Our old friend Rod Dreher is shocked, shocked that Vladimir Putin is encouraging his Syrian allies to fight for him in Ukraine. To Dreher, this means that Putin is only posing cynically as the defender of Christian values against the barbarians of the left. Otherwise, how could he bring in dirty Muslims to fight the pious Orthodox Christians of Ukraine? He must only be interested in power, and empire!
Well, of course he bloody is! Dreher is the kind of guy who will buy anything you put in front of him as long as you wrap it up in a package of traditional Christian values. Anyone with any brains at all would have seen that Putin is about power, and nothing else.