I agree with much of what you wrote. I also note that the Putinistas must have considerable cognitive dissonance. First of all, they claim to be against Obama. Yet no one empowers Putin and America’s enemies more than Obama. Hence, obviously if you’re in favor of the restoration of the Tsarist/Soviet/Putin empire, then Obama’s your man in the right place at the right time. Second, most of these people do attempt to display a tone of unabashedly superior cognitive capabilities. Yet none of them seem to notice that there is: a) very little liberty in Russia, b) that Putin is a statist, c) that Putin’s bullying will lead to more and bigger statism throughout the world, not less, and finally that their “see no evil” approach to Putin is risible now that they’re the only ones in denial still about what Putin is up to. He should be for them like the authors of the book THE GOD THAT FAILED. In it, former communist denounced communism. Putinistas should consider Putin an idea or ideal that failed. But they don’t yet.
Absolutely.
Obama policies’ play into to the Russia strategy. (I have to say that today’s critic of Russia by Ambassador Power was very reasonable).
I am trying to avoid paint Putin as statist. As Lenin’s biographer, Ossendovsky, said that Lenin spat on Russian state, I would put this regime into the category of such “leaders”. One of the evidence for this is incredible level of corruption in Kremlin which, opposition revealed a little bit (”Putin’s palace, Sochi village etc). So he is pretending that he cares for a state.
Communism is a foundation for Putinism, which is a concealed leninism. The Putinism is an idea of a incredibly rich gang of former KGB operatives, Soviet nomenklatura and their families to defeat morally (at least that it would appear like that), economically and militarily the United States. Putinism main enemy, as the USSR, is the United States.
KGB has always controlled the crowd believing in reptile-chemtrail conspiracy. Lately they have also gotten on side of the Ron Paul crowd.
Have a look of someone tracing the steps of Ron Paul institute director Daniel McAdams.
http://ukraineatwar.blogspot.nl/2014/08/rpi-executive-director-daniel-mcadams.html