Lamont Colluci, Weekly Standard: The Putin Doctrine in Action
Unlike American presidential doctrines, Russian doctrines tend to go unnoticed by the western media or are often dismissed as propaganda. This is curious, as the Russians, and before this the Soviets, are not known for hyperbole in geopolitics as they are in the ideological arena. For example, the Brezhnev Doctrine, which condemned Eastern Europe to Soviet domination was brutally enforced by the Soviet military and KGB. Now there is a Putin doctrine that counters the Obama Doctrine in every way.
WNU Editor: I always roll my eyes when I hear U.S. politicians and officials state that they are not sure on what is the Russian plan or policy in places like Ukraine, Syria, etc.. Sighh .... Putin has always been very blunt on what is that policy and plan .... and kudos to Lamont Colluci for pointing it out in this post. On a side note .... I do not share Lamont Colluci's comments on the "Obama Doctrine". I always believed (and still do) that the "Obama Doctrine" is actually President Obama trying his best to make sure that the U.S. is not drawn into the many wars and conflicts that are now breaking out in the Middle East. In my opinion this was (so I thought at the time) a proper policy .... unfortunately .... as much as the U.S. may not want to go to war, war wants to go to the U.S.. And while I do not expect President Obama will deviate from his policy of staying out these major conflicts or keeping U.S. involvement to a minimum .... my gut is telling me that the next U.S. President is going to be confronted with a lot of hard choices that President Obama has tried his best to not make or delay.
Update: Here is a better summary on the Putin Doctrine .... The New Putin Doctrine (Vladimir Ryzhkov, Moscow Times).
6 comments:
A look at the Canada doctrine in action
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saudi-arabia-armoured-vehicle-deal-canada-stephen-harper-1.3244290
Here is an example of the typical foolishness which comes out of the Atlantica club. We're selling $15 billion worth of military kit to the most horrendous regime in the Middle East. The so called progressives are mouthing opposition based on the Saudi's well known human rights record (laudable in of itself but...) while making sure their support for islamofascists goes unmentioned as well as the recent forays into Bahrain and, now Yemen are ignored. All this while bloviating about how Assad must go, Russia out of Ukraine (while allowing support for fascists there to be funneled out of Canada), and then...
When you just can't hold down breakfast anymore, you get: this deal is all about the workers in London who build this equipment. This from a government that has as its members people who took part in authoring some of the most reactionary, regressive, backward, downright primitive labour legislation in the past half century of Canadian history. They being, past members of the Ontario government of Mike Harris...not to mention the Alberta gang.
All this while defecating out of their mouths about the "victims of Communism".
Uhhhhhh. I need a gravol.
If
RRH,
If the cynical, hypocritical, sleazy actions of the Canadian Government, (Cretien/Haiti) don't make you nauseous,
Then you ain't really Canadian, eh?
Haha hahaha! !!!
All this talk about Canada makes me want to drink a Labatt 50
WNU Editor,
Labatts'50,
Ugggggggh.
Drink a good regional micro brew instead.
I said it as a joke Jay. I hate Labatt 50 even though their plant is a few blocks away from my home. :)
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