Speaker to Animals wrote:Because Russia is part of the Islamic civilization. That's great, Bjorn. Enjoy your pastries.
Like nobody knows about the conflict between Orthodox and Catholics. We need Bjorn to tell us about it between bouts of stuffing cheese danish in his cake hole.
And you need to take in count that a career spy like Putin simply changes his rhetoric to whatever suits him and to which crowd he is talking to. He'll definately flaunt to the extreme right in the West. Best tactic to get the right wing to be divided as typically it has been the right that has been the hawks when it comes to foreign policy.
Anyway, it is whimsical to think that Putin would care a fuck about the West or America. Utterly laughable.
Start with the obvious; Putin isn't religious. No religious guy would have risen in the KGB. For Putin the Orthodox Church is nothing but a way to consolidate state power. While there's no Soviet ideology anymore, then the void is tried to be filled with the Orthodox Church. Putin has no qualms about muslims and Islam, if the muslims back him and the Russian state, they can have their sharia law. Do note that Chechnya now is quite Islamic, and Putin hasn't any problem with that at all.
(Putin opening one of the largest mosques in Europe in Moscow. Alongside Turkish strongman Erdogan)
You'll find bogus Putin speeches that are something equivalent to Trump, the reality is more like this:
Speaking at his annual year-end press conference Friday, Putin said he would prefer not to link Islam with terrorism, Russian state-run site Sputnik International reported.
“I would prefer Islam not to be mentioned in vain alongside terrorism."