... and never was "political adviser" to Vladimir Putin. He is mentally deranged boy from Soviet nomenklatura with zero military experience, let alone in nuclear weapons and everything he spews is the result of his deranged mind. Utterly militarily incompetent. He is a sort of a demagogue akin to Dugin--same origin in privileged Soviet nomenklatura class, same useless "edukeishn" in bullshit such as "political science" et al, same set of connections in Moscow's "elite". I have news--Russia IS NOT going to be using nuclear weapons on anyone unless it meets criteria prescribed in Russian Military Doctrine and Nuclear Policy. Karaganov knows NOTHING about military but he rubs shoulders with some generals and admirals. He mistook it for professionalism.
I want to remind, Tucker, something about the likes of Karaganov by Hofstadter.
. . . the complexity of modern life has steadily whittled away the functions the ordinary citizen can intelligently and comprehendingly perform for himself. In the original American populistic dream, the omnicompetence of the common man was fundamental and indispensable. It was believed that he could, without much special preparation, pursue the professions and run the government. Today he knows that he cannot even make his breakfast without using devices, more or less mysterious to him, which expertise has put at his disposal; and when he sits down to breakfast and looks at his morning newspaper, he reads about a whole range of vital and intricate issues and acknowledges, if he is candid with himself, that he has not acquired competence to judge most of them.
The whole class of journos, political "scientists", sociologists, historians and "economists" has been exposed as people with primarily fraudulent backgrounds who cannot grasp the events of today and nutjobs like Karaganov are driven by ambition and ... ignorance aptly mixed with lies. But then again, every village needs its own corps of idiots.
