Conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan insists that God is now on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s side. The bombastic pundit's claims in a rambling diatribe posted to a conservative website that Russia is the 'third Rome' and the West ‘is Gomorrah.' ‘Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity,’ Buchanan wrote in the op-ed published by Human Events, adding that his recent speeches echo those made nearly 20 years ago by Pope John Paul II – in which the pontiff also criticized the West. The 'third Rome': Former Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan (left) believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and God are on the same page in their fight against Western hedonism and opulence
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The former Republican presidential candidate wrote an opinion column that claims Putin is leading the fight against Western hedonism
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Russia's annexation of Crimea is part of Putin's master plan to fight the moral war against the west, Buchanan claims
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The former communist country's ban on 'homosexual propaganda' is cited as proof the battle is being won, according to Buchanan
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‘The West’s capitulation to a sexual revolution of easy divorce, rampant promiscuity, pornography, homosexuality, feminism, abortion, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, assisted suicide,’ are the evils Buchanan believes @placeholder is fighting against.