1. Putin is a ruthless KGB officer. No less ruthless than Stalin and Hitler.
2. Putin firmly holds that the Russian nation, with its values, culture and orthodox religion constitutes the last bastion of Christendom against moral corruption and death.
3. Corruption and moral death in his worldview are embodied by profiteering, cosmopolitanism, individualism, hedonism and sexual immorality.
4. The global centers of this cultural decadence in his mind are Hollywood, Las Vegas and Wall Street.
Corollary
Due to the premises listed above Putin is a latent anti-Semite. So far his antisemitism has been kept in check by the following factors:
1. Jews are an economic, cultural and PR blessing for every land they reside in. Putin, as a history buff, understands this well. He is close to a Chabad rabbi and was close to one of his teachers who was Jewish.
2. Putin knows that the Jewish people and the Russian people both suffered terribly under a common enemy: Nazism.
3. Whatever misgivings Putin may have always felt about Jewish political liberalism, cultural avantgardism and cosmopolitanism, he has felt it wiser to hug Russian Jews in order to be on friendly terms with them and their "international networks". READ MORE
