Putin Editorial.

[thejad3dsoulz]

Happy Saturday my fellow Politics members!


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[Rightguide]

Happy Saturday my fellow Politics members!


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Or maybe this is a meme that lets Putin himself off the hook for crimes against humanity committed by his army commanders.

 

[Rotadom]

Or maybe this is a meme that lets Putin himself off the hook for crimes against humanity committed by his army commanders.

Reich on, Comrade! All hail Dear Leader, Putin!

 

[Rightguide]

Reich on, Comrade! All hail Dear Leader, Putin!

Putin is a war criminal, memes that say he didn't know what was happening are designed to make him look good. To me, he's just as guilty as his commanders. If you think I'm praising Putin it's because you're too stupid to read English.

 

[Rotadom]

Putin is a war criminal, memes that say he didn't know what was happening are designed to make him look. To me, he's just as guilty as his commanders. If you think I'm praising Putin it's because you're too stupid to read English.

Reich on, Comrade Illiterate!

 

[LupusDei]

Or maybe this is a meme that lets Putin himself off the hook for crimes against humanity committed by his army commanders.

This is a meme that is more insulting to Putin than him being truthfully called killer and war criminal. Those imply strength and fear, and thus is even desirable, despite formal protests. This expose weakness, just as truthful, but one he even can't protest. Further, he can't event test it. And, it destabilizes his position, regardless how he reacts.

Now, is he deliberately lied to? Of course, all late dictator are. But it's not some sinister conspiracy, however much he might want to frame it so. The only conspirator against him is himself, built an alternate universe for himself. He is misinformed because hd demands to be.

 

[pecksniff]

This is a meme that is more insulting to Putin than him being truthfully called killer and war criminal. Those imply strength and fear, and thus is even desirable, despite formal protests. This expose weakness, just as truthful, but one he even can't protest. Further, he can't event test it. And, it destabilizes his position, regardless how he reacts.

Now, is he deliberately lied to? Of course, all late dictator are. But it's not some sinister conspiracy, however much he might want to frame it so. The only conspirator against him is himself, built an alternate universe for himself. He is misinformed because hd demands to be.

This is bound to happen in any environment where officials have an incentive to tell the leader only what he wants to hear and nobody else can tell him anything.

From "Some Thoughts on James Burnham" by George Orwell (1946):

The immediate cause of the German defeat was the unheard-of folly of attacking the USSR while Britain was still undefeated and America was manifestly getting ready to fight. Mistakes of this magnitude can only be made, or at any rate they are most likely to be made, in countries where public opinion has no power. So long as the common man can get a hearing, such elementary rules as not fighting all your enemies simultaneously are less likely to be violated.