Russia, Orthodox Church, Angry muslimes, Gulf Oil and Chinese Curses. Yes, it all inter-relates. Trust me.
Today, Russia is one of the most attractive destinations for immigration, at least in Eurasia. The most liberal estimate is that about 15 million people, including at least a million Chinese, have already flocked to Russia. Russias population has been rapidly declining and to offset this, the country has opened its formerly closed doors.
At the same time, Russia Observes 9/11 Terror Attack Anniversary hosted by the Orthodox Church, and Russian and United States diplomats have signed a protocol extending a document on cooperation for greater disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation. So on many levels we get along. On others we don’t, and won’t.
Islamonline.net & News Agencies “MOSCOW — A decision in five Russian regions to order mandatory teaching of Orthodox Christian “culture” has caused uproar” among the muslim heirarchy.
Note their quotes around the word Culture. Islimes don’t think seem to think Christian culture is valid compared to all their cultural destruction.
What’s happening here is that after five years of debate and protests by other religious groups, authorities in five regions — Belgorod, Smolensk, Kaluga, Bryansk and Kursk — this month introduced the “Basics of Orthodox culture” as a compulsory “regional civilization course”, and the Islimes are plenty unhappy about it.
The Russian authorities feel that every Russian citizen should know that it was Orthodoxy that formed the Russian state. Renewed interest in, and teaching of the history of the Orthodox Church is the last thing the muslimes want to see happen, which may be exactly why it is happening. The Russians are no fools and they know they need to turn back the advance of Islam. Since communism’s fall, the Orthodox Church has rapidly gained influence, enjoying strong support from the authorities, no doubt in part to retard the growth of Islam.
Add to this that Russian Pres. Putin is more and more taking on dictatorial powers and gutting the democracy, the battles go on in mostly muslim Chechnya, Russia is working with Iran on its nuclear programs as well as making deals to supply military equipment, and with China on a new space project to the Moon and Mars in competition with the plans of the USA, and it all spells out that Russia, that is Putin, has finally chosen one side of the fence.
He’s clearly throwing in with the Chinese and against the US economically but not militarily. He’s betting that the Chinese and Russia will become economically ascendant together while the US becomes descendant. Certainly, the more the world turns against the US, the more our economy will suffer, and there are a lot of corporate executives who see this turn of events in the offing. This fact is revealed by the dramatic rise in self-voted executive salaries while rank-and-file salaries remain the same or even decrease. They’re getting while the getting is good even though it further imperils our economy.
Putin thinks that he has the ability to be a successful dictator of Russia, but he’s wrong. He dithers and makes impulsive, poor decisions, not the least being his shutdown of the gas pipeline last winter. He’s going to end up playing right into the hands of the Chinese but at least he and the Chinese are united in seeing the reality of the Islamic threat, and both nations are much less liberal in their treatment of dissidents than the US is. Neither Russia or China nor their satellites will be allowed to be overtaken by Islam.
Bottom line? For now, Russia and China will fight aggressive Islam within their own borders but be enablers for Iran for the money and oil. Neither of them cares if Iran attacks Israel. If we attack Iran it will sorely upset Russia and China and they’ll no doubt seek some sort of revenge, but if they think we will attack, they will put the brakes on Iran for us.
The world is in an amazing state of flux right now and power alignments are going through major adjustments. South America is part of this action and will become greater players on the world scene soon, over oil, as national alliances there go through realignment. Africa has long been no more than a sidenote of history and a place to fight battles, but that’s changing. Africas known oil pools are huge and exploration has been minimal. I suspect that somewhere in Africa are vast, almost unimaginable reserves of oil.
The recent oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico have the Arabs yanking in panic at the balloon string of inflated prices and already the price is starting to drop. Oil and terrorism are close relatives, considering that most of the funding for terrorism comes from the sales of oil. The less dependency we have on terrorist-supporting nations for their oil, the more we can feel free to attack those nations militarily.
There’s an old Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.”