I don't want to get off topic here, but my point is merely this is that Putin's remark about "Anglo-Saxons" is very unusual because the term really isn't connected with any one nation state. The Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes (oh, let's not forget THE JUTES ) who settled England, came from what is today either Germany or Denmark. However, the term also was widely used in the U.S.A. where the social elites were required to be "WASPS", which is an anagram for White Anglo Saxon Protestants .Posted by Chester (here)
I'm a simple man and I thought the following - "The Anglo-Saxons, known in Old English as the “Angul-Seaxan”, shaped much of the English language, culture, and identity. Descended from a hotchpotch of Germanic peoples who migrated to parts of Britain, they inhabited and ruled territories in England and Wales for six centuries." - from herePosted by Michel Leclerc (here)
Thank you Kryztian, Bill.Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Yes, I caught that as well. (...)Posted by Kryztian (here)
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"Anglo Saxon" is a very ambiguous choice of words. It could refer to:
Of course, all of these countries are now much more multi racial and "Ango Saxon" doesn't really explain the official power structures of the government.
- Germany - where the two tribes originated
- the British Isles - where the two tribes mixed and created a language and a civilization
- the USA - where people of this descent settled, conquered and colonized the country.
As for your first identification, Kryztian (“Germany, where the two tribes originated”), I beg to differ. Certainly the two tribes, the Angli (Pope Gregorius famously said, when presented with a qood-looking fair-haired young “Anglus”: "non sunt Angli, sed angeli” ("they are not Angles but angels”)) – hardly anybody would make such a comment now I’m afraid) and the Saxones (I’m not sure about the Latin for the latter) emigrated to / invaded the Celt-inhabited British Isles. They did so both, and were later considered one group (the "Anglo-Saxons") if only because they more or less jointly pushed the Celts to the North, the West and the South West. All the Angli left Germany, but part of the Saxon tribe stayed, presumably in what is more or less "Sachsen" in Germany now.
I think that Putin used the term to say this isn't really a nation state behind the sabotage, it is a group of elites on either side of the Atlantic who are putting an agenda forward, although many of them are clearly in the City of London. The other irony here, is that this group of white elites are also pushing a neoliberal agenda to mind control us, which includes pushing the idea of multiculturalism ahead of other values such as individual liberty and freedom of speech. It is just ironic that this groups of individual who are trying to promote culture wars and are promoting a virtue signaling civilization is itself an exclusive country club of white Anglo Saxons warmongers.