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Terry Mross’ “Putin vs. Obama” paradigm exemplifies the classic fallacy which gets many a person into trouble. Which is that:

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

And you know what: people on this board need to be called out for taking this shameless path down to its logical conclusion, which is: they think they’re merely opposing Bush/Obama/Neocons, but in actuality, they’ve outright started to hate America and reject the American experiment altogether.

Just because Obama/Bush/Merkel messed things up, doesn’t justify outright rejection of America and dumping Western Civilization along with it.

Worse: it doesn’t justify praising the likes of Vladimir Putin, a man who still beats the heart of a Bolshevik and homo soviectus. Whose primary goal in life is to avenge the fall of the Soviet Union and restore the Russian Empire as much as is physically possible.

And I assure you:
Beating ISIS doesn’t keep him up at night.
Beating America does.

And sadly this is something many of his countrymen, even the kindest and friendliest among them, can empathize with.

There are many reasons for this, and you don’t even need to live in Russia to figure it out. Lots of worthy literature and sociological analysis of the Post-Soviet space to explain these sentiments and the power they retain.

His society is in spiraling decline and faces several mounting problems that far outweigh what we’re dealing with in the West. His ventures into Syria and Crimea and other foreign adventures were distractions designed to appease a growingly disenchanted and antsy public.

And unlike here and in Europe, Russia has no hope for free elections in the foreseeable future to change course! There are no checks and balances in Russia, there is no federalism in the Russian “Federation.”

For example: It’s Russia, not Germany, that has more of a Muslim overpopulation problem. And yet Freepers (who have never been to Russia) tout the exact opposite to be true.

The ONLY reason why liberals and hostile Islamic extremists were able to infiltrate the West was because people lost the will to love and cherish their civilization, their faith, and their contributions to history.

There is NOTHING laudable about betraying your country and your civilization just because you were unhappy with its current leader.

Shame.