...pierwszym z brzegu cytatem
..."...Briefly, the cases of Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi – or young Justin Trudeau (whose sole work experience was as substitute art teacher for six months and who has surrounded himself with a vice-prime minister, serving as finance minister too, and a foreign minister both with mediocre journalism as backgrounds) – are not unprecedented, and reflect political systems that went awry, with accountability lost.
When will change come?
When the government coffers are empty, and the country is leapfrogged by others..." - j.n. by Reuven Brenner "Geriatric history..."
Russia, he continued[1], “always has had a limited imperial dimension.” Since the fall of the Soviet Union, these ambitions focused on the 14 of so “nation states” that emerged after the fall. Kristol noted that none of them were either economically or politically viable (singling out Ukraine as having been particularly corrupt), and concluded that – like it or not – they would end up being semi-protectorates of Russia, though with more autonomy than before..."...
He was painfully insightful about both Russia and Ukraine.
“Back in 1954,” Kristol wrote, “Nikita Khrushchev blandly gave the Crimean Peninsula to the Republic of Ukraine, then a Soviet puppet. But the majority of the population of Crimea is Russian, and they just voted in a referendum to dissociate themselves from Ukraine.” This was 1994.
Crimean authorities held that three-part referendum on March 27, 1994, though the Ukrainian president at the time, Leonid Kravchuk, declared it illegal. This referendum was based on the 1992 decision of the Crimean Supreme Council that declared independence, based on what would be the outcome of a referendum that August.
That did not take place until 1994, when 80% of Crimeans voted for the 1992 proposals of negotiating for independence. This was five years before Putin appeared on the horizon..." j.w. "Is the US constantly misreading Russia?"
[1] Irving Kristol[2] którego tu cytuje pan Brenner w swoich rozważaniach
[2] "...was an American journalist who was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism". As a founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the latter half of the twentieth century. After his death, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the [twentieth] century..." - Irving Kristol - Wikipedia
