Sarah Palin made a major error in her comments on Hannity regarding Putin’s aggression against the Ukraine and it is a misstatement that cannot be allowed to stand uncorrected.   Well, anyone who carries the common sense gene would know that Putin doesn’t change his stripes, he hearkens back to the era of the Czars and he wants that Russian Empire to grow again. He wants to exert huge power and dominance so he has to get to those border areas and he has to capture them.    Of all historical figures Putin is channeling, it certainly isn’t the czars.  Although a nationalist and a Eurasianist, he is not a czarist.  His point of reference is the Bolsheviks -- the Marxist revolutionaries.  He is continuing their work, not the work of Nicholas and the aristocrats.  Above all, Putin is and always will be a staunch communist.  He doesn’t seek to expand Russian hegemony a la the Romanovs but, rather, as did his...(Read Full Post)