[lbo-talk] Putin: Russians love him!

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 12/6/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 6, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > I would say's it's not almost outrage -- it IS
> > outrage. All those dumbass editorials in the
> > Washington Post and the Economist get translated into
> > Russian and widely disseminated over the Internet and
> > in print.
>
> I can't count the number of times I've been hanging with a group of
> lefties and say that Putin's pretty good, all things considered. They
> look at me like I'm a vicious nut.

Your favorable view of Russia, as well as that of China, certainly
doesn't square with the rest of your politics, especially in West
Asia, though I welcome this deviation, for what's good for Russia and
China is good for populist Islamists in the region, Venezuela, Cuba,
etc.  :->
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Yoshie
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