Should Russia be put on the State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list?

[Simfan34]

It's a blessing that somemost of you will never serve in office someday.

For what it's worth. Probably applies to me, too.

[Simfan34]

Emphatic yes... And we should at least consider the idea of forcing regime change as well, as the only Russian leaders that have been worse than Putin are Stalin, Lenin and Khrushchev.

Even by liberal/non-socialist standards Lenin was clearly better than Brezhnev, Chernenko, Andropov, and Stalin.

First, where does he place Lenin relative to the people you mentioned? I don't see where that comes up.

Second, what did Chernenko do to make him worse than Lenin?

[nolesfan2011]

Yes, and I think that would have been appropriate even before this week.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I should add, by the way, that unless the government is willing to go and use force on Russia, doing this would be of zero relevance.  If something an individual or government has done isn't severe enough to warrant the use of force, then toothless ideas like this are, well, just that... toothless.

The US has only once used force on a country on the list, and that was the Iraq War. I suppose there was Libya but the civil war there was after it was removed from the list.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yes (normal)