FWIW: My positions Regarding Russia are : (a) That the Russian criticism of west

FWIW: My positions Regarding Russia are :

(a) That the Russian criticism of western socialism, neo-puritanism, progressivism, and libertarianism, just like Western conservative criticisms, and the prediction of the outcome by both Russians and western Conservatives – are correct.

(b) The world is not a better place with a bigger Russian empire moving west, but it is a better place moving south and east.

(c) Russians are demonstrably not capable of self government, nor of government of others because of their low trust society. They retain their Mongolian and Tatar ethics and morality.

(d) Their low trust society, persistent in the modern world, is a function of lack of property rights, and lack of rule of law, which creates rule by corruption.

(e) Without a martial aristocracy, a militia, and a middle class that depends upon commerce, or the equivalent class produced by a church that needs the common law to defend itself from the state, it is impossible to develop a judiciary that can impose rule of law.

(f) The west however retains rule of law, and must retain rule of law, to maintain our competitive advantage against lower trust, more aggressive socieites.. And that we do not need to give up trust and rule of law in order to purge anglo neo-puritanism, anglo puritanism, jewish socialism, and jewish libertinism, from the west – and restore german aristocratic stoicism.

That is a pretty straightforward argument.

Curt Doolittle