Trump sees it too. Nothing woke survives for a minute in Russia. No trannies, no DEI, no Communism. How different would the world be today if Russia had become part of the European community, as was the promise after WWII?
Communist China experimented with western progressive values to please their ostensible fellow travelers in the west. Until they saw what those values were doing to their people:
Beijing battles 'masculinity crisis' by turning 'effeminate' men into soldiers
Yes. It is an important conversation for Americans and Europeans to have today. A conversation that Alexander Solzhenitsyn alluded to thirty years ago after the fall of the Soviet Union:
AS - “If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
PK - That is a puzzling assertion.
AS - It is puzzling only for those who don’t look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world.”
FF - To understand the history and context it’s important to read research like this paper also written shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. A discussion of the Hitler-Stalin (Molotov–Ribbentrop) Pact between Fascistic Germany and Communistic Soviets:
The Hitler-Stalin pact : discussion of the Non-Aggression Treaty and the secret protocols
The paper discusses the Hitler-Stalin act and Secret Protocols. It’s 100-pages that explores the role of propaganda, disinformation, Nazism and Marxism united against western democratic capitalism and freedom. And how the US took over Nazi Germany's role in geopolitics after the fall of Nazi Germany. Hitler’s Fascistic system was more aligned with, had more in common with the US than the USSR’s.
All is an important read, but p30, p47, p61 discusses their common foe: western liberal capitalism, how propaganda highlighting their differences was malleable for their needs. And like the Solzhenitsyn Forbes interview it also provides historic context to Russia-Ukraine conflict today.
An interesting quote by Stalin about propaganda found on p. 61:
“Don't you think that we have to pay a little more attention to public opinion in our countries? For many years now we have been pouring buckets of slop over each other's heads and our propaganda boys could never do enough in that direction; and now all of a sudden are we to make our peoples believe that all is forgotten and forgiven? Things don't work so fast. Public opinion in our country, and probably in Germany too, will have to be prepared slowly for the change in our relations this treaty is to bring about, and it will have to be made familiar with it.”
FF - It was easy for the US to take over Fascistic governance from Nazi Germany because Fascism was widely supported in the US leading up to WWII. Top industry corporatists lauded praises upon it and financed and supported the Fascist regimes in Spain, Italy and Germany. The VP of General Motors, Graeme K Howard, penned the book, "America and a New World Order." Countless moguls of American high society enthralled by the public-private partnerships between government and business. Sound familiar today?
There was no more meaningful supporter of Fascism in American history than Prescott Bush, father to George HW Bush. Granddad Prescott Bush was Hitler’s banker in WWII, a proud fascist himself.
Grandfather to George W Bush. Both Bush presidents orchestrated the transformation of US business to (Fascist) public-private partnerships and the elimination of competition with the repeal of antitrust restrictions that have created the huge multinational conglomerates outsourcing most all production to China, eliminating real consumer choice in order to streamline production and distribution channels.
After father Prescott Bush supported Hitler’s Fascist regime, son George H W Bush Bush 41 was recognized by the CCP in China as their greatest US ally, ever! Next Gen Hitler-Stalin Pact?:
Both Fascism and Marxism have always viewed western democratic liberal capitalism as their shared enemy to be defeated, both have acknowledged systems of totalitarian, authoritarian governance is incompatible with individual liberty and freedom.
Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden declared Patriots are “deplorable bitter clingers” to be treated as “domestic terrorists.” 9-11 served to install the Patriot Act surveillance system to criminalize Patriots, not protect us. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan used to train our own military to repress domestic rebellion.
Now do you see why Trump and MAGA is treated like they are by R’s and D’s alike? Freedom lovers across the world, Europe treated the same? With Global Big Media, Big Tech, Big Corporate, Big Pharma in alignment.
The masses waking up to these historical facts that transcend to the present is essential. Perhaps Putin’s Russia is an ally as Solzhenitsyn offered. Perhaps not. But the challenges freedom faces from the global assault it is under are only going to be met by global resistance; there is literally nowhere left to go.
That sounds far better than Russia out of Ukraine which I constantly see and hear everywhere! The US is still plotting the strategically defeat of Russia…they been for a long time now.
Great post, thanks for sharing it. I am a subscriber to your Substack. Please take a look at a couple of posts that I wrote about the Russia Ukraine war; I blame NATO for it and provide reasons for that.
I don’t find your question to be provocative at all. I think the globalists within NATO and the EU hate Putin as much for being conservative socially as anything. The reality is NATO is an organization that is full of leaders with anti-democratic and globalist intentions, Starmer and macron come to mind. Depending on who the president is in the United States, you can add the United States to that. It just depends on who’s president.
The best thing that could happen in the interest of peace, prosperity, and liberty in the world would be for the United States and Russia to normalize relations. And with the obvious censorship from globalists against conservatives and Christians, along with mass migration and lawfare against anti globalist candidates who have any chance of winning an election, NATO has been hijacked by globalists. With the current president, I don’t understand the benefit for the United States to remain in NATO. The United States should give NATO an ultimatum: stop the censorship against conservatives and Christians, and stop the lawfare against anti globalist candidates. Failure to do so immediately, we’re out of here.
I imagine I have had the same thoughts on Russia as long as you have. Putin has more credibility than Bush, Clinton, Bush Obama and Biden, by far. Trump needs to quit grandstanding and work a deal with Putin that normalizes Russian and American relations, trade and security.
Trump also needs to stop with his Starmer-style hate speech enforcement; we had quite enough of that from Biden and the anti-Trump establishment. It's embarrassing to see six or eight masked federal enforcers drag a woman off the street for having co-written an editorial.
Huh? Not sure where you are getting your news. You might want to change the channel for a week or two to readjust reality. You might be the victim of left wing propaganda.
Ron Unz, Judge Napolitano, Jeffrey Sachs, and Professor Mearsheimer would be surprised to learn they are leftists. However, I'd say U.S. higher education was destroyed long before last few months.
Thank you for confirming my observation. You may want to consider other sources, at least for a month or two, to see if you understand other viewpoints. The Unz article was so biased and misleading as to elicit a guffaw. It was not accurate. It was propaganda. I must in all fairness accept that you are a caring person who seeks to promote honest relationships with integrity. With that in mind, I simply suggest you may want to consider other viewpoints rather than engaging in false attributions due to biased media.
"college students arrested merely for writing campus newspaper op-eds advocating peaceful and perfectly legal positions" - the entire article is an example of half truths and omissions. It could even be called misleading and untrue.
Like the 'mostly peaceful' protests of those screaming "death to Israel" and "death to America" along with taking over campus buildings, damaging property and threatening and intimidating Jewish students, while wearing masks and obscuring their faces and waving flags of other countries, conscious demands that those foreigners fomenting such should be escorted from educational campuses and removed from our shores wherever possible. Just like those actions were glossed over in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, I seriously doubt that the two women mentioned in the article were 'just writing articles for their campus newspapers'. You want to be a masked terrorist? Then go back to your own country and do it on your own shores - not on ours.
If you are here for and have a Visa to attend or instruct at a school, then do that and stay out of trouble - if you are here to agitate and attack and stir unrest, leave now or just don't bother coming here. A Visa is not a right, it is a permission that can be taken away when abused. They abused our hospitality.
CBS as unbiased media? "Violence breaks out at some pro-Palestinian campus protests" sounds a lot like "violence breaks out following Trump rally" in 2016, a headline concealing that Antifa thugs had attacked people leaving a Trump rally. But anyone occupying a university or private space, or any outsiders attacking the occupiers with potentially deadly violence, should be arrested for trespassing or assault rather than for thought crimes. "I seriously doubt that the two women mentioned in the article were 'just writing articles for their campus newspapers'"--then Rubio, et al, should announce the alleged crimes rather than abducting people off the street and then saying their crime was offending a U.S. ally.
Good idea possibly, Trump really really needs GOD - As do we all, to enlighten us and direct us! Every human will give account on day before the creator of ALL MATTER!
Roman culture. The pope recently said, "all religions lead to one god" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsD2mN2oFl0... not what Jesus taught -- John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Pope Francis is wrong both on anthropological and theological grounds: The former because it is evident that there are polytheistic religions such as Shinto and Hinduism that have multiple “gods” and even multiple rival cults but no single supreme deity. The latter because the mere fact that Islam claims to worship one god does not in itself mean that they worship the same God of Christianity. In I Kings chapter 18 it seems that some Israelites were believing and Baal and YHWH we’re just different names for the same deity but in that chapter the prophet Elijah explicitly denied that Baal was identical with the one true God.
Still time for AMERICANS to really- really turn away from self love, self pampering, self promoting-self whatever, acknowledge truth of creation! Nuclear science acknowledges, matter is composed of energy exhibiting as waves or particles! Apostle Paul, the Jesus- re-educated Saul, informs us- JESUS IS before all things- and HE holds all things (matter) together. A radio preacher, passed on now I listened to loved to say, every atom is composed of mostly space, relative to the size of its structural components. Every one, wake up- make a decision, for your own sake and those you love, sincerely-humbly-simply, ask Jesus Christ to show you His truth!
A good part of my military career was during the Cold War where the Russians were always the bad guys. Given the impression that they were a bunch of uneducated Huns.
Image my surprise on my first trip to St. Petersburg (Leningrad). The art, music, and culture, astounded me. The Hermitage museum was breathtaking. First time I saw "Swan Lake" was with the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg. Visited Catherine's Palace a short distance outside of the city and was amazed by the beauty. There were black-and-white photos around the museum of the damage caused by the Nazis upon retreating. And to fully understand St. Petersburg, and Putin, you must learn that the city was surrounded for 900 days by the Nazis. Not sure if there is even an accurate death toll of how many perished.
One thing that must never be forgotten, Russians love their country and will fight to the death to protect it.
The symphony from St Petersburg performed in Seattle many years ago. I recall being struck to see the musicians when they came onto the stage: they looked exactly like us.
Interesting that this was the perspective you had in the military. Although many people have forgotten, the official foreign policy viewpoint was that the Russian people were good and only their government was bad – – which formed the basis, beginning with radio for Europe and radio liberty, many many cultural exchanges, then the CSCE process for welcoming Jewish immigrants and working on mutual trust of institutions together, etc.— for the official position. The Russophobia in American institutions got very out of hand in the last 20 years and was quite at odds with previous George Kennan- inspired policies.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian young men were, and are, being culled just so that the laundromat of Ukrainian corrupt politics could recycle American taxpayer dollars into the pockets of globalist elitists.
Dear John Leake— I appreciate this post. I don't know enough about contemporary Russia to serve up an informed opinion, but I do know this: the people running the US government for the past many years have pretty much driven us into a ditch. Back when, I studied foreign relations and history, and a bit late in the game— 2006— I grokked it that the US government was selling us all nothing but a gold-sprayed pile of bull-crap. The ones who benefitted from US foreign adventures such as Iraq, Afghantistan, and more recently, Ukraine, are the careerists within the bureaucracies (the blobistas, let's call them), the contractors (suppliers of everything from consulting services to socks), and those politicians who figured out how to make it work to line their own pockets and finance their own machines of political power.
The brick wall of Reality seems to be upon us. I'm living in a blue scene and people seem to be losing their minds over the BOM (that's the Bad Orange Man). They've also taken a staggering number of the gene jabs and now they're wondering why they're dealing with so many health issues and attending so many funerals. Not unrelatedly, not one of them has said anything about Ukraine that, to me, makes a lick of sense.
"It's about democracy" they insanely claim about a country with an unelected leader who bans opposition parties, bans religions, tortures journalists to death, and who can't say where all the money went apart from his many mansions.
Are WE the baddies? It’s looking more likely every day. That said, much like most people living most places, the people who inhabit this great nation are not the baddies; the folks actually running the show? An accounting must be done. Changes need to be made. Unless and until the deep state ghouls are scattered to the winds we probably will continue our evil ways. Despite at least 60% of us deeply despising its actions.
Thank you for eloquently stating what I've been thinking for a while. The same folks who think Trump is wrong about America First also criticize Putin for putting Russia First. The more I learn, the less blindly supportive of our behavior.
While Europe is losing its mind and any semblance of the freedom for its citizens that its brilliant 18th century Enlightenment figures bequeathed to the West, Russia is stable and sane. Perhaps, then, it is true that Russia has inherited the legacy of the West.
Great question. The War Street Journal recently ran a piece titled something like "Why does MAGA hate Europe?" This immediately raised for me the corresponding questions: (1) why does Europe hate Western civilization?; (2) why do pathetic European "leaders" hate Europeans?; (3) why does the Pope hate Christianity?; and (4) why do billionaires hate peace, freedom, and free markets?
As George Washington said in his farewell address, the US should neither favor nor disfavor any foreign countries. In either case, US foreign policy becomes a “slave” to any country we favor or disfavor. Current Russophobia is a disaster created by the military-industrial-intelligence complex for the purpose of creating conflict. As John implies with his question, Russian culture is now more consistent with the values of Western Civilization than most of Europe. Any purpose NATO may have had at one time was abrogated in 1991, and it should have been dissolved then.
America needs to make peace with Russia. Russians have legitimate security concerns. This war should never have occurred, but here are too many wealthy interests that do not want this to happen. It is so sad our political system has been bought out... We would all prosper if there was peace and we could engage in win-win commercial endeavors. Bullying is simply bad karma.
Putin does not muddy the waters of what is going on. He is a genuinely straight shooter who states everything as he sees it. If our own politicians were more open and honest we would probably have peace. Unfortunately I believe most if not all of our Western politicians are under financial or outright blackmail obligations to the military industrial complex. This is why they hate and fear Putin. They cannot survive his honesty and integrity and they know it.
Europe is run from Brussels.
I, for one, am rootin’ for Putin.
US Out Of Ukraine!
Trump sees it too. Nothing woke survives for a minute in Russia. No trannies, no DEI, no Communism. How different would the world be today if Russia had become part of the European community, as was the promise after WWII?
Communist China experimented with western progressive values to please their ostensible fellow travelers in the west. Until they saw what those values were doing to their people:
Beijing battles 'masculinity crisis' by turning 'effeminate' men into soldiers
https://central.asia-news.com/en_GB/articles/cnmi_ca/features/2022/01/05/feature-01 [FF Note: This is a Russian news source, they get it]
A ‘Masculinity Crisis’? China Says the Boys Are Not All Right
New York Times, February 5, 2021
https://archive.ph/tLJWv
China promotes education drive to make boys more 'manly'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55926248
China calls for boycott of ‘overly entertaining’ entertainers and ‘sissy idols’ in continued purge of popular culture industry
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3147354/china-calls-boycott-overly-entertaining
Three hours a week: Play time's over for China's young video gamers
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-rolls-out-new-rules-minors-online-gaming-xinhua-2021-08-30/
China Bans ‘Sissy,’ ‘Girlie’ Men From TV
https://web.archive.org/web/20210905024220/https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-bans-sissy-girlie-men-from-tv
While America Gets Woke, China Cracks Down on Toxic Celebrities, “Girly Men,” and Video Games
https://revolver.news/2021/09/america-gets-woke-china-cracks-down-on-sissy-celebs/
Yes. It is an important conversation for Americans and Europeans to have today. A conversation that Alexander Solzhenitsyn alluded to thirty years ago after the fall of the Soviet Union:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn On The New Russia
Forbes, May 9, 1994 (Reprint August 5, 2008)
https://www.forbes.com/2008/08/05/solzhenitsyn-forbes-interview-oped-cx_pm_0804russia.html?sh=32bd7eef5f53
AS - “If one looks far into the future, one can foresee in the 21st century such a time when the U.S. together with Europe will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
PK - That is a puzzling assertion.
AS - It is puzzling only for those who don’t look into the future and do not see what kind of new powers are arising in the world.”
FF - To understand the history and context it’s important to read research like this paper also written shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. A discussion of the Hitler-Stalin (Molotov–Ribbentrop) Pact between Fascistic Germany and Communistic Soviets:
The Hitler-Stalin pact : discussion of the Non-Aggression Treaty and the secret protocols
January, 1992
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234008336_The_Hitler-Stalin_pact_discussion_of_the_Non-Aggression_Treaty_and_the_secret_protocols
The paper discusses the Hitler-Stalin act and Secret Protocols. It’s 100-pages that explores the role of propaganda, disinformation, Nazism and Marxism united against western democratic capitalism and freedom. And how the US took over Nazi Germany's role in geopolitics after the fall of Nazi Germany. Hitler’s Fascistic system was more aligned with, had more in common with the US than the USSR’s.
All is an important read, but p30, p47, p61 discusses their common foe: western liberal capitalism, how propaganda highlighting their differences was malleable for their needs. And like the Solzhenitsyn Forbes interview it also provides historic context to Russia-Ukraine conflict today.
An interesting quote by Stalin about propaganda found on p. 61:
“Don't you think that we have to pay a little more attention to public opinion in our countries? For many years now we have been pouring buckets of slop over each other's heads and our propaganda boys could never do enough in that direction; and now all of a sudden are we to make our peoples believe that all is forgotten and forgiven? Things don't work so fast. Public opinion in our country, and probably in Germany too, will have to be prepared slowly for the change in our relations this treaty is to bring about, and it will have to be made familiar with it.”
FF - It was easy for the US to take over Fascistic governance from Nazi Germany because Fascism was widely supported in the US leading up to WWII. Top industry corporatists lauded praises upon it and financed and supported the Fascist regimes in Spain, Italy and Germany. The VP of General Motors, Graeme K Howard, penned the book, "America and a New World Order." Countless moguls of American high society enthralled by the public-private partnerships between government and business. Sound familiar today?
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/war/american_supporters_of_the_europ.htm
There was no more meaningful supporter of Fascism in American history than Prescott Bush, father to George HW Bush. Granddad Prescott Bush was Hitler’s banker in WWII, a proud fascist himself.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Grandfather to George W Bush. Both Bush presidents orchestrated the transformation of US business to (Fascist) public-private partnerships and the elimination of competition with the repeal of antitrust restrictions that have created the huge multinational conglomerates outsourcing most all production to China, eliminating real consumer choice in order to streamline production and distribution channels.
After father Prescott Bush supported Hitler’s Fascist regime, son George H W Bush Bush 41 was recognized by the CCP in China as their greatest US ally, ever! Next Gen Hitler-Stalin Pact?:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/01/asia/george-h-w-bush-china-intl/index.html
Both Fascism and Marxism have always viewed western democratic liberal capitalism as their shared enemy to be defeated, both have acknowledged systems of totalitarian, authoritarian governance is incompatible with individual liberty and freedom.
Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden declared Patriots are “deplorable bitter clingers” to be treated as “domestic terrorists.” 9-11 served to install the Patriot Act surveillance system to criminalize Patriots, not protect us. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan used to train our own military to repress domestic rebellion.
Now do you see why Trump and MAGA is treated like they are by R’s and D’s alike? Freedom lovers across the world, Europe treated the same? With Global Big Media, Big Tech, Big Corporate, Big Pharma in alignment.
The masses waking up to these historical facts that transcend to the present is essential. Perhaps Putin’s Russia is an ally as Solzhenitsyn offered. Perhaps not. But the challenges freedom faces from the global assault it is under are only going to be met by global resistance; there is literally nowhere left to go.
That sounds far better than Russia out of Ukraine which I constantly see and hear everywhere! The US is still plotting the strategically defeat of Russia…they been for a long time now.
"Europe is run from Brussels."
I would argue that Brussels is run from Washington, D.C.
The Deep State part at least.
Really hard to put current Israel into completely accurate perspective, sometimes. GIVE Thanks for JESUS the CHRIST- WILL sort it all out!
Agree with Jesus sorting things out.
Jesus identified Satan as the ruler (I call him the small r ruler) of this world for now. Is there any doubt?
no that is from Israel.
Yes, that is what I meant.
Yes, out--and not another penny.
Great post, thanks for sharing it. I am a subscriber to your Substack. Please take a look at a couple of posts that I wrote about the Russia Ukraine war; I blame NATO for it and provide reasons for that.
I don’t find your question to be provocative at all. I think the globalists within NATO and the EU hate Putin as much for being conservative socially as anything. The reality is NATO is an organization that is full of leaders with anti-democratic and globalist intentions, Starmer and macron come to mind. Depending on who the president is in the United States, you can add the United States to that. It just depends on who’s president.
The best thing that could happen in the interest of peace, prosperity, and liberty in the world would be for the United States and Russia to normalize relations. And with the obvious censorship from globalists against conservatives and Christians, along with mass migration and lawfare against anti globalist candidates who have any chance of winning an election, NATO has been hijacked by globalists. With the current president, I don’t understand the benefit for the United States to remain in NATO. The United States should give NATO an ultimatum: stop the censorship against conservatives and Christians, and stop the lawfare against anti globalist candidates. Failure to do so immediately, we’re out of here.
I imagine I have had the same thoughts on Russia as long as you have. Putin has more credibility than Bush, Clinton, Bush Obama and Biden, by far. Trump needs to quit grandstanding and work a deal with Putin that normalizes Russian and American relations, trade and security.
Trump also needs to stop with his Starmer-style hate speech enforcement; we had quite enough of that from Biden and the anti-Trump establishment. It's embarrassing to see six or eight masked federal enforcers drag a woman off the street for having co-written an editorial.
Huh? Not sure where you are getting your news. You might want to change the channel for a week or two to readjust reality. You might be the victim of left wing propaganda.
Video here:
https://www.unz.com/runz/the-zionist-destruction-of-american-higher-education/
Ron Unz, Judge Napolitano, Jeffrey Sachs, and Professor Mearsheimer would be surprised to learn they are leftists. However, I'd say U.S. higher education was destroyed long before last few months.
Thank you for confirming my observation. You may want to consider other sources, at least for a month or two, to see if you understand other viewpoints. The Unz article was so biased and misleading as to elicit a guffaw. It was not accurate. It was propaganda. I must in all fairness accept that you are a caring person who seeks to promote honest relationships with integrity. With that in mind, I simply suggest you may want to consider other viewpoints rather than engaging in false attributions due to biased media.
"college students arrested merely for writing campus newspaper op-eds advocating peaceful and perfectly legal positions" - the entire article is an example of half truths and omissions. It could even be called misleading and untrue.
Like the 'mostly peaceful' protests of those screaming "death to Israel" and "death to America" along with taking over campus buildings, damaging property and threatening and intimidating Jewish students, while wearing masks and obscuring their faces and waving flags of other countries, conscious demands that those foreigners fomenting such should be escorted from educational campuses and removed from our shores wherever possible. Just like those actions were glossed over in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, I seriously doubt that the two women mentioned in the article were 'just writing articles for their campus newspapers'. You want to be a masked terrorist? Then go back to your own country and do it on your own shores - not on ours.
If you are here for and have a Visa to attend or instruct at a school, then do that and stay out of trouble - if you are here to agitate and attack and stir unrest, leave now or just don't bother coming here. A Visa is not a right, it is a permission that can be taken away when abused. They abused our hospitality.
This one talks about some of the damage. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/violence-erupts-at-some-pro-palestinian-campus-protests/
CBS as unbiased media? "Violence breaks out at some pro-Palestinian campus protests" sounds a lot like "violence breaks out following Trump rally" in 2016, a headline concealing that Antifa thugs had attacked people leaving a Trump rally. But anyone occupying a university or private space, or any outsiders attacking the occupiers with potentially deadly violence, should be arrested for trespassing or assault rather than for thought crimes. "I seriously doubt that the two women mentioned in the article were 'just writing articles for their campus newspapers'"--then Rubio, et al, should announce the alleged crimes rather than abducting people off the street and then saying their crime was offending a U.S. ally.
Good idea possibly, Trump really really needs GOD - As do we all, to enlighten us and direct us! Every human will give account on day before the creator of ALL MATTER!
I sent copies of my books to Trump tower back in 2017. Never heard anything. I was hoping his son read them.
Absolutely correct! I’m pretty sure Mr. Putin is not an atheist-sure of it myself!
I believe Trump is trying to do just that... he needs a few more really good people to assist.
"Is Russia Now the Defender of Western Civilization?"
I think there is a hell of a good case to be made.
Yes, now a legitimate question, and a sad day it is too.
"Before readers respond with comments, I hope they will bear in mind that I am NOT asserting this to be true, I am merely asking the question.'
Yet it IS true.
I have said this before, Russia will be the last Western (and by extension Christian) country standing as all the rest of the West implodes.
And we are seeing the implosion with our own eyes. Slowly, but then suddenly.
But Poland, Slovakia and Hungary are also seeking to preserve their Christian culture and civilization.
Roman culture. The pope recently said, "all religions lead to one god" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsD2mN2oFl0... not what Jesus taught -- John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Pope Francis is wrong both on anthropological and theological grounds: The former because it is evident that there are polytheistic religions such as Shinto and Hinduism that have multiple “gods” and even multiple rival cults but no single supreme deity. The latter because the mere fact that Islam claims to worship one god does not in itself mean that they worship the same God of Christianity. In I Kings chapter 18 it seems that some Israelites were believing and Baal and YHWH we’re just different names for the same deity but in that chapter the prophet Elijah explicitly denied that Baal was identical with the one true God.
Poland's hate for Russia is what brought them to EU's arms. Now, they are trying to navigate their country's future path.
Still time for AMERICANS to really- really turn away from self love, self pampering, self promoting-self whatever, acknowledge truth of creation! Nuclear science acknowledges, matter is composed of energy exhibiting as waves or particles! Apostle Paul, the Jesus- re-educated Saul, informs us- JESUS IS before all things- and HE holds all things (matter) together. A radio preacher, passed on now I listened to loved to say, every atom is composed of mostly space, relative to the size of its structural components. Every one, wake up- make a decision, for your own sake and those you love, sincerely-humbly-simply, ask Jesus Christ to show you His truth!
A good part of my military career was during the Cold War where the Russians were always the bad guys. Given the impression that they were a bunch of uneducated Huns.
Image my surprise on my first trip to St. Petersburg (Leningrad). The art, music, and culture, astounded me. The Hermitage museum was breathtaking. First time I saw "Swan Lake" was with the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg. Visited Catherine's Palace a short distance outside of the city and was amazed by the beauty. There were black-and-white photos around the museum of the damage caused by the Nazis upon retreating. And to fully understand St. Petersburg, and Putin, you must learn that the city was surrounded for 900 days by the Nazis. Not sure if there is even an accurate death toll of how many perished.
One thing that must never be forgotten, Russians love their country and will fight to the death to protect it.
The symphony from St Petersburg performed in Seattle many years ago. I recall being struck to see the musicians when they came onto the stage: they looked exactly like us.
Interesting that this was the perspective you had in the military. Although many people have forgotten, the official foreign policy viewpoint was that the Russian people were good and only their government was bad – – which formed the basis, beginning with radio for Europe and radio liberty, many many cultural exchanges, then the CSCE process for welcoming Jewish immigrants and working on mutual trust of institutions together, etc.— for the official position. The Russophobia in American institutions got very out of hand in the last 20 years and was quite at odds with previous George Kennan- inspired policies.
Being in the military gives you a different perspective on everything.
As well they should!
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian young men were, and are, being culled just so that the laundromat of Ukrainian corrupt politics could recycle American taxpayer dollars into the pockets of globalist elitists.
I’m so sorry it has been true, and I’ve heard it’s been far more Satanic than you can imagine!
Dear John Leake— I appreciate this post. I don't know enough about contemporary Russia to serve up an informed opinion, but I do know this: the people running the US government for the past many years have pretty much driven us into a ditch. Back when, I studied foreign relations and history, and a bit late in the game— 2006— I grokked it that the US government was selling us all nothing but a gold-sprayed pile of bull-crap. The ones who benefitted from US foreign adventures such as Iraq, Afghantistan, and more recently, Ukraine, are the careerists within the bureaucracies (the blobistas, let's call them), the contractors (suppliers of everything from consulting services to socks), and those politicians who figured out how to make it work to line their own pockets and finance their own machines of political power.
The brick wall of Reality seems to be upon us. I'm living in a blue scene and people seem to be losing their minds over the BOM (that's the Bad Orange Man). They've also taken a staggering number of the gene jabs and now they're wondering why they're dealing with so many health issues and attending so many funerals. Not unrelatedly, not one of them has said anything about Ukraine that, to me, makes a lick of sense.
"It's about democracy" they insanely claim about a country with an unelected leader who bans opposition parties, bans religions, tortures journalists to death, and who can't say where all the money went apart from his many mansions.
EXACTLY!
ditto
Are WE the baddies? It’s looking more likely every day. That said, much like most people living most places, the people who inhabit this great nation are not the baddies; the folks actually running the show? An accounting must be done. Changes need to be made. Unless and until the deep state ghouls are scattered to the winds we probably will continue our evil ways. Despite at least 60% of us deeply despising its actions.
"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
- Pogo
https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/
Pogo! Ever-present in the comic pages on Sunday mornings :) Many years ago. We need to bring him back.
Thank you for eloquently stating what I've been thinking for a while. The same folks who think Trump is wrong about America First also criticize Putin for putting Russia First. The more I learn, the less blindly supportive of our behavior.
While Europe is losing its mind and any semblance of the freedom for its citizens that its brilliant 18th century Enlightenment figures bequeathed to the West, Russia is stable and sane. Perhaps, then, it is true that Russia has inherited the legacy of the West.
Great question. The War Street Journal recently ran a piece titled something like "Why does MAGA hate Europe?" This immediately raised for me the corresponding questions: (1) why does Europe hate Western civilization?; (2) why do pathetic European "leaders" hate Europeans?; (3) why does the Pope hate Christianity?; and (4) why do billionaires hate peace, freedom, and free markets?
I think you know why because you asked the right question
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I have no problem trusting Putin. It's the MSM that I would never trust.
"Let NO man deceive you." 1 John 3:7, Mt 24:4.
Along with higher former intelligence agency heads!
As George Washington said in his farewell address, the US should neither favor nor disfavor any foreign countries. In either case, US foreign policy becomes a “slave” to any country we favor or disfavor. Current Russophobia is a disaster created by the military-industrial-intelligence complex for the purpose of creating conflict. As John implies with his question, Russian culture is now more consistent with the values of Western Civilization than most of Europe. Any purpose NATO may have had at one time was abrogated in 1991, and it should have been dissolved then.
America needs to make peace with Russia. Russians have legitimate security concerns. This war should never have occurred, but here are too many wealthy interests that do not want this to happen. It is so sad our political system has been bought out... We would all prosper if there was peace and we could engage in win-win commercial endeavors. Bullying is simply bad karma.
Putin does not muddy the waters of what is going on. He is a genuinely straight shooter who states everything as he sees it. If our own politicians were more open and honest we would probably have peace. Unfortunately I believe most if not all of our Western politicians are under financial or outright blackmail obligations to the military industrial complex. This is why they hate and fear Putin. They cannot survive his honesty and integrity and they know it.