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---------------- - 1964 - Politics Trump versus Putin.
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- Donald Trump is a fish in new waters. He is learning how to navigate the strange currents in Washington DC. Meanwhile Vladimir Putin is a powerful ideological symbol on the world stage. Putin is a hero to some populist conservatives and an anathema to progressive liberals.
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- How should we think about Putin?
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- Disregard all the press because it is mostly fake news.
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- Putin is a leader of a rugged, poor, military powerful country. His job has been to protect Russia prerogatives and sovereignty in an international system the views Russia as a threat.
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- Putin’s election in a “ democratic process” and his rise to power includes arresting and jailing his opponents. Some may even have been murdered. When he came to power in 1999 Russia was defenseless, bankrupt, and run by elites.
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- The Yeltsin era before 2000 saw Russia’s political, economic, cultural, and moral life looted and destroyed. Putin restrained these billionaire elites and restored Russia’s standing abroad.
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- An example of Yeltin’s looting was purchasing Russia’s oil production for $150 million in 1990. It was valued at $20,000 million in 2004. Putin reclaimed it recognizing it to be the only geopolitical lever he had over Europe.
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- Russia and Israel share this in common, dangerous borders with the Islamic world. Western progressives have trivialized Russia’s situation in the world. Barrack Obama saw damaging Russia economically by not attending the 2014 Winter Olympics. They published news on the jailed oil tycoons. They published the Pussy Riots. The published gay propaganda laws. Are these really the important diplomatic issues of our times?
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- President Obama even used Russian interference to de-legitimize last November’s election. He tried to convince public opinion that Russia’s hacking into our election system changed the outcome. Manufactured opinion or just fake news?
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- The Obama administration accused Russia of hacking in to Vermont’s electrical grid. It was all based on a single Russian computer found to contain “ commercially” available software code and it was never connected to the electrical grid. Fake news!
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- New about Ukraine? Was it a democratically elected government overthrown by an armed uprising backed by the US that was hoping to establish a NATO naval base on the Black Sea? Or, was Russia just recapturing its own territory?
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- President Reagan was a foreign policy thinker, not an ideologue. He had the ability to set priorities. What’s important? He understood what contributed to our biggest threats and what were Russia’s biggest weaknesses.
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- Many see Putin the way they saw Fidel Castro. A leader that won’t submit to the world that surrounds him.
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- Putin has become a symbol of national sovereignty in a battle for world globalism. Did we not experience the same thing in our own last election?
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- Trump needs to take a Reagan look at Russia. Set the right priorities. Ask the first question , “ What’s important”.. An announcement will be made shortly, stay tuned. Fake news or critical thinking??????
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- Note : Request any of the Reviews by number to learn more.
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- See Hillsdale College Imprimis March 2017
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- #1954 - Critical Thinking
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- #1960 - Fake News
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- #1951 - Government Intelligence, an oxymoron.
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- #1945 - Encryption
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