Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:51)
Putin 'Elected' President and Inaugurated in Imperial Glory: He Harkens Back to Imperial Past with a Wink and a Nod to Past Dictators as He Wins 5th Term
Part II (11:51 - 16:36)
Russia is Running Out of Money and Soldiers: The Reality of Today’s Russia as Putin Looks to Raise Taxes and Recruit Women for War
- Family Values or Fighting Valor? Russia Grapples With Women’s Wartime Role. by The New York Times (Anatoly Kurmanaev and Ekaterina Bodyagina)
Part III (16:36 - 19:30)
France Warms Up to China? Xi Jinping Makes Historic Trip to France as He Attempts to Reshape World Scene
- Xi Visits Europe, Seeking Strategic Opportunity by The New York Times (Roger Cohen and Chris Buckley)
Part IV (19:30 - 25:37)
From Boy Scouts to Scouting America: How Scandals, the LGBTQ Revolution, and Deprioritization of Male Friendship Paved the Way to the Breakdown of the Boy Scouts
- Boy Scouts rebrands as Scouting America, dropping gendered name by The Washington Post (Kim Bellware)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 8, 2024. I'm Albert Boler and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. In the Andreaski Hall of the |
| 0:15.3 | Grand Kremlin Palace, Vladimir Putin stood and he was formally inaugurated in |
| 0:20.7 | elaborate ceremonies in a very elaborate setting for the very elaborate |
| 0:25.5 | politics of the situation in which he is now entering his fifth term as |
| 0:29.0 | Russia's president. But we're going to be looking at the context of what was taking place and why all the symbolic |
| 0:36.3 | actions were broadcast to the world and especially to the Russian people. |
| 0:40.9 | But the most important thing we need to understand is that Vladimir Putin is now so powerful in Russia |
| 0:45.8 | that his basic title should be president for life or president for so long as he can remain president. |
| 0:53.1 | Vladimir Putin is an autocrat. |
| 0:55.0 | He is hearkening back intentionally |
| 0:56.8 | to the totalitarian instincts of Russia's autocratic leaders. |
| 1:00.7 | And that would include Ivan the terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, to a lesser extent in terms of the kind of iconography that he wants to bring forward. |
| 1:11.0 | You're not going to hear him mention so much linen and Stalin, but of course those strong men are also very much in the background of the Russian ideal of the strong leader, the man of iron, and Vladimir Putin intends for Russia and for those watching Russia |
| 1:26.2 | to see him as the man of iron. |
| 1:29.0 | Now one of the problems, of course, of being a strong man, I didn't use the word dictator. That's not precisely what we're talking |
| 1:35.4 | about here, although we're talking about someone with the same kind of power. It's not so |
| 1:39.6 | much that Vladimir Putin holds all the power in Russia is that he controls all the power in |
| 1:45.8 | Russia and basically no one who is not in his favor lasts very long in Russia |
| 1:50.9 | and as you're looking at Vladimir Putin you are reminded of what |
| 1:54.8 | for instance Winston Churchill said speaking of other dictators in the 20th century |
| 1:59.9 | it is as if they ride on the back of a tiger. |
| 2:04.0 | And the reality is, once you are on the back of a tiger, you can't get off. |
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