Posted on 08/26/2019 3:01:13 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Today’s independent Russia is a country that has risen anew. It has been obliged to solve, practically from scratch, the question of its place in the world — what unites the people who inhabit it, what kind of relationship these people have with the state and what they expect from it.
During Putin's first term, the state did not try to impose its ideology, did not intrude into private life and created conditions for economic growth and new consumer opportunities.
Even a series of catastrophes and tragedies in the early 2000s (the Kursk submarine sinking, the Nord-Ost hostage crisis, Beslan hostage crisis) was unable to shake our confidence that life is going in the right direction. We’re on our way home.
From 2012 onward, the state no longer attempted to pluck a national idea from the air to respond to this unofficial social demand.
For the first time in the whole of post-Soviet history, the state devised an official quasi-ideology, which would become the basis for national identity: Russia is an exceptional country, built on a powerful government, patriotism, respect for religion and traditional family values. It is encircled (and will always be encircled) by a ring of enemies, who envy its natural wealth and moral values. Russia is also the country that defeated fascism and can repeat the feat if the situation arises.
The culmination of this mobilizing impulse was the new “war with fascism” in Ukraine, which began to unfold on the country’s TV screens in 2014.
But this version of national identity completely fails to answer the demands from which the current power structure was once born — for justice, the observation of ethical norms, and for comprehensible and universal rules of the game...
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
It is encircled (and will always be encircled) by a ring of enemies, who envy its natural wealth and moral values.
That is the part of their ideology that is absolutely NUTS.
Do we have any vested interest in being their enemy? NO!
Do we covet one inch of their territory or anything else that belongs to them? NO!
Do we envy them? NO! We’re glad you have natural wealth, but we’re doing just fine, thank you.
Is anyone who actually does regard them as an enemy actually going to attack them while they hold the world’s 2nd. largest nuclear arsenal? NO!
They are extremely, extremely insecure when they’ve got no reason to be.
interesting propaganda ... i guess they had to replace the old, discredited SOVIET Communism lies with a new set of lies ...
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Here, the Moscow Times sounds just like the SF Chronicle, NY Times or Wa Post of 40 years ago.
One big, happy family of Social Justice Warriors determined to make the world a better place.
Starting, first, in their own neighborhood.
And our version learned it first from the Soviet Communists.
That’s irony right there. I don’t care who you are.
From Krocodil, Ivesta, Pravda? Reads like a propaganda piece from the soviet era
During interviews, Vladimir Putin sounds more American than any of the Democrat candidates for president.
This article overstates things somewhat. But who can doubt the positive impact of Putin’s strong, patriotic and moral leadership? Putin is the father of a renewed Russia that has returned to God and the Christian virtues of patriotism, self-reliance, free markets, obedience to law and legitimate authority, and respect for private property.
Under Trump, we’re starting to see the beginning of the same kind of renewal here. But we have a long way to go.
In the meantime, it is time to sever ties with the decrepit, socialist, degenerate, Islamified NATO states and forge a new alliance win Russia.
Russia has always had an insecurity problem. A quick read of their history will show example after example of their bunker mentality. Americans do not realize how stable America is when compared to other countries (regardless of its current dis-functional leftest).
Russia has never been democratic or a republic and does not know how to be either. They believe in a "strong man."
The DNC scum of today yearn for the USSR of old.
If you watched Putin’s last interview by members of the British media and heard what he had to say about the Democrats as progressive socialist losers headed for the dustbin of history, you would understand why the Democrats and the Left hate Putin so much.
Everyone should watch this, it’s pretty eye opening:
https://youtu.be/FbY0VpyjtuI?t=4338
Perhaps, but not with Putin regime.
Putin and Trump are Christian warriors who, together, could save Western Civilization. The more they collaborate, the better the world becomes.
While Old Europe settles into domination by its new Third World Islamic masters, Trump and Putin are working hard to protect the unique culture of the Christian West. Russia is our natural ally. France, Germany and the rest of NATO are nothing but PC surrender monkeys. Trump understands this.
In all the countries bordering Russia, men live longer on average than in Russia (although in Kazakhstan and Mongolia the margin is small). Too much alcoholism in Russia the reason?
Drinking is unpopular in Russia for quite some time. And a life expectancy numbers are better than before too.
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