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I would advise you first to research J.R. Nyquist's blog. Nyquist is a long time student of Communist activities. Back in the 1980s, there were several Soviet Bloc defectors who pointed out that the Communists had a long term strategy to cause the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact with the long term goal to help collapse the West. With the exception of the Ceaucescus, the overthrow of the Communist regimes resulted in almost no executions and few imprisonments of Communist criminals. Far different than what the German Nazis and to a lesser extent the Japanese imperialists experienced after their World War II defeat. Even different than what domestic dissidents, specifically the January 6th protesters, have suffered in our own country.

If Russia has morphed into a traditionalist, Christian country, how do you explain the following facts:

* Lenin's tomb is still a shrine at Red Square in Moscow.
* The Red Star remains on top of the Kremlin.
* The Russian Army still flies the old USSR flag on their tanks and maintains the old Soviet Army decorations.
* The Russians are in close military and economic alliance with China, which is ruled directly by the CCP.
* Russia maintains close political and military relationships with Communist regimes throughout the world, e.g. Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, etc. Venezuela has invited long range Russian bombers to use bases in their country.
* Russia is also aligned with the radical Muslim regime in Iran.

Given these facts, the claims of 1980s Soviet defectors claiming that the Communists would fake their collapse while the Russian and Chinese Communists would continue their goal of world domination is more believable than the assertion that Russia has somehow become a traditionalist, Christian country.

Your view of what a traditionalist Christian country should entail is white bread protestant with zero understanding of differences across cultures.

The red star predates the USSR, for instance.

The Soviet flag is a joke of sorts, referring to WW2.
Russians on forums are laughing about how easily Americans panic.

Are you familiar with the rise of the multipolar world?
the countries you left out as joining with Russia/brics are Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Turkey, Egypt, Senegal, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Here in northern Michigan we see trucks often with Confederate flags flying.

We don’t take pictures and post them on twitter, along with ideas that Michiganders want to bring back the Confederacy.

There is at times a spirit associated with a time period, and it can be expressed with a flag.

The USSR kicked Nazi butt before, and now they are doing it again as Russia.

"Venezuela has invited long range Russian bombers to use bases in their country."

Good for them. We just built a base in Morocco I believe, and returned troops to Somalia - Trump had pulled them to come home.

China is preparing to install a naval base in Argentina.

Mexico is rearing up against us in a big way and congress just put up a bill to allow US troops to enter Mexico, for the drug war,. of course. Unless something else comes up.

Sit tight. If we survive the nuclear war coming, and I am not planning on it, the new world is gonna be a lot different under China or India as the next empire.

One thing it won't be is forever wars, as Trump called them.

A student in your class in HS wants to force everyone else to dress exactly as he does.What are your feelings about that student? That student is us. And responsible for the long line of countries applying to join brics.

I read a few months ago a post from an African...who said..."When the US visits they admonish us and tell us what we are doing wrong. When China visits, they build a hospital."

We had a chance to be nice in the world but we blew it and became bullies and thieves. Trump was our only chance to regain a sane foreign policy.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4127986/posts

The world tires of us. Most of them prefer Russia/China and friends. All we have are Australia, growing ever more proRussian, UK, and those postage stamp brats in the baltics.

I live here and now I have to endure the blowback. We could have had Trump. Instead we have a raving lunatic who is taking us into mindblowing debt and ignoring everything American. But go ahead and bash Putin for not being Orthodox enough for you. As if you know anything about being Orthodox.