Besides the assassinations on British soil, the flagrant disregard for human rights, invading sovereign state, state sponsored doping programmes, the general kleptocracy, the russian interference online in the Brexit vote - including the Frottage / Assange links, the nuclear arsenal currently targeted at us.
It is a corrupt dictatorship run by a ex-KGB agent with a Napoleon complex. What is not to love?
Yes, and we plebs are right to criticise Putin & Russia. I was referring to the stances taken by the US and UK governments, who seem in a rush to restore the Cold War attitude. When you consider that both governments maintain more than cordial relationships with China & Saudi Arabia (who have comparably awful records on human rights, and play an albeit less blatant role in the subversion of sovereign nations - although to the thousands of Yemenis murdered by Saudi air strikes the action is blatant enough). Our supposed biggest ally, the USA, has as much blood on its hands through its military (both overt & covert) interference in other countries, from Asia to South America to Africa to Europe.
I'd much prefer Putin be out on his arse and Russia a socially-liberal, stable democracy with no ambition to extend foreign policy influence. But that's not going to happen, so I'd rather not have the world's two most powerful military & nuclear powers at each other's throats. I lived through the 80's Cold War and it scared the pants off me (I was a member of CND for a time). I don't want to see a return to that and consider the current approach by the US and UK to be ideology-driven.
