[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The error the writer makes is in assuming that what is visible really is how things are. If Putin was dethroned tomorrow, it would make no difference, as the problem is the hidden soviet structures that are in charge in Russia and are infecting the countries of the world.

Putin, even before the eeevil U.S. missile shield, was aiding and abetting every communist/leftist organization on the planet, even paying agents of disinformation who imagined Alex-Jones type conspiracy theories in Spanish speaking news papers. (I’m referring to one of the “spies” busted awhile back; she was ignored, as the focus was on the hot red head at the time. The propagandist got a new job at the Moscow Times, and Alex Jones parrots her views.)

Russia is not our friend, and Putin is not merely reacting to the eeevil Westerners who don’t want to be his friend. He is pursuing long term Soviet goals aimed at, ultimately, uniting east and west under communist terms, and this may conclude with a nuclear exchange at some point, with us on the bad end of it.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Putin, even before the eeevil U.S. missile shield, was aiding and abetting every communist/leftist organization on the planet, even paying agents of disinformation who imagined Alex-Jones type conspiracy theories in Spanish speaking news papers. (I’m referring to one of the “spies” busted awhile back; she was ignored, as the focus was on the hot red head at the time. The propagandist got a new job at the Moscow Times, and Alex Jones parrots her views.)"

What is your point about Alex Jones? He's a communist dupe? And do American leftist groups need any help from Putin? They seem to be doing quite all right - very motivated and very well-funded - on their own. And is Putin promoting "communism" or Russian revivalism, Russian nationalism? It seems to me to be the latter.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

"Putin, even before the eeevil U.S. missile shield, was aiding and abetting every communist/leftist organization on the planet"

Except the party of the democrat and obama? Isn't the party of the democrat a communist/leftist organization?

[Rapscallion]

the problem is the hidden soviet structures that are in charge in Russia

Brilliant observation just add Iran's mental illness inside Iran to your list.

[Savage Beast]

If Putin was were dethroned tomorrow, it would make no difference, as the problem is the hidden soviet structures that are in charge in Russia and are infecting the countries of the world weak, ineffective, feckless Western leaders elected by decadent Westerners who're living in a dream world and cannot bring themselves to face reality.