re: The Russian people are savages, will always be

The tone of this thread is decidedly different from what we've been hearing on one of the purported "conservative" radio shows here locally.

When the invasion first started, we heard preposterous premises such as "Putin is doing this to get rid of the "Deep State" and corruption in the Ukraine."

Can it possibly get any better than that one?

Guests like Josh Burnstein and some callers basically saying that the women and children who are suffering the mutilations, abject fear and terror, and worse are getting what they deserve, because others over there are corrupt.

And there it was. Some who purport to be on the so-called Right actually stroking a black Russian Bolshevik who has somehow rationalized to himself that he should invade a country that really was no threat to him, using specious excuses such as he was concerned about NATO and he needs "buffer zones" for his country.

But really, since when is a black Russian Bolshevik so offended and outraged about authoritarianism of any kind, by anyone, other than as a contrivance for replacing it with a version of his own.

More likely, he's near the end of his journey if the reports on his health are true, and he wants to go out with a bang, with the false image he wants to remain with the Russian people that he at least initiated an attempt at reprising the lost soviet "republics."

Didn't we hear him say, "This is not just about the Ukraine." Lots of conjecture hidden in that one.

But for those on the so-called Right who seem intent on stroking this black Russian Bolshevik Ras-Putin, it's eerily reminiscent of the Left over so many years of their schmoozing and coozing over Russian leaders from Khrushchev to Gorbachev (where the love affair really got scandalous).

Then curiously that one-sided admiration society ended abruptly late one night in November of 2015.

Now some on the Right have taken up the mantle for Ras-Putin.


In fairness, after what's gone on in this country for the last 6-plus years, do we really have the right to call anyone corrupt.