Zmirak on Putin on Christianity

This post is related to the one below.

...The young, upcoming men inside the KGB were patriotic Russians. They’d swallowed Communist ideology as it was drilled into them because they thought that worldview promoted Russian power. But by the mid-1980s it was clear that this wasn’t true — that Communism was in fact an alien Utopian fantasy foisted on the country by a crackpot group of radicals who’d happened to seize control in 1917. It hadn’t made Russia great, but had murdered tens of millions, destroyed the economy, driven Russian woman to have (it was estimated) six abortions each. Dedication to Communism, rather than Russia, had driven the country to ruin itself by trying to seed revolutions around the world, and rule the ungovernable wasteland that is Afghanistan....

Yah.  We'd heard about that.

 ...So these young KGB men, including Putin himself, quietly agreed among themselves that Communism had to go. Instead, they would restore a Russian nationalist regime, reverting to the old Russian worldview of Orthodox Christianity. Not because they believed in Christ or the Church, but because it worked better....

Let's look at some contrasts.

... Putin, who believes in Russia and nothing else, is willing to promote certain Christian principles because they work. The West, which believes in a crackpot post-Christian suicide creed, doesn’t care if they work. In fact, the chaos at our borders and in our streets perversely appears as a virtue, proof that our dedication is somehow unworldly and “pure.”...

What does Putin want?

 ... Thanks to our aggressive post-1990 foreign policy, Russia’s elites now see us as implacable enemies. So they are more than happy to see the West embrace progressive, suicidal policies — including open borders and self-sterilizing trans madness. And that’s why Putin wants to see the Democrats win the next election. He knows they’ll make the West weaker...

And a slap across Tucker's face:

... that’s why Putin did his interview with Tucker Carlson — to help discredit Carlson, weaken Trump, and wheel Joe Biden’s gurney across the finish line in November....

That may be Putin's plan, but we doubt that it's going to work.  Biden is so rancid in the mind of Americans that he will not win an election (any more than he won the last one.)  But no matter:  Putin has plenty of time left to seriously erode American interests and American influence, and Biden & Co. will help him every step of the way.