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Cannonpointer » 11 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

11 minutes ago

He is the embodiment of integrity - a man of preternatural charisma. He is surrounded by people who would jump in front of a bullet for him - and he remains grounded. As is Putin for Russia, he is the personifcation of the hopes of a nation - golem-like, in service of a people. He puts me in mind of the closing verses from Kipling's poem "IF" -

If you can walk with kings and keep your virtue,
Talk with crowds- not lose the common touch;
If neither foe nor loving friend can hurt you,
And all men count with you - and none too much; 

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With 60 seconds worth of distance run,
Then yours is the earth, and everything that's in it;
And which is more, you'll be a man, my son. 

Until recently, he has been on my periphery. But what he represents has been in my sharp focus. It is that focus on what he represents which has brought him to my awareness. He is one of the points of light that are responding in their proper time to what is being made available on the face of the earth by the Russians. What Russia represents is being answered in the global south with a resounding yes - and the giants that will be required to throw off the western yoke and make that "yes" stand are rising from the people, being recognized by them and surrounded/protected/supported by them. 

The west will pule about "democracy" in Africa - which has served only the subverters, the enemies, of these nations and not the people. If I vote for you and you **** me, or I get no vote but you serve me, which do you suppose I prefer? If instead of the people expressing their will through voting and their leaders subverting it, the leaders do the will of the people without the people voting, is that not to be preferred? "Let's get running water and traversable roads, reliable electicity, and a functioning, accountable bureaucracy set up - then we can focus on the political niceties that have resulted in gender confusion in the west" - what I might say if I were in their place.