Vladimir Putin signs law enabling him to serve two more terms as Russian president, to 2036

FULL TITLE: Vladimir Putin signs law enabling him to serve two more terms as Russian president, could potentially stay in office until 2036

Putin can now stay in power potentially until 2036.

What do you think?

 

He’s basically dictator for life. I think everyone in Russia already knew that that though, whether they approve or not, lol.

 

what do I think? I think Mr. Putin will be potsu for as,long as he keeps electing himself. 2036,,2046, .....

 

It would save time if they just crossed out the dates on the old law and wrote the new ones on top.

 

I think he won't age and will look the same after 16 years.

 

Of course! When you are in a position to suck the life out of an entire nation your lifespan can only be extended as a result.

 

How many years has Merkel been chancellor, and how many years has Netanyahu been PM? Where's the outrage?

Russia has seen the failure of democracy in the US with our election of a corrupt demented person as a front for lobbyists in Washington - as well as the failures in other nations through our NGO's and media brainwashing. I'm sure our failures, are making Russia's political scientists reconsider our form of democracy as being a viable form of government.

GREETINGS​

At least I had nothing to gain,
not money or elusive fame.
Can those in charge now say the same?

My problem was I feared my head
that I might lose it and be dead
and gave away my rights instead.

And this is why you foolish folk
are looked upon now as a joke
controlled by every criminal bloke
who can buy the media - Jeannette


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At some point, isn't he just a king? And when are the Russians going to out themselves as the Monarchists they wish to be?

 

will he at least put on a shirt when he does photo ops?

 

Hail to the chief!

 

Or until someone kills him.

 

I had to look it up. I'm a big confused by Netanyahu's term because the term limit is listed at 4 years.

Merkel
15 years, 132 days

Netanyahu
since 31 March 2009

I'm not sure why you asked "Where's the outrage?" Who expressed outrage?

My understanding of your comment is that Putin sees that democracy doesn't work and opted to take a different course for Russia? Or, am I misunderstanding your message?

 

Your posts make me LOL quite often.

 

Well, we know he has at least one fan around these parts. Hopefully, that's enough to keep a target off his back.

 

I think there's been about 9 assassination attempts on Putin's life.

The outrage is the media's obsession with Vladimir Putin and how he's not conforming to our form of democracy - yet the media ignores the others. Then again, they are propaganda networks. The latest is the way they mention that a Russian man was arrested with the models who posed nude in Dubai, yet there was no mention of the 7 Ukrainian men who were also arrested.

Not Putin perse', but the political scientists are seeing the failures in our system. Are we a democracy, or a plutocracy? I read once that some in Russia were considering a monarchal system, but not an inherited monarchy. The point is, are we in a position to judge the systems in other nations?

When Putin ran for president, he asked American political advisors for advice since he wasn't a politician. It was the Bush era, so they told him to show himself as a rugged outdoor man, and he did.

He is proud though of his physical prowess and health. Here he is with Shoigu at the Taiga which is just below the Arctic circle. This was just after Biden called him a killer, and showed that he didn't have any intentions of bettering relations with Russia.

Zalensky had already started the attacks on Donetsk and Lugansk, so they're probably discussing on ways to curb Zalensky's aggression. Putin always avoided a long drawn out war, so any move he makes will be slam dunk and its over. Let's see if I'm right.

 

I have never agreed with the USA acting as the world's police. I think we have enough to do within our own country.

I don't particularly have an opinion on Putin directly, but I think it's common for all media to slant their stories toward and against their own biases.

 

I do not care at all.

Seriously, it was done democratically. America lauds doing things democratically.

Democrats are working on their own version of this as well.

 

How can we be the world's police, if we're not following international law? We invaded Serbia illegally to break up Yugoslavia, and then bombed Belgrade for 78 days, and we're in Syria illegally to overthrow their elected president and destroy its sovereignty by creating a Kurdistan. We also went against international law when we bombed Libya and we also overthrew the legally elected president in Ukraine with a coup.

Of course! When I was young I would immerse myself into the NYTimes, even though I knew it was liberal because it was informative - and that's what I wanted; information. The problem today is that all the MSM in this country and most of the major publications in the world are controlled by 6 corporations, and they tend to write in unison.

All the MSM's leave out the same parts of a narrative, and they put in the same parts, so that instead of journalists we have stenographers. It's the deception and brain washing that I find abhorrent since it's meant to control and hinders people's reasoning.

As an example, I was looking for a picture of Putin and Shoigu at the Taiga, and the article called their outfits hunting outfits. I never came across anything saying they were hunting - so why are they insinuating they were hunting when they know it's not true? Actually Shoigu comes from the Taiga, and they were visiting his workshop.

(My apologies to William Shakespeare)

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To reason or not to reason
that is the question.

How can'st one reason
where knowledge is not,
when reasoning itself
requires a lot - Jeannette​

 

Well, you've made my point. The US needs to stay out of other people's business. Period. It's not like we don't have enough of our own stuff to clean up.

The media has always been used as a way to sway the masses. And, they all benefit from it. Why bother doing real reporting when it's easier to parrot one another? I am not a big tv watcher so I'm not sure but do they even have anything like 20/20, 60 minutes, Dateline, etc. anymore? Last time I checked it was just a bunch of ridiculous reality shows and late night social commentators. It doesn't help that these last few generations grew up on social media which apparently is the cause of the two second attention span. It's no wonder that real issues are buried under all the fluff.

 

Wait! The Russkies are really into symbolism. What does the knocked over pepper grinder mean? It is pointing at Vlad. No! It's pointed at the meat! As in "Dead meat"?

 

What generosity! What self sacrifice! Another hero steps into the shoes of former saviors of Mother Russia!
What luck the Russian people have had in great leaders, men prepared, at any cost, to achieve their vision for the Motherland, no matter if no one shared or even could identify that 'vision'. Ivan, Peter, Lenin, Stalin, all unhesitating in efforts to preserve and extend their power. That must be why some people are fascinated with and impressed by Vlad.

 

That funny? What I was looking at is the fresh tomatoes. Now where did they get fresh tomatoes up in the Arctic, and who prepared that nice salad for them? Here's something more interesting, the all terrain vehicles is a military Swedish one for the Arctic, so why with all the Russian terrain vehicles are they driving a Swedish one - and how did they get it?

Aha, so maybe they didn't go there just to discuss what to do to Zelensky. Maybe they went to check out the vehicle?

 

Russia sees Putin for the vor and the lying authoritarian dirtbag that he is.

And there is no comparing Putin's rewriting of laws to keep himself in power to Chancellor Merkel being in power legally, without changing laws to benefit herself. It's also funny you should bring her up since, unlike Putin, she actually plans to step down rather than run again. Then there's the minor fact that German elections are actually free and fair, and political opponents are not falsely accused of crimes and locked up the way Trump wanted to do to Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden both.

 

Thus spake Durandal, so it must be true.

Say the lie, repeat the lie
and doist endlessly.
So all the folks that you dost see
will thinkest foolishly.

That what you say is but the truth,
and not a falsity.
So thus like fools, they'll always do,
what favors you and me - Jeannette​

 

There is a little difference between Putin’s Russia and the Western democracies: in Russia the Putin’s opposition from time to time is poisoned or ‘commits suicide’.
Also, the change in the Russian constitution was made specially to allow Vladimir Putin to be ‘president as long as he wishes’. In Germany or Israel there never was a limit for running government.
Comparing US democracy with Russia – the US is much, much more functional and less corrupted than Russia, so obviously Putin with corrupted oligarchs don’t want the US model.