Locked in a Struggle with a Decadent West

Ever wonder why we are siding with Ukraine, when it is no more free or democratic than Russia?

Apparently Russia is hated because it resists Western decadence.

Reuters reports:

Laws that would ban "propaganda" which discourages Russians from having children won overwhelming approval on Thursday in the first stage of their passage through parliament, part of a Kremlin drive to boost the country's flagging birth rate.

The move to outlaw content that is deemed to promote a child-free lifestyle won unanimous backing from members of the lower house, the Duma, in the first of three required readings.

"It is important to protect people, primarily the younger generation, from having the ideology of childlessness imposed on them on the internet, in the media, in movies, and in advertising," said Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, a powerful ally of President Vladimir Putin.

"We continue to form a unified legal framework for the protection of children, families, and traditional values."

Putin, who portrays Russia as a bastion of moral values locked in an existential struggle with a decadent West, has encouraged women to have at least three children to secure the demographic future of the country.

I favor free speech, but it is interesting how Putin has the guts to do what he thinks is necessary to save his country.