Tulio writes:
Thank you. I’m convinced some hacker is trolling Robert’s account and posting all this pro-Putin stuff. I just can’t believe a progressive is a fan of Putin.
I have told Tulio numerous times that Hard Left and the True Left in the US and in much of the world is with Putin. Counterpunch website is with Putin. Most of the world’s Communist parties are with Putin. Many leftwing websites in the US are lining up with Putin. The KPRF and the KPU (Communist Party Russian Federation and Communist Party Ukraine) are both with Putin.
It’s not that I think Putin is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I doubt if he’s evil incarnate. Geopolitics is an ugly game, but you have to play it or get creamed. There are few angels in geopolitics.
Putin is a patriot though, he’s looking out of his people, and i respect him for that. He’s not a nation-seller like most Americans and most US allies are. I like people who stand up for their country against the aggressors, invaders and attackers. I like patriots, and I hate country-sellers.
Also Putin is part of the anti-imperialist bloc that is standing up to the US Empire, trying to defeat the US World Dictatorship and end US unipolarism which has been a catastrophe. We need to go back to a balanced multipolar world. Unipolarism never works due to the selfish nature of mankind.
Also there is the principle of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, which comes into play here.
Take for example the Bashar Assad and Saddam Hussein. Both were and are horrible men in many ways, but there is one thing I always respected about both Assads and Saddam. Both were members of the Baath Party. The Baath Party was one of the few patriotic parties in the Arab World. They stood for the Arabs ferociously against the invaders.
After the US invaded Iraq in 2003, I stood 100% behind Saddam. I remember when a farmer shot down a US helicopter with an old rifle. Saddam paid a visit to him, recorded on TV.
Later during the huge battle for the Baghdad Airport, a man said that Saddam appeared out of nowhere with his bodyguards. He just turned around, and there was Saddam. Saddam said, “Look, I don’t care whether you hate me or like me or whether you support my government or not. Now is the time to fight for our country. Don’t fight for me. Forget about me. I am not important. Fight for Iraq.”
Then Saddam gave him his gun. The man said that Saddam even moved towards the battle and fired some rounds himself. The man grabbed the gun and ran to save the airport from the invaders who were waging a Nazi-like war of aggression on the homeland, the War Against the Iraqi people.
Then, eight days after Baghdad was conquered and the government vanished, Saddam mysteriously appeared outside a mosque in Adhamiya, a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad. He was soon mobbed by a large crowd of scores of men chanting his name. They hoisted him on their shoulders and carried him through the crowd. It was a brazen display of contempt for the new occupiers, and it was all recorded on cameras. Not only that, but the invaders never figured out where he came from or where he went afterwards.
One of the very first things the invaders did after they conquered Baghdad was to move to the statue of Michael Aflaq, the founder of the Baath Party. Aflaq was a Christian. The Americans wanted to topple the statue but they wanted Iraqis to do it, not Americans. But they had a hard time finding Iraqis who wanted to tear down the statue as Aflaq is a hero to most Iraqis.
Finally they found some country-sellers from Chalabi’s party to do it.
The Americans wanted to tear down Aflaq’s state first of all since Aflaq was an Arab nationalist, a patriot. There is nothing America hates more than true nationalists and patriots, especially in the Third World. America wants satellite and colonies and little else. Anyone who steps out of line will be destroyed. This was the statement that was made by toppling the statue of Michael Aflaq.
Really, after the love of the homeland, what else is there?
