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cucka posted:Personally, I agree with point 4 to some extent. I think right now we are on the cusp of another historic turn involving Russia. This will be a prime opportunity to evaluate how we in the West address an aggressive Russia. Do we tilt towards our on paper dichtoms about freedom of representation, or do we wilt and resort to a 2 party version of dictatorship, where there are merely two differing versions of hell and we are made to choose between the two? Of course one issue is in the US, very few people have any idea what is going on in Russia or even less know how it came about. We simply don't have the intellectual tools left to deal with Putin beyond a kneejerk. Ultimately, nothing will be solved in the US until the pieces of what the hell is going are actually put together, and that is pretty much impossible because of our educational system (even at the highest levels) and our media. If you have no competent scholars of Russian history and contemporary politics, isn't a surprise no one knows poo poo about Russia or how to deal with it and competent study of our own economic and political structure has the same issue. Nothing will change because the asymmetry of information isn't likely to change.
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Vulich the Subtle posted:has anyone said buttcoin yet Yeah, but it is up to you to read that article then report back.
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