Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Iraq and Afghanistan will, over time, become stable. But the War on Terror will continue long after Iraq and Afghanistan have had success in standing up their own governments.
In my view, stability only comes with a government that is elected by the people and works for the people.
There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
Putin and many of his gang may have once been Communists, but they are not that today. Rather, they have embraced a new totalitarian political ideology known as 'Eurasianism.'
Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
Russia is classic fascism.
Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.