Posted on 04/02/2017 5:19:42 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol and a highly effective ideological litmus test. He is a hero to populist conservatives around the world and anathema to progressives. I don’t want to compare him to our own president, but if you know enough about what a given American thinks of Putin, you can probably tell what he thinks of Donald Trump.
Let me stress at the outset that this is not going to be a talk about what to think about Putin, which is something you are all capable of making up your minds on, but rather how to think about him. And on this, there is one basic truth to remember, although it is often forgotten. Our globalist leaders may have deprecated sovereignty since the end of the Cold War, but that does not mean it has ceased for an instant to be the primary subject of politics.
Vladimir Vladimirovich is not the president of a feminist NGO. He is not a transgender-rights activist. He is not an ombudsman appointed by the United Nations to make and deliver slide shows about green energy. He is the elected leader of Russia—a rugged, relatively poor, militarily powerful country that in recent years has been frequently humiliated, robbed, and misled. His job has been to protect his country’s prerogatives and its sovereignty in an international system that seeks to erode sovereignty in general and views Russia’s sovereignty in particular as a threat.
(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...
Eastern Orthodox.
Most of history has been made by nationalists, with America the exception. The globalists have merely figured out a different plan for obtaining the spoils of war. In the process, have corrupted the ideals of liberty in pursuit of their ideal of domination.
Here's what this new populist thinks of Putin--that he's marginally less dangerous than the Soviet leaders during the sixties and seventies.
Every few minutes Lindsey pops up and squeaks--"Putin is not our friend" as if I'm an idiot who cannot figure it out. Caldwell is probably taking the same benefits Lindsey takes from Ukraine, Estonia to start a war with Russia and send them lots of weapons and money.
CALDWELL--REGISTER AS A FEDERAL AGENT, already!! Graham and McCain, you too.
An outstanding article.
It shows how utterly dumb and uninformed the MSM truly are.
Not as much as Breitbart but a collection of quality essays, for sure. My all time favorite is the propaganda critique:
http://www.unz.com/article/the-show-must-go-on/
Putin is a lot of things and most of them are not obvious to me. I’m not willing to second-guess the guy on anything. I say let the professionals handle it. They’re bound to f*ck things up better than I ever could.
Besides, Pat goes way back and is a genuine conservative rather than a scam neocon.
Will you give him a badge, too?
Yep, I had hoped everyone would read that far, to where most of the meat is.
Well said!
Democrats are trying to criminalize policy disagreements & bring down a president by spectral evidence.
If President Trump does not forcefully face off against his accusers & fight the accusations against him, people will lose trust in him as a leader who can defend them if he can’t/won’t defend himself successfully. Relying on political hacks is going to drag his presidency down. He needs smart lawyers who understand the accusation is:
Trump made a deal with Putin to reduce or eliminate sanctions against Russia in return for Putin’s help in hacking Democrat computers & leaking damaging information.
Trump ought to ask Tom Perez, Maxine Waters & Chuck Schumer to make the accusation to his face & provide real information.
Even if Russia DID hack DNC computers, it doesn’t prove a deal was made...& fact that some people around Trump had Russian ties, conversations, etc is NOT evidence to prove any guilt about some purported deal. Nor is the Gen. Flynn controversy proof, although the press wants the public to see it as guilt.
Why would Trump need Russia to hack computers that weren’t secure? He wouldn’t. Ironically, the same press that tries to pretend it is fair & objective used leaks against Trump about his taxes, his conversation about being popular with women.......and those leaks damaged Trump but did the press “subvert our democracy”????
Trump has a right to have policy differences with Democrats over Russia. Obama had all sorts of differing stances against Russia & believed He could trust & negotiate with Iran. Should GOP criminalize those policy differences?
President George W Bush claimed he could see Putin’s soul & had Putin out to his ranch like a buddy. FDR seemed to like Josef Stalin, who was a ruthless dictator. Progressives liked Adolph Hitler until he attacked Russia.....
MSM is doing exactly what they are paid to do and it is not the publc service of news presentation.
The globalists have merely figured out a different plan for obtaining the spoils of war.
Worse yet, The globalists have figured out a plan for obtaining the spoils of Peace.
I resemble that!
This is much more extensive that any of us could imagine.
Trump is a part of something.
"Keep repeating the lie."
I agree interesting. The most significant idea I found was The Denning Kruger effect in our view of Russia and Putin. While he is not a great man by my standards (although I can see positives in some of his ideas), Russians do not view him via my standards. Most people view him based on their personal beliefs/standards and thus he makes a great monster for liberals to scare us.
The dung ball stops then it hits the wall.
Socialists never subscribe to logic
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