Russia's Achilles Heels (Plural)

The Americn Thinker ^ | April 27, 2014 | Kim Zigfeld

[logi_cal869]

That’s...pretty funny.

Putin is exercising his sovereign rights over unsettled internal issues from the 90s, our POtuS is destroying 100 years of across-the-board gains of the American people and suddenly Russia is better than the US to Manuel Noriega.

Oops...oh my gosh...did I actually compare Panama to Ukraine.

I’m gonna get it now...
/s

[elhombrelibre]

Okay, you wait till you can see his bank book. LOL.

[elhombrelibre]

Sorry but I sure don’t understand your post.

[Cronos]

El --> Russia was badly hurt during the Yeltsin years. During the 90s, the US under Blinton could have helped them transition, but Clinton didn't. The EU helped central europe transition, but Russia was not helped.

I don't think they had that chance in the 2000s under the oligarchs. Putin provided them the self-pride they wanted.

Russia did not have the advantages of China. China has a far stronger economy and in the 90s was strongly held, while Russia did not have that advantage

Russian society is not so defective to be non-democratic --> why do you say so?

[elhombrelibre]

If you need Putin to feel proud, you may not have self-respect, respect for others, common decency, a sense that no man is above the law, an ignorance of how much more important the individual is than the state, and an irrational longing for autocracy. Those are just a few obvious points. You may not have learned the lessons of autocracy under the Czars and the communist either.

[dfwgator]

70+ years of godless Communism will do that to a country, it will take generations for Russia to recover from it. Not that the Tsars were all that great, neither.

[bert]

Aspirin, ibupropin, vice grips, panty hose and on and on and on

[elhombrelibre]

Maybe. Maybe that’s the reason that don’t value liberty and prefer an autocrat. It’s part of their custom. Why we have political pilgrims of the left who run off to all the left wing dictators and sing their praises, and why we have folks on the right who fawn over rightist autocrats is also worth exploring. All the goals we want are not going to occur in the long run and for a sustained period of time if in the course of pursuing those goals the process becomes undemocratic.