You guys in the US get a president every 4 or 8 years. I think this is a bad thing because the sitting president is more busy with things that make staying him in power than actually doing something for the people. Those terms are too short for a president to really act upon his promises and before you know it he already is busy again with elections. If I look at Russia, I see that Putin is at the helm for a pretty long time. True, that the other end of the spectrum, because elections in Russia are not that great as well, but at least there is a steady and imo a very reasonable leader, that wants to take care of his people and also wants to help other countries and even is open to serious dialogue with the US. But every time in the US they get another president, presidents like Putin again and again has to form a new relation with that president. It's hopeless. And democracy? only Democrats and Republicans? Nothing more to choose? Pffff. I am happy not to be an American if I had to choose between only those two. So now we get Joe Biden, who says Russia is the biggest threat..jeeezz, that guy still thinks it's the 60s and the 80s. Russia is by far not that a threat anymore. Not military anyway. They only lean on their nuclear arsenal and maintain the MAD doctrine, otherwise they would be no thread to the US Military. But that's not the point. Putin often said he wanted a good relation with the US, so make that happen. Expand US presidential terms to at least 10 years.
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I don't say that the methods involved how Putin remains in power are justifiable, but only that the current terms used in the United States does not give a president much time to for-fill his promises. 4 years is nothing. I don't want to talk about certain persons, Trump is weird in his way, but I think also he wants good for the country, so I keep in the middle of that. I just think that a somewhat longer term give the president more breathing space to implement his/her promises.
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@Herbert:
My 'backward' country, The Netherlands, helped your 'backward' engineers recovering after the devastating flooding after Katrina in 2005 in New Orleans and later also in New York. Also my little country is the THIRD largest investor in your country and my 'backward' little country is 2nd (after the US) in regards to food production and exportation. And we, don't have overcrowded prisons and a solid social system so nobody has to live on the street. Think about it.
