Rand Paul did an excellent job hanging on to his good sense, despite the obvious effort of the "News" to convert it to their own point.
I like Russia...… I like Putin.
It's like this..... they used to have a Czar who was one of the more repressive sorts..... sent a lot of his suspected enemies to camps in Siberia.... had a real tight elite set of landowners who "owned" their workers.... called "serfs".
But they just weren't British patsies. The Czar was related to the European nobility, just not a "Player" for the Brits. Russian folk were devout Orthodox Christians.... probably about as superstitious as the Western "Roman Catholics overall" with their priests highly influential in politics as well.... only you don't generally hear about Orthodox Priests or their Pope being as openly involved in politics. The Czar had his "Pope" and that was just about the whole story, there wasn't a lot of reformation going on where religious types were revolting against their government.
So the Russians never did "The Rennaisance" exactly. Sure a lot of their elites went to universities in western Europe and became fascinated with "The Enlightenment" of the early 1800s and such. But it never really got much play with the Serfs.
The idea of "Human Rights" per John Locke and others just didn't get much notice. So anyway, Russia has never been exactly the beacon of Liberty....
But because of their anti-Brit stance, they helped us significantly during the Revolution, during the War of 1812, and during the Civil War.... and they literally gave us Alaska..... trying to help create a counterbalance to the British Empire, perhaps.
The Bolshevik Revolution was a "Western" revolt, paid for from the West. We cultivated the communists and helped them get organized and funded. All during the so called communist era, we helped the Russian communists. They helped us in WWII, finally, at least....after their deal with Hitler went south and Hitler invaded them.
So what is Putin's bad rap? Some say he has killed his poltical enemies, that he is a KGB thug. That line of thinking, I believe, you might hear from a Mark Levin or any of our big-Star generals.... most of whom have been promoted because of their UN/global governance orientation..... a British sort of program since Lord Cecil Rhodes mapped out the way forward for the British Commonwealth maintaining significance in the coming centuries....
I don't really know much on that. I think he is a kingpin financially and has very tightly-run power elite of his own. I'd bet my bottom dollar he would do anything he could think of to change the world, even the US more his way.
But he has chosen to relax some of the communist ideas and restore Russian ideas. I think he has rejected the British-created "Marxist" sort of puppet show, while trying to keep Russia, and his own power independent.
I saw a major speech of his during the Ukraine "defection" from his power sphere....something Western.... meaning European Union and the United States'..... political strategists helped.... and financed.... George Soros was all over it.
Putin discussed the "New World Order" in these terms.... "Is it "new law.... or no law". He was commenting about the West breaking the terms of the START treaty, where we agreed not to meddle in the Ukraine., where much of the Russian military and weapons were emplaced. We blew that treaty all to Hell.
So Putin has said "Hell No" to the "New World Order". He believes we are liars and corrupt and we can't be trusted.
And he is right about that.
And he ought to know, because I don't think he is any better.....
