It works perfectly for them to claim to want the United States to do whatever it is they have helped rabble rouse their own low-info crowd into demanding we do. Disarm, stay uninvolved, be poor, stop consuming...BUT, none of them have ever wanted us to actually do any of it. They know they need a strong and prosperous America and they need to blame the prosperity and strength for all their ails.
Well, now we have a sufficiently stupid enough population too. And they all are clamoring for the same misguided and suicidal policies. We are actually doing it ALL.
I read an article in, I think it was Foreign Policy Magazine (some professional journal) on Putin’s intentions. What the article said is that Putin is moving toward creating a geo-political economic zone, similar to the European Union, as part of the Third Way New World Order.
The article explained that Putin is following Saulxinsky’s advice on picking a target, and the US and western capitalism is the natural choice, as it is for the rest of world. No one likes a winner who stays around too long.
Putin is using the same organizing techniques that Obama and the Democrats have used, separating the country in various factions and championing their major concerns as if he is their savior. In Russia, Putin used a religious revival, much the same as the Muslim Brotherhood did in the thirties. For other regions of Eastern Europe it will have to be something else, perhaps hatred of the Jews and the US capitalism.