{"id":251665,"date":"2022-04-01T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251665"},"modified":"2022-04-03T08:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:05:36","slug":"vladimir-zhirinovsky-and-the-art-of-political-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251665","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the Art of Political Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Bridge \u2013 Strategic Review March 31, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Zhirinovsky\u2019s last prophesy has probably perked up some ears in the Washington Beltway, Robert Bridge writes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Most people know the colorful leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) as something of a court jester who for year has got away with saying the things nobody else would dare. At the same time, however, he has a lesser known track record for predicting events, and his latest one should give the United States tremendous pause.<\/p>\n

Born in Almaty, then the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Kazakhstan, on April 25, 1946, Zhirinovsky moved to Moscow in 1964 where he went on to receive several degrees, including in law and philosophy. In 1991, he was leading founder of the LDPR, which was at the time the first accredited opposition party in the Soviet Union. Several months later, Zhirinovsky became a household name in the world of politics as he placed third in the presidential elections, having attracted over 6 million votes.<\/p>\n

Although many pages could be written about the LDPR leader\u2019s notorious tirades that have become legendary (suffice it to say that his unfiltered opinions managed to get him declared persona non grata<\/em> even in Kazakhstan, his homeland, after proposing alterations to the Russia-Kazakh border), the purpose here is to consider his predictions, some of which are startling in their accuracy.<\/p>\n

Aside from predicting in 2004 that America\u2019s next president will be a \u201cblack man and a Muslim\u201d \u2014 not too far off the mark considering that Barack Obama\u2019s middle name is \u2018Hussein\u2019 \u2014 and that an \u2018Islamic State\u2019 will soon rise up in the Middle East, Zhirinovsky also predicted a \u201crevolution\u201d for Ukraine back in 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cWherever there is a revolution, that means the leaders are idiots who don\u2019t understand anything,\u201d he remarked with his trademark blunt-force candor. \u201cUkraine too will have a revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even earlier, back in 1998, Zhirinovsky clearly foresaw the unavoidable problems that would come to haunt Russia and Ukraine, manipulated as the latter was by the Western hemisphere. This was more of an \u2018educated hunch,\u2019 but noteworthy nonetheless.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause there is no [secession] treaty between Russia and Ukraine, Kiev will never be accepted into NATO or the EU, until that time that they solve territorial questions,\u201d he said in a speech in the Duma, before adding that \u201ceverything that is happening in the Ukraine today, is done by Western powers. They\u2019re doing everything to prevent it from remaining in our alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n