Vladimir Putin’s Common Sense – Opinion

The dictionary defines obscurantism as either “opposition to the increase and spread of knowledge” or “deliberate obscurity or evasion of clarity.” In either case, it’s not a word prone to frequent occurrence in everyday conversation. It is the word, or at least the Russian equivalent thereof, Russian president Vladimir Putin recently chose in delineating Russia’s division with the West regarding the latter’s ongoing gender self-definition wars.

Putin said the following at his annual year end press conference held on Thursday. While one can safely imagine such events are far more akin to a Joe Biden presser tongue bath … er, conference than any given White House press corps versus #OrangeManBad — in terms of unfriendly or at least difficult questioning, interesting tidbits still came out to play. Here are some examples:

“I adhere to that traditional approach that a woman is a woman and a man is a man. A father is a dad, and a mother is a mom. And I hope that our society has the internal moral protection dictated by the traditional religious denominations of the Russian Federation,” he said.

Later, he said:

“If somebody thinks that a woman and a man are the same thing, they’re welcome to [their opinion], but a certain common sense should exist,” the head of state pointed out.

There’s a lot to mull over here.

Putin is an interesting fusion of Russian middle and old. A product of the Soviet Union’s strong-arm socialistic/communistic political era, unlike many products of his time he understands the value of traditional Russian culture. His approach to religion is the most striking difference from his predecessors.

While his personal beliefs are known only to himself and God, outwardly, Putin has utterly discarded the USSR era’s open disdain for, and none-too-subtle efforts to at least reduce, if not altogether eliminate, the church’s influence on Russian society. Putin instead embraces the church’s traditional moral values and insists on them.

Putin saw how Pope John Paul II laid to waste Stalin’s smirk about how many divisions does the Pope have. It turned out that the heavenly hosts were armed to their teeth. People from Eastern Europe and the USSR overthrew Soviet rule and puppets through peaceful resistance. They lit candles and said prayers to their oppressors.

Putin is both sharply intellectual and acutely alert to the changing times. While the West is doing everything it can to run the church out of town, what’s left of the church insists on emasculating itself via the abandonment of its own truths, Putin is reinforcing the church, confident that doing so will simultaneously strengthen his hand and raise his appeal to Western people growing ever wearier of weakness in the face of wokeism.

Putin uses his muscle unabatedly to achieve what he desires. Examples include Russia’s territorial annexation from and open threats against Ukraine, and Putin’s Don Corleone-like moves regarding political opponents. This duly noted, he has also wisely set aside his predecessors’ belief that being an economic entity unto itself and military might alone are signs of national strength.

Putin has leveraged his country’s oil wealth to exert tremendous economic influence throughout Europe. He likely has a sign somewhere in his office proclaiming great thanks to the eco-freakos, for their irrationality and political might has made Russia’s willingness to drill, baby, drill all the more powerful. Russia played, and continues to play Europe as the economic suckers it is. We are proud to announce that there is no need for nukes.

Even in complete or partial opposition to a power, strength respects that of the weak. Donald Trump is respected by Putin. Similarly, he appreciates the Russian Orthodox Church’s power, for alignment with its values and teachings strengthens his hand while reinforcing his unshakable belief in Russian superiority over the West.

Putin is not a fan of Joe Biden. Biden is seen by him as a career politician, always willing to speak the talk and ready to give in whenever he’s looked at cross-eyed. Putin is aware that the US could make economic sanctions against Russia if it starts waging a proxy war against Ukraine. Any such action would result in America’s European allies’ already heavily burdened economies collapsing should Russia turn off its oil pipelines.

Therefore, it is utterly logical for Putin to come out against gender fluidity and self-definition’s inane insanity. Putin has set the table to richly reward himself from the West’s folly, as the West continues to stumble toward self-immolation. Effective leadership understands the power of enabling identification empowerment by saying to its constituents, “See? Told you we were better.”