Color me skeptical...but...I don't think latter day Russian "Christianity" is all that different from Hitler's "Christian" Germany...both leaders see themselves as superior to others and both dispense Patriarchal discipline on their lesser wards and are convinced of their rightness and authority. Putin came from Soviet KGB, was stationed in East Germany which was about a ground zero as it gets during the Cold War...he was caught up in Sobchak's corruption as St. Petersburg Mayor's top fix-it guy...was recommended not for promotion...all of a sudden he is fast-tracked into national prominence as if by magic...well, not magic...corruption and deal cutting with the new Mob - the Oligarchs...and he kept making deals and apparently delivering, otherwise he would not be where he is today...so, Christian? Yeah, like Capone, good Christian man...to family and some friends...not so much anybody else. And back then, the liberals loves the guy, couldn't get enough face time and pictures with the guy...they saw him as a new breed they could deal with...Hillary was all smiles and giggles and ready to hit the reset button with her pal Vlad...Obama was passing the word through Medvedev he was ready to get "flexible" with him. Now, they despise him? Why? Because he's "Christian"? Bullsh!t! It's because he is cutting them off their gravy train corruption deals in Ukraine (something Putin cut his KGB teeth on) and because they need him as an enemy to wedge against us. The brilliant chessmaster may have thought jello-head JoeFraud and the ditz Heels-Up Harris might be easier to handle than Trump...but with Trump largely out of the picture for the immediate future the full wrath of the DeepState and its agenda is coming down on Putin and his nation...and us. There are a lot of Putin apologists making life hard for the latter...I am and will continue to be skeptical of Putin and condemn is blood lust in Ukraine...but I can do so without wanting direct US involvement of the loose reckless variety being spewed about by rabid DemCom's, brainless Neo-con Pubbies, mouth-breathing MFMer's and CFR/thinktank armchair Field Marshalls...those ass-clowns will start WWIII. When I went to bed last night we had 3 doomsday planes in the air...think those VIP/REMFs give a flying frack what happens to serfs? What pisses me off most about Putin is he should have been a lot more cooperative with the US when Trump was in office...we could have partnered on so much and really stuck it the DeepState...but no, the selfish bastard didn't care about that. You can take the petty corrupt operator and put him in a suit...doesn't remove the petty corrupt operators nature....gosh, he's Czar in all but name...ruler until death.