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Context #AdvocacyUSRANDCorporationRyanBauer "In the leadup to the war in Ukraine, the Russian strategy of courting Western support through religious means appeared to be paying off. Tucker Carlson asked live on air why Americans should hate Russia; Steve Bannon, on his show, argued we should be praising Putin for his anti-LGBTQ policies and for being 'anti-woke.' Even after the onset of war, religious figures such as American leaders of Russian Orthodox Cathedrals in the United States have repeated Russian talking points that assign blame to both Ukraine and the United States for the war.
And yet, within Russia and its Church, cracks in support have been forming since the initial invasion. Shortly after the war broke out, for example, more than 150 Russian Orthodox clerics issued an open letter calling for the war's immediate end, stating that Ukrainians should be free to make their own choices. Though this is but a small portion of Russia's thousands of Orthodox clerics, it represented an uncharacteristic break in Church messaging and flew in the face of the narratives coming from the Kremlin and Church leadership" (16 November 2022).
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