"Last night at the NBC TV forum on defense and military Donald Trump suggested Vladimir Putin is a better leader than Barack Obama. Who do you think is doing a better job in protecting their country's national interest."
Here's one where the question might not appear, to my pedantic mind, to mean what they intended it to mean, and more importantly what the respondents read and actually replied to.
Putin could be said to be doing a bang up job of protecting Russia's interests. Considering the economy is failing, and they are ostracizing themselves from the cooperative international diplomatic scene, he is somehow leading them into a position of power, national fervor, and military expansion. So in the specifics of "protecting national interest" he's doing pretty well, at least in the near term. But on the question of being a good global leader, not so much. And very likely not good for Russia in the long term as European, American, and other "western" countries see them as an active threat.
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