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Entry: Two Cheers for Putin Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_cheers_for_putin#5004 Post contents: I agree with Taki's statement of appreciation for Putin's efforts to protect Russian national interest but I think there is a world of ideological difference between Putin's patriotism and the plans for European control being applied by the American government. Our leaders do not want the "Western democratic allies" to show any nationalist tendencies, which our state department wonks, foreign policy magazine editors and neocon overlords associate with "fascism" and anti-Semitism. The perfect European ally is Chancellor Merkel of the German satellite Republic, who is begging the EU to take away her country's sovereignty and who apologizes nonstop for every war that her country presumably started since 1870. Self-assertive European powers are clearly not what the leaders of our global democratic imperium hope to see. Putin rattles these leaders because he is an unabashed Russian nationalist; and as far as I can see, he has not interest in turning Russia into a "propositional nation" based on "human rights" ideology. Sent at: 2008 12 02