Joachim Hagopian, Putin’s Valdai Speech Deconstructed: A Rational Mind Amidst an Insane, Irrational World

Joachim Hagopian On Thursday October 27th, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the annual Valdai Discussion Club. With an RT headline reading “’No one can sit out the coming storm’: Putin’s milestone Valdai speech,” the article lists the important takeaways followed by the key Putin quotes in italics. This presentation offers my commentary after each of the seven takeaway points. During these harrowing moments when nuclear Armageddon appears closer today than any previous time in history, including the October Missile Crisis of 1962. Then when Premier Nikita Khrushchev was confronted by American President…

Bougiecrats are headed for a fall-of-communism-style collapse

Toby Rogers Sensing defeat they are lashing out in all sorts of weird ways Background and context As far back as 2001, Democratic stalwarts John Judis and Ruy Teixeira began making the case, to anyone who would listen, that demographic trends in the U.S. (e.g. immigration and higher birthrates in the Latino population) would lead to a semi-permanent Democratic majority in government. Their book, The Emerging Democratic Majority created a cottage industry of pollsters and political scientists who showed, with fancy charts and graphs, how Democrats, particularly Progressive Democrats, were about to be in…