Is Vladimir Putin evil?

[kidrocks]

Fair enough question.








Opinion: Vladimir Putin, just evil enough - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden recently confided a sensational bit of news to the New Yorker magazine: In a 2011 meeting with Vladimir Putin, he had actually told Russia's then-prime minister that he had no "soul." Even more remarkable was Putin's response. "And he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, 'We understand one another.' "

Many people -- in Ukraine, Europe, America and even Russia -- probably share Biden and Putin's estimation of the Russian president's spiritual condition. In saying Putin has no soul, it means he seems to lack both the capacity to feel emotions and to show empathy.

Russia's leader certainly has a long record of inhumanity. He was an agent of the Soviet secret police, a criminal institution with a record that goes back to the purges of Stalin, a record more bloody than that of the Nazi SS.

 

[AceRothstein]

Putin is quasi-evil.

 

[deltex1]

Ask any libtard...evil is relative.

 

[Kosh]

If you don't see Obama as evil then you should not see Putin as Evil..

Evil is relative term based on ones far left ideology.

 

[kidrocks]

Putin is quasi-evil.

LOL... what the hell does that mean?

 

[Indofred]

I dislike Putin, and have zero trust in him.
Of course, I feel about the same about pretty much all American presidents since WWII.

Their politicians - of course they aren't nice.

 

[Sunni Man]

I wish Putin could run to be our president in 2016.

He is a common sense nationalist and cares about his people and country. ..

 

[kidrocks]

If you don't see Obama as evil then you should not see Putin as Evil..

Evil is relative term based on ones far left ideology.

What about Sarah Palin? And Bush?

 

[Mad Scientist]

Pumping up the Crowd to go to War against Putin! "You'll be battling EVIL!"

Don't fall for it.

 

[Peach]

Fair enough question.

Opinion: Vladimir Putin, just evil enough - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden recently confided a sensational bit of news to the New Yorker magazine: In a 2011 meeting with Vladimir Putin, he had actually told Russia's then-prime minister that he had no "soul." Even more remarkable was Putin's response. "And he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, 'We understand one another.' "

Many people -- in Ukraine, Europe, America and even Russia -- probably share Biden and Putin's estimation of the Russian president's spiritual condition. In saying Putin has no soul, it means he seems to lack both the capacity to feel emotions and to show empathy.

Russia's leader certainly has a long record of inhumanity. He was an agent of the Soviet secret police, a criminal institution with a record that goes back to the purges of Stalin, a record more bloody than that of the Nazi SS.

Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis, a transitional figure, unable to break from the past, or convince many outside his domain, that he "changed". Without soul, due to decades of hiding his humanity.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

He's not nearly as evil as Obama.

 

[occupied]

I wish Putin could run to be our president in 2016.

He is a common sense nationalist and cares about his people and country. ..

He's a monster.

 

[blackhawk]

We couldn't even get through one page without a Bush and or Palin reference and yes Putin is evil.

 

[skye]

He's not nearly as evil as Obama.

My feelings exactly.

 

[dilloduck]

I ain't skeered of him.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

I wish Putin could run to be our president in 2016.

He is a common sense nationalist and cares about his people and country. ..

And we can start lobbing rocket bombs into Mexico with impunity.

 

[Indofred]

I wish Putin could run to be our president in 2016.

He is a common sense nationalist and cares about his people and country. ..

And we can start lobbing rocket bombs into Mexico with impunity.

You could even carpet bomb Cambodia.
Oh, you did that with impunity.

 

[dilloduck]

I wish Putin could run to be our president in 2016.

He is a common sense nationalist and cares about his people and country. ..

And we can start lobbing rocket bombs into Mexico with impunity.

agreed---about a 20 mile buffer zone would be awesome.

 

[Gracie]

No more evil than any other schmuck who wants to rule the world.

 

[September]

Every human is capable of that which you people perceive to be "good" and "evil". There is no such thing as a "good" human or an "evil" human.