He talks a good game but like a Pharisee needs to clean up house in his own church first. Eastern Orthodox outside Moscow Patriarchate feel betrayed by Russian Orthodox reversion back to old habits of loyalty to State surpassing loyalty to Faith.
Most young people becoming Christian in today’s Russia are doing so in Protestant/Evangelical auspices, not Orthodox. And American Christian missionaries have had a large hand in that trend for better for worse.
Jon Huntsman is a Mormon. Wonder how he is as a diplomat.
One hundred years from now, historians will list the reasons for the collapse of the West. And one of those reasons will be that the US and Russia did not become allies, despite their many similarities.
Both nations have a strong Christian tradition. And both nations have common enemies: radical Islam and (in second place) China.
But instead of allying, the US and Russia pick at each other. Much like European princes picked at each other as the Ottomans sacked Constantinople.
Axios!