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.
The eastern countries that were Christian begged to be allowed into NATO after the non-Christian Russians became too weak to keep them enslaved.
Russia is not a Christian country or a Christian people, look at Ukraine versus Russia, or look at Poland and Hungary and the others versus Russia.