by Victoria Nikiforova
[RIA] The US election race has taken an unexpected turn. Americans are tired of arguing who is worse: Biden or Trump. “Many citizens of our country,” states The American Thinker, “wanted to see a man like Putin in the place of the leader.”
A respectable Internet resource notes that the popularity of the Russian president is growing among ordinary Americans, despite all the Russophobic propaganda: “Behind all his ostentatious militancy, Americans are beginning to see in Putin a person and a leader who cares about his country and his people much more diligently than our authorities care about about Us".
Okay, American Thinker is a conservative publication. But the most liberal British Guardian is forced to admit the same thing. At the just-concluded Conference of Conservative Political Actions, the Americans constantly pitted Putin against Biden, scolded the "warmongers" from the Democratic Party and demanded to stop the supply of weapons and cash injections to Ukraine.
"I like Putin," a conference participant told The Guardian. "I think he has courage and he cares about his country."
Why do they suddenly have such love for the Russian leader? Our man in this immediately seems to be some kind of ambush. We remember only too well how shamelessly flattering the Soviet leaders were in the American media during the years when they were tearing apart the Soviet Union.
Today, however, the opposite is true. In the official Anglo-Saxon media, Putin is still portrayed as "Doctor Evil". But the masses in the United States are much more difficult about it. The explosion of American love for the Russian president was provoked, paradoxically, by his extremely tough stance towards Russia's enemies.
A week ago, Russia's decision to suspend participation in the treaty on the limitation of strategic nuclear weapons was officially communicated to the American partners. It gave the impression of an exploding bomb. Our strategic opponents do not yet have an answer to this move.
But they very quickly realized that the warnings of the Russian leadership were by no means a bluff. In the past, some "experts" argued that Russia's statements should not be taken into account. Today, such "experts" are branded for adventurism by their own colleagues.
And now the broad masses of the United States are faced with an interesting dilemma. The head of the country - their strategic enemy frankly warns the White House not to interfere in the Ukrainian conflict, otherwise it could lead to a nuclear war. That is, Putin is showing responsibility and concern for the fate of millions of people.
At the same time, their own leader continues to stubbornly interfere with Ukraine, spitting on the fact that millions of ordinary Americans will have to pay for his adventures. The owner of the White House is ready to throw the people of the United States into radioactive hell, while he and his son will sit out in a bunker.
Yes, Zelensky jumped out very inopportunely with a promise that the Americans would have to send their sons and daughters "to die for Ukraine." And Joe Biden didn't even stop him.
Ordinary Americans - those who do not have the money to buy a bunker or go to New Zealand - see that only the Russian president cares about their future, like the future of the whole world. While their own leaders, incomprehensibly how they got into power, are ready to push all of humanity into the mouth of a nuclear war. Naturally, Americans speak in social networks in the style of "we want someone like Putin."
There is another important factor. Russia's decision to withdraw from START has led to a sharp increase in queries in American search engines on the topic "how many strategic missiles does Russia have" and "how fast will Russian missiles reach the United States." Along with this, millions of Americans came to the realization that they were opposing a power of equal strength.
Prior to that, they fought only with non-nuclear countries with a frail army and corrupt elites. They didn’t perceive the inhabitants of these countries as people at all - just like colonial animals, chirping something to themselves.
Representatives of a country of equal strength have a completely different attitude. All colonial calls about the "mysteriousness" of Russia and the secret of the Russian soul ended instantly. The Americans saw us as equal opponents, which means they managed to take our place and recognize that we can have our own interests.
For decades, our liberals have been whining about the fact that Russia's militancy could quarrel it with all countries. In fact, it works quite the opposite. A convincing demonstration of strength inspires respect, after respect comes the recognition of interests, and then "peace, friendship, chewing gum" may well arise. Only in this order - nothing else.
Astounded observers saw the most radical example of such a degeneration of hatred into love in post-war Japan . The inhuman destruction of Hiroshima , Nagasaki , Tokyo led, paradoxically, not to guerrilla warfare, but to hysterical admiration for America . Konstantin Simonov has very vivid memories of this phenomenon - he was in Japan immediately after the war.
There is no need for Russia to behave as brutally as America. It was enough for us to simply announce the suspension of our participation in START. And now, despite all the lies of the official media, the broad American masses are imbued with warm feelings for President Putin. And the Newsmax channel reprints Dmitry Medvedev's post on the suspension of Russian participation in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) on its website . There is no criticism in this publication - journalists simply cite the words of the ex-president of Russia that "we have the right to defend ourselves with all types of weapons, including nuclear ones."
