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> Putin's essay "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians": en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 (it should be obvious from the literal kremlin.r
by User23 3y ago
> Putin's essay "On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians": en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181 (it should be obvious from the literal kremlin.ru domain and the fact it's by Putin, but you want to read this one critically)
Reading this, I find myself wondering who was the last American president who might have written an analysis on this level. Carter maybe? He was always underrated. Nixon probably too. Perhaps Obama could have, but by the time he was president it was already unthinkable for a US president to do such a thing.
- watwut 3y agoIt is agood thing that US presidents don't write ahistorical self serving bs like this. Not that they would be saints, but not being Putin is a good thing.
- RobotToaster 3y agoHave you read George Bush's autobiography?
- flagrant_taco 3y agoI wonder if George Bush ever read George Bush's autobiography
- red-iron-pine 3y agoObama was the head of the Harvard Law Review before getting active in politics, and almost certainly was a decent writer. You're also assuming that Putin actually wrote this himself. I don't think it's impossible -- he was in the KGB and FSB, analysis could be something he's trained heavily in -- but if I had to bet money it's not his writing, just his byline. Furthermore, even it it was his work it missed the mark pretty hard, and a lot of dudes are dying due to terrible assumptions made about Ukraine and it's military.