I've been sending
heads-ups about this for a long time: Putin has been
positioning himself not only to become the major
power-broker in the Middle East, but the main savior for
Middle Eastern Christians. The way to today's East-West
rapprochement in Cuba was opened, apparently, when the
Pope and Putin went to the UN last year during those
"Blood Moon convergence" days of the Hebrew month of
Tishri. The shaping of this agenda was evidently prepared
when they met at the Vatican 100 days previous to the
Pope's visit to America. Incredibly historic: the first
time in 1000 years that the leaders of Eastern Orthodoxy
and Western Catholicism stepped into the same room -- a
Communist room, no less.
When the Syrian civil war broke
five years ago and the Arab Spring still looked rosy, I
made myself unpopular by insisting that Putin would
never let Assad fall: on the contrary, Russia would use
regional instability to leverage influence on many
fronts. A master chess-player, Putin has also blocked
the USA and putative allies -- Europe is fragmenting and
NATO is flailing -- from taking any strategically
meaningful initiative.
Note, among other
recent news, that Putin never tore up his Communist
membership card. “I still really like the communist and
socialist ideas,” he said, calling these “very like the
Bible.” Yes, but...
Putin has also
taken to praising Stalin's (mutually insincere) pact with
Hitler that eventually facilitated Russia's rise to
superpower status. He now glosses over Stalin's gulag.
Yes, but...
Russia's
intervention will continue to wreak terrible collateral
damage. But as Robespierre said, You can't make an
omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Prophetically
ominous? It would seem so. But if you are a Mideast
believer in need of a protector, you'd look more to Putin
than to Obama for help.
Or to God? Oh yeah
-- that's right. Not to worry. God is the real master
chess player.
Check!
(Go, Frodo!)"