The Problem with Writing about Russia in the West

Why the West Hates Putin - With Putin, Russia Is Back!

The problem is this tidal wave of anti-Russian propaganda which is part of the NATO project to destroy Russia, which began with the election of Vladimir Putin, a Russian nationalist who vowed to end Western neocolonial humiliation and desire to keep Russia as an impoverished Western satrap for looting and strip-mining of resources, a demilitarized and castrated backwater for Western imperialism.

Like Mao’s Chinese nationalism that emphasized China’s “century of humiliation” at the hands of Western colonizers and exploiters, Putin vowed to rearm and re-industrialize Russia after the ruinous Western shock therapy and that looted Russia and murdered 15 million Russians. In other words, with Putin, Russia was back on the world stage.

Putin desired friendly relations with the West but Bill Clinton laughed in his face when he literally asked to join NATO. You are trying to tell me that Putin is out to destroy the West when he literally a…