The current, ongoing crusade against Russia, in which the combined West is using the Ukraine’s living corpse as a battering ram against it, is a very odd one: instead of losing territory and population, as would be expected in the course of any regular, normal crusade, Russia is gaining lands and people—by the million! These are lands it had lost in the aftermath of the failed Bolshevik experiment. Along the way, Russia is ridding itself of economic dependence on the hostile nations to its west. This crusade is also odd because, unlike all previous crusades against Russia, Napoleon and Hitler included, which were launched by European nations, this one features the United States as its centerpiece, and the United States is on a different continent entirely.