LETS KEEP PRAISE OF PUTIN TO WHAT HE’S ACTUALLY DOING WELL
(from Elsewhere)
Well, lets just say that American Utopianism is a failed experiment because only Protestants have been able to construct a high trust society. The Anglo mythos is that oppressed people need to be free, rather than strong government and strong institutions are require in low trust societies in order to maintain any semblance of order.
American (and Anglo) utopianism has worked where it spread consumer capitalism (property rights, contracts, rule of law, fiat money and credit). But the Democratic experiment has been a catastrophe. Democratic utopianism has failed because only Germanic peoples have been able to construct a high trust society reasonably free of corruption.
Other societies cannot do this without generations of a functional middle class, and as aggressive a campaign to suppress the rates of reproduction of the lower classes, and prohibition on cousin marriage. The west hung 1% of people a year for most of its history. They starved those who were unproductive over harsh winters.
So it is disingenuous for westerners to criticize the harsh punishment of developing societies. It was only since 1900 that the west stopped aggressive use of hanging, and it has led to vast numbers of incarcerated peoples.
Most other polities cannot imagine a society with as little small crime as america has. This is because of aggressive prosecution in order to preserve their high trust society and the economic velocity that results from it. America has much violent crime among its minorities, but about the same violent crime as Europe among whites.
So american high trust society is dying from aggressive immigration of underclasses that reverse 3000 years of history – it was started in the 1960s by our ‘left’ (socialists) as a means to seize power by immigration where they could not achieve it in a predominantly germanic country by persuasion and propaganda.
Putin is a reasonably good Czar who has managed to seize most of the heavy industry in the country for personal purposes. Most of those personal purposes are designed to restore Russia to what he considers its history (despite the rather murderous history of the Soviets, Ivan the Terrible, and the Mongols.)
If Putin were simply HONEST and said “I must do this to change my society” most of the world would agree with him.
If Putin had purchased Crimea from Ukraine (by asking the west to force the deal – they would have) for discounted oil and gas, he would not have caused the entire western world to pivot to contain Russia again in fear that another group of soviet lunatics had seized power. Instead eastern Europe is simply waiting for the ability to acquire nuclear weapons to keep Moscow at bay. This was foolish.
If Putin simply stated why he was doing what he does the world would agree with him because westerners KNOW that democracy has failed us. We KNOW that decadence has been spread by our left and its alliance with feminism.
If Putin would stop the RT propaganda that is totally fabricated then the western conservatives would support the growth of Russian power as the SAVIOR of the west rather than anther lunatic they need to contain.
If Putin stayed on message that the western liberal model has been a failure he would lead the world, not by fear of lunacy, but by being THE ONLY RATIONAL MAN STANDING.
There is no need to LIE when you are RIGHT, and when everyone AGREES with you. It’s ridiculous.
Thankfully Syria has provided a means for Russia to obtain a Pipeline south, and taken responsibility from the states for policing the muslim world. Also this lets Putin demonstrate wisdom and strength to his people, and allow Russian warriors to gain some experience, without scaring neighbors further and causing more damage to the Russian economy.
The Russian empire can never expand into the east again. it was a disaster the last time. Soviet Occupation was intolerable and the people of eastern Europe fear Russians more than they ever feared nazis.
However, all of the islamic world needs adult supervision and Russia is the only adult in the neighborhood. And pretty clearly, utopian westerners are unfit to parent primitive peoples into modernity.
Source date (UTC): 2015-12-02 09:42:00 UTC