The ugliest synergy possible in this situation would be that both McCain/Neocons and Putin/Medvedev would see an escalation of tensions between the US and Russia as helpful in the short term, say 4 months. The benefits to McCain and the neo-cons are clear. For Putin it might be beneficial for longer, I don't have a read there. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
you are the media you consume.
In wanting to be above it all, inhabiting a new politics in a new arena, he is already being portrayed with his head in the clouds, disconnected from earthly realities, as in the Jib Jab Cartoon.
Nor does it really matter how self-contradictory and self-defeating are the policies recommended by McCain. If NATIONAL SECURITY becomes the main issue, a whole lot of people will decide their vote on primal and emotional levels and go with the Old Warrior image rather than the Cool Reformer Intellectual image. That is probably the only thing that could give McCain the election. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
yeah, that 'peace dividend' just wasn't putting enough money into the right pockets...
cui bono? ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
