If those rule of law democracies actually had something to do with a rule of law, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Tony Blair would have been tried and sent away to prison long time ago, like any war criminals should.
Get your own houses in order before you start telling others what constitutes a gangster state.
Well you know Iraq was nearly a generation ago and a lot has changed in the UK since then. Feck all has changed in Russia as far as I can tell
What I love about this is the very same Putin who is on record claiming the Iraq war was illegal under international law, is the same Putin who invaded Georgia and Ukraine several years later, and lied about it.
Back to gangsterism. When we use that term we refer to the systematic murder and intimidation of political opponents and the looting of the state and its enterprises. But you know that, of course. Admitting it however doesn’t suit your cynical argument. Politics and political systems are different in the UK and Russia, although it might suit you to pretend otherwise.
I can see why Russia wants to level everyone down to their level, because it makes it easiesr for them to get away with egregious shite like shooting down passenger airliners and lying about it, while shouting Whatabout... but we in the democratic West mustn’t accept that. If this is ultimately about whether our democratic system is better (albeit improveable) than Russia’s, and is worth believing in, and preserving, then bring it on.
What really compromises the Uk is all the corrupt, and corrupting, Russian money in London. I’d like to see us start to address that, for sure.