Posted on 10/06/2015 4:09:40 PM PDT by NRx
“Russia is a country reclaiming its Christian heritage. We are a country rapidly abandoning ours.”
Russia isn’t doing anything in Syria for religious reasons. The government and dictator Russia supports is not Christian. Syria is officially a Muslim nation with an Alawite dictator. Out of all the bombing raids the Russians have done so far only TWO have been against ISIS. If the insurgents against Syria and Assad were all Christians - even Orthodox Christians - the Russians would still have sold Syria all the hardware, all the weapons it could use against them. And Russia might even now be bombing those very same Christians if that was necessary. Do you doubt for a second that Russia would side with Muslim Chechnya against Georgia is the Georgians invaded? Russia will protect its client states against Christians just as it protects Assad against EVERYBODY.
The Russians had no compunction about invading Orthodox Georgia or Orthodox Ukraine when it suited them.
I am from the Reagan/Thatcher era, so you can well imagine how I feel about these times.
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