St Petersburg metro blast leaves many injured

So in your view, correct me if I'm wrong, tyranny in defense of Western heritage is no vice? And, therefore, a former KGB man turned ultra nationalist and Russian chauvinist, is doing the world a favor by chopping off hunks of the nation of Georgia and Ukraine, stationing nuclear-capable missiles in violation of treaties in Kaliningrad, waging an undeclared war on Ukraine, attempting to undermine the vital center of democracy by funding the extreme right and the extreme left in Europe, pursuing the break up of NATO, buzzing at close distance US naval vessels, sending his nuclear capable aircraft in to the airspace of neutral Ireland, and sending his nuclear submarines in to Sweden's territorial water? I guess the PC threat is pretty severe to be a good excuse for these actions.

putin is leading a self-aggrandizing, unaccountable, for his own personal enrichment. He has journalists and political opponents shot and killed on a fairly routine basis. It's difficult for me as a defender of the West and its values to see how that is good for Russia, let alone the preservation of our values: constitutional government, the rule of law, trial by jury, civil rights, property rights, and Christian values. Still, I do realize that the love of putin is deep and profound and irrational.

Your rant assumes much that is not in evidence; misstates what Putin is doing; misstates our values & heritage, and completely ignores real problems both in Eastern Europe & in America.

As for his KGB past. Do you completely reject the notion of redemption! For that matter, do you think that one had to be a committed Communist to work for the KGB, even back in the day?

And as a "defender of the West," did you take equal umbrage when our 44th President threatened the British people over their Brexit vote? Or when he sought over & over again to back street thugs against local Police? Or did you see that 44th President as a champion of the West and "Christian values" when he repeatedly treated open avowals of sexual abnormalacy--treated as an abomination in the Bible--as "heroic?"

And I’m correct again & called the exact date.

“This coming weekend (Friday on) through...”

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