An acquaintance who has seen Putin almost weekly since St. Petersburg confirmed your impression. She said he's super-easy to work with, extremely polite, and very funny when strangers are absent. He's also an incredibly good judge of people. Almost supernatural, she said.
Yes, I have heard similar stories elsewhere. Oliver Stone's interviews are good to watch. You get a very good sense of the man. He's gifted. What amazes me is the lengths that the MSM will go to demonize him. Of course, they do that in China with Xi as well. I spent quite a bit of time researching is youth and background. It's fascinating. BTW, I think you are doing great work with your newsletter.
Vlademir Vlademerovich Putin learned that as a KGB Agent. What's impressive is that photo Julian put in his post. I don't know about you but I can see the goodness and humility in his young face.
I agree with everything you said about Putin. However, there's one point that always annoys me, and that's when we talk about the West when we should be talking about the Americanized world, i.e. the United States and its lackeys. As a Frenchman, nourished by French culture and civilization, I'm angry that my country agrees to be the lackey of American non-civilization, and it makes me sick to my stomach when the American Empire is equated with the West. For me, as a Frenchman, but also for most old Europeans - that is to say, Europeans with a European culture and not the American crap - the West is an old civilization which was born with the fall of the Roman Empire and which built itself up to become what we'll call Christendom, an unfinished Christendom, still to be built and which broke up with the Lutheran heresy.
Following this heresy, the West continued, year in, year out, degrading into a dubious humanism, until the so-called Enlightenment, which was in fact the beginning of Anglo-Saxon hegemony over Europe and the end of the West.
As you can see, what we now misleadingly call the West has nothing to do with what the West really was, and while it has many fine achievements to its credit - what civilization in a thousand years can claim to be perfect? - but we Europeans, and the French in particular, have much to be proud of.
And it's precisely because I'm close to this France of old Christianity, and I loathe this Americanized France, that I understand the position of Russia and its president, whom I consider to be one of the few statesmen in the world. This kind of comment earns me the right to be pilloried in my own country, but as I prefer to be alone rather than badly accompanied, I'm fine with that.
Thierry Bruno, I doubt you would have been pilloried for such opinions in De Gaulle’s France. I’m no expert on French politics and diplomacy, but it seems De Gaulle’s ideals epitomized France, as seen with his rejection of NATO among other things.
I’m an American who looked a little more deeply at France from that period owing to the anti-French attitudes of Americans, as apparently recolonized by the establishment English brain. The economic neoliberalization of France has been demoralizing to watch, even from afar.
But what do I know– I’m one of those Americans who still drives a Citroen DS so it’s unlikely I speak for the majority of anyone!
Thank you for your comment, which lets me know I've been understood. I am indeed a great reader of General de Gaulle and consider him to be the only statesman the French Republic has ever known. As much as the French monarchy produced first-rate statesmen, kings or ministers, the Republic has only produced dwarfs, with the exception of General de Gaulle. Moreover, if the events of May-June 1940 are measured against the yardstick of French history, de Gaulle appears to be the heir to our great kings, while Pétain is in the line of republican schemers. De Gaulle is the son of the French civilization built by a thousand years of monarchy, while Pétain (and all the others) are the bastards of the Republic.
You're very lucky to be driving a DS, one of the most beautiful cars in the world.
A truth article is always fun to read taking immense courage to write.
Considering what nonsense is out there.
Imagine Freud’s concept of standing outside of oneself as a “superego” . How bizarre along with the pervasive money religion of the West , the answer for all your needs.
Revolution in France doesn’t look so pleasant now so I’ll go for a modern concept like evolution as well.
Freud's notion of "superego" was a convenient metaphor for use in this article. I disagree with both Freud and Jung (collective consciousness, overmind) on a lot of things but in this respect (even as part of a flawed theory) it is a useful way of looking at Russian society, I think
When I 'retired' some decades ago, I had no idea what was next except to play more golf......wow, was I wrong!
Being of a curious mindset - I started to look into things - www.crushlimbraw.com - and the last 15-20 years has been a re-learning process because most of what I thought was true was actually bullshit and propaganda.
i bring this up because many of our commenters here seem to be where I was at that time. We don't see DaBigPicture!
First point, while we point fingers at America......America is now NOT-America!
"Global empires bleed out the foreign nations they subjugate, and eventually inflict the same fate on their citizens. As pointed out by economist Michael Hudson, the Roman Empire amassed great wealth for its oligarch and creditor/rentier classes, while the average Roman citizen lived in a state of “bread and circuses” poverty. The sun never set on the British Empire as it sucked the wealth from its vassal states, yet debtors’ prisons and workhouses abounded in Dickens’ London. The problem was so bad that economist Robert Malthus proposed using austerity to eliminate England’s “wretched class.” Sounds like Davos neoliberalism.
As the latest cosmic string iteration of empire, the United States suffers from the same pathologies as its predecessors, only more so. Once the hyper-capitalist Anglo-Saxon US republic transitioned into the hyper-capitalist US Anglo-Saxon empire (Monroe Doctrine?), Talmudic empire became possible, and later inevitable. Like Philip K. Dick repeated throughout his “Valis” novel, “The Empire Never Ended.” - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2023/07/america-first-true-global-talmudic.html?m=0
Here is a list of headnotes in DaLimbraw Library on the subject of Satan, Satanic rule etc. - BTW, DLL is approaching 10000 posts in 8 years - mostly by other writers.....I'm just DaLibrarian!
He is obviously very talented and may i call it "highly intelligent" (like i was diagnosed 63 years ago). I recognize his tendency of trusting others as he himself is trustworthy, which he indeed appears to be, so i dare to pose this question: is he in the spectrum ?
When he sits on a desk, the utensils are always neatly ordered (like my desk) he likes wearing sunglasses (against the light).
I have a LOT of sunglasses....LOL. A pentagon thinktank in 2008 submitted a report that suggested Putin "was on the spectrum" -- with Asperger's. Everyone pooh-poohed it - including the Kremlin. Around the same time, I had a few people saying the same thing about me. At that time I was doing a lot of video and writing work for the fairly conservative clients--including the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the Self Defense Forces, the Prime Minister's Office and others so I denied it. Better to be an oddball "genius" than have a mental "disorder" aka "mental illness" aka "mental sickness".
It is very clear that the US Govt didn't want to describe Putin on the autism spectrum as it might elicit sympathy for his "condition". You can see that in the case of Julian Assange also. Assange is very clearly "on the spectrum" but the US Govt went to great lengths to suggest he was pretty "normal" -- therefore fully responsible for his actions.
Interestingly enough if you look at DSM-V, "Aspergers'" no longer exists and ASD covers a huge range of "symptoms" and just about every form of cognitive divergence.
But "Autism" is NOT an illness. We are a subspecies of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
The MAIN difference (it is a spectrum still) is that we are incapable of / resistant against GROUP-THINKING.
This social tool, based on language (Labels & Concepts) with connections to group functions, in which there is always a conflict between group interest versus self-interest, has its roots in ~300.000 years of evolutionary selection in Africa, while tropical rainforest was replaced by savanna and steppe and humanoids needed longer legs and better cooperation, tools and leadership.
The mechanism by which a group completely comes to ONE opinion, eludes me.
Quite right: "Autism" is NOT an illness! That is my point. Personally, I think DSM I~V is crap and behavioral and cognitive differences are not “illnesses.
I think the recent "definition" of "ASD" proves my point.
People like us just think differently and see the world differently is all, which in Paleo times was a huge advantage since it brought with it creativity, adaptability and sociality, including empathy and altruism. That's why we replaced the Neanderthals.
Some writers suggest that 30% of small-band hunter-gatherers are "on the spectrum". Some say more.
In any case, one can argue that our genetic characteristics actually make us MORE human in terms of the egalitarian, consensual small group societies we evolved to sustain --than "normals" whose genetics favor large, hierarchical societies which effectively "dehumanize" large groups of people some that some rule and some serve.
We were healthier and happier in what Sahlins calls "the Origiinal Affluent Society.
Your comments on Group Thinking were very interesting to me. The genetic profiles of Neanderthals, and to much greater extent chimpanzees, prioritize dominance societies in which the strongest dominate and form groups to which individuals must conform. Since the climate change 10,000 years ago which resulted in human beings migrating to the fertile areas near the mouths of rivers and other places where they could fish, farm and raise animals, we have lived sedentist lives in cultures, in which group-thinking by necessity dominates.
By contrast, Paleo humans lived in reverse dominance societies, small – sometimes just 30 to 50 people –where understanding, empathy, altruism – and a good sense of humor – made a difference. Creativity and polymathy were essential to survival. And with a mobile existence and changing environment, seeing things as they were – rather than as you are told to expect – made all the difference.
Dear sir, excellent insight. If I may be bold to suggest a different terminology for ''the state'' in your article.
''...corporate sector must serve the state, rather than the other way around, and the state must serve the people...'' perhaps rephrasing ''the state'' with ''the interests of its moral society'', as ''the state'' could con-notate the interest of perhaps just a few (without naming the guilty who control ''the state''). Just a thought...
You wrote a great post but I have one quibble. Actually, to me it's a big quibble. You're way off with the picture of Jesus Christ. He's not a white European! Jesus is a brown Middle Eastern Jew.
Your description of the great Vlademir Vlademerovich Putin is superb.
Great article Crush. I hope everybody reads it. I once thought of a novel on Jesus and did a little research - nowhere near as extensive or good as yours.-- and reached similar conclusions. You do it soooooooooooooo well!
He's an ethno nationalist who has turned Russia around from being done over by the West, well more specifically by a few small power cliques from the West after the collapse of the USSR to perhaps returning the favor in the not too distant future. Sure, there was that lil Ryazan incident early on but hey as they say, eggs & omelettes.
Thank you Rohan. I don't think anyone knows about Ryazan, which happened in the chaos of the Yeltsin period. Putin was PM at the time, and Yeltsin was President. Little is known about th political maneuvering going on. Some say Yeltsin and his people had chosen Putin because they thought he was malleable. At the same time, there were nationalist groups in the security services (including FSB) who liked Putin's KGB credentials and (by standards of the time) incorruptibility. Putin would never have signed off on a bombing inside Russia -- but some in the FSB might have -- to give an extra push. The Ryazan incident took place in September. Yeltsin resigned in December.
An acquaintance who has seen Putin almost weekly since St. Petersburg confirmed your impression. She said he's super-easy to work with, extremely polite, and very funny when strangers are absent. He's also an incredibly good judge of people. Almost supernatural, she said.
Yes, I have heard similar stories elsewhere. Oliver Stone's interviews are good to watch. You get a very good sense of the man. He's gifted. What amazes me is the lengths that the MSM will go to demonize him. Of course, they do that in China with Xi as well. I spent quite a bit of time researching is youth and background. It's fascinating. BTW, I think you are doing great work with your newsletter.
Russophobia and Sinophobia are mental disorders manufactured like COVID-19 by the Propagandists of the Nazi Anglo-Zionist Empire of Lies and Hate.
Russophobia yes Sinophobia no. The Chinese do want to dominate all the world with their Marxists ways and intellectual theft.
"The Chinese do want to dominate all the world with their Marxists ways and intellectual theft. "
Oh do tell. Do you have any peer approved articles/studies to back up your childish claim?
BTW have you looked in to intellectual theft perpetrated by the CIA? The industrial spying on a grand scale over the past decades?
Time will tell. There may be 1.3 billion of them but then there's everybody else.
Thanks again Slonym.
Vlademir Vlademerovich Putin learned that as a KGB Agent. What's impressive is that photo Julian put in his post. I don't know about you but I can see the goodness and humility in his young face.
Excellent article Julian and spot on!
Thank you Laura. It was a hard article to research and write.
Not to repeat myself but you did a hell of a job!
I agree with everything you said about Putin. However, there's one point that always annoys me, and that's when we talk about the West when we should be talking about the Americanized world, i.e. the United States and its lackeys. As a Frenchman, nourished by French culture and civilization, I'm angry that my country agrees to be the lackey of American non-civilization, and it makes me sick to my stomach when the American Empire is equated with the West. For me, as a Frenchman, but also for most old Europeans - that is to say, Europeans with a European culture and not the American crap - the West is an old civilization which was born with the fall of the Roman Empire and which built itself up to become what we'll call Christendom, an unfinished Christendom, still to be built and which broke up with the Lutheran heresy.
Following this heresy, the West continued, year in, year out, degrading into a dubious humanism, until the so-called Enlightenment, which was in fact the beginning of Anglo-Saxon hegemony over Europe and the end of the West.
As you can see, what we now misleadingly call the West has nothing to do with what the West really was, and while it has many fine achievements to its credit - what civilization in a thousand years can claim to be perfect? - but we Europeans, and the French in particular, have much to be proud of.
And it's precisely because I'm close to this France of old Christianity, and I loathe this Americanized France, that I understand the position of Russia and its president, whom I consider to be one of the few statesmen in the world. This kind of comment earns me the right to be pilloried in my own country, but as I prefer to be alone rather than badly accompanied, I'm fine with that.
Thierry Bruno, I doubt you would have been pilloried for such opinions in De Gaulle’s France. I’m no expert on French politics and diplomacy, but it seems De Gaulle’s ideals epitomized France, as seen with his rejection of NATO among other things.
I’m an American who looked a little more deeply at France from that period owing to the anti-French attitudes of Americans, as apparently recolonized by the establishment English brain. The economic neoliberalization of France has been demoralizing to watch, even from afar.
But what do I know– I’m one of those Americans who still drives a Citroen DS so it’s unlikely I speak for the majority of anyone!
Thank you for your comment, which lets me know I've been understood. I am indeed a great reader of General de Gaulle and consider him to be the only statesman the French Republic has ever known. As much as the French monarchy produced first-rate statesmen, kings or ministers, the Republic has only produced dwarfs, with the exception of General de Gaulle. Moreover, if the events of May-June 1940 are measured against the yardstick of French history, de Gaulle appears to be the heir to our great kings, while Pétain is in the line of republican schemers. De Gaulle is the son of the French civilization built by a thousand years of monarchy, while Pétain (and all the others) are the bastards of the Republic.
You're very lucky to be driving a DS, one of the most beautiful cars in the world.
A truth article is always fun to read taking immense courage to write.
Considering what nonsense is out there.
Imagine Freud’s concept of standing outside of oneself as a “superego” . How bizarre along with the pervasive money religion of the West , the answer for all your needs.
Revolution in France doesn’t look so pleasant now so I’ll go for a modern concept like evolution as well.
No faking it as the West does.
Freud's notion of "superego" was a convenient metaphor for use in this article. I disagree with both Freud and Jung (collective consciousness, overmind) on a lot of things but in this respect (even as part of a flawed theory) it is a useful way of looking at Russian society, I think
When I 'retired' some decades ago, I had no idea what was next except to play more golf......wow, was I wrong!
Being of a curious mindset - I started to look into things - www.crushlimbraw.com - and the last 15-20 years has been a re-learning process because most of what I thought was true was actually bullshit and propaganda.
i bring this up because many of our commenters here seem to be where I was at that time. We don't see DaBigPicture!
First point, while we point fingers at America......America is now NOT-America!
"Global empires bleed out the foreign nations they subjugate, and eventually inflict the same fate on their citizens. As pointed out by economist Michael Hudson, the Roman Empire amassed great wealth for its oligarch and creditor/rentier classes, while the average Roman citizen lived in a state of “bread and circuses” poverty. The sun never set on the British Empire as it sucked the wealth from its vassal states, yet debtors’ prisons and workhouses abounded in Dickens’ London. The problem was so bad that economist Robert Malthus proposed using austerity to eliminate England’s “wretched class.” Sounds like Davos neoliberalism.
As the latest cosmic string iteration of empire, the United States suffers from the same pathologies as its predecessors, only more so. Once the hyper-capitalist Anglo-Saxon US republic transitioned into the hyper-capitalist US Anglo-Saxon empire (Monroe Doctrine?), Talmudic empire became possible, and later inevitable. Like Philip K. Dick repeated throughout his “Valis” novel, “The Empire Never Ended.” - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2023/07/america-first-true-global-talmudic.html?m=0
Here is a list of headnotes in DaLimbraw Library on the subject of Satan, Satanic rule etc. - BTW, DLL is approaching 10000 posts in 8 years - mostly by other writers.....I'm just DaLibrarian!
https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Satan&updated-max=2022-10-19T09:51:00-07:00&max-results=20&by-date=true&m=1
A diract entry into the subject:
https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-gap-in-understanding-world-affairs.html?m=0
As Sun Tzu said - We need to understand BOTH our enemy and ourselves to win the war!
Understanding ourselves is the hard part. And the most painful.
A great post. An article in itself. Thank you.
This is your best column .
Thank you. I agonized on this one. And am still not really satisfied.
One thing about Putin pops up often with me...
He is obviously very talented and may i call it "highly intelligent" (like i was diagnosed 63 years ago). I recognize his tendency of trusting others as he himself is trustworthy, which he indeed appears to be, so i dare to pose this question: is he in the spectrum ?
When he sits on a desk, the utensils are always neatly ordered (like my desk) he likes wearing sunglasses (against the light).
But these are just small indications...
Sander.
https://resize.indiatvnews.com/en/resize/newbucket/1200_-/2022/02/valdimir-putin-1645085603.jpg
I have a LOT of sunglasses....LOL. A pentagon thinktank in 2008 submitted a report that suggested Putin "was on the spectrum" -- with Asperger's. Everyone pooh-poohed it - including the Kremlin. Around the same time, I had a few people saying the same thing about me. At that time I was doing a lot of video and writing work for the fairly conservative clients--including the Japanese Foreign Ministry, the Self Defense Forces, the Prime Minister's Office and others so I denied it. Better to be an oddball "genius" than have a mental "disorder" aka "mental illness" aka "mental sickness".
It is very clear that the US Govt didn't want to describe Putin on the autism spectrum as it might elicit sympathy for his "condition". You can see that in the case of Julian Assange also. Assange is very clearly "on the spectrum" but the US Govt went to great lengths to suggest he was pretty "normal" -- therefore fully responsible for his actions.
Let us keep in mind that every genius in history has been somewhere "on ths spectrum" although not every neurodivergent person is a genius. As I write here: https://www.ageingyoung.com/post/creativity-turning-the-world-upside-down-and-inside-out (You'll find a lot more on this site about this).
Nowadays I have "come out" of the ASD closet.
Interestingly enough if you look at DSM-V, "Aspergers'" no longer exists and ASD covers a huge range of "symptoms" and just about every form of cognitive divergence.
Thank You Julian...
But "Autism" is NOT an illness. We are a subspecies of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
The MAIN difference (it is a spectrum still) is that we are incapable of / resistant against GROUP-THINKING.
This social tool, based on language (Labels & Concepts) with connections to group functions, in which there is always a conflict between group interest versus self-interest, has its roots in ~300.000 years of evolutionary selection in Africa, while tropical rainforest was replaced by savanna and steppe and humanoids needed longer legs and better cooperation, tools and leadership.
The mechanism by which a group completely comes to ONE opinion, eludes me.
I call it Group-Thinking.
Sander.
https://www.occupyschagen.nl/Aut/Autism-1.jpg
Quite right: "Autism" is NOT an illness! That is my point. Personally, I think DSM I~V is crap and behavioral and cognitive differences are not “illnesses.
I think the recent "definition" of "ASD" proves my point.
People like us just think differently and see the world differently is all, which in Paleo times was a huge advantage since it brought with it creativity, adaptability and sociality, including empathy and altruism. That's why we replaced the Neanderthals.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421100932.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01097-y
Some writers suggest that 30% of small-band hunter-gatherers are "on the spectrum". Some say more.
In any case, one can argue that our genetic characteristics actually make us MORE human in terms of the egalitarian, consensual small group societies we evolved to sustain --than "normals" whose genetics favor large, hierarchical societies which effectively "dehumanize" large groups of people some that some rule and some serve.
We were healthier and happier in what Sahlins calls "the Origiinal Affluent Society.
Your comments on Group Thinking were very interesting to me. The genetic profiles of Neanderthals, and to much greater extent chimpanzees, prioritize dominance societies in which the strongest dominate and form groups to which individuals must conform. Since the climate change 10,000 years ago which resulted in human beings migrating to the fertile areas near the mouths of rivers and other places where they could fish, farm and raise animals, we have lived sedentist lives in cultures, in which group-thinking by necessity dominates.
By contrast, Paleo humans lived in reverse dominance societies, small – sometimes just 30 to 50 people –where understanding, empathy, altruism – and a good sense of humor – made a difference. Creativity and polymathy were essential to survival. And with a mobile existence and changing environment, seeing things as they were – rather than as you are told to expect – made all the difference.
IMO.
Thank you, as ever for your comment.
What I see in you is creativity, polymathy and a HUGE amount of humanity. I wish there were more like you.
Dear sir, excellent insight. If I may be bold to suggest a different terminology for ''the state'' in your article.
''...corporate sector must serve the state, rather than the other way around, and the state must serve the people...'' perhaps rephrasing ''the state'' with ''the interests of its moral society'', as ''the state'' could con-notate the interest of perhaps just a few (without naming the guilty who control ''the state''). Just a thought...
That's a good idea. Thank you.
You wrote a great post but I have one quibble. Actually, to me it's a big quibble. You're way off with the picture of Jesus Christ. He's not a white European! Jesus is a brown Middle Eastern Jew.
Your description of the great Vlademir Vlademerovich Putin is superb.
Who are the jews....and who they are not? - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2021/06/who-are-jews-and-who-they-are-not.html?m=0 - I also suggest you do a deep study at CFT
Great article Crush. I hope everybody reads it. I once thought of a novel on Jesus and did a little research - nowhere near as extensive or good as yours.-- and reached similar conclusions. You do it soooooooooooooo well!
Damn, that is very interesting!
Crush, fascinating!
Thank you Slonym.
Thank You again !
I hope this will be read by many of our followers.
Sander
(Sorry we are too busy for a proper reaction, in these days of possible changes in tactics & strategies with geopolitical implications.)
See my reply above.
I like the way you added , I think.
If Freud was talking about humanity it ought to make no difference whether one is Russian or not,
I think.
I am always right -- except for the 50% I am wrong about.
He's an ethno nationalist who has turned Russia around from being done over by the West, well more specifically by a few small power cliques from the West after the collapse of the USSR to perhaps returning the favor in the not too distant future. Sure, there was that lil Ryazan incident early on but hey as they say, eggs & omelettes.
Thank you Rohan. I don't think anyone knows about Ryazan, which happened in the chaos of the Yeltsin period. Putin was PM at the time, and Yeltsin was President. Little is known about th political maneuvering going on. Some say Yeltsin and his people had chosen Putin because they thought he was malleable. At the same time, there were nationalist groups in the security services (including FSB) who liked Putin's KGB credentials and (by standards of the time) incorruptibility. Putin would never have signed off on a bombing inside Russia -- but some in the FSB might have -- to give an extra push. The Ryazan incident took place in September. Yeltsin resigned in December.
You’ve hit on it so well.
The 50% rule must be universal as in “since I own 51% or, 51% of the voters say….”
Too bad your only 49%.
Who can be wrong or argue with 50%?
LOL. Ah...the facts of life...
A meaningful yet light-hearted take on the subject - thanks.
My heart is heavy -- so I try to write light.
Or...as the Bible says: let there be light.