re: #143 CuriousLurker

Speaking of Putin, NPR tweeted this around midnight. I don’t know how accurate it is since the guy they’re quoting is from the AEI, but it was interesting:

“Putin sees influence as a zero-sum game. If Russia has influence, then the U.S. doesn’t,” said Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute and author of a new book, Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes.

“Putin is not going to make any of the value judgments that Americans often make,” he added. “The United States sees its allies as partners, but Putin and many Russians see partners as client states.”

That’s the Soviet Union in a nutshell. The USSR was tried and failed. It’s too soon to try that shit again, there are too many people still alive that remember what it was like to live in tyranny. They wont let it happen again.