Department of “Huh?!”: How You Play Your Hand Determines What Hand You Hold Weblogging

But the very things that allow Putin to “play the great game more effectively” in foreign policy are, in domestic policy, the sources of Russia’s corruptness, unattractiveness, and weakness! Neoconservative alls for America’s foreign policy to be more like Russia’s spill over into domestic affairs and make America weaker, less attractive, and more corrupt:

Ross Douthat: The Games Putin Plays: “Which is not to say that Putin’s geopolitical approach is all folly.

On the contrary, he often plays the great game far more effectively than his European and American counterparts. But the weakness of Russia, its government’s corruption and the unattractiveness of its alleged traditionalism all combine to foreclose his grandest ambitions…