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2024-12-07 06:34:32 UTC
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PermalinkSome try to say he has Aspergers and that most Eastern Orthodox leaders do.
Dunno, don't most leaders believe their own propaganda?
Isn't it the mark of a greta leader who can have an out-of-propaganda
experience?
I was fooled early on by him. I do wonder however, when Dubya looked into
Putin's soul if it freaked out his military whose heaviest income came from
mideast arms sales. If you think we have a Deep State, imagine the
others. The Praetorian guard lives high off the hog only if RUssia is at war.
Since Bikelas (1890) showed Byzantium was the most democratic state of its
day, I think the entire Russian notion of autocracy came from (German)
Catherine's correspondence from Diderot. Russia was much more democratic
under Novgorod and the Romanov's were chosen by an Assembly of the Land. The
Byzantine senate could impeach emperors and veto decrees. And Byzantine
emperors answered to "town halls" at the Hippodrome. Modern RUssia made
several attempts at democracy, with Galistin's Magana Carta rejected by Anna
of COurland, Stolypin's post serfdom reforms, and Yeltsin. The Hofstadter
Mowry theory sayd American Progressives were slave owners (and in NEw York
State, feudal Patroons) who wanted to find clean-hands occupations in the
government for their progeny. YOu can make the similar argument that Russian
nobles wanted to regain control of their serfs through communism.
Well, an interesting title ...Dunno, don't most leaders believe their own propaganda?
Isn't it the mark of a greta leader who can have an out-of-propaganda
experience?
I was fooled early on by him. I do wonder however, when Dubya looked into
Putin's soul if it freaked out his military whose heaviest income came from
mideast arms sales. If you think we have a Deep State, imagine the
others. The Praetorian guard lives high off the hog only if RUssia is at war.
Since Bikelas (1890) showed Byzantium was the most democratic state of its
day, I think the entire Russian notion of autocracy came from (German)
Catherine's correspondence from Diderot. Russia was much more democratic
under Novgorod and the Romanov's were chosen by an Assembly of the Land. The
Byzantine senate could impeach emperors and veto decrees. And Byzantine
emperors answered to "town halls" at the Hippodrome. Modern RUssia made
several attempts at democracy, with Galistin's Magana Carta rejected by Anna
of COurland, Stolypin's post serfdom reforms, and Yeltsin. The Hofstadter
Mowry theory sayd American Progressives were slave owners (and in NEw York
State, feudal Patroons) who wanted to find clean-hands occupations in the
government for their progeny. YOu can make the similar argument that Russian
nobles wanted to regain control of their serfs through communism.
However I think Putin is just OLD-SCHOOL ... the
"see your enemies driven before you" kinda guy.
Two or three hundred years ago he'd been perfectly
normal - a calculating king/conqueror/emperor.
UNfortunately, much of the 'west' just cannot conceive
of such people any more - don't know what to think
about them, what to DO about them. Their 'normal' is
historically ABnormal.
That's bad.
Oh, Xi and Kim are kinda the same.
(WTF did 'druids' have to do with any of this ?)