Thirty years ago this month,
Communist hardliners in the Soviet Union launched the "
August Coup" against Mikhail Gorbachev's reformist government. It failed and instead the Communist Party itself was suppressed, after 74 years of totalitarian power. Hopefully
the current communist coup in the U.S. will similarly fail — but it's worth examining why our managerial globalist regime enabling it retains a hatred for Russian's current ruler, President Vladimir Putin, that is as intense as it seems inexplicable.
From "
Russiagate" to charges that
anti-globalists are shilling for Putin, the shrill accusations of Russia being behind every
nefarious activity the global managers can imagine, to the
comparisons of Putin to
Hitler...On and on the trail of hatred goes, for fear is behind it.
Understanding the obsessive fear and loathing of Putin's Russia requires historical memory, something our society is woefully short on, but it's necessary for anyone seeking such understanding to back up to the end of the Cold War and recall the circumstances that gave rise to globalism.
The Fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War
The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The
Soviet Union remained standing, but was fragile, reeling from Gorbachev's policies of
glasnost ("openness") and
perestroika ("restructuring"), which had unleashed a firestorm of previously pent-up popular frustrations. The Soviet economy was in shambles. The Soviets were
losing their Eastern European satellites and nationalism was pulling the USSR apart at the seams.
Comment: China has been tolerant in the face of Western provocations in its territorial waters. The have apparently reached the limit of their patience.