Russia’s take on America’s racial problems is even more interesting than China’s frankly predictable, if decidedly cynical, spin. Kremlin media outlets, too, are prone to praising BLM and using CRT-inspired language to attack the United States for its racial problems, thus carrying on anti-American propaganda themes which date to Soviet times. Moscow’s official viewpoint is more complex, however, and Kremlin media outlets are as likely these days to criticize Wokeness as to praise it – sometimes in the same outlet, in adjacent articles. Consistency has never been a strongpoint of Russian propagandists.
Concerns about the other side of Wokeness, namely that it fosters anti-white attitudes and policies, also have currency in the regime of President Vladimir Putin, and they’re now being discussed openly. Last week, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, an excellent barometer of Kremlin viewpoints, warned about anti-white “aggression” in the United States. In televised comments, Lavrov offered a
full-throated defense of whiteness against Wokeness that no Western politician of any stature would dare utter publicly, while pointing his finger directly at America for this radical and dangerous ideology:
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For several years, Putin and his regime have posed as the defenders of conservatism and traditionalism on the global stage, including Kremlin endorsement of old-fashioned values regarding race, gender, and religion. Moscow is already deeply opposed to Wokeness in its policies and most of its propaganda. However, if the Putin regime decides to make itself the global defender of endangered whiteness too, as Lavrov seems to be hinting, that may prove a serious irritant inside the West. The Russian Federation is about 80 percent ethnically Russian, making that country considerably whiter than the United States is at present. Might we soon come to a day when Vladimir Putin is viewed by disaffected people around the globe as the last hope for the demographically declining white world?