EatMoreSalmon said:boognish_bear said:Tucker Carlson:
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 27, 2025
"Putin is the most popular leader in the world. Whether you're in Western Europe, Canada, the English-speaking world, outside the English-speaking world, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, you won't meet anyone who doesn't like Putin; Putin is like a global… pic.twitter.com/0FejWS9N2N
What teeth is there to that claim, I wonder?
Not much
Putin was a lot more popular a decade ago when most Russians remembered the horror of the 1990s (economic collapse, Islamist extremism-separatism, mafia taking over the streets)….less so with the younger generation today and less so since the war in Ukraine that drags on and on.
He is probably less popular right now than at any time since he came to power