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   Some try to say he has Aspergers and that most Eastern Orthodox leaders do.   
   Dunno, don't most leaders believe their own propaganda?   
   Isn't it the mark of a greta leader who can have an out-of-propaganda   
   experience?   
      
   I was fooled early on by him. I do wonder however, when Dubya looked into   
   Putin's soul if it freaked out his military whose heaviest income came from   
   mideast arms sales.  If you think we have a Deep State, imagine the   
   others. The Praetorian guard lives high off the hog only if RUssia is at war.   
      
   Since Bikelas (1890) showed Byzantium was the most democratic state of its   
   day, I think the entire Russian notion of autocracy came from (German)   
   Catherine's correspondence from Diderot. Russia was much more democratic   
   under Novgorod and the Romanov's were chosen by an Assembly of the Land.  The   
   Byzantine senate could impeach emperors and veto decrees. And Byzantine   
   emperors answered to "town halls" at the Hippodrome.  Modern RUssia made   
   several attempts at democracy, with Galistin's Magana Carta rejected by Anna   
   of COurland, Stolypin's post serfdom reforms, and Yeltsin. The Hofstadter   
   Mowry theory sayd American Progressives were slave owners (and in NEw York   
   State, feudal Patroons) who wanted to find clean-hands occupations in the   
   government for their progeny.  YOu can make the similar argument that Russian   
   nobles wanted to regain control of their serfs through communism.   
      
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