He wants to spread Putin power and Russia’s influence
He’s no communist
But he’s an autocrat and dictator if possible
He’s pretty much a Russian caudillo at this point
Free enterprise check
Crony capitalism at the top....his oligarchs now not the aparatchik gangsters he purged...check
National Christian Religion....check
Very cultural oriented....check
Tolerant of Jews like Franco was.....check
Military military military......check
Sure he’s a strongman but he gets Islam and loves Russia
Russia could be argued needs a strongman same as Libya or Egyot or Iraq
This is world in realpolitik ....even as we lose the foundations of our own Republic
Democracy flourishes under stability and homogeneity
A lesson we refuse to accept
Putin is no doctrinaire Marxist bent on worldwide collectivism but he’d love to spread Russian influence
And above all
Raise crude prices....he has to have that
As opposed to American influence, making the world safe for fags and muslims?
You bring up an interesting point.
In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said that Russia needed a guiding principle if it were to survive and be a credit among the nations of the world. It was obvious that Marxist-Leninism had failed catastrophically, he said, and that left the Russian Orthodox faith as the only answer, along with the long Russian tradition of autocracy.
Henry Kissinger dropped in on Nixon around this time, and Nixon asked for his view of Solzhenitsyn's statement.
"It's very conservative," Kissinger said.
"More conservative than Barry Goldwater?" asked Nixon, naming his reference point for conservatism.
"More conservative than the tsars," answered Kissinger.
It's evident that Putin has read his Solzhenitsyn and taken it to heart. He believes in that combination of autocracy and the Russian Orthodox church.