In the new struggles of the new century, it is not impossible that Russia — as was America in the Cold War — may be on the winning side. Secessionist parties across Europe already look to Moscow rather than across the Atlantic.
“Putin has become a symbol of national sovereignty in its battle with globalism,” writes Caldwell. “That turns out to be the big battle of our times. As our last election shows, that’s true even here.”
Putin's approval rating was 86.1 percent in the last week of February.
“On the world stage, who could vie with him?”
So asks Chris Caldwell of the Weekly Standard in a remarkable essay in Hillsdale College’s March issue of its magazine, Imprimis. [How to Think About Vladimir Putin, March 2017]
What elevates Putin above all other 21st-century leaders?
“When Putin took power in the winter of 1999-2000, his country was defenseless. It was bankrupt. It was being carved up by its new kleptocratic elites, in collusion with its old imperial rivals, the Americans. Putin changed that.
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If you can park all the extraneous noise being generated by the media and simply sit and listen quietly to almost any two of President Putin’s speeches, you’d discover for yourself what a real leader is and with a bit of after thought, it might even come to you the massive dis-information campaign conducted in the USA is diversionary, meant to keep the American people from discovering the common moralities and dreams shared by the Russian peoples. The Progressives can’t have that.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, we are the war mongers, not they.
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