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Entry: Putin Beyond the Propaganda Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/putin_beyond_the_propoganda#17546 Post contents: Isn’t it amazing? Here the GOP is bending over for a 1932-style ass-kicking come November – another self-induced “marooned in the boonies for 20 years” tribulation – and along comes Kosovo’s independence in time to turn up the burner on the neo-Cold War, and (the Weekly Standard editorial board hopes) remind Americans of the need for a firm (if somewhat aberrant, angry and “impulsive”) hand on the wheel of state. Jeepers! I guess timing really is everything. Makes me wonder what else they’re sending down the pike for us. The only way they can hold back the spew of seven years’ revulsion is a “national emergency.” Or the hint of one. And remember: These guys are capable of ANYTHING. On a separate note, could Putin’s recent reopening of the Soviet archives be a little toe-line in the sand? A subtle challenge? Remember, the iron door closed on that voluminous – and undoubtedly VERY interesting – document trove in the mid-‘90s, after a brief beam of scholarly light fell into the vaults. Wonder what’s lurking in there? Could American neocons have had anything to do with shutting it down after that brief post-Soviet airing 12 years ago? After all, they did have some influence in the Russian “renaissance.” Remember them and the oligarchs? Tight, baby... Tight. And they did everything with that old vodka-bag Yeltsin but make him leap through flaming hoops into whirling tubs of buffalo dung. Wonder what’s in there…Lotta secrets, I bet. Who knows? Maybe the neocons are terrified that door will open. Maybe the revisioning of history will be over – and the rewriting will begin. Sent at: 2008 05 16