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I had emailed an old professor of Political Science of mine (public policy, holocaust and genocide, and Strategic Warfare are his main fields) what the options are for the US should Russia elect a Communist President and they begin to roll-back reforms.
His response was very interesting, and I think it diserves full study.
A resurgent Russia is a certainty, whether with a communist, czarist, fascist or otherwise authoritarian government. A communist Russia would be just a slight move to the Left of where it is now. Putin was always a commie and now he is imprisoning marketeers. The privatization that Russia attempted meant only that industry would be owned separately by government officials rather than collectively by the government. It hardly ever changed. It was not realprivatization was we saw in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Our fear should come from the increase number of joint Russian-Chinese military operations of the past two years. They are rattling swords just when our sword is being used to cut someone else.
We should just attack now and have done with it.
His response was very interesting, and I think it diserves full study.
A resurgent Russia is a certainty, whether with a communist, czarist, fascist or otherwise authoritarian government. A communist Russia would be just a slight move to the Left of where it is now. Putin was always a commie and now he is imprisoning marketeers. The privatization that Russia attempted meant only that industry would be owned separately by government officials rather than collectively by the government. It hardly ever changed. It was not realprivatization was we saw in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Our fear should come from the increase number of joint Russian-Chinese military operations of the past two years. They are rattling swords just when our sword is being used to cut someone else.
We should just attack now and have done with it.