Is Putin The New Reagan?
I would like to congratulate historian Dan Carlin for offering up his e-mail account, his twitter feed, his Facebook page, and, maybe, the walls of his home as sacrifices to the flying monkeys.
"Let's be honest ladies and gentlemen, is that the Russian version of what Ronald Reagan is always credited with doing in the United States in that post-Vietnam malaise period we had after the '70s ended? 'He made us stand tall again!' I mean, all the slogans that were big for the Reagan era in the '80, '81, '82 period where this big transition happened, you could just Russify those statements and it works for Putin now. People like - especially if you are the citizens of a great power - the idea that the great power status is being protected. It's a rah-rah patriotism, national pride thing, that as much as some of us would like to suggest this is a post-nationalistic world, [we] have to realize that there may be no such thing as a post-nationalistic world, especially for the really big powers."
It's a very good point, and one with no little truth to it.
And may god have mercy on your soul.
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