Posted on 10/25/2013 4:23:17 PM PDT by marshmallow
Defending Middle Eastern Christians has become a strategic asset for Putin and is in perfect harmony with the Patriarchate of Moscow's mission
The Kremlin is about to consider granting citizenship to about 50 thousand Syrian Christians in the region of Qualamun after they issued a collective request to Moscow’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In statements issued in the past few days, the spokesmen for President Putin and the Ministry confirmed that the request is being examined by the highest Russian authorities. “This is the first time since Christ’s birth that we, the Christians of Saidnaya and Maara Saidnaya, Maalula and Maarun are being threatened with expulsion from our land.”
The letter was full of praise for Putin’s Russia, which was described as a “powerful factor for global peace and stability”. But its remarks about western countries were less flattering: “the aim of the terrorists who are being supported by the West, is to eliminate our presence in our homeland. They use the most abhorrent methods to achieve this, murdering ordinary people for example.”
The fact that the Christian cause has caught the attention of the highest levels of Russia’s government seems to imply that the Kremlin sees their case as important in terms of geopolitics. Indeed this may be the main reason Russia has been defending their cause. The Patriarchate of Moscow’s spokesman said that the letter from the 50 thousand was proof of the “great authority” Russia has at the moment in the Middle East, “particularly among the Christian minorities living in that area.” Middle Eastern Christians “have known for centuries that no other country would look after their interests in the same way Russia would,” said Archpriest Nikolaj Balashov, the number two man of the Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations.
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Another job Americans won’t do.
You said it.
As Zero leaves a power vacuum in the Middle East the bad guys will fill it.
That’s fine. The Ruskies are next door to that hell-hole.
As Zero leaves a power vacuum in the Middle East the bad guys will fill it.
Spot on - I have being saying this since Mubarak was kicked out!
Mel
I am not so sure that Putin is a bad guy.
Meanwhile Obastard is importing more Muslims that hate us and Christianity.
Sounding more and more similar to the geopolitics of 160 years ago when Czarist Russia declared itself the defender of Christians in Ottoman lands and the "West" -- England and France sided with the Ottomans.
The result -- The Crimean War.
The Syrian Christians can be rest assured that the Patriarch of Moscow never kissed the Quran.
Well they are doing a pretty lousy job protecting the Copts in egypt
I wouldn’t trust Putin for ANY reason.
Will Russia invade protect the Orthodox?
Will FRANCE then invade to protect the Catholics?
Will Britain come in on the side of France to bottle up Russia?
Will Obama come in on the side of Al-Quida?
Will this be Crimean war II?
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