It's Thursday, March 10, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

It has been argued that moral conservatives should support Vladimir Putin and his vision of Russia.

As we consider the situation with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there are at least some who have argued that Vladimir Putin in moral terms is a friend to conservative culture, to the Christian tradition when it comes to the definition

of marriage and sexuality, there are those who are arguing that Vladimir Putin represents

a new model for conservative leadership on the world stage.

Is that true or is it false?

Well before turning to that question specifically, before turning to Putin and Russia,

for that matter Ukraine, let's just consider that something very interesting

is unfolding in a distinction between just to take Europe, the West and the East.

Some very interesting things happening in many of the nations of Eastern Europe.

In particular, the most interesting developments have taken place in the nations of Hungary and Poland.

In both of those nations, there have been very interesting conservative

counter reactions against the secularizing trends that came during the Soviet

era and then the continuation or even

amplification of those secularizing trends as it comes to the influence of

other European nations and the general culture of what has become the European Union.

It is very interesting that those two nations, Poland and Hungary, have appeared as

interesting political alternatives in that European context and

alternatives that are basically openly derided, criticized, and opposed by

the more secular and liberal European leadership and that includes the European Union.

Those interesting developments include a resurgence of moral conservatism in Poland and in

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