Obama has turned Putin into the world’s most powerful leader

New York Post ^ | September 29, 2015 | Benny Avni

[lbryce]

The baton was officially transferred Monday to the world’s new sole superpower — and Vladimir Putin willingly picked it up.

President Obama (remember him?) embraced the ideals espoused by the United Nations’ founders 70 years ago: Diplomacy and “international order” will win over time, while might and force will lose.

Putin, too, appealed to UN laws (as he sees them), but he also used his speech to announce the formation of a “broad international coalition” to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq. “Similar to the anti-Hitler coalition, it could unite a broad range of forces” to fight “those who, just like the Nazis, sow evil and hatred of humankind,” he said.

And who’d lead this new coalition? Hint: Moscow has always celebrated the Allies’ World War II victory as a Russian-led fete.

Oh, and if anyone wondered which Syrian players the coalition would rely on as allies, Putin made it clear: “No one but President [Bashar al-]Assad’s armed forces and Kurd militia are fighting the Islamic State.”

[UCANSEE2]

Here are some links supplied by another poster, and his comments on your question.

Russia in Syria: Air Strikes on Homs are 'Holy War Against Terrorism' says Russian Orthodox Church

See post #5.

[UCANSEE2]

How much does Russia pay to the UN ?

[MUDDOG]

That’s how it works over there.

One monster balances out the other monsters.

The disastrous “Arab Spring” policy lost sight of that.

[ETL]

Ask our Putinistas. They might know.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Obama is not a Russian plant. If anything, he’s an al Qaeda plant. If I were to be a conspiracy theorist, I would say that a dying Osama was a gift with strings attached.

[JimSEA]

“The Russian Orthodox Church wants to take Jerusalem.”

Indeed.

[ETL]

Obama is not a Russian plant. If anything, he’s an al Qaeda plant.

Obama is an atheist, a communist. He's been surrounded since birth by people who were loyal to the Soviet Union. His childhood mentor, "Uncle Frank" (Frank Marshall Davis), was a member of the then Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA. He himself sided with the Soviets as a radical in college. As president, he has bent over backwards making Russia and the ChiComs stronger (with his missile defense and nuke deals), while slashing our own defenses.

[TheDon]

Sometimes it is the domestic enemies that do more damage than the foreign enemies.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

All liberals are Marxists. He is not unique for that. He is not in line with the current country, Russia. You talk as if that were his only evil influence in his childhood and beyond. He had a whole lot of other garbage going in, up to and including his college pothead days and his 20 year membership in the Rev. Wright “church.” The man’s brain has been a junkyard dumping ground for bad ideology his entire life.

Some of your claimed outcomes are simply not true.

We have no chance of agreeing on this subject.

[BerryDingle]

Does a wild brown bear shit in the woods?

They shit on your lawn

[ETL]

Is there any indication Putin is going after ISIS?

He needs them to exist in order to justify his expansionist actions in the Middle East.

[ETL]

You talk as if that were his only evil influence in his childhood and beyond. He had a whole lot of other garbage going in, up to and including his college pothead days and his 20 year membership in the Rev. Wright “church.”

Are you actually saying you don't know, after 7 years now, what Wright's so-called 'church' was about? Do you seriously not know by now what Liberation Theology is? That it's a communist-concocted religious movement very likely created by the KGB.

[ETL]

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190904/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.

http://web.archive.org/web/20090321190909/http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

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Liberation Theology and the KGB

Jay Richards | February 2, 2010

The presence of Marxism in liberation theology is well-known, at least to seminarians who are critical readers. Practically every seminarian reads Gustavo Gutierrez’s Theology of Liberation at some point, but most laypeople find it hard to believe that there could have been (and continues to be) a widespread attempt to hybridize Christian theology and Marxism.

Marxist regimes obviously benefitted from the spread of liberation theology in the churches. Still, I was not aware of any connections between liberation theology and communist clandestine organizations until now.

A new article by Robert D. Chapman in the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence begins to connect some dots. In “The Church in Revolution,” Chapman, “a retired operations officer in the Clandestine Services Division of the Central Intelligence Agency,” argues that the KGB infiltrated the Russian Orthodox Church through Metropolitan Nikodim, the Russian Orthodoxy’s second-ranking prelate. Nikodim was a proponent of liberation theology. Nikodim was active in the otherwise-Protestant World Council of Churches. And the WCC, of course, became an actively left-wing organization during the last half of the 20th century.

Chapman also details the growth of liberation theology in Latin America—and the Vatican’s struggles with it—and the growth of black liberation theology in the United States. Prominent proponents of the latter include James Cone and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

The arguments of liberation theologians should be challenged on their merits. The source of an argument, after all, doesn’t establish its truth or falsity. Still, it’s interesting to learn that liberation theology may have been, at least in part, a project of the KGB.

Unfortunately, this isn’t just history. Chapman concludes ominously:

"the Theology of Liberation doctrine is one of the most enduring and powerful to emerge from the KGB’s headquarters. The doctrine asks the poor and downtrodden to revolt and form a Communist government, not in the name of Marx or Lenin, but in continuing the work of Jesus Christ, a revolutionary who opposed economic and social discrimination.

A friend of mine, a head of Catholic social services in my area and formerly a priest, is a liberation theologian. He has made a number of humanitarian trips to Central America and told me, ‘‘liberation theology is alive and well.’’ The same can be said of its sibling in the United States [ie, Black Liberation Theology]."

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2010/02/liberation-theology-and-the-kgb/

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More on Liberation Theology and the Soviets
Catholic News Agency ^ | 5/15/2015 | Alejandro Bermúdez

Posted on 5/16/2015, 11:56:24 AM by observationdeck

If the Soviet bloc wasn't the mother of liberation theology, it was certainly a sinister stepmother, enlisting Catholics in a geopolitical cause and inviting them to sell their souls for funding and support.

Only the naïve can disregard the mountain of evidence connecting liberation theology with Soviet action in the region.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicnewsagency.com ...

[ETL]

Re: James Cone, founder of "Black Liberation Theology":

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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The Black church and Marxism: what do they have to say to each other
by Cone, James H. 1938- . Harrington, Michael 1928-1989

https://archive.org/details/TheBlackChurchAndMarxismWhatDoTheyHaveToSayToEachOther

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

It has Marxist leanings as does most liberal thought. That does not mean it originated with the KGB. Perhaps they saw opportunity or commonality in it. Regardless, the KGB no longer exists. Marxist ideology is unfortunately alive and well in the political left. It is a logical fallacy to conclude that because Obama is a leftist, he is pro-Russia today.

[ETL]

Regardless, the KGB no longer exists.

The modern equivalent of the KGB is the FSB.

[ETL]

It is a logical fallacy to conclude that because Obama is a leftist, he is pro-Russia today.

It is not a certainty that Russia is forever finished with communism. Because if they truly now detest it, as Putin claims in his 'warnings' to us about it, they wouldn't be propping up and/or allying with all the communist regimes they do today: ChiComs, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, other Latin American Marxist dictatorships.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Perhaps they would prefer to form alliances with and trade with us, but we have pushed them away. Is it your suggestion that they should just sit in their country (while enemy armies line their borders) and trade with no one? Even we trade with a lot of loser countries. It is sometimes just about the money and not about agreeing with their political systems.

I am not saying Russia is awesome. I am just saying they are not the Soviet Union. And under Obama, we are a long way from awesome ourselves.

[ETL]

Something to consider as at least a possibility...

Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
American Thinker ^ | January 16, 2010 | Jason McNew

In a [] 1984 book [New Lies for Old], ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted the liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. ..."

"Golitsyn's argument was that beginning in about 1960, the Soviet Union embarked on a strategy of massive long-range strategic deception which would span several decades and result in the destruction of Western capitalism and the erection of a communist world government."

"Golitsyn published his second book, The Perestroika Deception, after the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991. This book contained further analysis of the liberalization, in addition to previously classified memoranda submitted by Golitsyn to the CIA. The two books must be read together to get a complete picture of Golitsyn's thesis."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
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Link to read "New Lies for Old" online:
https://archive.org/details/GolitsynAnatoleTheNewLiesForOldOnes
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Link to read "The Perestroika Deception" online:
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TVvzZzfXiMBkMdvD