Lotta people here need black and white Soviets vs Good Guy narratives.
The possibility that this whole thing is a stupid neocon project gone bad - like Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria - means nothing to them.
Putin is a result of bad policy in managing the end of the Soviet Union. Russia was essentially left in the cold by “shock therapy” so they turned to a tough guy who could make the trains run on time.
Sound familiar?
If the Crimean Anschluss evokes Hitler, then the neglect of Russia in the 90s should evoke the Versailles Treaty.
And now it’s probably too late. The dim witted ideologues who shill for the IMF and the Banksters have successfully taken us back 30 years.
Instead of a Medvydev, we get the Guy Who Rides Bears.
And he ain’t playin.
Regulator, you got a head on your shoulders. How do we get our fox hole buddies on FR to think geo-strategically in real politik terms? I see as much knee jerk reflexive thinking here as I do on Salon.com or A-Infos.com. The saving grace on FR is that a number of our colleagues post the enemy press here, for analysis and gauge function, which is a refreshing change from the 110% blinkered shield wall view on the enviro-new age left.
A good observation or a good fact is good no matter where it comes from. We need to get from deductive to inductive data processing pronto. Posts from certain URL’s such as Alex Jones are verbotten on FR. This is not smart. Even a post from LaRouche, which is not verbotten by the admins, is met with yelps of pain and dismay even if it is very usable intel. The world is not a place of purity. The 51%-49% split is what we are often faced with and desperately need to learn to navigate. The NSA has software to sift data from any source. We need to learn how to do that with our brains. cf. “Three Days of the Condor”
Lotta people here need black and white Soviets vs Good Guy narratives.
The possibility that this whole thing is a stupid neocon project gone bad - like Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria - means nothing to them.
Putin is a result of bad policy in managing the end of the Soviet Union. Russia was essentially left in the cold by “shock therapy” so they turned to a tough guy who could make the trains run on time.
Sound familiar?
If the Crimean Anschluss evokes Hitler, then the neglect of Russia in the 90s should evoke the Versailles Treaty.
And now it’s probably too late. The dim witted ideologues who shill for the IMF and the Banksters have successfully taken us back 30 years.
Instead of a Medvydev, we get the Guy Who Rides Bears.
And he ain’t playin.