Vladimir Putin says liberalism has 'become obsolete'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force.

In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, the Russian president said “the liberal idea” had “outlived its purpose” as the public turned against immigration, open borders and multiculturalism.

Mr Putin’s evisceration of liberalism — the dominant western ideology since the end of the second world war in 1945 — chimes with anti-establishment leaders from US president Donald Trump to Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini in Italy, and the Brexit insurgency in the UK.

“[Liberals] cannot simply dictate anything to anyone just like they have been attempting to do over the recent decades,” he said.

Mr Putin branded Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to admit more than 1m refugees to Germany, mainly from war-ravaged Syria, as a “cardinal mistake”. But he praised Donald Trump for trying to stop the flow of migrants and drugs from Mexico.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vladimir-putin-says-liberalism-has-become-obsolete/ar-AADyiKu?li=BBnb7Kz

You didn't know Putin was a tea bagger did you?

[Bettie]

1. Well, there you have it then

the leader of our country says liberalism is dead.

[old guy]

2. Of course now this will become tRumps 2020 campaign slogan.

[dawg day]

3. "Liberals" means "democracy"

And Trump agrees with him, that democracy is obsolete.

We really have to defeat him soundly in 2020, and if he resists, we have to have mass protests.

[DBoon]

4. The death of constitutional democracy and open societies was touted by 20th century dictators too

A war was found to defend the liberties of Enlightenment liberalism

[Initech]

5. Putin is a dictator. Dictators don't like the opposition.

[Laffy Kat]

6. No, Old White Guys have become obsolete. nt

[Buckeyeblue]

7. No one has ever wanted to immigrate to Russia.

It's a dreadful place.

[anarch]

10. that might change, as the global temperature warms and the sea levels rise

Russia is probably going to be the breadbasket of the world in the coming century...partly why Putin publicly embraces climate change as a positive thing.

[Blue_true]

14. We will have Canada for food, as well as the Andes region.

Russia won't even influence Europe food wise if it does not cower the Baltic states and the Nordic states, that may be why Putin is trying so hard there.

Dictators come and go. Putin has to wish that whoever takes over after him will continue his actions, history has shown that to be a dicey bet.

[Buckeyeblue]

16. At this point if Putin died would Russia fall apart?

[Blue_true]

17. That is possible. He has surrounded himself with Yes people.

I would guess younger replacements won't have the hardened cold-war KGB mindset that Putin has.

[Blue_Tires]

8. Greenwald, Snowden and Tulsi Gabbard were unavailable for comment

Funny how silent Putin's cheerleaders on the Western Left have been on this story...

[Hekate]

9. Ash heap of history? We will bury you? ... Echoes of Krushchev, coming back to haunt us.

SMDH

[anarch]

11. well Putin and his mob friends do run our country now, so...

He sort of has a point.

In my opinion, neo-liberalism is dead (or on its damn way out, anyway) and people generally will have had quite enough of dictators and oligarchs in the relatively near future. I don't think it's going to be a smooth transition though...I don't see this current situation ending too well at all for anybody.

[moondust]

12. Dream on, fascist dictators.

Dream on.

[Blue_true]

13. Putin is an idiot. World history has continuously moved toward liberalization.

People like him have had brief moments in the sun, but they have always became historical footnotes.

[ProudLib72]

15. Perestroika and glasnost are dead, comrade

I will make Soviet Union great again! See, I have already taken Crimea from under your noses, and you do nothing about it. I add United States to great Soviet Union with election tampering. Is simple! Is child's play.

I say polonium the fucker! He needs to be a non-entity.

[Hortensis]

18. "Liberalism is the individual. Fascism is the state."

Benito Mussolini

Putin of course heads a variation of authoritarian government from Mussolini’s unfulfilled version. Yet the role of the people is strikingly similar under both. To serve and obey.

It’s up to each of us to decide whether we want a nation of, by and for the people as Abraham Lincoln described what our founding fathers created for us, or a nation in which the first duty of the people is to serve the state.