Putin Is Not a Hero Because He Criticizes Woke, and He Is Not to Be Trusted

It is a serious problem with American conservatives that we assume when powerful people say the right things they must be sincere (even if their actions contradict what they say); the hero worship of CCP-pandering Elon Musk is an example. Conservatives also tend to be biased in favor of whoever is being targeted by the Democrats and woke ideology, as if there cannot be two types of evil facing off against each other. The worst example right now is probably Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, undoubtedly an extremely clever man who said made many true critiques of woke, anti-Christian ideology in a speech this week.

In the same speech where he announcedsuspension of Russia’s last nuclear treaty with the US, Putin warned that the West is headed for “spiritual catastrophe.” “The Anglican Church,” Putin said, “is considering a gender-neutral God. May God forgive them for they know not what they do.” I cannot help but be reminded of when the devil quotes Scripture to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.

Putin continued, “Look at what they do with their own peoples: the destruction of the family, cultural and national identity, perversion, and the abuse of children are declared the norm. And priests are forced to bless same-sex marriages.” In the same line, the Russian Orthodox Patriarch recently pontificated, “We have entered into a struggle that has not a physical, but a metaphysical significance … If humanity accepts that sin is not a violation of God’s law, if humanity accepts that sin is a variation of human behavior, the human civilization will end there.”

Now, insofar as that goes, Putin’s and the Patriarch’s observations are entirely correct. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is the greatest mass murderer in world history, also frequently makes completely accurate critiques of the West and its corrupt woke theories. That doesn’t make the CCP any less a mass murderer; just as Putin is making such self-righteous statements while he is prosecuting an unjust invasion of Ukraine that has killed over 200,000 of Russian soldiers, Ukrainian soldiers, and Ukrainian civilians. Not to mention the fact that Putin launched his career as a Soviet KGB foreign intelligence officer; that is, as a spy or thug working for the Soviets to do their dirty work and lie effectively about it to non-Russians.