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Comment by barry-cotter | Hacker News Reader

> If I think of the worst criminal of the modern era (post WW2) the first name that comes to mind is Vladimir Putin.

Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin

Yes, and one would think that after all those examples of fine leadership, us 'civilized' nations would have learned a thing or two?

Putin's regime carried out these crimes in the Caucasus in the 21st century (and earlier), and they are continuing even as you read this comment...

The Human Rights ideology is a con. No one is willing to make it real, i.e. to wage war to force other nations to conform to it. Absent that it will continue to be internationally irrelevant, window dressing that occasionally effects marginal decisions and never impacts anyone powerful.

OK, for the people who disagree with my comment, here is the reason we should support investigative journalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_government_censorship_...

Chechnya has been essentially cut off - considering its recent history, any guesses why??

Wow, a day later, and the votes are still swinging up and down. I wonder why - some Russian apologists haunting this place? Shame on you.

I'll say it plainly: Russia has no place in the Caucasus. Get the hell out, and mind your own damn country.

And if this was a general rule, we'd have a lot less conflict in the world.

USA has no place in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ethiopia, Saudi, etc...

Or US own creations: Videla, Pinochet, Saddam Hussein, which perspective make US one of the major threat to World's safety.

or Franco and the regime of the colonels in Greece, because dictatorship is not a communist's only trait, as US like to think.

But I think Putin is different

He s not crushing only his own people, like those dictators did, he acts like the leader of an international terrorist organization with full power over an entire nation resources (from energy to army, from media to industry) and when he's not directly in charge, he puts one of his puppets there, changing the constitution or bending the law if he needs it, and that's why I think he's more dangerous.

Putin is a Trump who made it.

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