XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics, alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox XPost: alt.politics
On 12/6/24 8:25 PM,
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
Some 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 ...
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 ?)
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