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In reply to the discussion: Ukraine: Donetsk bridges blown up to halt access to rebel-held city [View all]The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)After your mash note here you have relieved any of any obligation to take you seriously
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5169424
"Putin is rough, tough, and nobody's sweet-heart...." suggests you might better focus your energies on securing a gig doing cover blurbs for 'TwiLight Romance' or some other publisher of bodice-rippers.
It calls to mind comments by Orwell on left intellectuals in his day, in particular comments contained in 'Notes on Nationalism':
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html#part30
"But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States. Moreover they do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries."
"All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty."
The maudlin hero-worship of your 'Putin is rough, tough, and nobody's sweet-heart...' fits perfectly into the mental attitude he describes.