I Think Puten Is Acting Out of Material and Geo Political Interests, Not on the Ideas That Dugan Has Generated and Popularized

i think there is no real clear divide between east and west, i would argue. And the ideas that you pit against each other actually flourish simultaneously and fully in both eastern and western societies of all different kinds. I also think there is a fundamental irrationalism, mystification and reaction at the core of the liberal world order as well as within every western, liberal, capitalist society on earth. So when i say it's like polarizing east versus west, i understand that if if russia has a tradition of of traditional sort of russian values, they also have individuals who want universal human rights and democracyWithin the geographical area of russia, an over-simplistic confrontation with halford