COVID-19 is the climax to this 4T

[Blazkovitz]

(04-22-2020, 10:53 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Russia is pathetic. It's people never have anything, and it's dependent on a declining and deadly resource. It is boring as hell, and has no freedom. Its tyrannical owner Putin kills people at will. Putin is playing foreign affairs well, but his policy is genocidal murder, and he's taking advantage of a hesitant and war-weary USA. That will not work in the long run. Putin has set himself up in power for life, and I don't know when it's people will rise up again. I guess about 80-plus years after 1990 when the cycle comes around again. And this movement will probably fail, as revolution always does there. The arc of history is especially long in Russia, longer than almost anywhere else, but I expect that sometime in the distant future it will bend towards justice there too. Meanwhile, the only workable policy toward Russia is to keep it in bounds.

It's strange that Russia, a part of the same Greeko-Roman-Christian civilization that created the USA, is more resistant to democracy than places like Bolivia with its majority Amerindian population, or Botswana which is 100% Black, or even Japan with its Confucian culture and heritage of deified emperors.