If you listen to what the visiting German Admiral Schonbach says in India here - it is rough & off the cuff - it is basically the TL:DR/‘quiet part out loud’ of most serious Western analysts re Russia & China & the grave danger of #DragonBear for Eurasia
Noticing media commentary upset that the Admiral says he is a 'radical Roman Catholic' - I suspect as English is his second language, he meant 'rooted' (in German same thing) as he was discussing Putin as a non believer. If this upsets you, call Captain von Trapp to the bridge
To my knowledge, Putin has said his mother was religious and that he was baptised Orthodox. On any view, whatever, the Russians in Syria did manage to do more to protect the rights of Christian minorities than the Americans - arming "moderate Al Qaeda" etc - ever did, frankly.
In any case, the fundamental problem in all former Soviet territories = large numbers of ethnic Russians left outside Russia. In the 1990s, paying Russia to take back its Russians was always wise. The liberal multi-cultural nonsense of the time eschewed this. So here we are....
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