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“When Putin won in
2012, Russians took to the streets. Why not this time?”
I guess CIA just wasn't up to the effort.
It's just too distracted with all their many other dirty
projects interfering with other people's domestic affairs.
The fact is the 2112 demonstrations were pitifully small.
It was totally unimpressive to see that there were that
number of dissatisfied citizens in a country with a population almost three
times the size of France.
The truth is, as has been said below, that Putin is popular,
far more popular with his people than May or Trump or Macron are with theirs.
Far more.
And why shouldn't he be? He has pulled that gigantic country
from the abyss and set it on a path of pride and success. I wasn't aware
governments were ever capable of more than that.
Dissatisfied people are everywhere, including very much in
the United States and in Britain.
It would be easy for a foreign power to finance and
encourage hundreds of thousands, even millions, to demonstrate against
government in the United States.
The only reason they don't do so is intimidation and the
very real possibility of some form of retaliation from America's vast chain of
security services - 17 different ones, including FBI and CIA and NSA.
Just think of all the unhappy populations in the US.
Mexican migrants in the Southwest. Blacks in ghettos like
Detroit and New Orleans and Newark and Philadelphia. Various Arian churches and
other bizarre extremists in the far West. Gun nuts wherever who think their
rights are about to be taken. Native Americans in many states. And these would
be on top of all the regular range of political and economic discontent.
America could populate a small country with all the people
who are unhappy with its government.
I find it a rather unimaginative effort to impugn Russia
over the fact there are some unsatisfied citizens. Welcome to the real world,
the dissatisfied you have with you always to paraphrase a verse in the New
Testament.
