Encourage everyone to also follow and read Dr. Barbara Walter, Poly Sci professor at Univ. of San Diego. Orange Jesus had Russian help in 2016, much like in other countries. La Penne in France, Brexit, Berlusconi vacationed on the regular with Putin. Austria, Hungry, and so many other country's conservative party leaders are targets for …
Encourage everyone to also follow and read Dr. Barbara Walter, Poly Sci professor at Univ. of San Diego. Orange Jesus had Russian help in 2016, much like in other countries. La Penne in France, Brexit, Berlusconi vacationed on the regular with Putin. Austria, Hungry, and so many other country's conservative party leaders are targets for conversion by the FSB. It is the "Kremlin Playbook" to weaken the west. So that Russia can gain some leverage and increase their sphere of influence ( grow the global network of kleptocracy by weakening institutions from within Democracies. DJT as a savior or as President Orange Jesus is how Russia weakens us from within. The Ukraine invasion wasn't some Putin whim. The invasion was planned since probably 2004-2007, Russian hardliners never got over losing their empire and have been plotting to get it back. By weakening western democracies before the invasion ( DTJ/Brexit/Orban)....they just expected us all to be weaker. Its not that hard to imagine the world right now if all these right wingers where in power together./at the same time. What would that mean globally? First, bye bye NATO.
IF you are not sure how this all came to be this bad, expand your knowledge base, "There is Nothing for You Here" Fiona Hill, "How Civil Wars Start" Dr. Barbara Walter, and "The Kremlin Playbook" -Heather Conley
Ted, I haven't read those books but I have long suspected what you've described above...the revenge of the tyrants. In this long stretch of patriarchy or the age of male grandiosity, domination through force has been a central organizing principle. It follows that brutish men will take the tribe, then the village, then the country, then the entire world.
Putin's vulnerability to feeling shame at being bested by other men goes back to his early childhood where he was alone on the streets and bullied by the bigger boys in the neighborhood. Shame, and the need to avenge one's powerless self are the drivers of much brutality in the world. So I'm not at all surprised that he and others like him are organized around trying to crush the leaders of the democratic world and collapse a system that collapsed them. They're trying to transfer the humiliation to someone else in this zero-sum game of dominance.
Putin seems to be a sociopath or psychopath, just like so many of our worst leaders ( Pinochet, Mussolini, Slobodan Milosevic, Hitler, Stalin, Erdogan, tRump etc.). The world just has not learned from past mistakes.
Encourage everyone to also follow and read Dr. Barbara Walter, Poly Sci professor at Univ. of San Diego. Orange Jesus had Russian help in 2016, much like in other countries. La Penne in France, Brexit, Berlusconi vacationed on the regular with Putin. Austria, Hungry, and so many other country's conservative party leaders are targets for conversion by the FSB. It is the "Kremlin Playbook" to weaken the west. So that Russia can gain some leverage and increase their sphere of influence ( grow the global network of kleptocracy by weakening institutions from within Democracies. DJT as a savior or as President Orange Jesus is how Russia weakens us from within. The Ukraine invasion wasn't some Putin whim. The invasion was planned since probably 2004-2007, Russian hardliners never got over losing their empire and have been plotting to get it back. By weakening western democracies before the invasion ( DTJ/Brexit/Orban)....they just expected us all to be weaker. Its not that hard to imagine the world right now if all these right wingers where in power together./at the same time. What would that mean globally? First, bye bye NATO.
IF you are not sure how this all came to be this bad, expand your knowledge base, "There is Nothing for You Here" Fiona Hill, "How Civil Wars Start" Dr. Barbara Walter, and "The Kremlin Playbook" -Heather Conley
Shame on the U.S. media for not exposing Russian influence in 2016. AG Barr helped obscure; Bette Dangerous aka Heidi Cuda exposes today at last.
I know, right? The moment he said, "Russia, if you're listening…" the world should've stopped and not let him go one step further.
Ted, I haven't read those books but I have long suspected what you've described above...the revenge of the tyrants. In this long stretch of patriarchy or the age of male grandiosity, domination through force has been a central organizing principle. It follows that brutish men will take the tribe, then the village, then the country, then the entire world.
Putin's vulnerability to feeling shame at being bested by other men goes back to his early childhood where he was alone on the streets and bullied by the bigger boys in the neighborhood. Shame, and the need to avenge one's powerless self are the drivers of much brutality in the world. So I'm not at all surprised that he and others like him are organized around trying to crush the leaders of the democratic world and collapse a system that collapsed them. They're trying to transfer the humiliation to someone else in this zero-sum game of dominance.
Putin seems to be a sociopath or psychopath, just like so many of our worst leaders ( Pinochet, Mussolini, Slobodan Milosevic, Hitler, Stalin, Erdogan, tRump etc.). The world just has not learned from past mistakes.
Hasn't learned?
You're right, I left out a word. Corrected.