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Putin's Wet Dream of a World
Autocracy (with Putin at the helm) is Coming to a Country
Near You
A Must Read. How
Putin (and Trump et.al) is using the threat of terrorism
and yesteryears status quo to stamp out Democracy. thinkingblue

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/its-putins-world/513848/
Excerpt: After the global financial
crisis of 2008, populist uprisings had sprouted
across Europe. Putin and his strategists sensed the
beginnings of a larger uprising that could upend the
Continent and make life uncomfortable for his
geostrategic competitors. A 2013 paper from the
Center for Strategic Communications, a pro-Kremlin
think tank, observed that large patches of the West
despised feminism and the gay-rights movement and,
more generally, the progressive direction in which
elites had pushed their societies. With the
traditionalist masses ripe for revolt, the Russian
president had an opportunity. He could become, as the
papers title blared, The New World Leader
of Conservatism.
Putin had never spoken glowingly of the West, but
grim pronouncements about its fate grew central to
his rhetoric. He hurled splenetic attacks against the
culturally decadent, spiritually desiccated
Euro-Atlantic. He warned against the
fetishization of tolerance and diversity. He
described the West as infertile and
genderless, while Russian propaganda derided
Europe as Gayropa. At the heart of
Putins case was an accusation of moral
relativism. We can see how many of the
Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their
roots, including the Christian values that constitute
the basis of Western civilization, he said at a
conference in 2013. They are denying moral
principles and all traditional identities: national,
cultural, religious, and even sexual
They are
implementing policies that equate large families with
same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief
in Satan. By succumbing to secularism, he noted
on another occasion, the West was trending toward
chaotic darkness and a return to a
primitive state.
(This from Putin? How can anyone not
see through this monster?)
Excerpt 2: Few analysts grasped the
potency such rhetoric would have beyond Russia. But
right-wing leaders around the worldfrom Rodrigo
Duterte in the Philippines to Nigel Farage in Britain
to Donald Trump in the U.S.now speak of Putin
in heroic terms. Their fawning is often discounted,
ascribed to under-the-table payments or other
stealthy Russian efforts. These explanations
dont wholly account for Putins outsize
stature, however. He has achieved this prominence
because he anticipated the global populist revolt and
helped give it ideological shape. With his
apocalyptic critique of the Westwhich also
plays on anxieties about Christendoms
supposedly limp response to Islamist
terrorismPutin has become a mascot of
traditionalist resistance.
At first, most Western observers assumed that Putin
wouldnt win fans outside the furthest fringes
of the right. In France, Russias hopes
initially focused on Marine Le Pen, the fierce critic
of immigration and globalization, whose National
Front party has harbored Holocaust deniers and Vichy
nostalgists. In 2014, a Russian bank loaned Le
Pens cash-strapped party 9 million euros. Le
Pen, in turn, has amplified Putins talking
points, declaring Russia a natural ally of
Europe.
In 2013, the columnist Pat Buchanan championed Putin
as an enemy of secularism: He is seeking to
redefine the Us vs. Them world conflict
of the future as one in which conservatives,
traditionalists, and nationalists of all continents
and countries stand up against the cultural and
ideological imperialism of what he sees as a decadent
west. This type of homage became a trope among
conservative thinkersincluding Rod Dreher and
Matt Drudgeand in turn influenced their
followers. In mid-2014, 51 percent of American
Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years
later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of
Republicans said Trump had the right
approach toward Russia. (When asked about this
change, Putin replied, Its because people
share our traditional sensibilities.)
"WTF!" thinkingblue
(This is very chilling INDEED!)
Ending Paragraph Says It All
(There is little empirical
basis for the charge of civilizational rot. It speaks to
an emotional state, one we should do our best to
understand and even empathize with. But we know from
history that premonitions of imminent barbarism serve to
justify extreme countermeasures. These are the
anxieties from which dictators rise. Admiring strongmen from a distance
is the window-shopping that can end in the purchase of
authoritarianism.)
Read More Here: Its
Putins World
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Another Informative Read

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/containing-trump/513854/
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