just wondering otis, whats your wife's view on putin and the crimea stuff?
Not good. :facepalm:
Despite what the press say, the Russian people are mostly completely blinded by him over there by all accounts and they pretty much all like the bloke and think he can do very little wrong.
We've had a fair few arguments over this. She can't understand all the sanctions over the Ukraine situation and I explained it's because Russia broke international law and invaded a sovereign country and she says they didn't, the Russians only went in to protect the people of Crimea.
She doesn't believe any of the 'Western world stories' as he puts it.
I did keep explaining to her that the Russian people have been lied to for over 70 years, but she's having none of it. She says I am biased towards the West. I am not though and as I said to her, how come then I didn't support Blair in invading Iraq and was totally opposed to our government's decision on this at the time and heavily criticised my own country?
I always try to keep a balanced view on everything and if any country is in the wrong they are in the worng, be it Russia, China, the US or indeed, ourselves.
All my wife's family are still in Russia and my wife is in regluar contact and gets the word off the street and feeling from over there from her conversations.
She thinks of Putin as brave, war hero leader rather than the Butcher of Chechnya.
