Have you ever seen people say Vladimir Putin is a good leader?

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There's a differnece between being deranged and being a psycopath. Psychopathy means the inability to feel emotions towards others, among other things. Think he has kids and is probably married. Are you sure he is clinically a psycopath, or just a bad person? And how do you define bad person? You mentioned he censors people - So does every other country ever, the difference is that in the west instead of being arrested you will be fired from your job.

That's sociopathy...

Not that he isn't a sociopath, mind. Just saying.

I just find it rather insulting that people would say that he's a good leader.

If Putin survives the current recession, and continues the turnaround his country has seen from where it was after the soviet union shattered...

He'd be very applicable for a 'The Great' title in a few decades. Look at Russian history... he is not abnormal for Russia. Quite the opposite.

He is a great Russian politician. He does what people want him to do. People are inclined to LIKE when people do what they want them to do.

That doesn't make him a good person because he's doing what people want him to do.