Buchanan:Putin a Christian crusader,Moscow a Godly city.

[sufrommich]

In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.

Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”

Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying. This speech recalls last December’s address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:

Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.

Heard any Western leader, say, Barack Obama, talk like that lately?

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/vladimir-putin-christian-crusader/


Holy shit,this right wing love for Russia and Putin is getting crazy.

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Looks like hatred for gay people is becoming the most important

doctrine for RW Christians. They'll embrace any old asshole who will persecute gay people. That just shows you how sick their version of Christianity is.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Sieg Heil! And Amen, too!

[get the red out]

4. Agree!

Seriously screwed up.

[sufrommich]

5. I don't think it's just homophobia that attracts them.

There's a lot of pining for the good old days of white Christian absolute power in the western world. Putin sends those dog whistles out and Christian white power groups pick it up. He's a dangerous man playing a dangerous game and America's right wing extremists are cheering him on.

[stevenleser]

7. Yes, homophobia, gender bias, Christian white rule. Basically a pining for 1950's America.

That's really what most right wingers want. They want the 1950s back. And Putin and Russia seem to suggest 1950s America to them.

Not sure I disagree. I think equality and social justice wise, Russia is about where the US was in 1950, except I don't see any 1960s movement in the near future for them.

[sufrommich]

15. Or 1930s Germany. nt

[amandabeech]

23. It's not just "white Christian absolute power,"

but white Christian MALE absolute power.

My experiences with former Soviets convinced me that the USSR is stuck not in the 1950s, but in the 1850s as far as its view of women.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. More proof

that the right hates America.

[OKNancy]

6. later he writes:

"In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity."

They are both so full of caw-caw.

[hrmjustin]

8. And Jesus Wept!

[Jamaal510]

9. They've always called Obama a "communist",

yet here they are praising someone who was once part of Russia's communist party. Funny that.

[Xithras]

10. His point about Khersones has little historical relevance.

The original population and settlers of Crimea were Greek, and the native Greek population controlled the peninsula for a millennia. Price Vladimir lead the Kievan Rus, and was baptized in Khersones after he conquered the Crimean people and its native population (the Tatars didn't appear and settle in Crimea until the Mongols defeated the area centuries later, and the peninsula retained its Greek population until the Russians forcibly ejected them in the 1700's).

The Kievan Rus were the ancestors of the modern Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian states. The fact that a Rus king from Kiev conquered Crimea does not somehow give Russia any greater claim to it than Ukraine had. That's like saying that a person has the right to steal something from a sibling, if they can prove that it once belonged to their parent.

It's an idiotic argument.

[sufrommich]

14. It's an emotional argument intended for

those who want a return to a romanticized past.It's worked before in western history,not so long ago.Putin and Buchanan are both hoping it still works now.

[Mike Daniels]

11. Russia is a Christian country....

Because a "Christian" country would starve and brutalize its citizenry like the czars did for centuries....yeah, right.

Pat really needs to just be shut away in a home for the mentally exhausted at this point.

[rppper]

12. Well ain't that just peachy Pat....

So why don't you just move your wrinkled old bigot @$$ over there then and STFU you pinko commie doucherocket! Eisenhower and Nixon are rolling in their selective graves.....

[Initech]

13. They ares seriously bat shit crazy about Putin.

[DemocraticWing]

16. Putin would fit right in with the Tea Party.

Bet Sarah Palin is hoping she can see Russia from her house when she's serving as Putin's Vice President.

[Paladin]

17. Oh, goody: another drooling old right-winger with a man-crush on Putin.

Get in line, Buchanan; you're late.....

[PCIntern]

18. Listen up! Bucahanan's uncle died at Auschwitz

He fell out of a guard tower.

Oldie but real-goodie.

[Paladin]

29. +1. Hadn't heard that one; thanks.

[yellowcanine]

19. I thought Pat was still nursing a grudge against the Russkies for stopping Hitler.

[truebrit71]

20. Shit I'm so old I can remember when they were all called 'Godless Commies'...

....My how times have changed....

[MattBaggins]

21. There is a black man sitting in the oval office

Their hatred for him is so intense they will engage in mental gymnastics to find a way to praise Putin over Obama.

Yes they are that filled with hatred for Obama.

[amandabeech]

24. Buchanan's been bat-shit crazy since well before President Obama

took office. He particularly disliked the Clintons. I swear he thought that they were the spawn of satan.

This piece convinces me that Pat is in the middle stages of senile dementia, and that his family and friends should stage an intervention.

The loons over at freeper land are as you say.

[kickysnana]

22. Who was the Oracle that branded the right Red?

[dionysus]

25. shit, you see a decent share of putin lovin' on DU, too.

but not this brand of crazy!

[Behind the Aegis]

27. I am shocked!

Oh, wait, no I am not, I am only shocked by supposed liberals who support Putin and make excuses for the bullshit happening there.

[sufrommich]

28. There are useful idiots at both extremes.nt

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Breaking: "Right-wing loon embraces 'Commies'". News at 11. nt

[LeftishBrit]

31. So Pat Buchanan 'hates America for its freedoms?'