Whose Side Is God on Now?
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UPDATED: Tuesday, March 3, 2026 21:53
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By Patrick J. Buchanan
In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.
Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”
Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying.
This speech recalls last December’s address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:
“Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
Heard any Western leader, say, Barack Obama, talk like that lately?
Indicting the “Bolsheviks” who gave away Crimea to Ukraine, Putin declared, “May God judge them.”
What is going on here?
With Marxism-Leninism a dead faith, Putin is saying the new ideological struggle is between a debauched West led by the United States and a traditionalist world Russia would be proud to lead.
In the new war of beliefs, Putin is saying, it is Russia that is on God’s side. The West is Gomorrah.
Western leaders who compare Putin’s annexation of Crimea to Hitler’s Anschluss with Austria, who dismiss him as a “KGB thug,” who call him “the alleged thief, liar and murderer who rules Russia,” as the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins did, believe Putin’s claim to stand on higher moral ground is beyond blasphemous.
But Vladimir Putin knows exactly what he is doing, and his new claim has a venerable lineage. The ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers who exposed Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, was, at the time of his death in 1964, writing a book on “The Third Rome.”
The first Rome was the Holy City and seat of Christianity that fell to Odoacer and his barbarians in 476 A.D. The second Rome was Constantinople, Byzantium, (today’s Istanbul), which fell to the Turks in 1453. The successor city to Byzantium, the Third Rome, the last Rome to the old believers, was — Moscow.
Putin is entering a claim that Moscow is the Godly City of today and command post of the counter-reformation against the new paganism.
Putin is plugging into some of the modern world’s most powerful currents.
Not only in his defiance of what much of the world sees as America’s arrogant drive for global hegemony. Not only in his tribal defense of lost Russians left behind when the USSR disintegrated.
He is also tapping into the worldwide revulsion of and resistance to the sewage of a hedonistic secular and social revolution coming out of the West.
In the culture war for the future of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity. His recent speeches carry echoes of John Paul II whose Evangelium Vitae in 1995 excoriated the West for its embrace of a “culture of death.”
What did Pope John Paul mean by moral crimes?
The West’s capitulation to a sexual revolution of easy divorce, rampant promiscuity, pornography, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, assisted suicide — the displacement of Christian values by Hollywood values.
Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum writes that she was stunned when in Tbilisi to hear a Georgian lawyer declare of the former pro-Western regime of Mikhail Saakashvili, “They were LGBT.”
“It was an eye-opening moment,” wrote Applebaum. Fear and loathing of the same-sex-marriage pandemic has gone global. In Paris, a million-man Moral Majority marched in angry protest.
Author Masha Gessen, who has written a book on Putin, says of his last two years, “Russia is remaking itself as the leader of the anti-Western world.”
But the war to be waged with the West is not with rockets. It is a cultural, social, moral war wher
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Thanks for the laugh! 
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Thanks for the laugh!
Where do you find the humor ?
I think Mr Buchanan has a good bead on Vlad.
Best to know how such leaders view the world, and their place in it, don' ya think ?
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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No, Pat's a senile idiot, spewing the same nonsense all the Christofascists say. He's a useless, hypocritical, con man windbag who's never been right about anything.
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No, Pat's a senile idiot, spewing the same nonsense all the Christofascists say. He's a useless, hypocritical, con man windbag who's never been right about anything.
So, you are deaf to anything that Putin actually says, huh ?
Because Pat comments on it.
Got it.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Ya gotta remember, if you're old enough, that Buchanan was the Press Secretary and principal spokesman for Richard Nixon during the Watergate and impeachment crises.
He's also a good Catholic.
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It's clear that Putin and Buchanan are basing their concept of American values based on what they see every day in the pornographic mainstream and entertainment media. I won't deny that traditionalists and conservatives have lost some battles recently in the culture war, but we're far from the godless secular progressive socialist dystopia that some perceive us as.
As for God, I don't believe he ever chose a "side" in anything. As Shepherd Book said "belief" is what makes things happen. Belief in something to motivate one's self and others. It doesn't always mean God.
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Ya gotta remember, if you're old enough, that Buchanan was the Press Secretary and principal spokesman for Richard Nixon during the Watergate and impeachment crises.
Ron Ziegler was Nixon's Press Secretary and spokesman, NOT Buchanan. Pat Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon.
Buchanan is credited with creating the term "Silent Majority". Later, Jerry Falwell embellished that term to "Moral Majority". I used to believe that both existed, but after the last two presidential elections I no longer do.
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I beg to differ. Robertson and Falwell cannot be considered moral in any sense of the word. They are both con men, liars, and whores for money.
They speak for no one other than the rubes they swindle. They have no status as representatives of anything "moral."
You and I are both far more moral than they will ever be.
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Ya gotta remember, if you're old enough, that Buchanan was the Press Secretary and principal spokesman for Richard Nixon during the Watergate and impeachment crises.
Ron Ziegler was Nixon's Press Secretary and spokesman, NOT Buchanan. Pat Buchanan worked as a White House adviser and speechwriter for Nixon.
Buchanan is credited with creating the term "Silent Majority". Later, Jerry Falwell embellished that term to "Moral Majority". I used to believe that both existed, but after the last two presidential elections I no longer do.
I stand corrected on the matter of act. I still remember him as Nixon's mouthpiece.
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