Originally Posted by
METO Guido
Solid commentary.
If you have the urge, re-read GFK’s epic ‘long telegram’ wired from Moscow. Putin is undeniably more deeply entrenched than Stalin. Still, there is something very wrong with a culture continually rolling out hard line Kremlin tyrants prepared to push their massive hydrogen stockpile to the brink. You and others won’t accept it but as the Putin regime’s time ends, another Red menace will take its place. Assuming of course we’re again successful containing the one at present. Like Crimea, Ukraine’s occupation is fait accompli.
While I disagree with your last sentence, the rest of your post is accurate.
There is a difference between paranoia and aggressive empire expansion.
Stalin was paranoid.
Putin is an expansionist/Eurasianist.
Almost assuredly Putin will in one manner or another be replaced by a violent authoritarian.
Bit of trivia.
Wish the animal was a bear, but did you know that if you shave the fur off a tiger, the stripes are still there on the skin?
I don't know if there can ever be a change to the bear, but the Germanic Henry the Fowlers rooster has been replaced by a Capon.
Unfortunately it took an unimaginable catastrophe for that change to come about.