Posted on 05/12/2017 6:59:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
A top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin met privately with Vice President Mike Pence Thursday morning and urged the U.S. to cooperate with Russia to combat terrorism in the Middle East.
Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Moscow, who chairs the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, spoke with Pence backstage at evangelist Franklin Graham’s Washington summit on religious violence against Christians.
“It is only one united, international anti-terrorist coalition which can combat terrorism and win,” Hilarion told TIME during an interview in a suite at the Trump International Hotel in D.C., a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. “The two countries should put these political differences aside.”
A White House spokesman confirmed Pence's meeting with Hilarion and said the cleric's comments also reflected President Trump's views. Additional religious leaders were also present backstage. Hilarion says that after talking with Pence, he feels “very positive” about the future of the relationship between the U.S. and Russia.
Last month, the White House accused the Russian government of covering up the Syrian regime’s role in a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town. In response to the attack, the U.S. launched a military strike on a Syrian airfield. Putin, who has backed Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, condemned the strike.
“The situation in Syria is indicative of the different approaches of America and Russia,” Hilarion says. “Any change of political regime could be implemented after the terrorists are expelled from the country.”
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This is it!
This is the end of Trump and Pence.
The KGB is known to use Russian clerics to steal elections.
I don’t think God died, but I worry he could get Alzheimer’s, and forget my good deeds....
The Russian Orthodox Church has a high rank sort of like a Cardinal, maybe, called a “Metropolitan”. That’s what this guy is.
It’s good of Pence to do this. But of course the Neo-McCarthyites on the left want us to think it’s a bad thing, because all Russians are evil, horrible, a greater threat than those poor misguided non-Muslims in ISIS, etc., etc. The left is so tedious.
Fixed.
LOL...Excellent.
O.M.G.!! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!
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