A number of news reports have pointed out that U.S. Republicans have been less critical of Vladimir Putin than Democrats. Former President Donald Trump reportedly even called him a "genius". This has puzzled many people.
But remember what we saw in the book-length compound posting "America And The Modern World Explained By Way Of Paris" December 2015.
The modern political era began with the French Revolution. This brings about what I refer to as "The King Factor" that explains so much about relations between nations. The French Revolution resulted in the overthrow and execution of the French king and queen and the rise of Napoleon, who was the prototype military dictator. Napoleon didn't initiate the revolution but he was what ultimately arose out of it.
This brings about what I refer to as the King Question. The question is: "Is there a king, or has the king been overthrown and, if so, has the king been replaced by a military leader"?
That question reveals so much about international relations today, as described in sections 8-10 of that posting.
What happens in the world is that there are kings, and there are those who have overthrown the kings, and each side tends to stick together with it's own kind. As we saw in that posting this simple principle has an amazing ability to predict international relations.
America is actually split between the two sides. It broke away from a king but the king and queen of France, the same ones that were shortly thereafter overthrown and executed in the French Revolution, were America's first allies and the ones that helped it to gain independence. As explained in detail in that posting, America's Republicans are the continuation of the French royal Bourbon Dynasty while it's Democrats represent the post-royal side after the revolution.
This puts Donald Trump, and Republicans in general, on the king side.
The Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew the royal tsars, is very much like a replay of the French Revolution. The Romanov Dynasty of the tsars were replaced by the Communists, but now the Communists are gone and the Romanov flag again flies over Russia. This puts Vladimir Putin in the king category, alongside Donald Trump. Putin is explained near the end of section 10.
I consider this simple principle as one of the most important things that I have ever written on this blog. It explains so much about international relations.
Why are Saudi-Iranian relations so sour when they have so much in common, even though one is Sunni and the other Shiite? It is because the Saudis are ruled by a king and the Iranians by those who overthrew the king (The Shah). The two are on opposite sides of the French Revolution.
France was where Iranian dissidents often sought refuge in exile. But when the Shah, a king, was overthrown his first stop was Egypt and he never went to France. Of course not. Why would the king who had been overthrown want to go to the place that set the precedent for overthrowing the king? Instead he went to the land of the pharaohs, who are the ultimate kings.
But when Ayatollah Khomeini was in exile his case was the opposite, he was trying to overthrow the Shah. Khomeini was in exile in Turkey, then Iraq, and finally France. All of these nations were on the same side as him in that they had overthrown their kings.
Saddam Hussein surprised the world by invading neighboring Kuwait in 1990. But Saddam had replaced the overthrown king of Iraq. As a military dictator Saddam was very much in the mode of Napoleon. But Kuwait was ruled by a king, the Emir. This put the two countries on diametrically opposite sides of "The King Question". After the invasion Saddam subconsciously reminded America's Republican president of the Napoleon that had replaced the guillotined king and queen that had been America's first allies. America, closely allied with the Saudi king, went in to save the Kuwaiti king.
If you have some time to read here is a link to the original posting:
www.markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2015/12/america-and-modern-world-explained-by_12.html?m=0
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