Poll–Most Russians believe Foreign military threat from US and West is real

 February 21, 2015

ed note–while some may yawn and see this as a pointless story, the real ‘meat and potatoes’ of it is what it indicates/intimates in terms of political cohesion for any future ventures in which the Russian state may decide to engage. A fractured, divided polity is a nation that cannot muster the collective strength of its people to support painful ventures such as war, whereas nations that have a substantial percentage of its population in support of its government and who are in agreement on vital issues–particularly as pertains foreign threats–is a nation that is ready to march at a moment’s notice and to go the distance.

I bring this up because unfortunately there are certain individuals/groups–particularly those who have made anti-Holocaustianity something of a religious crusade–who were screaming like stuck pigs when Putin refused to jump on the same bandwagon by denying the holocaust, praising Hitler and condemning his own nation’s activities during and after WWII, an event which the Russians to this day still refer to as the ‘Great Patriotic War’. Had he gone down the road, the inevitable results would have been clear–instead of a sizable portion of the Russian polity united around their government, the usual suspects would have used Putin’s statements as a means by which to divide and fracture the Russian state, thus making it less likely to resist Zionist/Western imperialism and aggression.

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