“””Because our Christianity hating leaders know that steadfast Christian faith helped to bring down Communism.”””
Outside of Russia, not inside of Russia, the Christians that escaped non-Christina Russia are now in NATO.
Remember Poland and Pope John II, and Lech Walesa?
When I said steadfast Christian faith, I meant the entire Iron Curtain..... With countries like Poland leading the way. That’s part of the point I’m making. Our leaders know that Christian faith helped to bring down the Iron Curtain as a whole, and they didn’t like that.
Obviously, there are advantages to Eastern European countries aligning themselves with the European Union and the US. But it’s the Western leaders that are forcing them to make that choice between Russia or EU/US.
The question is, why did we take an adversarial stance toward Russia immediately following the fall of the USSR? Russia wanted to join NATO, and we told them to pound sand.
You’re just not seeing the bigger picture.
There were long standing hostilities between Russia and Poland, and between other Eastern European countries. But the fall of the Iron Curtain and a resurgence of Christianity could have united them.
Our leaders didn’t want that, plain and simple. So they actively scratch at the scabs of those old wounds.