"All that and the Orthodox are still involved?"
Hopefully not for long. And remember, the foreign policy imperatives and interests of the USA and us Americans aren't necessarily those of worldwide Orthodoxy at all.
Good point -- there were a few things in the list I discounted, but the support for the Marxists in general was a surprise. Then again, if the support for Mugabe were in the early days, and not the past few years (I forget when I started learning about today's Zimbabwe on FR, from Clive and others), I could maybe understand that too.