On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:59:01 -0700 "boddi satva" <lbo.boddi at gmail.com>
writes:
> Lenin is dead, folks.
>
> The old world of black hats and white hats is gone.
Who in the hell here is talking that way? I think that what most people here believe is that Putin had delivered Uncle Sam a much needed bodyblow. I suspect that few people here have illususions that Putin somehow represents a resurrection of the old dreams concerning Soviet socialism or anything of that sort. Most people here, I don't think would approve of Putin's actions in Chechnya for instance. What he has done is make clear that the US dream of a unipolar world, in which the US is free to invade countries and overthrow the governments of other sovereign countries whenever it sees fit, using any pretext no matter how flimsy, is now coming to an end. I think most people here see this as a good thing. The resurgence of Russia combined with the rise of China as a major economic power and the development of a loose alliance between those two countries plus other smaller countries like Iran, Cuba, Venezuela etc. means that Uncle Sam now to has to be much more circumspect in the way it pursues its interests in the world. The recent changes in tone of the Bush Administration concerning Iran for instance is indicative then even they realize that the world has changed, no matter how much they may dislike it.
>
> If you want to believe that the U.S., Western Europe and Barack
> Obama
> are the "Great Satan" and that Vladimir Putin will save the world,
> you
> have completely faded into irrelevance.
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