(Thanks for the link, Walt.)
Very typical. They always try to confuse the conversation by accusing the enemy of what they themselves are doing. In fact, this is #9 in my 9 Lessons of Russian Propaganda.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/nine-lessons-of-russian-propaganda
If you have followed the host’s comments on this and other forums,
you can conclude that he has become iconoclastic about the Mongols.
Read his comments and quotes such as, “In Origin of Political Order (2011),
Stanford political economist Francis Fukuyama describes two and a half
generations of Mongolian/Golden Horde absolutism as setting the stage
for Russia’s further political development in specific contrast to what took
place further west where overlapping social and religious institution
moderated state power. Unlike Rome, the Russian Orthodox Church was
always “caesaropapis.”
He exhibits the parallel arguments that are offered by academia. Ridged
in opinions based on limited research about how others really functioned.
Scour the scribings on Genghis Khan and you might find other thoughts in
his empire building.
Consider this comment attributed to him: “Conquering the world on
horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.”
While his methods were brutal at that time there is a modicum or few
morsels of reason in him.
I do not have time for the next few months to analyze the facts behind
my comments here above, but challenge the better among you to find
the good in the Mongol empire as compared with the evil of Putin.
Seek and find truth…
You’ll also notice that I rarely, if ever, describe things as “good” or “evil”. I usually talk in consequentialist terms.