Why do American "anti elite" types think the Kremlin is OK?

[Kinser79]

(08-14-2016, 03:50 PM)Mikebert Wrote: In response to Eric.  "The people" do not rise up against their leaders.  It is always some subset of the people that begins an insurgency. 
 
My view is an insurgency lacks legitimacy if they have no reasonable chance of success (e.g. Syria, Libya).  It is the height of irresponsibility to rise up in a hopeless cause as all it does is get a lot of your own people killed.  The US acts as an enabler of this and so has been partly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.  In my opinion, the US policy of trying to spread democracy in this way is evil.

I by and large agree. However, I would point out that a great deal of the reasoning behind it these days is because the military industrial complex requires wars of choice to justify its continued existence. Economics is the mother of politics.