Time to mend fences with Russian Federation say European leaders.

[another_liberal]

88. President Putin has done things wrong . . .

One of his worst mistakes was trusting George W. Bush too far. He got that straightened out for him at the opening of the Summer Olympics in 2008. The goofy little bastard laughed in Putin's face when it was announced that our proxy Georgian army had entered South Ossetia and was headed for regional capital, Tskinvali. The Russian President looked genuinely surprised, and he should not have been.

There are other things to criticize President Putin for; after all, he has been in the highest levels of the Russian government for decades now. It is most doubtful that he would not have screwed up at least a few times. One further example that should be highlighted, of course, is his ill-advised signing of the Duma law which restricts self expression by Russian citizens depending upon their sexual orientation. How he could have imagined that was the way to go in the second decade of the Twenty-First Century is unfathomable to me. He caused himself and his country enormous harm.