Yeah. He's a bit like if you don't stop then I have no choice but to stop you kind of person but sometimes he never follows through coz he still really respects the law since he used to be a lawyer and it's so easy for him to get removed from position by the senate or the supreme court in here if he starts acting like a complete dictator coz it's definitely against the law in here. So, he can't just do any "dictatorial" way to shut the media off. Plus, personally, to me, I would want him to respect the law coz it's the law goddamit.
His tactics is a bit more on using "words"/psychology to scare off his critics or anyone he wants to scare off. Basically, he plays mind games with them like there's this thing going on here, where there is this senator who is really critical of him since day one who recently, he started attacking relentlessly (after his warnings to stop attacking him) by revealing that that senator has some alleged involvement with syndicates (alleged=not yet proven) and he accused the senator of having an affair etc etc. The senator broke down after that (she's even portrayed crying by the media) and started accusing the president of being really really unfair towards her and that it's an attack on her dignity.
He's basically your worst nightmare to pick a war on if you care about your dignity, being respected and accepted by people. Coz on him, on the otherhand, he doesn't feel the need to be dignified.
As for Putin and his Russia, as far as the west is making him look like a devil, I've found no reason to think that he 100% is. He only does things for the interest of his own people so you can't really hate him. He is really really well loved by the Russians and anyone who did some research on history of Russia/USSR knows that when the soviet union collapsed, the country was almost in the brink of extinction for awhile but when Putin came in to power. He really rebuilt Russia and made it to what it is today. On the Crimean annexation, for example, if you are only skimming the news and you have a biased view against the Russians, you would think that they are the oppressors here. But if you actually do some bits of research, I know alot of people who is reading this might be surprised on this but most Crimeans wants Crimea to be part of Russia. So it's really not right for the west to care about this. I'm like "Hey, these are the guys who is pushing "democracy" on global scale yet they can't even respect the choice of the majority".
I'm not praising Putin here or anything but it's definitely not fair for anyone to view him as completely evil just because everyone you know says so without doing any sort of further investigation on what he actually did on his political career.
Anyways, I'm going in tangents haha.
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On My Mind: Hmmm.... I found out that Russia relies on oil trade to power it's economy that's really interesting. And then you have China and alot of other Asian economical powerhouses, on the otherhand, who relies on manufacturing. And then you have the Middle East with their oil too. I'm seeing some sort of big picture of what might be going on here. Holding other countries by their necks? CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY
Nah. I'm probably just thinking too much. I'm paranoid and an overthinker sometimes. D:
On My Mind #2: Just heard that Putin supports Trump. :3 Also, I just wanna clear out that altho I don't really give that much crap on American Elections but I just wanna say that I don't like Trump but I wouldnt go far on saying that I hate him. I can see the rationality on some of his views but only some.