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Extraordinary Events in Ukraine: Government Collapses, Yanukovych Flees

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Ming2/22/2014 4:01:53 pm PST

re: #63 dr. luba

What is it with all the Putin love on the right? This is the same contingent who were so anti-communist a few decades ago. I realize they hate Obama, and Putin hates Obama, but still.

You ask a very good question: why does the right seem to like Putin now? Check out the first sentence of this NBC News story (from 2005): “Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia.”

I’m confident that you answered the question when you mentioned President Obama. The only thing I’m not sure about is whether that’s a partial answer, or a complete answer. Is it really that simple, that the enemy (Putin) of the right’s enemy (Obama) is the right’s friend?

Of course this is oversimplifying, but I think one can view the “core” of the former USSR as Russia plus Kazakhstan plus Ukraine. I have no doubt that Putin would LOVE to arrange a “shotgun wedding” of these 3 countries.

Snowden, Greenwald and their supporters act as if they have no clue about Putin’s intentions, while millions of Eastern Europeans understand these intentions quite well.