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Waking Times
Recent events have sparked renewed interest in an explosive speech given by Vladimir Putin at the final plenary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club On September 19, 2013, addressing a number of challenges faced by contemporary Russia. In doing so, he also took aim at the moral degradation creeping through Europe and the West, in a rare – by normal political standards – display of candour.
In highlighting “ideological-informational” challenges faced by Russia, Putin observed that military-political problems and general social conditions are worsening, with much of the world forgetting the value of basic human decency, before noting that “supporters of an extreme, western-style liberalism”are as far from reality as “proponents of fundamental conservatism who idealise pre-1917 Russia.”1
Obviously anticipating his message being heard by critical recipients, Putin exhorted – ostensibly at least – the attendees (or more likely the international community who would eventually receive the recordings and transcripts) to “break the habit of only listening to like-minded people,” while “angrily and even with hatred rejecting any other point of view from the outset.”2
Many so-called “liberal progressives” could benefit from such advice.
Putin focused on challenges to Russia’s identity in an international context, of both a foreign policy and moral flavour. Notice the allusion to Satanism which Putin knows full well has, for a long time, been quietly rotting the fabric of America at the core:
We see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilisation. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual. They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.3 (emphasis added)..... [READ MORE]