NEWSLINK: “Russia heading for the apocalypse? I think not” – Mark Galeotti/In Moscow’s Shadow

“Everyone who is serious about Russian studies knows about the indispensable Johnson’s Russia List, a daily mailshot of a collection of the day’s relevant English-language stories, good, bad, and sometimes ugly. I may sometimes cavil at David Johnson’s determination to include a – to me – disproportionate selection of determinedly ‘counter-mainstream’ bloggers determined to find anti-Kremlin conspiracy at every turn, but one of the List’s great virtues is precisely to puncture those comforting bubbles of consensus with which it is so easy to surround ourselves. We can be surprised. And good heavens, I was surprised by a piece in the latest, ‘Putin is Here to Stay, and the Russian State Will Die with Him,’ by one Brandon J. Weichert in the American Thinker of 8 September. I confess I don’t know Mr Weichert, nor for that matter more than the name of the American Thinker. I have no idea if it considered a purveyor of fringe nonsense or a serious intellectual powerhouse. I have my suspicious which is more likely and could go an google it, but frankly I was more fascinated – entranced – horrified by the analysis put forward. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/09/putin_is_here_to_stay_and_the_russian_state_will_die_with_him.html]

Let’s set aside the fact that if ‘Putin is Here to Stay’ then it becomes pretty irrelevant if ‘the Russian State Will Die with Him.’ Instead …”

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