[FreeReign]

Russia and the United States are engaged in a profound ideological confrontation—one that isn’t widely understood in Western Europe or even at the White House. It began in February a year ago. President Vladimir Putin of Russia found himself engaged in what seemed a simple defensive battle against American intervention in Ukraine. He is now under siege by the U.S. and NATO.

And I stopped reading this nonsense right there.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

People who idolize Putin and Russia as some kind of a moral utopia are idiots who probably know nothing about Russia or spoken with an average member of their degenerate population. Russia’s “moral crusade” is mostly directed outside to nationalists and right wing groups across the world, and not really something they do in their own country. It is part of Russia’s larger disinformation strategy to seduce the right wing in order to enable further Russian aggression against its neighbor. “Why should we oppose Russia’s invasion of Georgia, Ukraine, or the Baltics? Clearly he is a Christian nationalists just trying to protect his people from the globalists and homosexuals!”

Russia, in fact, not only has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, not only has rampant homosexual rape and forced prostitution in the military, all winked at by the officers; but also is a major hub for the global sex trade. Women are routinely abducted or conned in Russia and forced into sex slavery, even transported all across the world to work in brothels. In fact, the entirety of Russia is run not as a government of law and order as we know it in the West, but as a giant Mafia state. Even simple things like a license to drive cannot be done in most cases but by bribery. Businesses are encouraged to break the law, and, when successful, are subject to looting from local mafia crime lords who are also the official law enforcement and justice system.

Russia is not too far removed from Liberia or other African-states when we look at it from this angle. Even many Russians live in filthy soviet style apartment complexes, taking craps in the hallways, because most of the people there are unemployed and living off of government handouts.

[faithhopecharity]

oh my, someone other than good ol’ Pat B. is STILL talking about those nefarious “neocons”

gee, we must still be living in 2003 perhaps, or what?

[mac_truck]

We supported George W. Bush because of his generally pro-life stances, even though his neocon decision of invading Iraq, not Saudi Arabia (where the 9/11 terrorists came from), resulted in complete disaster for Christians.

Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there were over 2 million Christians. Today they number less than 300,000. Could not Bush have been concerned about the Christian fate over his invasion? Could not he have intervened to help them?

Those are very good questions.

[OK Sun]

This is a repost of William Pfaff's column--Putin and the Neo-Conservatives--and I believe it's still under copyright by the International Herald Tribune (iht.com), even though Pfaff has since died.

[OK Sun]

Reading some of the stuff on the Russian "independent" sites, you find some interesting stories: Vladimir Putin, Frontline Soldier. This one's about Putin's father during the war.

[elhombrelibre]

Putin is providing weapons, equipment, and men to fight and kill citizens of a nation Russia is officially at peace with. He's making two contradictory statements and his supporters are too. One of them is that Russia is so powerful that no nation or group of nations can stop Russia. Another is that Russia is scared of the poor (poor because of 70 years of Russian/Soviet domination) and must bully those same nations because of Russia's historic paranoia.

The article is unsophisticated sophistry for the crass Putin lovers who act like catamites in a jail.

[Gene Eric]

Good discussion...

bfl