Putin has Another Khrushchev Moment
Filed under: Russia
Another day, another meltdown for Russia's lunatic dictator Vladimir Putin, who sounds every day more and more like the whack-jobs who govern Venezuela and Iran -- not coincidentally, his nation's closest allies.
The BBC reports that while addressing a political party conference of United Russia, the group Putin has joined as a pathway to becoming prime minister and remaining in power for life, Putin might as well have taken off his shoe and shrieked hysterically "WE WILL BURY YOU!" He stated:
Unfortunately there are still those people in our country who act like jackals at foreign embassies . . . who count on the support of foreign funds and governments but not the support of their own people. They want to go out into the streets, they've learnt from Western specialists. They've trained in neighbouring republics. Those who confront us need a weak and ill state.
The Beeb adds: "Putin said the opposition wanted to create a 'disoriented, divided' Russia that would be vulnerable to 'dirty tricks'."
It's ironic, of course, that Putin accuses his opposition of wanting a weak country -- in fact, that's just what Putin wants and needs. A vital, prosperous population cannot be easily led around by the nose as Putin wishes to do in Russia. It's much easier to rule over a nation of sick and weak people, working for slave wages and perishing at an early age, consumed by fear. Has he strengthened Russia's media, or weakened it? Emboldened its political parties, of enfeebled them? Empowered local government or emaciated it?
The answers are unquestionably clear.
Putin speaks in the frenzied, paranoid language of Josef Stalin, so its appropriate that his "Russia Today" propaganda campaign uses Stalin, as we reported yesterday, as its poster boy.
He's baiting the West into a new cold war out of sheer blind egomania and hatred, heedless of the consequences for his pathetic population -- just as Russian rulers have always done.
So -- Who's the jackal?