PlutusKotkin's ability to read personalities is more insightful than his ability to reference points in history. This is why he's more often right than wrong in interpreting how things will evolve in current events vs. most others.
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ForeignSubstance ✅@plutus Kotkin's analysis of 'Why Russia Is Perennially A Bad Actor'.
"The sense of being a 'providential power' ... of having a special mission in the world."
"This is not unique to Russia." 😲
No kidding?!?! 😂
The essence, I would argue, the bedrock, of the claim of "American Exceptionalism".
And when did this begin in Russia?
With a "universalizing" religion. With Vladimir I, Christianizing this region during his reign.