| Title | Post Boost | Reach | Like | Comments | Shares | Clicks | Hide | Hideall | Cost | Topic |
| Trumpism - really medieval rejection of Enlightenment | 2022-10-20 | 19 | - | 1 | foreign | |||||
| Why Russians put up with Putin - | 2022-06-30 | 7 | - | foreign | ||||||
| The lesson is not lost - Russia kept nuclear weapons and | 2022-03-17 | 6 | - | foreign | ||||||
| Putin sees a great opportunity to re-establish the Soviet | 2022-01-14 | 6 | - | foreign |
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========== Trumpism - really medieval rejection of Enlightenment ideals - infected India, and now it's reinfecting America. https://apnews.com/article/religion-india-holidays-nationalism-d851b8fcabb9eb0f3946275fdf596322 Hindu nationalists are right to say that the Enlightenment is not an Indian philosophy. Indian minorities are right to say that it should be. It's the same question as in America - is America, or India, based upon a universal idea and ideal? Or based on accidents of birth and creed? #PS1foreign ===== impact 7 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-20 ratio 19 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Trumpism - really medieval rejection of Enlightenment topic foreign wordrate 0 words 68 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1783896718621506 impress 20 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/20/2022 19:10" reach 19 title "Religious polarization in India seeping into US diaspora" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1783896718621506 ========== Why Russians put up with Putin - https://theamericanscholar.org/putins-potemkin-paradise/ Political repression is constant in Russian history. But relative prosperity is new. So they vote their pocketbooks. Why Chinese put up with Xi - https://theamericanscholar.org/the-china-model/ Xi wants to export his system to the world, Putin more locally to traditional Russian spheres of influence. What they have in common with other politicians is an evolving strategy for dealing with the masses that now have near universal literacy and communication to amplify grievance and unrest, justified and not. It's all part of the democratization of technology going on in most of the world - except a few holdouts like North Korea. https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ The autocrats view the Enlightenment ideals of Western Europe and America's founders as the naive conceit of a tiny educated class. They have noticed that mass media information and disinformation can topple governments. So they are taking pains to flood the zone with THEIR disinfomation first. == It's an old Southern maxim - get there fustest with the mostest! That maximizer, Forrest, later ran the Klan, though even later he repented somewhat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest https://theamericanscholar.org/putins-potemkin-paradise/ #PS1foreign ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-06-30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Why Russians put up with Putin - topic foreign wordrate 0 words 178 epoch Lifetime ID 1698701083807737 impress 12 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/30/2022 21:06" reach 7 title "Putin’s Potemkin Paradise - The American Scholar" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1698701083807737 ========== The lesson is not lost - Russia kept nuclear weapons and is safe from attack. Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in exchange for meaningless security guarantees. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/17/cornered-putin-dangerous-ukraine-david-ignatius/ Regardless of what happens to Ukraine and Russia, ambitious dictators all over the world will rush to gain nuclear impunity - like that of North Korea. Another harsh lesson will be learned sooner or later - if there are any survivors left to remember it. #PS1foreign ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-03-17 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title The lesson is not lost - Russia kept nuclear weapons and topic foreign wordrate 0 words 72 epoch Lifetime ID 1622763358068177 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "03/17/2022 19:03" reach 6 title "Opinion | Watching Russia’s military failures is exhilarating. But a cornered Putin is dangerous." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1622763358068177 ========== Putin sees a great opportunity to re-establish the Soviet Union. https://www.arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2618716 He knows the Trumpist GOP in Congress, fresh from success convincing Manchin and Sinema to block Biden, will oppose any attempt to forcefully respond - and then blame Biden for inaction. Xi and Kim won't be far behind. And then when Trump is re-elected - with foreign help as usual - he will withdraw from NATO and the far east and leave them a free hand. #PS1foreign ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-14 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title Putin sees a great opportunity to re-establish the Soviet topic foreign wordrate 0 words 77 epoch Lifetime ID 1580289185648928 impress 7 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/14/2022 06:01" reach 6 title "Trudy Rubin: Putin wants to reestablish the Russian empire. Can NATO stop him without war?" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1580289185648928