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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5521326" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p><a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-american-christian-nationalists-putin-supporters-20220325-qcpao6fe3rgl3lvhvfx5viu6tq-story.html" target="_blank">Pamela Cooper-White: Why some Christian nationalists have loved Vladimir Putin – Chicago Tribune</a></p><p></p><p>March 25, 2022</p><p></p><p>"As President Vladimir Putin intensifies his assault on Ukraine — killing hundreds of innocent civilians and forcing more than 3 million refugees to abandon their homes — leading members of the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. are lining up to condemn the Russian strongman and demand hard-hitting sanctions.</p><p></p><p>But as Putin grows more and more isolated on the world stage, he’s retaining one surprising base of support: far-right American Christians.</p><p></p><p>As Delaware Republican Lauren Witzke, a U.S. Senate candidate, recently <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/russia-ukraine-crisis-complicates-american-white-evangelicals-love-putin-n1290442" target="_blank">said at the Conservative Political Action Conference</a>: “Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. … I identify more with Russians,’ with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden’s.” Days later at the America First Political Action Conference, white nationalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/05/putin-ukraine-invasion-white-nationalists-far-right" target="_blank">Nick Fuentes called</a> for a round of applause for Putin — and got one.</p><p></p><p>These extreme views don’t exist in a vacuum. They are indicative of the swath of Americans who identify as Christian nationalists — many of whom <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/05/bond-that-explains-why-some-christian-right-support-putins-war/" target="_blank">have quietly held</a> their pro-Putin views for decades. They admire Putin because they see him as promoting their own conservative views on cultural issues, like attacking LGBTQ+ rights. More insidiously, they also admire Putin because they see him as a macho white Christian man who is willing to use deadly force against his enemies — something, alarmingly, that they’d like to see in the United States as well."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5521326, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-american-christian-nationalists-putin-supporters-20220325-qcpao6fe3rgl3lvhvfx5viu6tq-story.html']Pamela Cooper-White: Why some Christian nationalists have loved Vladimir Putin – Chicago Tribune[/URL] March 25, 2022 "As President Vladimir Putin intensifies his assault on Ukraine — killing hundreds of innocent civilians and forcing more than 3 million refugees to abandon their homes — leading members of the Democratic and Republican parties in the U.S. are lining up to condemn the Russian strongman and demand hard-hitting sanctions. But as Putin grows more and more isolated on the world stage, he’s retaining one surprising base of support: far-right American Christians. As Delaware Republican Lauren Witzke, a U.S. Senate candidate, recently [URL='https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/russia-ukraine-crisis-complicates-american-white-evangelicals-love-putin-n1290442']said at the Conservative Political Action Conference[/URL]: “Russia is a Christian nationalist nation. … I identify more with Russians,’ with Putin’s Christian values than I do with Joe Biden’s.” Days later at the America First Political Action Conference, white nationalist [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/05/putin-ukraine-invasion-white-nationalists-far-right']Nick Fuentes called[/URL] for a round of applause for Putin — and got one. These extreme views don’t exist in a vacuum. They are indicative of the swath of Americans who identify as Christian nationalists — many of whom [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/05/bond-that-explains-why-some-christian-right-support-putins-war/']have quietly held[/URL] their pro-Putin views for decades. They admire Putin because they see him as promoting their own conservative views on cultural issues, like attacking LGBTQ+ rights. More insidiously, they also admire Putin because they see him as a macho white Christian man who is willing to use deadly force against his enemies — something, alarmingly, that they’d like to see in the United States as well." [/QUOTE]
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