Somewhere in the flame wars if this thread, which I’m guilty of and apologize to offended fellow ranters, I mentioned Tiabbi recent piece:

“ For anyone expecting me to be outraged about this — I am, after all, almost daily denounced as a Putin-lover and apologist, so surely I must want the Great Leader to stay in power forever — I have to disappoint. If Vladimir Putin were captured tomorrow and fired into space, I wouldn’t bat an eye.

I would like to point out that we already tried regime change in Russia. I remember, because I was there. And, thanks to a lot of lurid history that’s being scrubbed now with furious intensity, it ended with Vladimir Putin in power. Not as an accident, or as the face of a populist revolt against Western influence — that came later — but precisely because we made a long series of intentional decisions to help put him there.”

Putin the apostate

No love for Putin found there but brings up inconvenient history in the midst of a media fire hose of misinformation that’s been happening.

I can’t believe how many times I’ve watched this movie in my lifetime..