An absolutely disgusting article has appeared in The Nation about Putin. It turns out that this nice, kind fellow is being “personally villainized” by American media in keeping with “US policy, that devalues multifaceted analysis for a relentless demonization of Putin, with little regard for facts.” In reality, claims The Nation, all of Russia’s problems are caused by the US and Yeltsin.
The shamelessness of this piece’s ignorant and bigoted author goes as far as referring to Ukraine as “the heart of Russia’s historical civilization.” The existence of a 48,000,000-nation with its own distinctive language, culture and history is of no interest to this Putinoid piece of journalistic garbage. The article blames a host of journalists for avoiding any fact-checking, yet talks about “the now exceedingly dangerous confrontation between the two Ukraines” as if such a confrontation were a fact of reality and not an excuse created by Putin to justify an invasion of a sovereign nation.
The Nation used to be a proudly progressive magazine, yet this piece berates the Obama administration for sending gay athletes to the Sochi Olympics as part of the US delegation. Yes, how dare the President of the US disrespect in this egregious way Putin’s venerable homophobia? Instead, the article suggests, Obama should have traveled to Sochi out of “gratitude” he must feel towards Putin.
This last statement is quite true. We should all be massively grateful to Putin that he hasn’t nuked anybody just yet.
As I was reading the article, I scrolled back to the masthead at least 6 times to make sure it was, indeed, The Nation I was reading. All of a sudden it has become a progressive cause to worship a politician who persecutes gays, says that Stalin was not a dictator but an effective manager, states that the greatest geo-political disaster of the XXth century was the collapse of the USSR, jails people for engaging in peaceful protests, hands an enormous country over to big corporations, tramples on women’s rights, destroys the separation between church and state, falsifies elections in the most egregious ways possible, puts dissident politicians in jail on trumped up charges, tramples on the freedom of speech, and is known for his misogynistic, racist and homophobic statements?
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