Putin’s primary task is to keep Mother Russia from dying
Um... I don’t think much about Putin at all. Who are the conservatives that supposedly think of Putin as a hero? I’ve never seen that sentiment expressed anywhere.
I think the author of this piece is a bit of a nutjob. At least, judging by this example of his writing.
Great essay. Putin is not my enemy.
Total leftist rubbish.
No American conservative admires dictators, leftist or "right-wing" or anything else.
US conservatism is the opposite of dictatorship, we value US Constitution, freedom, law and the Bible.
None of that corresponds to Putin.
The only thing we might grudgingly admit is that Putin defends his country, and we'd like our President to do likewise.
But so did Stalin, Hitler & Mao Tse-Tung defend their countries, and nobody suggests they are admired today.
Good article
That is my take. There are obviously still Socialists and Communists, but the Globalists have made common cause with them. In fact, I’ve thought for a long time that the Marxists have co-opted the Globalist movement.
Increasingly, the real fight is between the Nationalists and Globalists. Personally, I stand with the Nationalists.
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.
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.
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.....
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.
Everyone needs to think of Putin as the modern equivalent of the Czar. Let me state the historically obvious the Czars were not democrats! If you look at history from our nations founding until now through most of that history we had cordial relations with Russia. This relationship was not based on any notions of “shared political values”. People would have laughed at you even you if hinted that was needed. The period of 1918 to the fall of the USSR should be viewed as an anomaly in our relations with Russia. We can and should go back to previous relationship. Nations don’t have “friends” they have periods of time where they have overlapping “national interests”. We need to stop anthropomorphizing the relations of nations.
There will be periods where our and Russia’s interest overlap there we should partner. Where they don’t we can compete or ignore. Yes there are places and problems in the world that we should ignore no matter how many pictures of massacres, starving women and children the media shoves into our living rooms.
How to think? Wait, I know there’s a brain manual around here somewhere that shows the location of the ON switch.
Ping
The US had cordial relations with Czarist Russia, they even agreed to sell Alaska to us.
How to think about Putin was more like How to think about the world. Today the paradigm is GLOBALISM or internationalism, with the people who have the vested interests in globalist rule pushing it down our throats. Putin represents a country's leader REJECTING GLOBALISM. How he rules Russia, how good he may be as a person, isn't the point.
WILL YOUR COUNTRY BE THE BITCH OF GLOBALISM AND TAKE YOU WITH IT, or not?