Originally Posted by Mynydd
Well said, Gottslav.
Errigal, you are probably unaware of some moves of Putin, which are not clear at a first sight. Or even immediately beyond the first sight.
For one thing, he has been using Nationalist parties to support his coalition in the Duma, but for no other purpose than to attain total power. It is, in fact, very difficult in Russia to know if a new group or leader is what they claim to be, or if they are yet another KGB/FSB stage design. Worse, the truth can be half way between one end and the other.
That's for politics. As far as policies go, what Puting is doing is to use the nation to serve the state. He is not, as far as I know, concerned about such things as the perservation and the well-being of the nation, of the people, but he is just concerned about the strength of the state.
There are times when the circumstances allow to demand the nation to make a sacrifice in favour of a stronger state. Which ultimately goes to serve the nation in the longer term. However, the raison d'être of the state is the nation. A president and his government, a prince and his ministers, the king and the nobles, they are there to serve the people. Not the people to serve them. Or that is how it should be in the theory.
Certainly, Putin's policies are not as devastating for the Russians as the polices of the E.U. members' governments are being for their respective nations. However, this is still a lesser evil and we are yet to see the long term consequences of his policies with regards to the preservation of ethnic Russians.
I am an enthusiast of some of Russia's foreign policies, namely those geared towards a resistance to US/NATO empowerment and Globalisation. However, Russia too is following her own path towards a self-styled globalisation of which the ultimate victims will the Russian people.
In short, I do support any policy geared towards a Russia (or any other European country) free of US influence, but not at the cost of endangering the survival of ethnic Russians. Or, for that matter, at the cost of any of the nations which were any of the former Soviet Republics, be it Belarusia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, or other.
I understand your enthusiasm and I share it to a large extent. But we must keep our minds cold and to be able to produce more in-depth analysis that allow us to see beyond the external layers of the façade.
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