(July 23, 2014 at 8:17 pm)CristW Wrote: Hello, Should USA pursue a policy to actively remove Pres. Putin? and replace him with Socialists, Communists, or Nationalists? I think it is best we promote a policy which will help the Socialistic parties within Russia(there are 3 which are listed in the Duma) and to strengthen relations with Russia and work with Russia with our space program and global foreign policy objectives.
I don't think so. An successful policy to weaken and remove Russian president necessarily grossly weakens Russia as a major independent power in Euroasia for the short to medium term. Regardless of American loathing for a Russia that does not either keel over and die immediately, or resign itself to doing American bidding while slowingly withering away, Russia has been an active, calculating, and rational independent power pursuing rational self interests. Given the track record of American bad behavior and clumsiness and lack of astuteness when it has a freehand to interfere in world events, the world would not be better off if we remove Russia as a major independent power with the will and capacity to pursue rational self-interests contraary to the desires of American ambition.
So, no, we should keep Putin because we are better off with a strong enemy that can keep our more extravagant excesses and blunders in some check.
