Posted on 03/03/2014 12:13:24 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Putin and Solzhenitsyn were pals? When? I mean are you kidding me? Provide an inkling of proof. There are too many years between them and Solzhenitsyn despised Peter the Great. He wanted Russia to stop being imperialistic under the commies and under a post commie government.
Blame America first is what liberals do, not Americans.
Is Ukraine worth a carrier battle group? A division of US troops? How about several radioactive holes that use to be cities?
Russia has the advantage in tactical nuclear weapons. We have no way to win this one, and everything to lose. Literally.
I’m just trying to get a handle on how badly the U.S. needs to handcuff itself regarding foreign affairs in order to make people like us.
Do you think Putin just woke up and decided to invade Ukraine? What was his motivation?
This is not really true. Putin wants to recreate not the USSR but to the contrary, to make Russia the bastion of Orthodox Christian civilization - in other words, to succeed with Christianity where Communism failed. And he sees a decadent, dissolute, morally confused and weak West. Not a role model for the Slavs.
He wants to renew Russia not in the spirit of Marx but in the spirit of Byzantium and he sees Russia as the heir to the Romans who once ruled from Constantinople.
Interesting read...
But Russia’s attempts to expand into the fading Ottoman Empire- opposed by Europe in the “Great Game” - is a clear exposition of what’s happening now. “Warm water ports”.
History: we can learn from it or we can repeat it.
It relies on one word being found in Dugin's writings and in Putin's program.
Russia is a "Eurasian" country. Hence, the word "Eurasia" may very well appear in Russian writing and thinking in a variety of contexts, some benign, some malignant.
I really wish Zubrin had done more research. He'd find "Eurasian" thinking going back a century, heir to "Slavophilism" and "Sythianism" in Russian culture.
There's much in that way of thinking that could be regarded as malevolent, but the word can also be used in a neutral, geographical sense.
I'm not aware that the Russian equivalent of the word "Eurasian" means fascism or adherence to Dugin's ideology.
As a former superpower, Russian wants to have friendly neighbors and some influence over its neighbors. Russian ambitions may be dangerous, but to associate them with totalitarianism is to overreact in an extreme way.
Just a wild guess. Maybe that is the plan.
US destroyed and biblical prophecy to come true.
However, the article is reflective of the Neo Con point of view and thus, the Western point of view.
It's the real Culture War. And, I'm not sure how to overcome it as the Neo Cons are entrenched.
They want another Cold War, at least.
If it had anything to do with those timeless values we would be in the Central African Republic protecting the folks there.
Make no mistake, this is about money, power and geography to control more of those.
It's about the Western World Order encroaching on the Eastern World Order...and vice versa.
Same sh!t, different century.
Sometimes Godwin's Law is a farcical stretch. Sometimes the comparison with Hitler's program of aggression fits. In this situation, the comparison is valid.
What I’m trying to get a handle on is why America is supposed to give a flip about this. Is it our sacred duty to interfere everywhere it’s not our business?
Neocon yahoos have never heard of Byzantium. Or Christianity.
Czar Putin may not be a National Bolshevik like Aleksandr Dugin, but he a Eurasianist , a revanchist (one bent of revenge as an ideology) and an irredentist (one who seeks to incorporate cross border members of ones ethnic group). Russia is in no position to play the Stalinist “my opponent is a fascist” card.
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