Both are authoritarian personalities with a strong eagerness to punish anyone they see as political opponents.
But there are still cultural differences.
When Putin, like Stalin, rages about getting rid of political opponents, he does so in private and underlings see to it that someone not closely connected to the boss kills that opponent.
Trump rages publicly - by tweet - and he seeks to have his supine Attorney General jail the boss’s political opponents on trumped-up charges (no pun intended, for once!).
Just like in the case of Nixon, I do not believe that Trump would ever have his opponents killed.
Partly because he believes that to be very wrong and very un-American.
But mostly because both the Department of Justice and many of American judges are increasingly like Stalin’s show trial judges : ready & willing to do whatever the boss wants....
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