07-01-2018, 09:13 AM
One gets this when the President of the United States kisses up to the dictator Vladimir Putin. I fail to see what long-term advantage Putin gets from propping up Assad in Syria unless it is to aid the Russian armaments industry.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.