He doesn’t sound stupid to me. Rather bright, if dull. I doubt there’s such a thing as a stupid dentist, its a difficult qualification to attain. And he’s still running his country. He may be unpleasant – though less than many dictators that we have seen recently. But also sort of fun, if you must have a dictator, a singing one is better than one that machine guns his relatives
Clach Viaggi
3 years ago
This summer I had planned to travel the Stan’s before the pandemia. I didn’t include Turkmenistan in my plans, because visa are complicated and expensive. Now this hilarious music videos are giving me some ideas. To answer the article question: I don’t know if he is the worst, but he looks like he is enjoying life
Jeremy Smith
3 years ago
beautiful horse.
dan3099
3 years ago
Several commenters have reacted to this as if it were a fluff piece for how charmingly simple and fun Berdymukhamedov is.. I think the article needed at least a couple grim realities about life under the oppression of his regime.
Peter Jackson
3 years ago
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov – crazy name, crazy guy
I was struck by the ending of his first name which reminded me of Sourav Ganguly, the Indian cricketer. I would say, there is an Indian tie-up somewhere.
Go Away Please
3 years ago
For a dictator he sounds fairly benign. You didn’t give any details about the repression people are having to live with, and as you state emigres are almost always critical of the countries they have left. Different styles of government suit different places and cultures. None are perfect. Ours certainly isn’t but it suits us better than any other. Maybe a dull dictator suits Turkmenistan.
Dougie Undersub
3 years ago
Intelligence is overrated. There are a lot of intelligent people in this country – or, at least, people who believe themselves to be intelligent – who continually do very stupid things.
I don’t believe that Trump can sing, I doubt he even knows what singing is for. I do not think he can ride a horse either, I bet he does not understand them. And mostly he does not seem to enjoy anything at all, except humiliating people with scorn. I may lack imagination, but I do not see how this is very enjoyable even when you are really good at it. That may explain his bad temper and his tanTrumps.
He doesn’t sound stupid to me. Rather bright, if dull. I doubt there’s such a thing as a stupid dentist, its a difficult qualification to attain. And he’s still running his country. He may be unpleasant – though less than many dictators that we have seen recently. But also sort of fun, if you must have a dictator, a singing one is better than one that machine guns his relatives
This summer I had planned to travel the Stan’s before the pandemia.
I didn’t include Turkmenistan in my plans, because visa are complicated and expensive.
Now this hilarious music videos are giving me some ideas.
To answer the article question: I don’t know if he is the worst, but he looks like he is enjoying life
beautiful horse.
Several commenters have reacted to this as if it were a fluff piece for how charmingly simple and fun Berdymukhamedov is.. I think the article needed at least a couple grim realities about life under the oppression of his regime.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov – crazy name, crazy guy
I was struck by the ending of his first name which reminded me of Sourav Ganguly, the Indian cricketer. I would say, there is an Indian tie-up somewhere.
For a dictator he sounds fairly benign.
You didn’t give any details about the repression people are having to live with, and as you state emigres are almost always critical of the countries they have left.
Different styles of government suit different places and cultures. None are perfect. Ours certainly isn’t but it suits us better than any other. Maybe a dull dictator suits Turkmenistan.
Intelligence is overrated. There are a lot of intelligent people in this country – or, at least, people who believe themselves to be intelligent – who continually do very stupid things.
Better to be cunning I find.
With barely a glance at the headline and the accompanying image of a guy on a horse, four paragraphs into this article I was still convinced it was about our friend in the Oval Office. Having disabused myself , I was amused that substituting Trump for Berdymukhamedov would not be overly incongruous. (Looking again, I can now see that, at a glance, the horseman’s headgear must have appeared to me like a wierd toupé!
I don’t believe that Trump can sing, I doubt he even knows what singing is for. I do not think he can ride a horse either, I bet he does not understand them. And mostly he does not seem to enjoy anything at all, except humiliating people with scorn. I may lack imagination, but I do not see how this is very enjoyable even when you are really good at it. That may explain his bad temper and his tanTrumps.