Hi ttbn,
>>As for our Judaeo-Christian values, they are also being forced out. It took, amazingly, two Muslims to speak out against the Olympic Games insult to Christianity: Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proclaimed on X that “ respect for Jesus is ‘an indisputable, definite matter for Muslims’” : and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan condemned the opening ceremony as a “disgusting’ affront to humanity’s sacred values and an insult to the Christian world”.<<

I'm interested in why you find that amazing?
Did you maybe think it might come from Jewish people?
Or neutered western Christians who will be beaten over the head with 'You're bigots and anti-LGBT and oppose equality of all people' so they stay relatively silent.
Jews probably helped facilitate those opening ceremonies for all we know.

http://x.com/DrLoupis/status/1818891988055278070
“The founder of Christianity has been sentenced to boil in feces”
-Talmud

Jews have had it in for Christians since the Romans destroyed the Second Temple, and they still blame and hate them for it today.
It's not hard to find footage of Orthodox Jews spitting on Christians when they go on holiday in Israel.

They must laugh at how stupid and gullible the foolish Christians are.
They tricked you into thinking Muslims are the enemy, when they are the ones trying to remove Christmas and rule over the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_and_Christmas

Hi AC,

People always blame the outsider. Always have done. Goes by names like parochialism and it can get very nasty. I find that the idea of a conspiracy of outsiders is often false. Nothing wrong with a bit of suspicion and checking information to protect yourself, but you help no one when you take things too far. The Voice referendum is a good example of an attempt to foist such conspiratorial thinking upon Australians, and to our credit it was rejected.

Leave conspiracies to the entertainment industry. Cats and Dogs is not the way the world is, but it's a longstanding means of manipulation.

Pro-democratic, anti-imperial Russians do exist. Many
are living in exile. Those still inside Russia are
keeping quiet to avoid prison. They are not a majority,
but they do exist. They read news from independent
media outlets. Many operate from outside Russia.

They have their leaders. And, inside Russia they show up
in numbers on election day spoiling ballots.

We know that today Putin is firmly entrenched in power.
Over the last decades he has constructed a very effective
autocratic system operating on fear and terror. The day he
dies or is no longer in power political competition will
begin again in Russia.

The forces of Russian dictatorship is not pre-ordained.
We've seen with opponents like Navalny and others, who
have tried to show an alternate path, they do continue to exist.
And they will continue
fighting for an alternate path and will not give up hope.
To them it's important not only for their country, but
for future generations.

"The belief that Western style democracy is impossible in Russia. That Russians are incapable of adapting democracy is shared not only by Putin supporters but also by many other people including monarchists, nationalists,communists, and many others."

as well as realists.

I don't think that you could get much further from a democracy than Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. People at the time said that the German and Japanese were unsuited to democracy, so why are they peaceful democracies today?

"Western style democracy"

You make it sound like a seasoning option for chicken Mcnuggets.

Tragically it will take years or even decades to unwind
the damage done to Russian society after Putin's rule.
Perhaps it won't happen at all.

But there are people who are pro-democratic, anti-imperialist
in Russia. These Russians, as stated earlier do exist.
Russians who are determined to prove that Russian dictatorship
and imperialism with its hold on power forever is not
pre-ordained.

People like Julia Navalnava who continues her husband's work
showing that there is an alternate path. Brave Russians like
her fighting for that different path today should give all of
us hope.

Sometimes the only realists are the dreamers. Especially
dreamers who do.

Russia needs dreamers who do.

As does the world.