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Putin’s New Strategy: Laying Claim to Traditional Values
WSJ ^ | 17-DEC-2022 | Yaroslav Trofimov

Posted on 12/17/2022 11:13:31 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas

Searching for allies against Ukraine, Russia now presents itself as the leader of a global culture war against moral depravity. It’s not working.

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“What is happening in the West is a suicide of civilization,” said Mr. Bout, who was traded this month for detained American basketball star Brittney Griner. “Can you imagine, in American schools they teach first-graders that there are 72 genders! Not just gays and normal people, but 72!”

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Mr. Putin’s new stress on social conservatism has already paid dividends in the U.S., where a small but outspoken minority of the Republican Party bases its opposition to aiding Ukraine, in part, on cultural objections.

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“All of this discourse is delirious for a normal person,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a Moscow-based senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment. “They lack arguments for imposing their ideology, for justifying war, which is part of that ideology, and so now they have been forced to resort to mysticism. That’s really the final stage.”

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


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KEYWORDS: notourwar; yaroslavtrofimov
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1 posted on 12/17/2022 11:13:31 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Archive version: https://archive.ph/yCsZZ


2 posted on 12/17/2022 11:13:43 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Well you gotta admit. Invading neighboring nations is pretty darn traditional.


3 posted on 12/17/2022 11:15:16 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“Putin’s New Strategy: Laying Claim to Traditional Values”

If no one else in the Western Governments gives a crap about Traditional Values, why shouldn’t Putin claim them?


4 posted on 12/17/2022 11:15:51 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Smart since western nations are promoting every perversion these days.


5 posted on 12/17/2022 11:17:22 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: BenLurkin

don’t forget destroying apartment buildings and playgrounds, persecuting minorities, and setting up torture chambers

because Russia is a “Christian country”


6 posted on 12/17/2022 11:18:13 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“Yaroslav Trofimov - Born, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR”

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

I guess the Wall Street Journal couldn’t find a ‘journalist’ from a country OTHER than Ukraine to write this article.


7 posted on 12/17/2022 11:19:19 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
No one here should be surprised you're opposing Putin's Christian beliefs given that you have repeatedly supported the LGBT agenda here.

The idea Putin is being insincere when Russia has been spending billions each year constructing churches is laughable.

8 posted on 12/17/2022 11:20:15 AM PST by Kazan
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To: BobL
RuZZia was at the vanguard of this crap.



“A drag ball in the 1920s. Photo courtesy of Irina Roldugina.The annual Side by Side Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival took place in St Petersburg from 16-25 November, and included not only feature and documentary films but public discussions as well.”
9 posted on 12/17/2022 11:20:26 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“Smart since western nations are promoting every perversion these days.”

...and then telling the Third World that they need to follow our lead, if they want US dollars.

Needless to say, the leaders of those countries are TOTALLY SICK of us, and have now moved on to China and Russia - two countries willing to do business with the Third World, WITHOUT strings.


10 posted on 12/17/2022 11:21:12 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“RuZZia was at the vanguard of this crap. “

RuZia wasn’t a country in the 1920s.


11 posted on 12/17/2022 11:22:20 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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The Ukraine has the Pope on its side.

The Pope worships Pachamama, a pagan goddess. The Pope is pro Communist. The Pope is a champion of sexual deviancy.

And the Pope supports the Kiev regime.


12 posted on 12/17/2022 11:22:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Kazan
One of your ancestors in that photo?



“Russian sailors with young men dressed in women's clothes, 1916”
13 posted on 12/17/2022 11:23:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: Kazan

“No one here should be surprised you’re opposing Putin’s Christian beliefs given that you have repeatedly supported the LGBT agenda here.”

Didn’t know that - now things are starting to make sense here.


14 posted on 12/17/2022 11:23:09 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: Kazan

When you see photos like these posted you know there the poster is getting A LOT OF HELP with his content here.


15 posted on 12/17/2022 11:24:16 AM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 11 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: BobL
“Russian "Travesti" theatre, 1910s”.




16 posted on 12/17/2022 11:25:58 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Who do you work for?


17 posted on 12/17/2022 11:38:52 AM PST by NeverCheney
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Russia needs to embrace gay marriage, transgender sexualization of children, and total financialization of their economy - or they will be destroyed.


18 posted on 12/17/2022 11:44:41 AM PST by PGR88
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To: NeverCheney

I can’t imagine anybody paying anything for the repetitive, obsessive propaganda out of SappyInTexas. He makes a fool of himself every day.


19 posted on 12/17/2022 11:46:01 AM PST by Chunga85 (An arrogant govt combined with an ignorant population is a recipe for disaster.)
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To: canuck_conservative

“Christian” doesn’t mean without sin. It means having faith.


20 posted on 12/17/2022 11:48:16 AM PST by Romulus
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