At least he IS something - as opposed to Camoron, Obama, Clegg etc etc, who are just men of straw without ideals, strength, aims, or any kind of balls at all really.
Luckily, Putin does not have balls. Ranting at oligarchs on TV (who in reality are the ones who support him), hunting and invading small, bankrupt, former soviet republics doesn't require courage.
If he had balls, he would reform his country and put it on the road to become an industrialised democracy, thereby turning Russia into a true global power in a few decades.