Yes, when the choice is between the Christians of Russia who are fighting Muslim terrorists and the secular socialists of Europe who embrace them, I guess the choice is clear.
Exactly right...it’s not such an easy choice all around. But they really don’t want to have a Communist running their country I think.
Ukraine is important for moving the oil lines through there.....all interested parties are going to fight this til one or the other comes out on top. It really isn’t about what the people have or not......Putin wants the Ukraine back under his domain regardless.
Who told you Russians are Christians? quickly looking at Wiki - less than half identify themselves as Christians. I suspect (forgive me, my statistic) two thirds of that number are Christians on paper only and haven’t been to a church in years.
Second point relates to the Christian values, I guarantee that they are not compatible with yours. The head of the official church and the priests are unchanged from the USSR days. You remember those days when a “priest” had a KGB call sign and made regular reports? This current patriarch was known as “Mikhailov”. The church is nothing but a tool to implement Kremlin propaganda. They are hateful towards other nationalities and other Christian denominations. Protestants, Catholics etc. - they don’t differentiate - they’re all labelled as “schismatics” and are a competitive threat on what they see as their rightful flock.
Back to the civilization values, would you at least agree that Europe and US are part of the Western civilization, civilization which Russia has never really been a part of?