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Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force.
In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, the Russian president said the liberal idea had outlived its purpose as the public turned against immigration, open borders and multiculturalism.
Mr Putins evisceration of liberalism the dominant western ideology since the end of the second world war in 1945 chimes with anti-establishment leaders from US president Donald Trump to Hungarys Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and the Brexit insurgency in the UK.
[Liberals] cannot simply dictate anything to anyone just like they have been attempting to do over the recent decades, he said.
Mr Putin branded Chancellor Angela Merkels decision to admit more than 1m refugees to Germany, mainly from war-ravaged Syria, as a cardinal mistake. But he praised Donald Trump for trying to stop the flow of migrants and drugs from Mexico.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vladimir-putin-says-liberalism-has-become-obsolete/ar-AADyiKu?li=BBnb7Kz
You didn't know Putin was a tea bagger did you?
Bettie
(16,132 posts)the leader of our country says liberalism is dead.
old guy
(3,284 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)And Trump agrees with him, that democracy is obsolete.
We really have to defeat him soundly in 2020, and if he resists, we have to have mass protests.
DBoon
(22,401 posts)A war was found to defend the liberties of Enlightenment liberalism
Initech
(100,107 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)It's a dreadful place.
anarch
(6,535 posts)Russia is probably going to be the breadbasket of the world in the coming century...partly why Putin publicly embraces climate change as a positive thing.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Russia won't even influence Europe food wise if it does not cower the Baltic states and the Nordic states, that may be why Putin is trying so hard there.
Dictators come and go. Putin has to wish that whoever takes over after him will continue his actions, history has shown that to be a dicey bet.
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)I would guess younger replacements won't have the hardened cold-war KGB mindset that Putin has.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Funny how silent Putin's cheerleaders on the Western Left have been on this story...
Hekate
(90,853 posts)SMDH
anarch
(6,535 posts)He sort of has a point.
In my opinion, neo-liberalism is dead (or on its damn way out, anyway) and people generally will have had quite enough of dictators and oligarchs in the relatively near future. I don't think it's going to be a smooth transition though...I don't see this current situation ending too well at all for anybody.
moondust
(20,014 posts)Dream on.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)People like him have had brief moments in the sun, but they have always became historical footnotes.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I will make Soviet Union great again! See, I have already taken Crimea from under your noses, and you do nothing about it. I add United States to great Soviet Union with election tampering. Is simple! Is child's play.
I say polonium the fucker! He needs to be a non-entity.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Benito Mussolini
Putin of course heads a variation of authoritarian government from Mussolinis unfulfilled version. Yet the role of the people is strikingly similar under both. To serve and obey.
Its up to each of us to decide whether we want a nation of, by and for the people as Abraham Lincoln described what our founding fathers created for us, or a nation in which the first duty of the people is to serve the state.