TheAmericanConstitutionalist: The Western Elite's Fake Boogeyman

Phillip Todd*

Last week I spoke of the western elites desire to conquer Russia to exploit their natural resources for profit. They have attempted to undermine the President's popularity in order to overthrow his regime. They have tried to antagonize Russia's military by running NATO complete with troops, armor, and nuclear weapons right up to their border. They have attempted a coup to get to the underside of the country and seize a vital military base in the Crimean. To prevent a hostile NATO from establishing its own naval base in the Black Sea, Russia had to take Crimea, which in any case is historically Russian territory.

Today, they have the US military flying fighter planes and sailing warships all over the Black Sea which was once referred to as a “Russian lake.” They are “poking the bear” with every chance they get short of a nuclear exchange-for now. They are still uncertain of Putin and Russia because they see the world through western eyes.

Putin's Russia does not see the world as we do. How irreconcilable those world views are is seen in Russia’s conflict with Ukraine two years ago. According to the official United States account, Russia invaded its neighbor after a glorious revolution threw out a plutocracy. Russia then annexed Ukrainian naval bases in the Crimea. According to the Russian and other non-western countries view, Ukraine’s democratically elected government was overthrown by an armed uprising backed by the United States.

One theme runs through Russian foreign policy, and has for much of its history. There is no country that has a more dangerous frontier with the Islamic world. You would think that this would be the primary lens through which to view Russian conduct—a good place for the West to begin in trying to explain Russian behavior that, at first glance, does not have an obvious rationale. Yet agitation against Putin in the West has not focused on that at all.

Domestically, Russia is a conservative country. Their values are a complete contradiction of the western elites Progressive Corporate Socialistic agenda. The two episodes of concerted outrage about Putin among western Progressives have both involved issues trivial to the world, but vital to the world of Progressivism. World Socialism's success depends on the destruction of national traditions and identity.

The first episode is destruction of religious morals. The young women called themselves Pussy Riot, performance artists who were jailed for violating Russia’s blasphemy laws when they disrupted a religious service with obscene chants about God on the alter of a large Christian church. The obscene translations were almost never shown on controlled Western television. The Progressive narrative in the west was how “freedom” of expression was being denied. Ask yourselves, what would the response be if this behavior happened in a church or mosque in the United States?

The second episode was the passage of Russia’s Article 6.21, which was falsely described in the American press as a law against “so—called gay propaganda.” A more accurate translation of what the law forbids is promoting “non-traditional sexual relations to children.” Homosexuality is openly practiced, although frowned upon, in Russia. This law was meant to protect the children until they could become mature enough to make their own decisions unlike today in the United States where babies are now being prepped for gender (re)assignment. Some Americans might wish that Russia took religion or homosexuality less seriously and still be struck by the fact that these are very local issues. There is something sinister about turning them into diplomatic incidents and issuing all kinds of threats because of them.

One of the more independent thinkers about Russia was a member of the U.S. Congress who was being scolded at a dinner in Washington a few years ago. A fellow guest told him he should be ashamed, because Reagan would have idealistically stood up to Putin on human rights. The Congressman disagreed, “Reagan's gift as a foreign policy thinker, he said, was not his idealism. It was his ability to set priorities, to see what constituted the biggest threat.” Today’s biggest threat to the US. isn’t Vladimir Putin. It is our overseers who continue to rush us to war – for profit.