APPEASEMENT OF THE RUSSIAN CZAR

Samuel Huntington wrote a book called Political Order in Changing Societies. In that book one of theories that he posits is that  even after revolutions in societies, the basic character of the societies does not change from the previous incarnations . The actors change but the basic character remains the same.

He gave one example that of the United States where they fought a revolution to free themselves from George III only to reconstruct in their new constitution, the same governing structure that they had left behind, only this time they had an elected president with the same powers as the king.

With the regard to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that created the Soviet Union, now gone itself, he said the Czar was replaced by a supposedly communist regime but in fact the new regime recreated the same cultural structure, and czarist tendencies in the new leaders.

Fast forward to today with regard to the man named Vladmir Putin. He is  a miscreant and a threat to world peace.  He has marched into a sovereign country on the pretext of security but  has destabilized the world and has threated to use nuclear weapons if anyone interfered.  The West laid down supinely in the face of it, with appeasement talk like in 1939 when Hitler marched into Poland.

It was plenty of talk.  Sanctions, yada yada but brute force is the only thing that a tyrant understands. It is clear that there will be no military response from the western countries against Russia.  The sanctions will have no effect on the behaviour

The point is that Vladmir Putin is acting with the character of his country and its cultural norms.  He is acting like a czar.  He is authoritarian and is grabbing up the countries around him, in order to protect the Russian people from what he perceives to be  a security threat.

The picture of the French president as a supplicant at his table was pitiful.

The French  of course know from Napoleon’s time that they were defeated by the great Russian bear so they are not messing with that. The Germans say where you put me.

So Ukraine is now swallowed up on the altar of geo politics and will disappear under the thumb of the tyrant and he will get clean away with it.