Intelligence Squared debate: The West is provoking a new Cold War with Russia

David Lindsay

Putin's neocon enemies are old Marxists from back in the day. That is why they oppose Putin, and thus support the only viable alternative to him, namely the totally unreconstructed Communist Party of the Russian Federation. They have no concept of Russia as, in common with all the Slavs (not least including the Serbs), the bulwark, against Islamic and other threats, of the civilisation defined by the Biblical-Classical synthesis; on the contrary, they define themselves precisely by their opposition to that synthesis, which is the West.

Herbert Thornton

David Lindsay puts his finger on the post important development of the last several decades - that the Slavs are now the main obstacle that Christian civilisation presents to the expansion of Islam.

Western Europe is now so widely infected by what I call Political Correctness Disease, that it actually encourages Islam to establish itself there. Sadly, North America shows every sign of being increasingly infected by the same sickness.

To my mind, what Aids is to individual humans, PCD is to human society. It destroys society's immune systems - and death then gradually and almost inevitably follows.