While many of the platitudes here are perhaps well taken they may not be helpful. We have been poking the Russian nuclear armed bear for two years. The interview presents Russia's side right or wrong and the first time Putin has been interviewed by a western journalist (and I use the term loosely). Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Glenn Greenwald. "Breaking down the Tucker-Putin Interview," is perhaps a clearer notion of what happened. Mr. Schaeffer has preached some propaganda in this piece, even though Republicans have become perilously fascist, a lot of folks are now thinking the Russo-Ukrainian War has gone on too long and it is really a proxy war between the US and Russia (it may have destroyed half of Russia's Army, a fully capable nuclear force, to date). If it goes decidedly side ways then it is perhaps the end of humanity as we know it. While Putin is not to be trusted it is perhaps time to stop the killing. Seventy per cent of the US does not want either Trump or Biden as candidates for President: they are octogenarian relics that on one side want to perpetuate the Cold War Military Industrial Complex (that easily could start a nuclear war), and on the other a knee-jerk front for the American Taliban of evangelicals that would install a fascist anti-democratic theocracy. Many of Mr. Shaeffer's points are fair enough but his take on this is not objective. It is evidence (and I say this as a veteran) that we are buying into the thirty year notion of war all the time. Somehow the duopoly of the American divide needs an intersection of Peace candidates.
I'm surely center-left. I even studied Russian back in the '80s when it was still the Soviet Union. What I can say is that back then, one of my Russian professors was very right-leaning. His interpretation of Soviet films always surprised me. I also read the staunchly conservative San Francisco-based publication Russkai︠a︡ Zhiznʹ (Russian Life). I could see what they were saying at the time, but I felt they were over-to-top.
However, when I saw Putin invading Ukraine in 2014, I was sitting in Warsaw. All those discussions and readings came back to me. They were basically spot on! ... and yet now, the __right__ is behaving even worse than the worst of the lefties who said "let's give the Russkies a break" types back then. How could they get it so correct back then and screw it up so twistedly now?
That is why I support the resisting Putin. Back then, the right was largely correct about this matter and we are seeing history repeat itself because of those factions in Russia.
Thanks for speaking on this. So accurate.
Thank you Frank
Preach it!
While many of the platitudes here are perhaps well taken they may not be helpful. We have been poking the Russian nuclear armed bear for two years. The interview presents Russia's side right or wrong and the first time Putin has been interviewed by a western journalist (and I use the term loosely). Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Glenn Greenwald. "Breaking down the Tucker-Putin Interview," is perhaps a clearer notion of what happened. Mr. Schaeffer has preached some propaganda in this piece, even though Republicans have become perilously fascist, a lot of folks are now thinking the Russo-Ukrainian War has gone on too long and it is really a proxy war between the US and Russia (it may have destroyed half of Russia's Army, a fully capable nuclear force, to date). If it goes decidedly side ways then it is perhaps the end of humanity as we know it. While Putin is not to be trusted it is perhaps time to stop the killing. Seventy per cent of the US does not want either Trump or Biden as candidates for President: they are octogenarian relics that on one side want to perpetuate the Cold War Military Industrial Complex (that easily could start a nuclear war), and on the other a knee-jerk front for the American Taliban of evangelicals that would install a fascist anti-democratic theocracy. Many of Mr. Shaeffer's points are fair enough but his take on this is not objective. It is evidence (and I say this as a veteran) that we are buying into the thirty year notion of war all the time. Somehow the duopoly of the American divide needs an intersection of Peace candidates.
I'm surely center-left. I even studied Russian back in the '80s when it was still the Soviet Union. What I can say is that back then, one of my Russian professors was very right-leaning. His interpretation of Soviet films always surprised me. I also read the staunchly conservative San Francisco-based publication Russkai︠a︡ Zhiznʹ (Russian Life). I could see what they were saying at the time, but I felt they were over-to-top.
However, when I saw Putin invading Ukraine in 2014, I was sitting in Warsaw. All those discussions and readings came back to me. They were basically spot on! ... and yet now, the __right__ is behaving even worse than the worst of the lefties who said "let's give the Russkies a break" types back then. How could they get it so correct back then and screw it up so twistedly now?
That is why I support the resisting Putin. Back then, the right was largely correct about this matter and we are seeing history repeat itself because of those factions in Russia.