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Fri Mar 11, 2022, 05:52 PM Mar 2022

Putin Among Most-Hated World Leaders In History

Putin Among Most-Hated World Leaders In History

March 11, 2022 at 1:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 66 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/11/putin-among-most-hated-world-leaders-in-history/

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A new Wall Street Journal poll finds Russian president Vladimir Putin with an insanely bad 4% to 90% favorable rating.

Aaron Blake: “We looked back through the Roper Center’s polling archive to see how Putin’s new numbers compared to some of the most nefarious leaders in the recent past. The upshot: Putin is now in the territory of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Un, Fidel Castro and Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.”

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Putin’s Challenge To The American Right

March 11, 2022 at 4:44 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/11/putins-challenge-to-the-american-right/

Andrew Sullivan: “It would perhaps be too glorious an irony if it were Vladimir Putin who finally buzz-killed the American and European right’s infatuation with post-liberalism.”

“But, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine staggers shambolically and criminally forward, it’s no longer unthinkable. The icon of the West’s new right is in serious trouble now — and it might tarnish all of those who only yesterday were idolizing his reactionary zeal.”

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Putin Among Most-Hated World Leaders In History (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2022 OP
Zelensky is the new Churchill. Putin is Hitler. Irish_Dem Mar 2022 #1
Well... Mike Nelson Mar 2022 #2
Where does his butt puppet TFG fall in the ranking? live love laugh Mar 2022 #3
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