"...Those assumptions, in essence, seem to hold that any uprising against an authoritarian or dictatorial government must be a good thing, and that the United States should embrace revolutionary movements as soon as they have become large enough to fill the main square of their nation's capital city with demonstrators. That is what the United States has done, Putin points out in his speech, in Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria--with very mixed results. And that is also what both the United States and the EU did in Ukraine." DK, AS KENNAN
This has been the legacy of the Age of the Democratic Revolution in the West and in Eastern Europe, no less in rebel colonial America, Revolutionary France, or Bolshevik Russia.
When the US does it, they are following their Democratic Revolutionary heritage.
When Putin complains, he is complaining about that same Democratic Revolutionary source of his own Bolshevik state system, going back to the time of Lenin.
Dittohead for Mao's China and Xi.
You can each call the others traitors to your shared revolutionary principles, but guess what?
Your only solution, for the traitors, over there, is just another goddamned revolution over there.
And their solution for you, is the same.
Revolutions on revolutions on revolutions, ad infinitum.
I normally speak of it as The Age of the Democratic Revolution, starting in say 1760.
The font et origine of revolution, as a social and political weapon, between and among states in the West, however, had doubtless been The Reformation itself...which also had had a democratic and populist, if not also a nationalist, flavor.
This has been the legacy of the Age of the Democratic Revolution in the West and in Eastern Europe, no less in rebel colonial America, Revolutionary France, or Bolshevik Russia.
When the US does it, they are following their Democratic Revolutionary heritage.
When Putin complains, he is complaining about that same Democratic Revolutionary source of his own Bolshevik state system, going back to the time of Lenin.
Dittohead for Mao's China and Xi.
You can each call the others traitors to your shared revolutionary principles, but guess what?
Your only solution, for the traitors, over there, is just another goddamned revolution over there.
And their solution for you, is the same.
Revolutions on revolutions on revolutions, ad infinitum.
I normally speak of it as The Age of the Democratic Revolution, starting in say 1760.
The font et origine of revolution, as a social and political weapon, between and among states in the West, however, had doubtless been The Reformation itself...which also had had a democratic and populist, if not also a nationalist, flavor.
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