This article is what I would expect from the SPLC-ADL types in which everything they oppose must be a “far-right” conspiracy. Somehow the growing resentment against the EU by the people of Europe is seen as some kind of ‘threat’. After all, much of the EU’s policy’s have been far beyond their legal limits and for the most part is a continental government most Europeans didn’t want.
Oh, and one more thing: It’s FAILING. But let’s not let reality get in the way of conventional wisdom.
Now, in seeing the decline of the West, many ‘patriots’ are looking East to (dare I say it) moral stability (which as we know, usually leads to political and economic stability).
Also, has it become more than obvious to everyone that Putin is now the new ‘bad guy’? A typical tactic of the West to make an adversary all about one person (G.W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, even Edward Snowden if the need arises).
Fact is that unlike Libya, Uganda, Pakistan, Somalia and a few other recent countries (to name a few), Putin actually ASKED for his Parliament’s permission before moving on Crimea. I predict Russia will slowly garner more support from Western citizens as they find a growing disconnect with their own government’s leaders.
What was that (in)famous line recently from Putin? Oh yes:
“... I only wish I had the power that Obama thinks he has...”
Throw up all the propaganda you wish, but this is not about Putin. It’s about that so-called ‘regional power’ that we have to pay $71 million per seat to get a man into space, who’s economy is stabilizing by not overspending, and turning the petro-dollars into domestic manufacturing (you know - that stuff WE used to do), and who - along with it’s BRIC alliance, government more than 60% of the worlds population.
(BRIC = Brazil, Russia, India, China)
A population I might add, that under it’s current social policies, will see positive growth over the next generations while their opposition will surely see a decline.
Not taking sides here, just calling them as I see them. Personally, I think we should be worrying more about the domestic army being poised against us, a full on invasion from our southern border, and the absence of Constitutional limits much more than that ‘regional’ problem in the Ukraine.
jimjohn - out.
Yes. That is their code word, and it produces saliva.
Putin actually ASKED for his Parliament’s permission before moving on Crimea
Right, but on the other hand, he does not have a truly functioning parliament: the only sizable opposition Putin's United Russia party has is from the Communist Party. All pro-Western forces and all nationalist forces have been marginalized.
this is not about Putin
Of course not -- it is a country that is in large part united with him in the effort to gain back at least some losses of the Cold War. We are, therefore, likely to fight another Cold War.
A population I might add, that under it’s current social policies, will see positive growth over the next generations
The Russian proper population is declining. Maybe thanks to the Asian immigration the overall numbers are not so bad, but for the historical Russia the situation is routinely described as a demographic catastrophe.
I think we should be worrying more about...
Ukraine is not and should not be our next agenda, you are right. However, wisely or not we have taken the role of arbiter and guarantor at the end of the Cold War, and we also are the backbone of NATO, so we cannot just ignore a war in the region.