WW3? Drudge loses it.

[dforest]

Best comment on the true reality I have seen yet. And I am not schmoozing you because this is your site.

I totally agree! If people fail to get what you are saying, they fail to understand the current confusion.

[Zhang Fei]

call me when you enlist, Russia taking over all Europe and kicking the Muslimes out would be a good thing.

Considering that Muslims are the fastest growing population in Russia, and Putin's inner circle is replete with Muslims, including Vladislav Surkov and Ramzan Kadyrov, that possibility is remote. Putin has aided and abetted Iran's nuclear program. Unless you think Iranians aren't Muslims, that pokes a big hole in the theory about Putin being a Defender of Christendom. Like the empire-building Tsars and General Secretaries before him, Putin hasn't a sectarian bone in his body. Emperors must embrace their subjects. If Russia were majority Muslim, Putin would convert.

[Jim Robinson]

Thanks. and Obama is one of them. A Godless Marxist/fascist liberty-hating predator.

[Berlin_Freeper]

"They live in pitiful hovels which they set up far apart from one another, but, as a general thing, every man is constantly changing his place of abode. When they enter battle, the majority of them go against their enemy on foot carrying little shields and javelins in their hands, but they never wear corselets. Indeed, some of them do not wear even a shirt or a cloak, but gathering their trews up as far as to their private parts they enter into battle with their opponents. And both the two peoples have also the same language, an utterly barbarous tongue. Nay further, they do not differ at all from one another in appearance. For they are all exceptionally tall and stalwart men, while their bodies and hair are neither very fair or blond, nor indeed do they incline entirely to the dark type, but they are all slightly ruddy in color. And they live a hard life, giving no heed to bodily comforts ...".

[dangus]

Your source doesn’t back up your assertion. Meanwhile, the U.S. asserts the right to intervene anywhere in the world that it damn-well pleases, overthrowing the governments of Egypt, Libya and Ukraine (and, failingly, Syria).

Here’s a proposed peace settlement: Let the poll be taken on May 8. No-one born in Russia, even if they moved there during the Soviet era, can vote. Let the international poll-watchers in. Obey the results. (Then let Texas vote to secede from the Obamanation.)

[dangus]

Any reason you’re quoting a 5th-century description of the Protoslavs?

[dangus]

Any reason you’re quoting a 5th-century description of the Protoslavs?

[Jonty30]

Don’t worry about it, if there is an impending WW, none of us will be enlisting, because we will,all be drafted. :)

[dangus]

Are you calling the Russians Godless? Or just the Banderites and the neo-Leninists? If you refer to the latter, of course anyone must agree with you. If you refer to the former, I am deeply puzzled at how you could reach that conclusion; the Russians are far more likely to believe in God than most Western European nations.

[Joe Miner]

You know more than me, I want dead Muslimes, I will never convert to their perverted view.

[Berlin_Freeper]

You don’t want to know who the people that will supposedly be responsible for WW3, originated from??

[PieterCasparzen]

Elites aren’t wanting a nuke war on large scale, just enough to scare into submission to police state, or a given war, etc.

Safest place is near their favorite places, IMHO.

[griswold3]

I, for one, truly appreciate the history lesson.

[Jim Robinson]

Lenin, Stalin, Marxists, etc.

[Jim Robinson]

Btw, the communists tried to kill off free religion, the church, belief in God, etc, but they failed. Even after years of communist oppression, God lived on in the hearts of the Russian people.

[Siegfried X]

It isn’t only the Ukraine. Today Transdniestr, a Russian-speaking section of Moldavia, declared itself independent and asked for UN recognition.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145196/posts

Putin is a former KGB operative who clearly has been working in this direction ever since he took power, looking to put the Soviet Union back together again.

[dangus]

Muslims have the highest birth rate in Russia, but they are being converted to Christianity by the millions: Although 14% of Russians are labelled “Muslim” by Muslim sources, only 6% identify themselves as Muslim, an “infidelity” rate of nearly 60%. Two million (about 1.6%) of Russians officially converted from Islam to Russian Orthodoxy in the past ten years.

83% of Russians profess a faith in the Russian Orthodox Church, up from 30% just 15 years ago. There’s also about 1 million Old Believers (a purist schism of the ROC), a million Catholics, a million Protestants, and several hundred thousand Restorationist Christians.

(These are all according to official Russian surveys, except the estimate by Muslims, which is based on Russian demographics via Muslims.)

[Siegfried X]

This “World War III” article and discussion is about Putin’s goal:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145142/posts

[dangus]

Transdniestr seceded from Moldavia back in the 1990s. But thanks for playing along.

[Zhang Fei]

Muslims have the highest birth rate in Russia, but they are being converted to Christianity by the millions: Although 14% of Russians are labelled “Muslim” by Muslim sources, only 6% identify themselves as Muslim, an “infidelity” rate of nearly 60%. Two million (about 1.6%) of Russians officially converted from Islam to Russian Orthodoxy in the past ten years. 83% of Russians profess a faith in the Russian Orthodox Church, up from 30% just 15 years ago. There’s also about 1 million Old Believers (a purist schism of the ROC), a million Catholics, a million Protestants, and several hundred thousand Restorationist Christians. (These are all according to official Russian surveys, except the estimate by Muslims, which is based on Russian demographics via Muslims.)

Lots of different surveys out there. Here's one quoted by Wikipedia:

Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism are Russia's traditional religions, and are all legally a part of Russia's "historical heritage".[246] In August 2012 the first-ever sociological survey and mapping of religious adherents in Russia based on self-identification was published, with data on 79 out of 83 of the federal subjects of Russia.[244][247][248] Out of a population of 142,800,000 the survey found that 58,800,000 or 41% are Russian Orthodox, 9,400,000 or 6.5% are Muslims (including Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, and a majority of unaffiliated Muslims), 5,900,000 or 4.1% are unaffiliated Christians, 2,100,000 or 1.5% adhere to other Orthodox Churches (including Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian and other churches), 1,700,000 or 1.2% are Pagans (including Rodnovery, Etseg Din, Caucasian Neopaganism and Uralic Neopaganism) or Tengrists (Turco-Mongol shamanic religions and new religions), 700,000 or 0.5% are Buddhists (mostly Vajrayana), 400,000 or 0.2% are Orthodox Old Believers, 300,000 or 0.2% are Protestants, 140,000 are Catholics, 140,000 are Jews.[244][245] The Bahá'í Faith in Russia (Вера Бахаи), according to Association of Religion Data Archives was estimated at about 18,990 in 2005.[249] The remaining population is made up of 36,000,000 or 25% "spiritual but not religious" people, 18,600,000 or 13% atheist and non-religious people and 7,900,000 people or 5.5% of the total population who have deemed themselves "undecided".[244][245]