Thread by @JMichaelWaller

Putin praises @JoeBiden’s “left-wing values” and singles out Biden ally Angela Davis. newsweek.com/vladimir-putin…

2) Putin says: "The Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to social democratic ideas."

"And it was from the social democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved."

3) Putin: "After all, I was a member of the Soviet Communist Party for nearly 20 years."

"I was a rank-and-file member, but it can be said that I believed in the party's ideas. I still like many of these left-wing values."

4) Putin: "Yes, they are difficult to implement, but they are very attractive, nevertheless. In other words, this can be seen as an ideological basis for developing contacts with the Democratic representative." [Biden-Harris]

5) Putin on African-Americans: "The Soviet Union also supported the African Americans' movement for their legitimate rights."

(Putin is talking about Stalin's Comintern and its control of the Communist Party USA.)

6) Putin is segueing into today's BLM/Antifa subversion in the United States. Look at what he says next, with the historical parallels from Stalin to the present, and singling out the main intellectual leader in the US for de-funding the police and shutting down prisons.

7) Putin: "Back in the 1930s, Communist International leaders wrote that both black and white workers had a common enemy–imperialism and capitalism. They also wrote that these people could become the most effective group in the future revolutionary battle."

7) Putin: "So, this is something that can be seen, to a degree, as common values, if not a unifying agent for us."

When American progressives talk about "values," we should think twice about what they really mean.

8) Putin: "People of my generation remember a time when huge portraits of Angela Davis, a member of the U.S. Communist Party and an ardent fighter for the rights of African Americans, were on view around the Soviet Union."

Davis got the Lenin Peace Prize.

9) Angela Davis used Putin’s RT channel last June to announce her support for @JoeBiden and urge fellow Communists to help get him elected. Biden hasn’t renounced the endorsement.

10) Putin likes Biden's arms control plan: "Candidate Biden has said openly that he was ready to extend the New START or to sign a new strategic offensive reductions treaty."

"This is already a very significant element of our potential future cooperation."