the West are a bunch of flaming hypocrites who hate Russia, as well. Look at all the screaming about human rights during these Olympic Games. While there was some about China in 08, it was magnitudes less. And if China doesn’t discriminate against gays, well, they certainly are at least in the same league as Russia when it comes to human rights abuses.
Besides, who can take the US, which invaded Iraq based on lies, which tortured, which has the world’s largest assassination program and whose NSA runs a surveillance state which in certain respects would make the Stasi blush, while imprisoning much of its black male population, and bailing out private actors to the tune of trillions of dollars to lecture anyone else?
To Putin, Western lectures look like sheerest hypocrisy. The West, in its banking scandals, proved itself as corrupt as Russia, and on a much larger scale. In Iraq it proved that it would brutalize non-Western populations for no reason. In Greece it has driven its own population into penury, and all through the West the surveillance state rises, and people continue to lose their rights.
Meanwhile Russia’s unemployment rate is better than most Western nations.
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