In the same April 12 WorldNetDaily column in which he proclaimed that his ” biggest impact on the world” was his discredited book “The Pink Swastika” — in which he ahistorically claimed that the Nazi party in Germany was full of gay people — Scott Lively served up more of the Putin–fluffing and the cheering for Russia to defeat Ukraine he’s known for:
I’ve done missionary work and otherwise traveled in 68 countries so far and I recognize the Russians as the closest in mentality and ideology to American conservatives of any nation in the world – which is why our leftist elites propagandize and war against them so aggressively – to keep us separated at all cost. I respect Putin because I was immersed for months in the country he single-handedly transformed from lawless gangsterism following the collapse of the Soviets to a highly civilized and prosperous society in which entrepreneurialism thrives, conservative solutions like the flat tax are a reality, LGBT propaganda to children is totally banned, and the Russian Orthodox church has purged and replaced virtually every shred of communism.
Ever since OBiden orchestrated the outbreak of war in Ukraine while cynically calling Russia an “unprovoked aggressor,” I’ve done my best to present the truthful Russian side of the story to my readers in contradiction to the false narratives of our corporate media – and to remind my sometimes duped fellow conservatives that our media always lie about everything we care about, so why trust them about Russia? To do this I have diligently sought out the most honest and objective of the pro-Russian writers and pundits and vetted their analyses to the best of my ability.
The biggest turning point in the propaganda war over Ukraine occurred when it became clear to military strategists and honest civilian observers like myself that Putin could not be forced to give up the pro-Russian territories he had liberated and would likely take more Ukrainian territory, including potentially the biggest plum, Odessa. Suddenly, “coincidentally,” Hamas committed its massacre in Israel, conveniently justifying a military and media pivot to Israel and the sharp reduction of Western funding, resupplying and media attention to Ukraine.
Lively’s problem is that he’s seeking out only “pro-Russian writers and pundits,” which means they can’t actually be “honest and objective” — they’re the ones feeding him propaganda about Russia being “a highly civilized and prosperous society” (in fact, it’s a regime filled with crony capitalism) and that the Russian Orthodox church is all about eradicating “communism” (in fact, it too is a Putin crony cheering on the war in Ukraine). He also fails to identify any specific “false narrative” that the “corporate media” is telling about the war, and he offers no argument to justify Putin’s seizing of Ukrainian territories by bloody force.
Lively then insisted that the Israel-Hamas war is a conspiracy by “globalist elites”: “I have stated from the beginning that I believe the Oct. 7 massacre was genuine Hamas-driven terrorism but was deliberately unleashed by hidden globalist elites to serve, first, their overarching geopolitical timeline and, second, the parallel necessity of (eventually but inevitably) taking out Iran’s nuclear capabilities.” This led to Lively claiming that Russia is just as good as Israel and that Ukraine is just as bad as Hamas:
The Muslim world naturally united against Israel after the massacre, which changed the calculus of the Ukraine propaganda war because Russia has (understandably but regrettably) allied with Shiite Iran as a counterbalance to the U.S. alliance with Sunni Saudi Arabia et al. Therefore, almost immediately most pro-Russian writers and pundits began backing Hamas and attacking Israel in their updates – equating Israel with Ukraine as adversaries of Russian interests with key common attributes.
My immediate reaction was the opposite: that it is Russia and Israel who are most alike in the war of geopolitics, while the “Palestinians” are, like Ukraine, bribed-to-the-brim puppets of the same leftist Western elites. It is Israel whose national interests have been increasingly threatened (geographically and politically) over the past half century by encroaching Islamists – backed by the ultra-leftist U.N., just as NATO has incessantly, incrementally encroached on Russia since WWII, backed by the U.N.
Israel is obviously a more complex case because many of the globalist elites in question are (non-resident) Torah-defying Jews with mixed motives and loyalties regarding the Jewish homeland. But in the current context in which the true Orthodox Jews control Israel and Orthodox Christians control Russia, both holding the same Bible-based moral compass on the essential left/right cultural conflicts of our time – while Hamas and Ukraine are both simply tools of regime change by outsiders – the Israel/Russia commonalities are stark and potent.
Lively still doesn’t understand that NATO is a defensive alliance and, thus, has no interest or capability of “encroaching” on Russia. He doesn’t explain why Ukraine and the rest of Europe shouldn’t be allowed to defend itself against a violent authoritarian leader like Vladimir Putin — and he doesn’t get that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine effectively made the case for NATO.
If Lively had ever talked to people other than “pro-Russian writers and pundits” who feed him propaganda straight from Putin, he might actually know some of this.