Friend In The Ether, M. Thompson left this comment in a post by Smitty on the darkening situation in Ukraine:
The Bear is the Bear, and nothing will change. The imperial nature of Russia comes through.
This spurred some thoughts…
-Russia has always had an inferiority complex when it comes to The West, but at least you could cut meaningful deals with the Tsars. This is because the Tsars and those who ran the Imperial Russian Government were men who possessed a Moral Sense, who were Normal Human Beings.
Once the Bolsheviks took over, Russia was in the hands of people who rejected Morality and God.
Boris Yeltsin, though brave in battle, was not up to the task of leading Russia.
Putin is a Fascist. And like all Totalitarians, he is a pure Tyrant whose only difference with his Bolshevik forecommrades, is smarter in some ways [ex: his choice of Fascism over Communism].
-The biggest mistake Russian reformers made after the fall of the USSR was to try and implement a Liberal Democracy.
Liberal Democracies that become the types of governments that govern in non-Western countries descend into Tyrannies very quickly because said countries have no history of or experience with The Rule Of Law. It, of course, doesn’t help the situation that any Democracy is doomed to fail because it is mob rule.
The Russian People should have demanded a Constitutional Monarchy along the lines of that found in Britain, but tailored to the Russian Soul. Russia needs a Tsar, but, in these modern times, they will accept one that rules under God and a constitution.
I know the situation there is much more complicated, but the return of the Tsar, under certain restrictions, is the key.
