Comments by "Tim Trewyn" (@timtrewyn453) on "Силиконовый занавес"
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@captain34ca The imperial impulse is human and not confined to any particular nation. Does not an objective study of human history reveal this? The subject is Russia and its neighbors. I must agree with Toby. Russia cannot be surprised that its neighbors are increasingly defensive. Or is it a defect of Russian leadership thinking, that it thinks itself infallible, and that if anything goes wrong, someone else, certainly not itself, but "America the other" is to blame? That would be a characteristic of what Christopher Hitchens called "a psychopathic dictatorship", that is, what he called the present Russian regime. The psychopathic mind has difficulty processing loss, e.g., Donald Trump. Someone no less than Mikhail Gorbachev said of Putin, "He is always right." And the weakness of the regime seems its sense of having some obligation to publicly agree with that. It was a rather clever thing for Gorbachev to say, and he did not seem to suffer any serious consequences for saying it. And so what I am trying to get across here is that if the Russian regime continues on its present path, its belief in its infallibility and that all its misfortune is someone else's fault, then it will eventually fail and lose, as the Soviet Union did. It will lose because, as a victory centered psychopathic dictatorship, it crushes, indeed kills or chases away, the very people it needs to succeed, by doing what Toby has described. It will fail and lose because it will not, psychologically cannot, self-correct as it needs to. It was not enough to let some facade of Russian Orthodoxy, and other suppressed institutions like journalism, to resurface to renew the Russian culture, those institutions need to be left as truly free as possible for the West to see and economically re-engage with a new and better Russia.
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