Topic: WorldNetDaily
Scott Lively is Vladimir Putin's favorite WorldNetDaily columnist for a reason, and he demonstrated his fealty to Putin again in his Nov. 2 column:
I have never been afraid to show my respect for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom I believe is the most competent, effective and law-abiding head of state on the five-member U.N. Security Council. I've weighed and rejected the various claims made against him over the past 20 years as fairly obvious war propaganda, and have admired his calm and measured prosecution of the current war in Ukraine that NATO forced upon him.
Putin's leadership in preserving and promoting true marriage, the natural family and gender normalcy against the LGBT global war-of-conquest is the unrivaled model for the world and the only real hope for a rollback of that truly satanic and literally existential threat to humanity. If Russia falls to that agenda, the entire world will drown in its own moral sewage just like America's groomer-targeted schoolchildren in the deep blue cities are doing. All our other disputes will be moot because we will have lost the favor of God.
As someone who has done missionary work in Ukraine and worked shoulder to shoulder with Ukrainian Christian coworkers around the world in the culture-war battles against the LGBT agenda, I deeply deplore the staggering human losses the poor Ukrainian people have suffered in their tragic role as cannon fodder proxies for the U.S./U.K. aggressors. But the blame for that falls squarely on those who orchestrated the very long campaign of encroachments and provocations against Russia, repeatedly broke negotiated settlements such as the Minsk accords, and deliberately sabotaged the French and German brokered peace agreement of March 2023 (and Nord Stream 2). High on the American segment of that list of evil elites are Obama, the Clintons, the entire inner circle of the present Obiden administration and their many allies in the "controlled opposition" wing of the GOP.
Nah, those deaths had nothing to do with Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine -- it was far-off countries who are somehow to blame. And Russia also played a role in breaking the Minsk accords. It has also since been revealed that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline was apparently done by Ukrainian forces, not other countries. Lively then argued that Putin was playing a "dangerous game" even as he cheered Putin's alleged revival of a "Russian Orthodox Empire":
Vladimir Putin's dangerous game – perhaps more accurately characterized as a tightrope walk over the pit of hell – is his attempt to balance the realpolitik variables of geopolitics vis-a-vis the BRICS alliance/NATO showdown while managing the risks of overly empowering his Islamic political and military allies. As an heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire whose wondrous capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul), was wrested from them by Muslim warlords centuries ago, today's newly revived Russian Orthodox Empire should know better than most the consequences of underestimating Muhammad's religion-of-conquest, literally founded on militarism.
Ignoring all the carnage Putin has created in invading Ukraine, Lively declared:
If by God's mercy we avert the descent into the global collapse/reset I write so much about, and also restore Trump to the White House in 2024, I believe there is a very good chance Trump and Putin will together walk the world back from the brink of global Marxism, kill the "climate change" canard, restore traditional values and establish a healthy balance of superpowers that will respect national sovereignty and sweep all the shattered pieces of the globalist one-world dictatorship into the dustbin of history.
Admittedly, that's a Yuuge IF.
When a readers called Lively out on his love of Putin, he devoted his Nov. 6 column to responding to the criticism. First, he played dumb by effectively denying that Putin has a habit of poisoning his political enemies:
She said: "So, you admire a man who kills or nullifies those who have run against him? Really Mr. Lively!"
I replied: Do you have actual proof of that, or are you just parroting the talking points of the war-propagandists? If you're reading WND, you're likely a fairly well reasoned conservative. If so, my question back to you is, "Do you believe these same sources about all the other lies they spin, or do you spend half your time debunking them like I do?" Never trust narratives based on only one side of an issue, especially where counter-evidence/counter arguments are deemed meritless without investigation and are actively suppressed.
She replied: "It has been in the news. As well as those who were attacked with plutonium. Their hospitalization is well-documented."
I responded: That's all it takes for a conviction in your eyes? J6 has been in the news too. Do you believe the media in those cases?
Of course, Lively made no effort to actually disprove her claim about Putin poisoning people -- he simply muddied the issue with a blanket claim that you can't beleive the media. When the reader pointed out that Putin is "a dictator and a no-goodnik. … I still maintain Putin is no one to be admired. After all he wants to resurrect the Soviet Union," Live argued that Russians love authoritarianism and handwaved Putin's documented suppression of political dissent because participants in the Captiol riot were held accountable for their actions (and, hey, Putin may not even know about that suppression):
I replied: Well, admittedly Russia is a more autocratic society than ours, but that's the way they like it. I've done three mission trips there and studied that firsthand. That mindset has almost certainly saved them from the "regime change" our side so hypocritically specializes in orchestrating in the non-submissive nations of the world. Putin wisely expelled all the Soros-connected organizations from Russia several years ago, but apparently "our side" left enough assets behind to keep trying anyhow. I strongly suspect that's who tried to launch the anti-war effort the Russian government quickly suppressed.
Putin may or may not have had a hand in that, but I suspect only a minor one at most because much of the rest of the Russian government is considerably more hardline than he is and would have needed no prompting from above. Indeed, the most common criticism of Putin inside Russia is that he's too soft and too pro-Western in his views and actions. God help us if Putin leaves the presidency before the current season of world crisis is resolved.
However, if you're going to take the Amnesty International line of reasoning on the internal dissent topic, you first have to admit that J6 proves that our system is more broken than theirs since we now have more political prisoners incarcerated than Russia does, and we're supposedly the "gold standard" for human rights.
Lively then argued that Putin's dictatorship is better than the Soviet Union version:
The reason the Soviet Union was evil and deserved dismantling was its godless communist ideology. Putin's Russia is now overwhelmingly anti-Marxist Orthodox Christian. During my 50-city speaking tour of the former Soviet Union in 2006-2007, I saw that amazing transformation still in progress everywhere. Much of the rusting ruins of the ugly utilitarian infrastructure was still there –what the people deridingly called "Sov-Dep" (Soviet depredation) alongside new and modern communities and commercial centers to rival anything in the West – adorned by countless gorgeous new and reclaimed Orthodox churches and cathedrals. Even then they had become fully capitalist and largely re-Christianized.
Lively then went further, effectively siding with the enemy:
The Reagan/NATO deal with Russia that made Glasnost possible was the firm promise of no further eastward expansion. "Not one inch" was the operative phrase, which was violated almost immediately after the dismantling began. Meanwhile, the "democratic" value system the Russians abandoned their international partnership for steadily morphed into the LGBT freak show America, the U.K. and EU are now using all of our collective international power to impose on the world, backed by an autocratic punishment of dissent increasingly getting as harsh as anything the KGB ever did.
Understandably, Russia wants a restoration of its superpower status as a counterbalance to the U.S., and that explains both the BRICS alliance and the proxy war in Syria. The broader geopolitics of that is too multi-faceted and complex to tackle in the remaining space I have, but suffice it to say that de facto one-party power in the U.S. has done nothing but increase corruption, and the same seems to be true on a global scale under U.S. hegemony. A little competition, especially by a power firmly grounded in traditional family values, will almost certainly move the world in a healthier direction, so long as it doesn't trigger nuclear war.
The column ended with a brief discussion of whether events in the region foretell a war between Gog and Magog as prophesized in the Bible.
