Putin seems to be striking back against the local branch of the Yankee world power machine (aka "European" Union). Who could be reproached for that, whether him or the "European" Union, could be a matter of debate. He could have, as Errigal pointed out, supported some local Nationalist parties or movements. But how strong are those movements? Aren't some of them fake "nationalists" entangled in American neocon schemes?
Although I am generally pro-Russian (Russia alwaqys had good relations with Croatia as well), I am not Putin-worshipper. I find some occasional Putin-worship on this site excessive. Of course, he is lesser evil than those forces which American and British secret services want to install in Russia through some "coloured revolution". But from what I could hear from my Russian acquaintaces and from Russian journals on the internet, he seems to be quite corrupt. Maybe they will get some true nationalist (but not imperialist) leader in the future.
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Originally Posted by Breha
yes, putting immigrants on the war path with old style soviet preparation, financial and ideological. Still many soviet supporters are active in Europe, they are in key positions in the media and the state machine, beside bing present at any level.
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What does "Soviet supporters" mean? The "West" is the new Soviet Union. Those "Soviet supporters" you talk about won't surely work for Putin, but for their new Soviet leaders (Bush, Brown, Sarkozy...) This phenomenon can be observed very acutely in the formder Communist eastern Europe where old "commies" are very fervent enforcers of "Western values".
In my not-so-humble opinion, we should get rid of any form of Westernism in our thinking (I don't say you endorsed Westernism, but I am speaking broadly and generally), because "West" today is in no way "ours" (except forcefully, as the occupational force). But this new USSR is maybe even worse that the old USSR, because of being more efficient in "winning hearts and minds" of the large strata of the population.
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Originally Posted by Breha
he was trained ideologically by the organization that gave us Che Guevara, Castro, Luther King and other ethnic revolutionaries.
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Martin Luther King was more likely part of the US establishment...
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with national(ist) revolutionaries. Supporting the Establishment is wrong.