Finally, a Westerner who understands Russia’s greatest problem:
It’s absolutely the cynicism and the aggressive mockery of any principle other than blatant and rabid self-interest that are so scary. This is what creates the pathology of the ongoing war. These are people reduced to their natural state, having peeled off the civilizational veneer of religion and morality.
One interesting side effect of this is that those ex-Soviet people who are vehemently anti-Soviet often are anti-Soviet from a very caricature-libertarian position.
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Can you expand on how this is a side effect? I don’t understand the connection
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“I don’t understand the connection”
Let’s just say that Ayn Rand was not an abberation, her thinking is…. very much aligned with a certain strain of russian thought that seems to be older than her and bubbles up at different times and places.
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It is becoming irrefutable how savage and illogical Russians really are. I think even Trump is finding it puzzling how destructive and fundamentally broken Russians are.
The best thing Europe and the world can do is build up a giant wall around Russia that makes the North Korea – South Korea border look like a sandbox. No sense in trying to “rehabilitated” them or deal with them. They’ll eventually want to kill you.
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I knew that Trump was going to try to ingratiate himself with the Russians. Every US president starts by trying to make nice with the Russians. What I didn’t anticipate is that he’d persist after they spurn every advance and mock him for it. I thought his high opinion of himself wouldn’t tolerate it. I was wrong. Trump is willing to tolerate it into the infinity.
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Do you think the Russians have “kompromat” on Trump? Otherwise it’s very hard for me to really understand this love affair with the Russians. Like some administration stooge is even pushing to have Russia back at the LA 2028 Olympics. What a giant slap in the face that would be.
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This is exactly what every US president since 1990 has done, though.
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Do you think the Russians have “kompromat” on Trump? Otherwise it’s very hard for me to really understand this love affair with the Russians.
Same question, but with Israel instead of Russia.
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I think it’s worse than any kompromat. I think it’s simply weakness. Did you see him pull the chair back for Bibi? Spread the red carpet for Putin? He was mocked mercilessly for it on Russian TV. “Ha ha, he takes it up his ass like his whore wife.” But he proceeds to debase himself, I don’t get it.
And ok, yes, that chair is a small thing. But it’s very symbolic.
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Russians seem to be so desensitised, physically and emotionally.
Many Israelis are like that too, in my experience. And over a million Russians, Jews and non-Jews all told, live in Israel.
I wonder if there is a connection.
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