OP-ED: “The massive interest that Putin’s article evoked and its appeal to the common public instead of sulky, nerdy pundits, mean that Vladimir #Putin told the Americans as much as they felt deep in their hearts. Naturally, some of them have been irked to hear the words they expected from their own president coming from a foreign leader (“Who does he think he is to write about us?”). On the contrary, others came to realize they are an integral part of the world community that is larger than the US Empire, proving that a different opinion can yet crack the shell of American propaganda.”
The op-ed written by Russian President Putin for The New York Times has made people take a different look on America’s ‘classic democracy’. #VoR’s contributing author analyses the case of #US despocracy and Russian democracy v2.0.