This is the sad truth about Russia is that, for all the talk of multipolarity and "realism" and the "return of great power conflict," Russia hasn't been a great power since the end of the Cold War. That was more than 30 years ago.
It's refreshing to see the jackass rationalizers and front-persons in the West getting their comeuppance, not just the paleo-Right, but the Chomsky parrots et al. What's left is deprogramming the Putin zombies who bought into the bizarre propaganda that Putin is just a misunderstood national conservative trying to defend his country, or he's the defender of civilization against gender ideology and other cultural nonsense. In reality, he's a KGB agent-hoodlum-autocrat with a nostalgic fantasy for empire. The cult-programmed zombies slid down a rabbit hole of fake news and fake reality for the last decade and now don't know what's hit them.
This is the sad truth about Russia is that, for all the talk of multipolarity and "realism" and the "return of great power conflict," Russia hasn't been a great power since the end of the Cold War. That was more than 30 years ago.
It's refreshing to see the jackass rationalizers and front-persons in the West getting their comeuppance, not just the paleo-Right, but the Chomsky parrots et al. What's left is deprogramming the Putin zombies who bought into the bizarre propaganda that Putin is just a misunderstood national conservative trying to defend his country, or he's the defender of civilization against gender ideology and other cultural nonsense. In reality, he's a KGB agent-hoodlum-autocrat with a nostalgic fantasy for empire. The cult-programmed zombies slid down a rabbit hole of fake news and fake reality for the last decade and now don't know what's hit them.
Great roundup of a lot of sources "below the radar" of the main media outlets. Kudos.