This blog site is 12+ years old from 2009 with President Obama's first term. The focus has been eclectic though focusing on national affairs and culture, and occasionally discussing new technologies. Sometimes Perilces21's observations receive a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains honed and unblunted as a sharp eye is always kept on the ways and directions of American politics and culture.
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(This post is based on Pericles21's response to Umair Haque’s Feb 22, 2022, MEDIUM piece on Russian Leader Putin’s putative designs for global Russian dominance ala Hitler’s Third Reich.)
I agree with Mr. Haque’s thesis that there has been a ‘Putin Plan’ perhaps since, but more generically before the 1989-91 “fall’ of the USSR. But, I personally feel that Fall was an artificial orchestration by the Communist Party to boost their embrace of the Marx-Engels “Dialectic Theory of Political Evolution” , i.e., their impatience with achieving a perfect communist state (e.g., Gorbachev's 1980s failed experiment with democracy, or at least some of its features, i.e., Glastnos and Perestroika). The complete script accompanying that hypothetically orchestrated collapse also required the formal structure of the Party to disappear from the public political stage, leaving a shadow 'party' chaperoned by the ever-existent Russian communist secret police, the KGB, now publicly cloaked in name as the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service, whose membership continued from the KGB and piloted by Vladimir Putin.
According to Pericles21's thinking, after 1989 (with the fall of the West-East German Berlin Wall), the Russian Communist Party went into a cloaked, public 'hibernation' while the international Soviet Communist Movement (Comintern) was nursed, guardianed and guided by a dialectic-scripted experiment with a kind of neo-democracy (Boris Yeltsin) capped in 1996 with the return of the KGB (now FSB) under the direction of the well-honed KGB wunderkind, and veteran (since 1975), Vladimir Putin , who became the Communist Party's "show operative" and who is currently directing Russia's Ukraine Operation (the March, 2022 invasion). [This shadow-play is explained in a series of interviews on Putin and his Russian political roots given by Masha Gessen a Moscow-born writer for the New Yorker: (Masha Gessen: The West Is “Insane” for Thinking Sanctions Will Deter Putin | Amanpour and Company; The Putin Files: Masha Gessen)
But, the Comintern neither slept nor vacationed under Putin! In recent years, the Putin ‘plan’ seems to have been taken from the domestic and international strategies resembling the milestones in the Hitlerian scenario from agitator to indictment and prison, through a MAGA-like Brown Shirt alliance and on to revival and 1945.
As the second act of the Russian-Marxist dialectic, the Putin Plan appears to have featured the center-stage, puppet-role played by the narcissistic Donald Trump who was boosted to the American presidency by Soviet operations that took advantage of rumored ‘kompromat’ on Trump, and leveraged by Trump’s self-frustrations to achieve his grandiose business empire dreams…and resultant debt, and cyber machinations that exploited America’s own self-absorbed, commodifying kultur characterized by a collective monster in the form of a few social media giants, eg, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. And the ‘Putin Plan’ has been accelerating from the first stage to ‘capture’ America — Trump kept by his bed Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” which he read before sleeping. Who directed Trump to read Mein Kampf when Trump dislikes reading and from first-hand reports from ex-White House aides, he doesn’t have the focus, interest, nor attention span to read serious books. But it seemed from Trump’s rhetoric and use of grandiose slogans he was mimicking and idolizing Hitler, as well as displaying a puzzling but unvarying predilection to schmooze current autocrats…even ‘declaring’ a love relationship with the comical but dangerous North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. Also, there is the questionable and subordinate relationship Trump, even with presidential powers and protection, has had with Putin who appeared to be in control of Trump-potus — even to the point where Trump visibly cowered in Putin’s presence, a quite odd picture for an American president. (Obama stared Putin down.) Third, on January 6, 2021, Trump attempted an American Putsch which incorporated the ‘I-ate-the-whole-thing’ buy-in of pro-Soviet (pro-Putin) propaganda by Trump and his supporters (Republican Partiers and MAGA persons). What is going on? Seems America has, by a vicious agency, been split not just along political party lines but more globally along lines separating its own people into pro-American vs pro-Russian support… when probably a significant portion of Trump’s supporters can’t name Russia’s capitol or even place a finger on Russia in a world map. All of this says that Russia has won a propaganda ‘battle’ to win the brains of a substantial portion of Americans, maybe 90+% of conservative Americans. Meanwhile in ‘HERE-time’ America and its allies watch Putin run amok over Ukraine like a sated Manhattan crowd idly watching a street rape evolve then happen, all the while remaining uninvolved except to offer the victim a handkerchief during the act and perhaps a band-aid after.
[Refs.: Masha Gessen: The West Is “Insane” for Thinking Sanctions Will Deter Putin | Amanpour and Company, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxJxfSCMvnE; The Putin Files: Masha Gessen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk9igTqTx9s]
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