Trilateral Commissioner Zbigniew Brzezinski dies

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Actually, no, it wouldn't be. As for the comment of yours that "Putin's intention doubtlessly is to replace democratic western governments in Europe with strongman puppet regimes...", well, you should be working for one of the many Western intelligence agencies if you really do have the ability to read the mind of Vladimir Putin and predict his every move.

Too many people over the years (yourself included) have interpreted decisions made by various Soviet and Russian governments as "acts of aggression", whereas in the vast majority of cases their moves were purely defensive. Do keep in mind that the USSR/Russia has been invaded by more nations, from all directions, than any other nation on Earth. They don't, and never have had, big wide oceans to protect them from the likes of Ghenghiz Khan, Napoleon and Hitler. Security is a Russian obsession precisely because of this, because they understand that weakness in the face of the American/NATO threat will be taken advantage of.

Look - just compare a map of Europe from circa 1985 with one of today. What do you see? You see the eastward march of N.A.T.O., beginning with the anschluss of East Germany, then the fall of the other ex-Warsaw Pact nations like Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary, the destruction of Yugoslavia... need I go on? It's like Operation Barbarossa in slow motion (if you don't know about Operation Barbarossa, then bloody Google it).

Do yourself a favour, and stop imbibing the idiotic propaganda from CNN, Newsweek, Time and all of those other purveyors of war-mongering, neo-con crap. They're LYING to you about Russia.

"Russian expansion into Ukraine..." God, what rubbish! Do you mean "expansion" in the same sense as the theft of the territory of Texas by the U.S. from Mexico? Vladimir Putin hated Mr. Obama because Obama was a two-faced (bleep). He hated Ms. Clinton because he understood she was a Russia-hating bigot who would have started a world war within five minutes of assuming office. The world dodged a bullet when she lost to Donald Trump (not that I like him either, but he really was the lesser of the two evils).

You don't know what you are talking about, the Ukrainian issue is one brought on mostly by the EU/US who were trying to leverage Ukraine away joining a customs union with Russia in order to sign an association agreement with the EU. Ukraine's legal and democratically elected president decided against signing the agreement with the EU because they wouldn't let them be apart of the customs union at the same time but Russia ended up offering Ukraine more favorable terms. In comes George Soros who organizes these EuroMaidan protests with literal neo-Nazi shock troops who worship Stepan Bandera from western Ukraine and some mysterious snipers who shot at both protesters and security forces, government is violently overthrown by virulent anti-Russian extremists(their first move after taking power was to try to ban the Russian language) even tho half the country is Russofied. The East/West split in Ukraine was so stark it's obvious that Ukraine is an artificial country, Yanukovych won over 90% of the vote in eastern Ukraine and Crimea so I think their reaction is pretty understandable.

WTF is this obsession you righties have with Russia? It seems you sympathise with Russia much more than with your own country.
And yes, Putin has installed puppet strongmen in former Soviet republics, so it's not much of a leap in logic that he'd do the same in the rest of Europe. He tried in France, he accomplished it in Hungary, and here in America, he got Trump in, but our democratic institutions so far have proven too strong for the establishment of a strongman dictatorship.

You have no idea what you are talking about, you really really need to stop parroting CNN. Victor Orban actually first took office as Prime Minister of Hungary back in 1998 BEFORE Putin became President of Russia both of which have overwhelming democratic support in their country's. How did Putin install anybody? Name one 'puppet strongman' in a former Soviet Republic, you are just repeating talking points and looking like a total idiot.

How is being democratically elected make you a strongman? You are using a word for effect but it absolutely means nothing.

Ramzan Kadyrov is warlord(an actual "strongman") in a very violent and very Islamic Chechnya(not a former Soviet Republic), the price of winning in Chechnya was allying with these warlords who switched sides to fight against the Islamist separatists. Putin has no interest in fighting a 3rd Chechen war and that's what removing Kadyrov would very likely cause which is why Kadyrov is able to act independently as he does.

http://carnegie.ru/2016/10/27/chechnya- ... -pub-64955

here's a good article about the whole situation and how it developed

We've lost a clear thinker. I didn't always agree, but I always found his analysis sharp and illuminating.

WTF is this obsession you righties have with Russia? It seems you sympathise with Russia much more than with your own country.
And yes, Putin has installed puppet strongmen in former Soviet republics, so it's not much of a leap in logic that he'd do the same in the rest of Europe. He tried in France, he accomplished it in Hungary, and here in America, he got Trump in, but our democratic institutions so far have proven too strong for the establishment of a strongman dictatorship.

Putin had installed his own puppet strongman into power in Ukraine by interfering in their elections.

The Ukrainian people had become sick and tired of being turned into just another Russian province. Just because Neo-Nazis had taken part in the Anti-Russian uprising hardly means that everyone involved was a Nazi.

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