Just as long as they let their hockey players stay in the NHL.
As the saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum. With the West declaring all-out war on traditional morality, it’s all too easy for the Russians to step in and pick up the mantle of the other side.
Swing and Rock did it.
Today, American music can be used only for torture of captured terrorists.
Ruskies learned the lesson well.
A succinct definition of conservative values. The EU is a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
Traditional values like pedophilia and kiddie porn?
You go Russia
Not praising Putin, but he wants to industrial. Why in the world would adopt the culture of deindustrialization? The US, the EU, these are cultures of deindustrialization and dependancy.
For all that’s made of being rich in natural resources it’s by far better to be industrialized. Take for example Germany, they can buy the low margin rail cars of oil and iron ore from Russia...turn them into BMW’s and Siemens equipment to sell in Moscow at a high margin. The is why Germany will slowly align more and more with Russia, much better trade partner than any EU state.
It’s easy to say what you aren’t.
It’s harder to say what you are.
My friend and I were looking through a very old copy of the boy scout manual yesterday.
A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.
How many kids ever get taught even what these virtues are in public school.
The media values are upside down, everything good is bad, everything bad is good.
Oh yeah and tea party people are vicious racists for wanting smaller government.
"Perhaps Russia will be the last keeper of European culture, Christian values and truly European civilisation."
"Russia is not Europe DECADENT."
The Charge of the Light Brigade: Tennyson, since the British are not European either.
Morality as an individual yearning for purity and salvation = Christianity.
Morality as a uniform top down law and weapon of the state = Stalinism.
Damn right Russia is not part of Europe, it seems to yearn for the paradise which is North Korea.
Russia is not part of european civilisation. It is a continuation of Byzantine civilization, related but distinct