[Wallace T.]

If the Communists did not still control Russia behind the scenes, why hasn't the red star been removed from the Kremlin? Why are Lenin's remains still in an honored place at Red Square? There are still monuments to Lenin throughout Russia. The Russian Army that has invaded Ukraine flies the Soviet flag on their tanks. But of course Putin occasionally darkens a church door and makes a sign of the cross. He even quotes the Bible here and there. If that makes him a Christian, then so does Biden going to Sunday Mass more consistently than Putin attends Orthodox liturgy makes the U.S. President Christian as well.

The fact is that Russia would not have engaged in their Ukrainian invasion if it were not for China having their back. With the West effectively shutting down trade with Russia, the ability of China, along with India, to buy their major exports, oil and natural gas, has financed Putin's invasion. As with North Korea, Putin could be shut down if and when Xi wants to do so.

Russia and China have been working in cooperation for several decades, militarily and economically. Both countries are working in cooperation in Latin America, in supporting Marxist tyrannies in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and are trying to expand in Peru and Brazil. A few weeks ago, a joint Russian-Chinese naval force performed maneuvers off the coast of Alaska. China's Belt and Road Initiative has been expanding throughout the world to tie Asian and African countries into the web of Chinese commerce. Recently, the Central African Republic used Russian mercenaries to suppress anti-government rebels. This nation is a former French colony, but the leadership did not use the French Foreign Legion, but the Russians, thus decoupling from the West decisively.

I detest the globalist hegemony and related subversive ideology like the Green New Deal and globohomo. That being said, the opposition of China, Russia, and Iran, and their Marxist and radical Islamic allies, are bent on world dominance as much as the Davos Group and the World Economic Forum and are less blinded by self-destructive ideology.

[Rurudyne]

I didn’t say anything positive about Putin. Really didn’t say anything positive about Russia.

I did say if Russia was still actually communist then the Democrats would love them and serve them.

As tor your “proofs”, well, we still keep the Constitution physically around even though we haven’t lived under it since the 30s.

I would go further to opine of our many monuments in DC that we didn’t need so many monuments to national glory until they had to hide that we weren’t really under lawful governance anymore. But they have multiplied them since.

Russia needs all the monuments it can get too for its own reasons, probably like borrowing mojo from what came before it. Proverbial beggers cannot be choosers.