[Das Outsider]

Savage is on fire today!

He's done an exceptional show thus far, but I think he's made the same mistake that the neocons and liberals--who said liberalism didn't make for strange bedfellows?--have: equating Russian nationalism with the former Soviet Union. I would ask the Doc to take his own advice in trying to see things from the Russians' point of view, viz., their history.

Seventy years of Communist rule was a drop in the bucket compared to the Romanovs and their predecessors. Could it be that Medvedev, Putin, and Co. are cobbling together something more like a modern-day (and modified) Tsarist Russia?

[dynachrome]

Russian nationalism without the marxist trappings will be more dangerous.

[camerakid400]

I studied Russia and Putin in one of my college courses. I would definitely agree with you on Putin; he is a Tsar. But how do you disagree with Savage? He isn’t supporting Putin. He just doesn’t want the US involved.