LOG CABIN CHRONICLES
FROM CANADA: OUR
NEIGHBOURS SUPPORTING PUTIN?
But wouldn't Putin also be smiling (if he ever does smile) over last
weekend's big rally in Orlando, Florida. The America First Political
Action Committee (of the Republican Party) hosted this event which
concluded with ten minutes of chanting, "Putin! ...Putin! ..." . "Even
America supports me," Mr Putin must have told himself.
However, the Orlando rally is not really news.
In 2004, Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke told a rally that Russia is
"the key to white survival" -- the only key! Duke ran for the Senate
later. In 2017, right-winger Ann Coulter (she who was run out of Ottawa
by OU students a few years ago), announced to the media, "In 20 years
Russia will be the only recognizably European nation" (meaning "white
nation"). For years, US militia groups have studied the Russian fascist,
Alex Dugin, with his version of Christian nationalism.
"Who would ever support Putin?", we may have been asking, since we've
been told by our own media that not a soul supports the tyrant anymore.
But these American incidents point to a rather large movement in the US
(and Canada, sorry,) of people who support Putin's traditional
Christianity, his attacks on Russia's LGBTQ+ community, and his
willingness to use heavy arms to settle disputes within Russian and,
notably, Syria. Some folks admire Putin's bare-chested manliness, but
that's more an image-builder for a Russian John Wayne. And now the US
militia movement announces its vision of the Ukraine as a test ground
for the coming US Civil War, #2. Only a civil war will solve America's
internal problems, they believe. And a civil war needs leaders like
Putin.
On top of this, the Yanks have their leaders, Trump, Steve Bannon, Erik
Prince (Blackwater mercenaries) and FOX News' resident fascist, Tucker
Carlson, dishing out distorted messaging day after day .... we were
surprised to hear Putin has supporters within the US? Why were we
surprised?
In fact, even without these home-grown right-wing, anti-semitic &
anti-poor people demagogues, look at the image Putin has always
projected. Who wouldn't be attracted to this image: a man of action and
few words, who sticks to his decisions, and who exercises whatever force
is needed, a leader accomplishing his goals without niceties and
legalities (from poison to radioactive isotopes), a man who can
negotiate, but not for long, and most of all, a man who will use fire
and flame to cleanse his nation (and those nearby), a man who respects
the original Christianity (Whites' religion) and respects tradition ...
etc. ... etc.? Most important is Putin's image, holding aloft the
flaming sword, striking down the enemies of a god who is clearly White.
A Nuclear Crusader ... Apocalyptical.
Putin, Trump's all-time most effective supporter, the ally of the
enemies of Hilary and of immigrants everywhere .... these are the
folks, old fashioned Fascists really, who want a strong man, who distain
the debate and compromise of democracy ... the man who, if Trump does
not run again, could day-dream of being the next candidate, himself,
for President of those Disunited States of America.
America supports many surreptitious allies of Mr Putin, of a strong man,
and since America has Canada in such deep embrace, Mr Putin's fleas are
surely active here among us, too.
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