Originally Posted by
OUTLAW 09
See the difference between us---just because Russia has a strategy and it is attempting via UW supporting political warfare to reach that end state does by no means indicate that it is both rational and well thought through.
Basically it flies in the face of the repeated claims that the Russian population will through the riches of it's natural resources surpass Europe.
The second thing I am waiting for you to discover and you tend to miss it--just how fascist is really Russia? Currently there are nine Russian "fascist" groups fighting with the separatists. Seems that when Communism disappears fascism raises it's head--some might say communism enhanced the development of fascism in the former SU.
Fascist movements shared certain common features, including the veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultranationalism and militarism. Fascism views political violence, war, and imperialism as a means to achieve national rejuvenation, and it asserts that stronger nations have the right to expand their territory by displacing weaker nations
AP---see the difference between us--I can recognize when Russia is in fact a fascist state but you cannot. Do you not see the not so subtle indicators in Putin's current course--- it matches to a T the above definition?
What is interesting is to watch the European neo ultra nationalists (ie Le Pen) in their support for Russia and--- AP watch what for the results coming out of the European/Russian Ultranationalist Conference that is ongoing in Yalta.
So yes I stand by the statement--Putin is living the dream but that dream is "an altered state of reality" driven by propaganda and fascism cloaked in the concept of ethno nationalist neo imperialism--again close to the definition above do you not think.