re: #515 BeachDem

Heh.

On Monday evening, a deranged man appeared in Midtown Manhattan to rant in front of a large and largely helpless audience about world affairs, those involving Russia in particular. The plainly disturbed individual was, by turns, incoherent, disingenuous and condescending. Most troubling of all was his insistence that he be taken seriously, when, in fact, he could only be taken ridiculously.

The man was identified as professional conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone.

newsweek.com

I caught the Colbert interview, and will withhold judgement until I have seen his docu on Putin.

If people make one mistake in assessing Putin, it is to see him in through the lens of a new Cold War. That is now what he is up to: he is a Russian nationalist out to expand the reach of Russian power, economic dominance, language and even Russian Orthodoxy, but only to the borders of the former Russian Empire.