this is pure copium and old fashioned antimodernist ranting. if it helps you sleep at night, great, but it wont work on everyone. some people dont appreciate their nation becoming north korea 2.0
I wonder what made you think that criticizing current media spectacle is synonymous with supporting anything in Russian retrograde political system going on full steam into a dead end.
The “New North Korea!” journalistic chant also explains too little. What's more important, it is a smokescreen to hide the obvious: history repeats itself. When USSR discovered oil and gas, got drunk on them, and slowly rot for two decades while madly waving guns at the other half of the world, it formed quite stable relationship with Europe. With enough “Soviets BAD!” statements “democratic West” could easily turn the blind eye to a lot of things (including deviations from global sanctions) to keep the pipelines running. Putin might not be the best James Bond, but he worked abroad and had the general idea how those deals were prepared and made. You might have noticed that fairly recently Western Europe was also ready to start using Nord Stream 2 (and give the giant middle finger to Eastern Europe because, you know, peculia non olet) despite all the pressure from US — it was the genius of Russian leadership starting Ukranian Blitzkrieg right at the same time that buried the project.
The “New North Korea!” journalistic chant also explains too little. What's more important, it is a smokescreen to hide the obvious: history repeats itself. When USSR discovered oil and gas, got drunk on them, and slowly rot for two decades while madly waving guns at the other half of the world, it formed quite stable relationship with Europe. With enough “Soviets BAD!” statements “democratic West” could easily turn the blind eye to a lot of things (including deviations from global sanctions) to keep the pipelines running. Putin might not be the best James Bond, but he worked abroad and had the general idea how those deals were prepared and made. You might have noticed that fairly recently Western Europe was also ready to start using Nord Stream 2 (and give the giant middle finger to Eastern Europe because, you know, peculia non olet) despite all the pressure from US — it was the genius of Russian leadership starting Ukranian Blitzkrieg right at the same time that buried the project.