{"id":14987,"date":"2017-03-18T23:15:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=14987"},"modified":"2017-03-18T23:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T03:15:56","slug":"the-road-to-a-free-europe-goes-through-moscow-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/18\/the-road-to-a-free-europe-goes-through-moscow-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to a Free Europe Goes Through Moscow | POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/03\/russias-plot-against-the-west-214925\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/urlhttp3a2f2fstatic-politico-com2f4a2f962f859a3cac4b44bd14b77742a6a4042f170316-putin-getty-1160.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From James Kirchick, author of <em>The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.The West wants peace and Russia wants victory. These desires are incompatible. Those who cherish liberal democracy and wish to see it endure must accept the fact that a Russian regime is once against trying to debilitate and subvert the free world. While Russia today may not be as conventionally strong an adversary as it was during the Cold War, the threat it poses is more diffuse. Russia is as much an enemy as it was a generation ago, and we need to adopt a more hardheaded, adversarial footing and mentality to defeat it. In a globalized world where the cancerous influences of Russian money and disinformation can more easily corrupt us than when an Iron Curtain divided Europe, and where the ideological terrain is more confusing than the Cold War\u2019s rigid bipolarity, containing Russia presents different challenges than it did a generation ago, not the least of which is maintaining Western unity against a more ambiguous adversary skilled at fighting asymmetrically. We must steel ourselves once again for a generational, ideological struggle in defense of liberal values and open societies and avoid self-inflicted wounds. Never during the Cold War, for instance, was there such a traumatic break within the Western political alliance as Britain\u2019s departure from the European Union\u2014nor, for that matter, did an overtly pro-Russian leader ever capture the presidency of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/03\/russias-plot-against-the-west-214925\">The Road to a Free Europe Goes Through Moscow &#8211; POLITICO Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From James Kirchick, author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age: &#8230;.The West wants peace and Russia wants victory. These desires are incompatible. 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