A quotation from Mencken, H. L.
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist [Henry Lewis Mencken]
A Little Book in C Major, ch. 5, § 22 (1916)
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I would also add that part of the reason that divides #NATO and #Russia is a fundamental different view in terms of what creates #security. So for NATO they tend to subscribe to the concept of liberal #hegemony, in which the world is divided between democracies and authoritarians, in other words between good and evil. So the more power the side of good has that is NATO vis-a-vis Russia, the more peace you will have, which is why the catch phrase is always "we need to negotiate from a position of strength", in other words #dictate. This is how you create peace: When the good guys have all the power. Now this is very different from how Russia sees the world which focuses more on the security dilemma that you have competing centers of power and they have to find ways of harmonizing their security interests.
--- Glenn Diesen on RT's CrossTalk
