[amnestynone]

I do not want to go back toa cold war with these Russian troglodytes and that is what is really important.

[Seruzawa]

Lol. The lefties at MSN quoting Nixon now.

[nickcarraway]

That inadequate commitment could not overcome the profound problems of the new Russia, however. As a result—as Nixon had predicted—a strongman assumed soon power and instituted a familiar authoritarianism at home and an aggressive interventionism

Nixon had an inadequate knowledge of geopolitical history. Russia goes back and forth between anarchy and authoritarianism. Just because the U.S. shoveled money at them, didn't mean they could change who they are. Just like the U.S. couldn't change the fundamental nature of Afghanistan in 20 years.

[Red Badger]

...thanks in large part to a lack of strong American leadership—both then and now.

Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama-Biden, Biden-Obama................

[MercyFlush]

“I do not want to go back to a cold war with these Russian troglodytes and that is what is really important.”

Putin wants to restart the Soviet Union so his parasitic regime can suck the lifeblood from Eastern Europe again. Not sure how you expect to avoid a new Cold War or even a hot war dealing with someone like that.

[Paleo Conservative]

Nixons predictions about Russia and Putin
msn ^ | 2/25/2020 | Harry fletcher
Posted on 4/6/2022, 12:23:27 PM by amnestynone

This is what your posted. Who the Hell is "Harry Fletcher"? This is not the author of this article.

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Why Nixon's Prediction About Putin and Ukraine
Matters | Opinion
Monica Crowley 3/10/2022

This is what the source says is the author. It's Monica Crowley who was Nixon's authorized biographer.

[Wuli]

When the Soviet Union fell apart there were only two networks that retained their operations, structure and cohesion. That was the intelligence services and the mobsters (the Russian mobs always operated in the shadows during the Soviet era, helping to grease the wheels of the party big wigs).

Those two networks became joined in league with each other to retain and grow the power they had, when the party and the appartchik were losing it. Their corruption and its hold on control of money and information made true free enterprise and open democracy unlikely to take hold. At one point the Economist magazine was reporting, after the Yeltsin era, that 60% of Russian banks, and 80% of the money in Russian banking, were owned or run by the Russian mob.

Putin came into it all from the KGB side of it, and is satisfied with the financial gains it means for him and the oligarchs that support him, the ones he does not need to have poisoned or imprisoned. I refer to the new Russian political system as a mobocracy and Putin as the current Godfather of it. The Russian legislature is just the biggest political rubber stamp that there ever was.

[Albion Wilde]

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