Paleo-Nonsense

Patrick Buchanan asks if Vladimir Putin is one of "us."

Really.

Buchanan writes up a lot of arguments for the "yes" camp.

So is Putin one of us?

In a word, the answer is "no."

In two, "hell, no!"

In three, "are you stoned?"

In four, "in what alternate universe?"

And if you want five (expand the contraction ...), "who's this 'us,' Kemosabe?"

The sad thing is, Russia could have joined the West after they managed to wriggle free from communism.

But instead, Putin has stoked paranoia and fear to justify reimposing as much authoritarian power as he can manage and to rebuild the Soviet/Czarist empire.