@gnarley_boot @Dan_Hulson @doonxib Oh yeah man, I went to a Baptist church for nigh three years, on my way into Orthodoxy. I took it quite seriously and absorbed as much info as I could. I don’t think a person can get an accurate understanding of the American cultural milieu, without taking Baptists into account.
Similarly - and to a much greater extent, ngl - Russia *cannot* be correctly understood without a decent sense of Orthodox Christianity. I don’t claim to have “secret” / “privileged” intelligence, or “classified“ information regarding the Russian state; but I am nevertheless uncommonly well-poised amongst Westerners to understand their worldview, culture, priorities, history, etc.
As such, there were many things in the Putin / Tucker interview that were obvious to me, but that haven’t warranted much mention by almost any English-speaking account.