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Putin pledges to 'do everything to protect Christians in the Middle East'
Washington Examiner ^ | Oct 31 2019 | Jeffrey Cimmino

Posted on 10/31/2019 8:34:47 PM PDT by rintintin

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1 posted on 10/31/2019 8:34:47 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

What was our policy under Obama?


2 posted on 10/31/2019 8:39:56 PM PDT by Digger
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To: rintintin

Obama cared only about Muslims who were killing Christians at the time.


3 posted on 10/31/2019 8:44:41 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rintintin

Fascinating that the old commie is defending Christianity. Since when did he start caring?


4 posted on 10/31/2019 8:45:14 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests)
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To: Digger

“What was our policy under Obama?”

Or under McCain and Hillary as they worked to destroy Syria?


5 posted on 10/31/2019 8:48:02 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin; Honorary Serb; Kolokotronis

Putin is positioning himself to be the new Byzantine Emperor.

Not that I object.


6 posted on 10/31/2019 8:49:08 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: rintintin

Now we know where the Putin hate started.


7 posted on 10/31/2019 8:51:17 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: The Westerner

There is rumor GW brought him to Christ.


8 posted on 10/31/2019 8:51:55 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: The Westerner

The world has turned upside down. A former Godless Commie as the protector of oppressed and endangered Christians. Kanye becomes an evangelist.

Makes you wonder...


9 posted on 10/31/2019 8:52:04 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: rintintin

History will record that if not for Russia’s intervention against ISIS, there would be no Christians left in Syria and Iraq. Obama witnessed a genocidal slaughter and did nothing.


10 posted on 10/31/2019 8:53:06 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: The Westerner
Back in the Seventies, Alexander Solzhenitsyn spoke at Harvard and stated that if Russia wanted to be a positive force in the world, it had to have an organizing principle. Marxist Leninism was a failure and destined for the ash heap of history, so that was out. As he saw it, the only choice was a return to the Russian Orthodox faith. He also doubted that democracy would work in Russia because it was not a part of Russian cultural or political history.

At the time of the speech, Nixon asked Kissinger what it meant.

"It is a very conservative statement," answered Henry.

"More conservative than Barry Goldwater?" asked Nixon, naming his lodestar for conservatism.

"More conservative than the czars," said Kissinger.

Putin was part of a Russian nationalist movement within the KGB that took Solzhenitsyn to heart. Since achieving power, he made Solzhenitsyn required reading for high school students. He took a Russian Orthodox seminary than had been turned into government buildings by Stalin and returned it to the church. He took a basilica that Stalin had turned into a public swimming pool and rebuilt it to its original specifications at government expense.

Putin understands that Russian Orthodoxy is the only hope for holding ethnic Russia together because if it doesn't, he will be presiding over a majority Muslim nation in the not too distant future.

11 posted on 10/31/2019 8:55:53 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: rintintin

Vlad the Protector.


12 posted on 10/31/2019 8:57:27 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: bray

“Now we know where the Putin hate started.”

Bingo


13 posted on 10/31/2019 9:01:35 PM PDT by rintintin
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To: Publius

Nice way to make the old bandit come up smelling like a rose. He’s well aware of the deeply mystical Russian culture. He’s no dummy.


14 posted on 10/31/2019 9:02:54 PM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine, education and our forests)
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To: rintintin

I’ve always felt that Liberia should be turned into a homeland for African, Middle-Eastern, and Asian Christians.


15 posted on 10/31/2019 9:05:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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GW is as Christian as his old man was.

They follow the modern Whore of Babylon, globalism.


16 posted on 10/31/2019 9:05:28 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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To: The Westerner
It's not just Russian culture.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity went its own direction after the Great Schism of 1054. While Western Christianity had to cope with political and social upheaval, Eastern Christianity grew in a reasonably stable environment in Constantinople, and thus it had time to develop the mystical side of religion. All branches of Eastern Orthodoxy are heavily mystical.

17 posted on 10/31/2019 9:07:48 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: rintintin

Meanwhile the liberals in the west only care about Muslims. They LOVE that religion.


18 posted on 10/31/2019 9:10:28 PM PDT by david1292
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To: lightman
Putin is positioning himself to be the new Byzantine Emperor.

That is a very astute observation.

19 posted on 10/31/2019 9:10:58 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: rintintin

He sounds genuine in his commitment.

Syria was never anti-Christian, nor was Iraq under Saddam. Even Egypt was fairly tolerant.


20 posted on 10/31/2019 9:16:54 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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