Author: Cozmin Gușă
A year ago today, Vladimir Putin was still portrayed across the so-called “Collective West” as a ruthless dictator—possibly gravely ill, even on his deathbed, according to the propaganda press. He was being hunted for arrest in several European countries, Romania included. And Americans were being told that immediately after Kamala Harris’s installation as U.S. president (remember that, last year), the Kremlin’s tsar would be wiped off the map. Anyone daring to say otherwise about Vladimir Putin was swiftly repudiated, branded an idiot or a traitor and excluded from public debate.
Today, Putin celebrates his 73rd birthday after 27 years at the summit of Russian power—25 as president and prime minister, plus the years when he led the feared FSB. Apart from a few EU leaders manipulated by Western High Finance—the Rothschild group—who still criticize and demonize him to keep alive the illusion of a future EU-Russia war, Putin now enjoys applause and admiration from the rest of the planet. Heads of state and public opinion alike express a level of respect that, note well, no political leader has achieved since the end of the Second World War, when Winston Churchill, as you’ll recall, was the planet’s political superstar.
Of course, Putin has flaws and has made his share of mistakes. The honors paid to him today may indeed be exaggerated. But such things must be judged comparatively and in context. Apart from Xi Jinping, who dislikes the spotlight and doesn’t seek applause, Putin can only really be compared to the remaining leaders of major or influential nations, and in almost every respect, he clearly outclasses them.
This was demonstrated above all by his meeting in Alaska with Donald Trump, his main competitor for the symbolic seat of global influence and popularity. The broader civilizational context also works in Putin’s favor. Why? Because the world is confronting an anti-Christian offensive, the advance of LGBT ideology, and the rise of transhumanism. In this climate, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin stands as the acknowledged knight defending Christianity and normality—a knight who raises his sword and fights for these humanist ideals. And naturally, it is in this role that Putin today enjoys his newly consolidated status—ironically earned with the involuntary help of his adversaries and of Russia’s enemies. Under Putin’s leadership, Russia itself has also been elevated once again to the rank of superpower.
So, unlike last year on this same day, Putin will today, I am certain, receive a flood of congratulations and champagne bottles—because that’s how the world works. Even many of the leaders who once discredited and demonized him will, without a doubt, send him clear signs of esteem, hoping that if not forgotten for their shameful behavior, they will at least be forgiven. And yes—of course—I’m thinking of the likes of Macron and Ursula, who already practiced their sycophancy with Donald Trump the moment he returned to power. So it’s no great stretch to imagine them exercising that same sycophancy toward the Russian tsar.
