Posted on 08/07/2018 11:09:15 AM PDT by duckln
Read the article again, factually, just what bothers you?
Today they are more conservative than we are.
Putin is not building an empire, he trying to keep what they have left.
We were on the wrong side in Syria. Russia saved them and halted the caliphate movement.
My father’s father came to this country from Russia in 1923, in the immediate aftermath of the Communist Revolution. He had one brother here, with the rest of the family unable to get out. Fast forward to the 1990s, after the (blessed) fall of the USSR: one of my father’s cousins got out, and I asked him what it was like to live in Russia after Communism. His response was:
“Same wall, different wallpaper.”
IOW, those living there knew that nothing much had, or would, change.
It isn’t just “neocons” or “Jewish neocons” who believe this.
Now, from my own POV, the further we get from the USSR, the more that Russia will become the Russia of old. Since it is, essentially, Mexico with a very large nuclear arsenal, we had best get along at least well enough that we don’t have any reason to start shooting at each other. The trust necessary to continue avoiding that kind of event will lead, over time, to more trust. Perhaps, after a generation or two, it may even lead to a friendship of sorts. After all, we’re now friends with Great Britain, Germany and Japan - and they all used to be our bitter enemies.
antidemoncrat said, “But doesn’t Putin want to restore the Soviet Union?”
PAR35 responded, “No, he wants to restore the Czarist Russian empire.”
FWIW, I don’t believe that Putin believes in Communism - he’s way too smart for that, and understands as well as anyone on the planet what a miserable failure it was in many regards. But that is largely irrelevant - he wants Russia to be a dominant power on Earth, if not THE dominant power, and whether you (or he) calls himself a Communist, a Czarist, or anything else, the end result if he is not reigned in will be the exact same thing - and we will assuredly NOT like it.
“And while our interests may run in tandem for a while you should never turn your back on them or expect them to keep their word unless it is to their advantage.”
Thank goodness we don’t act like that around the world.
You’re worse that Hitler!
You’re BusHitler!
Yep, that’s how the game is played.
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