Do you have great leaders in your country?
Do you have great leaders in your country?
Ian Flores
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Brandon Reed
Yes mr vucic met brother xi today
Charles Lopez
No
Jack Young
Pic unrelated? Pooh is the worst leader in Chinese history and will lead directly to its collapse.
Liam Sanders
yes, she's called simonetta sommaruga and she's a piano teacher.
Chase Roberts
If a leader causes west to seethe then he is great.
Erdogan back when he was supported by west was cringe but now he is based
Xi is based naturally
Putin is based
Isaiah Lee
yes
Asher Hill
No. Just repugnant populist grifters that play into the paternalistic Big Father figure.
Wyatt Nguyen
yes
William Taylor
Yes my president is the only president on earth that kept the Chinese virus out
Leo Turner
>Pic unrelated? Pooh is the worst leader in Chinese history and will lead directly to its collapse.
Landon Rodriguez
Yes. Zhao Ziyang getting couped 1989 was, in hindsight, the worst geopolitical disaster of the Cold War. China was this close to getting their own Gorbachev.
Hu Jintao was a close second. Pooh undid everything they worked for.
The Chinese people deserve freedom. Instead they're being led to ruin.
Lucas Morales
yes
Anthony Peterson
Not anymore.
Oliver Morris
at best we get leaders that don't hate us.
Colton Sullivan
Yes
Matthew Myers
Yes
Oliver Morgan
>China was this close to getting their own Gorbachev
Considering how Gorbachev destroyed the USSR and is responsible for the misery of the Russian people today, China must feel incredibly lucky Chinese Gorbachev was buried 6 feet under by Deng Xiaoping.
Go ask Russians how they feel about Gorbachev, it's not pretty
Ryan Roberts
>the worst geopolitical disaster of the Cold War
this is how Putin (greatest Russian leader of the modern era) refers to the collapse of the USSR btw
Luke Morgan
the anglo eternally fears being outdone.
times over, tick tock
Kayden Moore
>Putin (greatest Russian leader of the modern era)
Imagine facing the same geopolitical challenges your ancestors encountered, and instead of thinking with modern solutions, you instead just LARP as a soviet and further send your country to the brink.
Nathan Perez
He looks like an incel but he's tall as fuck and has a cute daughter.
Eli Johnson
Read this medium.com
No one has played better given their hand than Putin. He is by far the most clever leader of the 21st century, and is the decisive factor why Russia is Russia today and not "Nigeria with snow". The beginning of 2022 should have erased any doubts that Russia plays at the same level as China and USA and the USA cannot just ignore Russia and go after China like it wished to.
Oliver Davis
>Go ask Russians how they feel about Gorbachev, it's not pretty
They're fed lies about the "glory" of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev didn't handle everything perfectly, but he and Yeltsin had every opportunity to integrate Russia into the global community. Maybe they could've succeeded, too, if Putin didn't fuck everything up. Everything that's happened in Russia over the last 20 years has been on Putin and his bootlickers.
Yes, it would've hurt no matter what at first, but they would've made a recovery. Poland, the Baltics, East Germany, Slovenia and Croatia suffered for a few years then recovered rapidly after they were integrated into the western economy.
He's a KGB man and I referenced that quote deliberately. The fall of the USSR was a great thing and for the first time ever, the people of Eastern Europe had a voice. They were free. If only it'd lasted.
None of that was guaranteed to happen with China. There was a burgeoning democracy movement in the 1980s. I don't know if you're aware how enamored the average Chinese was with American culture in the 80s. American music, American literature, American movies, American goods and American values swept the nation. It was a mirror image of the Eastern Bloc in the same time period.
Things would be different if a democratic China and Russia existed today. No new cold war. A free Tibet. A China that got along with its neighbors. Fukuyama would've been correct if only the PRC had fallen alongside the Soviet Union.