“Now we're going to f*ck them all,” said one high-ranking civil servant. How Western sanctions and Russian propaganda have rallied even opponents of the war around Putin.
If the US government hasn't got a deadly enemy, then it does what it can to create one, preferably one that will start and sustain a long war, for this reason, as noted by James Madison - one of the founders of the US, 235 years ago: "In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of war, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. It is perhaps questionable, whether the best concerted system of absolute power in Europe could maintain itself, in a situation, where no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke." James Madison, Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 29 June 1787. The legitimacy of the current US elected government is strongly doubted by half of the population, supported by the other half. And to confound things, we have what Professor Michael Glennon, of the Fletcher School of International Relations at Tufts University, calls a "double government" - where the real power is exercised by - and policy set by - the unelected "efficient" government, and only announced by the elected "dignified" government. For details, see https://fletcher.tufts.edu/sites/default/files/pubs_glennon-michael-national-security-double-government.pdf
If the head of the US government has gotten too big for its body, what do you think of the proportions of the Russian government? This is an odd context in which to levy an otherwise fair critique.
After the cold war ended in 1991, Newt Gingrich told his caucus to stop trying to convince voters that Republican policies were better than the Democrats', but instead to tar the Democrats as "communists" and "internal enemies."
There trying to disorder those with the human soul so they become just like them.. It's always the same goal in the many ways to do that. Its not a Russian thing its global
If the US government hasn't got a deadly enemy, then it does what it can to create one, preferably one that will start and sustain a long war, for this reason, as noted by James Madison - one of the founders of the US, 235 years ago: "In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of war, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. It is perhaps questionable, whether the best concerted system of absolute power in Europe could maintain itself, in a situation, where no alarms of external danger could tame the people to the domestic yoke." James Madison, Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 29 June 1787. The legitimacy of the current US elected government is strongly doubted by half of the population, supported by the other half. And to confound things, we have what Professor Michael Glennon, of the Fletcher School of International Relations at Tufts University, calls a "double government" - where the real power is exercised by - and policy set by - the unelected "efficient" government, and only announced by the elected "dignified" government. For details, see https://fletcher.tufts.edu/sites/default/files/pubs_glennon-michael-national-security-double-government.pdf
If the head of the US government has gotten too big for its body, what do you think of the proportions of the Russian government? This is an odd context in which to levy an otherwise fair critique.
It might apply to the Russian government as well. Think about that.
If a republic doesn't have an external enemy, factions within the republic tend to turn on each other.
After the cold war ended in 1991, Newt Gingrich told his caucus to stop trying to convince voters that Republican policies were better than the Democrats', but instead to tar the Democrats as "communists" and "internal enemies."
There trying to disorder those with the human soul so they become just like them.. It's always the same goal in the many ways to do that. Its not a Russian thing its global