Favorite international leader(s) since 1965

[Dr. MB]

The Forum Community thread has the next one guessing the previous poster's favorite international leader since 1965, so what is yours?

I can't pick one, so I'll just go with my favorite from select countries.

United States: Lyndon B. Johnson
Canada: Pierre Trudeau
Mexico: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Brazil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Argentina: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Peru: Juan Velasco Alvarado

UK: Harold Wilson
France: François Mitterrand
Sweden: Olof Palme

Australia: Gough Whitlam
New Zealand: Norman Kirk

South Africa: Nelson Mandela
Burkina Faso: Thomas Sankara
Botswana: Seretse Khama

[President Johnson]

United States: Lyndon B. Johnson (overall favorite)

Some other countrys/continents:

Canada: Pierre Trudeau
Africa: Nelson Mandela
Germany: Helmut Schmidt
France: Emmanuel Macron
South America: Maurico Macri
United Kingdom: Tony Blair
Sweden: Olaf Palme
Belgium: Guy Verhofstadt
Italy: Mario Monti
Greece: Andreas Papandreu
USSR/Russia: Michail Gorbachev
India: Indirha Gandhi

[Lechasseur]

US: George H. W. Bush
Canada: Stephen Harper
Mexico: Vicente Fox
Australia: John Howard
UK: Margaret Thatcher
France: Nicolas Sarkozy
Germany: Helmut Kohl

To sum it up:
North America: George H. W. Bush
Anglosphere: John Howard
Europe: Helmut Kohl

[PSOL]

Mexico: Cardenas
South Africa: Mandiba
Uruguay: Mujica
South Korea: Moon Jae-in
Sweden:Palme
Seychelles: Paul Albert Rene

[Dr. MB]

Mexico: Cardenas
South Africa: Mandiba
Uruguay: Mujica
South Korea: Moon Jae-in
Sweden:Palme
Seychelles: Paul Albert Rene

Cardenas? He was president in the 30s, unless you're talking about Cuauhtémoc (the rightful president 1988–94 by the way).

[SATW]

U.S.:
1. Ronald Reagan
2. George W. Bush
3. George H.W. Bush

Israel:
1. Menachem Begin
2. Benjamin Netanyahu
3. Yitzhak Shamir

U.K.:
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. David Cameron
3. Tony Blair

Australia:
1. John Howard
2. Malcolm Turnbull

Japan:
1. Abe Shinzō
2. Koizumi Jun'ichirō
3. Miki Takeo

Czech Republic: (Presidents and Prime Ministers)
1. Václav Havel
2. Miloš Zeman
3. Jan Fischer
4. Václav Klaus

Poland: (Presidents and Prime Ministers)
1. Bronisław Komorowski
2. Donald Tusk
3. Lech Kaczyński

Colombia:
1. Álvaro Uribe
2. Iván Duque (obvs talking about him as a candidate since he hasn't done anything yet and just got elected)

Argentina:
1. Mauricio Macri (flawless, beautiful Mauricio)

Canada:
1. Stephen Harper
2. Brian Mulroney


Will add more later.

[OSR stands with Israel]

USA : Ronald Reagan
UK: Margaret Thatcher
Canada: Stephen Harper
Germany : Helmut Kohl
Australia: John Howard
India: Narendra Modi
Israel : Menachem Begin

[😥]

USA : Ronald Reagan
UK: Margaret Thatcher
Canada: Stephen Harper
Germany : Helmut Kohl
Australia: John Howard
India: Narendra Modi
Israel : Menachem Begin

[S019]

United States: Barack Obama
Canada: Justin Trudeau
Mexico: Pena Nieto
Brazil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

UK: Tony Blair
France: François Hollande
Sweden: Fredrik Reinfeldt
Germany: Angela Merkel
Italy: Romano Prodi
Spain: Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero



Australia: Paul Keating
New Zealand: David Lange

[Mr. Smith]

USA : Lyndon Johnson
UK: Harold Wilson
Canada: Pierre Trudeau
Germany: Angela Merkel
Australia: Julia Gillard
France: Francois Mitterand
Mexico: AMLO
Phillippines: Rodrigo Duterte
Russia: Demetri Medvedev
Ukraine: Volodomyr Zelensky
New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern
South Africa: Nelson Mandela
Brazil: Luis Inacio Lula da Silva
Iceland: Katrin Jakobsdottir

[LAKISYLVANIA]

USA: Barack Obama
US: Harold Wilson
Germany: Angela Merkel
France: Francois Mitterand
Russia: Mikhail Gorbachev
New Zealand: Jacinda Ardern
Mexico: AMLO
Brazil: Lula
Ukraine: Volodomyr Zelensky

Uruguay: Jose Mujica
Bolivia: Evo Morales
Finland: Sanna Marin
Iceland: Katrin Jakobsdottir
Chile: Salvadore Allende
Greece: Alexis Tsipras

Out of all of above: Volodomyr Zelensky

[CumbrianLefty]

U.K.:
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. David Cameron
3. Tony Blair

What the actual f***ity-f***

[Podgy the Bear]

USA: Lyndon Johnson
UK: Tony Blair
Canada: Pierre Trudeau
India: Indira Gandhi/Manmohan Singh
Germany: Angela Merkel
France: Francois Mitterand

And as Freedom Fighters, add Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, and Vaclav Havel to this group.

[Vice President Christian Man]

Africa:
South Africa: Nelson Mandela

Asia:
India: Atal Vajpayee
Israel: Menachem Begin
Japan:  Fumio Kishida

America:
United States: Jimmy Carter (Not sure how I would've felt in the '70s though)
Canada: Pierre Trudeau
Mexico: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Brazil: Itamar Franco
Argentina: Arturo Umberto Illia
Columbia: Guillermo León Valencia


Australia:
Australia: Kevin Rudd
New Zealand: David Lange

Europe:
UK: Edward Heath
France: Jacques Chirac
Sweden: Olof Palme
Germany: Ludwig Erhard
USSR/Russia: Michail Gorbachev
Poland:  Andrzej Duda

[OSR stands with Israel]

U.K.:
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. David Cameron
3. Tony Blair

What the actual f***ity-f***

Why are you surprised by Sunrise picking Cameron as number 2

[CumbrianLefty]

U.K.:
1. Margaret Thatcher
2. David Cameron
3. Tony Blair

What the actual f***ity-f***

Why are you surprised by Sunrise picking Cameron as number 2

Because even right wingers with some objectivity recognise that he was a disastrous failure?

[TheTide]

UK: Wilson
USA: Carter
Sweden: Palme
USSR/Russia etc: Gorbachev
Australia: Keating
Germany: Brandt
France: Chirac
New Zealand: Kirk
Canada: Pearson
Israel: Begin
Poland: Walesa

[jaichind]

PRC's Deng
UK's  Thatcher
USA's Trump