From unrepentant old Trots in the Guardian to unrepentant old neocons in the Telegraph, the bear-baiters are out in force. We cannot have a world power to which it just obvious that Western civilisation is the Biblical-Classical synthesis in Jesus Christ and His Church, to be defended as such against all threats, internal no less than external. In fact, we cannot have any world power at all unless it is America as conceived, contrary to all historical reason, by the neocons.
No, no, far better to have the Islamist terrorists of Chechnya and the wider Caucasus, or the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or the BBC's beloved National Bolsheviks, whose flag is that of Nazi Germany apart from the black hammer and sickle in place of the swastika. What's that, you say? Well, what did you think were the alternatives to Putin and Medvedev? But then, what did you think were or are the alternatives in Iraq, or Libya, or Syria, to name but three?
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"From unrepentant old Trots in the Guardian to unrepentant old neocons in the Telegraph."
ReplyDeleteAren't they essentially the same people? I am sorry, I just had to!
But seriously, you are very right, this residual Russophobia is very bizarre, especially given the fact that Russian society still has not fully recovered from the awful '90s "shock therapy" period. Haven't the poor Russians suffered enough, first under the communists, then under the neoliberals?