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  • Well this is an interesting twist of irony

    From ScottW@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 21:07:41 2023
    It is the United States and the west that is the glue that holds the Russian Empire together.

    https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/03/09/putin_truly_fears_russias_potential_rupture_886240.html

    As a result, “an imperial Russia” under whatever name, Skobov stipulates, “easily moves from the state of being ‘a besieged fortress’ to that of ‘a crusade’ aimed at destroying” the West, which is viewed as “a nest of sin and vice” (
    Kasparov.ru, March 6). And that is especially the case as all events to “abandon both authoritarianism and anti-Westernism have generated powerful disintegration processes.” Thus, the Russian elite naturally seek to combat that danger, setting in
    train a vicious circle in which fears of disintegration reinforce both authoritarianism and anti-Westernism,

    (Read the whole piece, definitely worth it).

    I would suggest the same dynamic is what keeps the Iranian theocratic gov't in power along with their IRGC enforcers.
    With no "great satan" to oppose the people would have dumped these goons long ago.

    ScottW

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  • From Art Sackman@21:1/5 to ScottW on Fri Mar 10 21:11:25 2023
    On Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 12:07:42 AM UTC-5, ScottW wrote:
    It is the United States and the west that is the glue that holds the Russian Empire together.

    https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/03/09/putin_truly_fears_russias_potential_rupture_886240.html

    As a result, “an imperial Russia” under whatever name, Skobov stipulates, “easily moves from the state of being ‘a besieged fortress’ to that of ‘a crusade’ aimed at destroying” the West, which is viewed as “a nest of sin and vice” (
    Kasparov.ru, March 6). And that is especially the case as all events to “abandon both authoritarianism and anti-Westernism have generated powerful disintegration processes.” Thus, the Russian elite naturally seek to combat that danger, setting in
    train a vicious circle in which fears of disintegration reinforce both authoritarianism and anti-Westernism,

    (Read the whole piece, definitely worth it).

    I would suggest the same dynamic is what keeps the Iranian theocratic gov't in power along with their IRGC enforcers.
    With no "great satan" to oppose the people would have dumped these goons long ago.



    ScottW

    Same to be said for American woke Dems who need the false narrative of
    white supremacists hiding in every closet.

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