The far-right parties in Europe admire Russia today in a similar way as far-left parties admired the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Very similar behaviours and collectivist ambitions
Oct 11, 2022·edited Oct 11, 2022Liked by Robert Tracinski
What a dream team line up, Tracinski on Dilma's substack, and sure enough it delivered. Underpants gnomes theory woke equals profits and Putin next job could be tenured professor in the west are ultra-zingers.....it is such a strange time right now. This essay really helps tie a few things together that were some unknown unknowns for me on these issues. A tour de force essay. MOAR TRACINSKI!
Putin: "While we—we are proud that in the 20th Century" (conveniently skipping ahead three centuries from when Russia used its trade with the West to procure gunpowder weapons that it could not yet make itself, to subdue and/or eradicate its own indigenous people from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean) "our country led the anti-colonial movement" (which was anti-capitalist, but not so much anti-colonial, as Russia always intended itself to be the hegemon in the project of fostering communist revolutions wherever it could).
The far-right parties in Europe admire Russia today in a similar way as far-left parties admired the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Very similar behaviours and collectivist ambitions
What a dream team line up, Tracinski on Dilma's substack, and sure enough it delivered. Underpants gnomes theory woke equals profits and Putin next job could be tenured professor in the west are ultra-zingers.....it is such a strange time right now. This essay really helps tie a few things together that were some unknown unknowns for me on these issues. A tour de force essay. MOAR TRACINSKI!
A natural reaction to the global elite trying to dictate every facet of people's lives, both great and small.
Putin: "While we—we are proud that in the 20th Century" (conveniently skipping ahead three centuries from when Russia used its trade with the West to procure gunpowder weapons that it could not yet make itself, to subdue and/or eradicate its own indigenous people from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean) "our country led the anti-colonial movement" (which was anti-capitalist, but not so much anti-colonial, as Russia always intended itself to be the hegemon in the project of fostering communist revolutions wherever it could).
Putin's history is warped to suit. It's garbage.