——they know we’ll bury them——
We, meaning America, are not really the problem and never have been. The Russian enmity towards us was not because of ourselves but because we were defending the Europeans.
The fear is far more primitive. Tens of millions of Russians were slaughtered by invading French under Napoleon and then Germany under Hitler. Both failed but the cost of the lost Russian population has never been recovered. In America, we can not begin to conceive of the loss of life the Russians suffered from Napoleon and Hitler.
If Russia more genuinely embraces Christian faith it will have fewer worries.
America has generally sought to be more friend than fiend in the world. Sometimes it bumbled. But its intentions remained as constant as they did, because they were based in a Judeo-Christian ethic.
The Orthodox form is better than nothing, but it smacks of elitism. The Protestant form is more suited to be an everyman’s faith.
In America, we can not begin to conceive of the loss of life the Russians suffered from Napoleon and Hitler.
True. The only way we would sustain loses like that would be from a nuclear attack.
Who's going to try and invade us?
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The greatest population loss was not from Napoleon and Hitler, but from Communism itself: the Red Terror, collectivization and intentional famine in 1930’s, dislocation of farmers and destruction of productive economic life. Don’t forget several aggressive wars the USSR started in Khalkhin-Gol, Finland and Poland, the last two in alliance with Hitler.
Yes, the Soviet man sees other nations as either enemies or protective buffers, never as peoples with rights.