As the excerpt below from NYT describes, Russian policy and sentiment is leaning towards their own version of 'Neo-Conservitism'. The 'grand old man' of their current politics can easily be compared to our own Dick Cheney, a power-mad coldhearted tool of destruction.
So for those who say that President Obama should not stand against insane violence, because George W. Bush 'did it too', then I say, 'thanks', and welcome to hell.
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From the New York Times-
MOSCOW
— As Russia and the United States drift toward a rupture over Crimea,
the Stalinist writer Aleksandr A. Prokhanov feels that his moment has
finally arrived.
“I
am afraid that I am interested in a cold war with the West,” said Mr.
Prokhanov, 76, in a lull between interviews on state-controlled
television and radio. “I was very patient. I waited for 20 years. I did
everything I could so that this war would begin. I worked day and
night.”
Mr.
Prokhanov is an attack dog whose career has risen, fallen and risen
again with the fortunes of hard-liners in the Kremlin. And it is a
measure of the conservative pivot that has taken place in Moscow in
Vladimir V. Putin’s third presidential term that Mr. Prokhanov and a
cadre of like-minded thinkers — a kind of “who’s who of conspiratorial
anti-Americanism,” as one scholar put it — have found themselves thrust
into the mainstream.
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