I don’t know if Russia! magazine can be considered pro-Putin or Kremlin funded media…and I don’t blame KZ for wanting to make a living. I always wondered how one single person could actually find the time to do this if they weren’t getting paid, and it looks like they weren’t getting paid much…what can we say, NYC is an expensive place.
As for “Josh”, this may be Kim Zigfeld in another guise – to join the ranks of “Lenard”, “Oliver Bronson” and numerous other sock puppets used at other Russia forums and blogs.
What I do blame KZ for is making a name for her (or more likely, himself) through vicious attacks on honest people who are NOT being paid by the Kremlin to say that, democracy or no democracy, we should maybe try to get along better with Russia. After all, there’s only one country (China) that has the potential to become a genuine military competitor with the U.S., and it’s the same one that is also the most likely to covet Russian territory. And did I mention that Russia has had a real jihad problem of its own, and more natural resources than any other country in the world? Three very good reasons not to write it off just because Russia isn’t ready for liberal democracy yet, anymore than we should cut off our Iraqi allies at the knees just because they cannot institute a liberal democracy, though Kurdistan is probably the closest thing to it outside of Israel in the Middle East…
At the end of the day, what angers me the most is that there’s no substance, no real compassion on La Russophobe’s part for the Russian people. Just damn em’ all and curse the majority that supports Putin, that can’t see any better alternative out there, and declare that Russians are getting what they deserve. She even savagely attacks the Russian Orthodox Church, as if you can blame the doctor for the disease. Very Phariseeical, in my view.
