Posted on 08/18/2008 5:38:38 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
TWENTY YEARS after the fall of the Soviet empire, it is much easier to see that the current Russian regime wants to reclaim great power status. It more resembles the earlier Soviet regime and those of the czars than it does any Middle European liberal state.
Indeed, its exploitation of Russian-speaking minorities in the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and Ossetia as pawns is reminiscent of the tactics of the Nazi regime in the 1930s.
Russia has invaded Georgia not just to punish Georgia's elected leadership, but also to reclaim Russian control of gas and oil pipelines in the Caucasus region. Russia wants to bully Ukraine and Turkmenistan, which have natural resources and are turning westward, the same way Vladimir Putin bullied and jailed Russian businessmen who had amassed economic power and were Western-oriented.
We should keep this in mind as Prime Minister Putin and his puppet president, Dimitri Medvedev, scatter promises around the world, including that of a withdrawal from Georgia.
One can expect they will keep their pledges of peace the way Yevgeny Primakov (another Russian prime minister of KGB extraction) and Victor Chernomyrdin promised Bill Clinton and Al Gore to limit arms transfers and nuclear development to North Korea, Iran and Syria during the 1990s.
HUGE COMMUNIST dictatorships, like deadly viruses, have mutated, not died. Russia and China wear the trappings of capitalism when it suits them, but they are willing to bludgeon "naughty" neighbors and "delinquent" dissidents at will.
Putin, the graduate of the old KGB, has been sending agents to poison or shoot journalists and dissidents at home and abroad.
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It’s the Neo-synephrenites that worry me.
>>>TWENTY YEARS after the fall of the Soviet empire, it is much easier to see that the current Russian regime wants to reclaim great power status. It more resembles the earlier Soviet regime and those of the czars than it does any Middle European liberal state.
Indeed, its exploitation of Russian-speaking minorities in the Georgian provinces of Abkhazia and Ossetia as pawns is reminiscent of the tactics of the Nazi regime in the 1930s. <<<
Every white bourgeois liberal, every Hollywood wacko, and Democrat plantation owner spouting their open boarder crap and love for the illegal immigrant should have these people put in their neighborhoods, flooding their hospitals, prisons, schools, and when they go somewhere, they should go to stores where the language is Spanish.
Liberals and the Hollywood crowd are always the same. They always like ideas as long as “they” are not affected.
They are against capital punishment until it’s their family that is murdered.
They are for the legalization of drugs, but don’t want their kid taking them.
They think prostitution should be legal, but don’t want their daughter working as one.
They are for more taxes and think Robin Hood policies are great, except when it’s them being taxed.
They advertise gun control, but like their guns and even hire body guards.
They want everyone to be energy efficient and green, but fly their jets and live in 20,000 square foot homes.
The want social medicine for all, but like their private doctors and hospitals.
So, in order to help these open minded, educated, inclusive, and progressive individuals better understand the nature of the issue at hand, they should live in communities plagued by problems due to illegal immigration, or they should stop working their several hundred thousand dollar a year job and compete for a job as an American in a lower wage job where in some areas and industries the onslaught of illegals (12 million) has pushed wages down. But then again, the liberal mind does not worry about that. They just pass a bogus minimum wage hike, and while they in reality undermine those “Americans” in the lower socio economic rungs, they manage to pander to both the Hispanic AND poor simultaneously with open boarders and minimum wage hikes, at least in appearance. Because those poor Americans deemed the “working poor” which the Democrats so much want to appear the champion of are in reality plantation workers, and a steady flow of cheap labor, even if illegal ensures it stays that way. The irony is, that many of the poor are also uneducated and they are easily kept on their plantation and appeased with make belief efforts intended to demonstrate some love for them, like a minimum wage hike.
The program I propose is called “adopt a liberal”. In this program a white suburban liberal must go to a run down community crushed economically from the flood of illegals and ridden with crime. They should be placed in this community, forced to live there and work there in a menial job competing against illegals willing to work at under minimum wage, they should send their kids to schools where English is a second language and go to an ER like at Parkland Memorial Hospital (Dallas TX) where the average wait is 22 hours for a non critical visit. They should live, eat, work, in this community until they better understand what the real issue is. Then they can go back to their suburb in Oregon, New Hampshire or even the great state of Massachusetts and better talk about the issue from an “American” perspective, not the one of an “illegal alien NON-American”.
Sorry just had to vent.
Right on. Make ‘em live in my neighborhood, formally respectable, now synomous with “slum/high crime” where we get routinely audiologically raped by our illegal neighbors. Let’s see how long our lib friends remain tolerant when the low amp waves infiltrate every square inch of the property to the point that you can’t sleep and you want to vomit.
Kind of a silly article. The present Russian and Chinese regimes have a good deal more in common with pre-communist regimes in those countries than with the communist period.
That’s not necessarily an improvement. The Russian and Chinese imperialisms were pretty nasty at times.
There have been many versions of authoritarian regimes down through history. The Communist variety is just a subset with peculiar obsessions with getting rid of markets and in theory promoting absolute human equality. That Russia is getting more authoritarian doesn’t mean communism is necessarily coming back. I think communism, most especially in those countries that tried it for decades, is utterly dead.
Excellent rant, if you ask me.
Don’t agree, suggest you re-read Marx...Communism is the ideal of a socialist paradise where there is a government of elites who rule the masses and who control everything in the State- there is no free market, no capitalism, no free enterprise..In Russia’s case, there is not even a rule of law as they have never adopted anything close to a system of Western Law...Communism is very much alive and well in this world, and is still out to dominate the world because it is the epitome of evil, the heart of the prince of darkness..human equality means nothing to them because life is cheap..to the average worker in Russia and China life is better than it used to be but is still barely tolerable....never mind theories..watch the news and keep an open mind and you will see...
The Histamines are just as bad. Some conflicts are eternal.
Damn! I love Russia and China being slammed by the new term, NeoCom.
I am going to agree with Sherman’s assessment having lived in China and Russia. Both these countries have gotten rid of the moral scruples that “theoretic” communism and socialism gave their leaders when they started out with that system.
Today’s China and Russia thrive on state-controlled capitalism. i.e “you as a private citizen can become rich provided I get my cut whenever I want and to whatever extent I want.” People who stay out of political issues are generally free to do whatever business they choose to provided they keep the polity’s hands well oiled.
Russia is a fascist state.
Occasionally my neighbors have a party. Would it kill them to turn it down a little? I’ll never understand why people like music so loud it hurts your ears and you can’t hear yourself think let alone talk.
They’re Puerto Rican though.
There are very young children in the house, and they turn on their stereo system in one of their cars and park it on the opposite side of their house, acting as though nobody else can hear it (or FEEL it), and have turned that crap on at all hours of the day. We called the cops more times in the first month after they moved in (July ‘07) than we did in the previous 33 years. We still call them anywhere from once a week to 3 times+ a day, but they do almost nothing and by the time they come out, it’s hours after they’ve called (and even after they’ve been warned, as soon as the cops leave, they crank it right back up again). The fact that that low amp system causes me enormous physical distress (because I suffer from labyrinthitis — it’s literally like putting my head in a blender when that crap starts up) makes it that much worse. We have considered a lawsuit against them because of it. I consider it terrorism.
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Sounds to me like you could win a lawsuit. But you’d probably never see a dime.
I’d probably do something illegal to that car in the middle of the night (or whenever they sleep).
Actually, the point would be to take all the money they pay in rent per month that goes to the actual owner of the house — that’s the only clause for which they can be kicked out of the house (if they miss a single payment).
One payment! My dad was a landlord when I was a kid. The cockroach bringing welfare queen and her boyfriend/husband who both worked, (leaving the little kids home alone) and didn’t need to be on welfare didn’t pay the rent for months and it took forever to get them out. (first excuse it couldn’t be done during the winter) He called the cops on them and HE was arrested for “assaulting” her (and my uncle apparently for just being outside when the cops came). When they did leave they tried to steal the fridge that my dad bought for the apartment and had to be held off with a shotgun. He’s had no tenants since then. Apparently the law is heavily biased ‘round these parts.
The people that rent next door work for the boyfriend of the owner, the former folks that occupied the house for about a decade. They’ve made a mess of the property, especially in the backyard, which is now a gargantuan parking lot with all the work vehicles that are left there because the owner’s boyfriend isn’t allowed to park them at their new property in an upscale neighborhood in suburban Nashville. I told the lady that if she didn’t get her tenants under control we would sue them both (it quieted down for a little while, but it began to pick back up on and off). Frankly, had we known the stunt they were going to pull with this trash that work for them, we’d have bought the house from them and rented it out to somebody that would behave themselves.
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