Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.

Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

When you ideology , principles and values you will live. You could have different values among people. Where you will reach that i cannot predict. According to me you are on your ways.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

There is no longer any meaning to principles and ideology. You can buy anyone. This is not the lesson on society we want to be teaching our kids.

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.

One can always compromise on strategy but never on principles.