On 9/10/15, The Doctor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:52:47 +0200 > rysiek <[email protected]> wrote: >> Why there's so many people defending Russian system just because >> USA-Russia >> relations are not superfriendly is beyond me. > > People are so trained to think in binary terms that pretty much every > possible shade of grey is all but invisble. > > Sad.
Sad indeed. A nuanced (from our western media perspective), almost academic analysis of why USSR fell, due to its internal problems, and what those problems were: http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/09/the-three-deaths-of-soviet-union-part-1.html http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/09/the-three-deaths-of-soviet-union-part-2.html I add that today, the relevant thing is that Putin on an inter-nation level is one of the only true diplomats on today's world stage, and has forged many significant relationships (e.g. BRICS) which have shifted power significantly and irrevocably away from USA and towards a multi-polar world; and I say this is a damn good thing and we are fortunate that "Russia" has produced someone like this - perhaps not so fortunate for some Russians inside Russia, but extraordinarily important, and good, for the world as a whole. USA hegemon had to be ended, and it's almost done but the shoutin'.
