Strange how a story aimed at the brain of the beast gets a half dozen replies and is basically forgotten by people who should know better. We’re going to get the kind of financial collapse inducing banking system we deserve. Never before in the course of human events has so much ignorance produced so much misery..
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.