Thomas_More
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Yes, like the constitutional church in revolutionary France.
And like that example, Stalin created the Moscow Patriarchate because the former clergy rejected him.
Stalin didn’t “make an alliance” exactly with the Church; he set up the patriarchate with his own appointees, to create a Church loyal to the Soviet state. His motives were patriotism and to assist fervour for the war.
The original patriarchate had collapsed in 1918.
Putin has intimated his admiration for Imperial (imperialism, TS?) Russia and would like the restoration of its control over its former western empire in eastern Europe.
He uses the symbols of the fallen Tsarist empire that even the Bolsheviks had smashed: the two-headed eagle of Byzantium, which linked the Tsars to the Caesars, and the Church with its roots in imperial might, autocracy and xenophobia.Not an imperialist? Give me a break!
“He is like Donald Trump who knows more than the Generals.”
What do you mean? He knows it wouldn’t be WW3 if NATO came in, or he doesn’t care?
Is he that stupid?
“My commonsense still leads me to believe it was unintentional and Zelinsky is merely trying to make as much political propaganda out of it as he can.”
Quite so.
People, like many who write rubbish on Quora, who are blase about nuclear exchanges, have really no realistic concept of the power of such weapons.
I would refer them to Carl Sagan, or even to Stephen Fry, who have both presented realistic documentaries on nuclear war.
Even were only India and Pakistan to have a nuclear exchange, it would spark a global nuclear winter. Even if “the other side” in a conflict never fired back, “our own side’s” doing so would kill us all. Most would be blind instantly on the receiving side, who were not immediately incinerated. There would be mass starvation. The Sun would be blocked out. The radiation would cover the globe, and we would soon be unable to breathe.
What would Zelensky have to gain by provoking a world war in which we all die, including him and his?
Quite interesting.
This is not to deny that the realists in the CPC were state-capitalist Leninist cronies, but that they saw Mao was a liability to the object of developing capitalism in China.
Starving, dying workers can’t produce surplus value.
“How anyone can fall for that BS is hard to fathom….”
Mao’s stormtroopers were exceedingly young, with most even of them going along with their peers through fear. Children had to beat teachers they loved and respected, or be themselves beaten. China became a nation of actors for outside observers. Everyone had to smile, or be beaten; even those who were starving. Far from the image of mass enthusiasm projected, there were peasant uprisings, workers’ strikes in the cities, defacements of Mao’s portrait and calls for him to be arrested and punished.
Mao launched the Terror precisely because, from 1958 to 1961, the CPC had squeezed him out, knowing he was insane. Over thirty million had died as a result of his Stalinist agrarian policies, which did not work for China. Liu Shao-ch’i and Teng Hsiao-p’ing reversed Mao’s policies and Peking Daily ignored his articles. He had lost credibility. So he launched the “Cultural Revolution” to inflame the young and rid himself of the more realist members who had sidelined him. With his wife and the Terrorist K’ang Sheng, he regained control by violence of media outlets and destroyed his rivals, regaining the absolute control he craved.
