An amazingly insightful quote from Vladimir Putin, passed on by a friend. Can anyone in D.C., the heart of the Empire, understand that what Putin is saying here is merely straight description, that is, fact?????
“I’ll be frank with you. In the past decade or so, maybe in the last
50 years, the idea that the United States is a unique nation seems to
have taken root in the U.S. public psyche. It’s perhaps not an
absolutely groundless notion. It’s a historical phenomenon that in
250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous
nation of the world and the leader of the world. However, as a rule,
leaders do not have rights; they mostly have commitments and
obligations. When they come to think that they have rights, they tend
to lose their position and authority.”
V. Putin