Kevin DeAnna of Youth for Western Civilization, now writing for WorldNetDaily, is joining Concerned Women for America in defending Russia for convicting members of the feminist protest band Pussy Riot for “hooliganism.” According to DeAnna, Pussy Riot’s protest inside a Russian cathedral was part of a larger effort “to promote degeneracy” and laments that while “Russia is certainly corrupt,” Russian president Vladimir Putin “has not gone far enough” in defending Russian nationalism. The real problem, DeAnna suggests, is that “imperialist, left-wing” activists are supporting the Muslim Brotherhood to weaken Christianity and America!

Russia is targeted precisely because it is conservative. The vast majority of Russians were outraged at P—y Riot’s stunt. As Putin himself noted, there’s a reason they didn’t target a mosque. The real audience was the left-wing American and European media, which never misses an opportunity to promote degeneracy when it is directed at Christian or Western targets.

Putin is not perfect, and Russia is certainly corrupt, though it was far worse before Putin’s takeover. Putin is simply a Russian nationalist, doing his best to strengthen his own country’s interests. Perhaps used to our own leaders deliberately sabotaging us, this may appear threatening to Americans. If anything, Putin has not gone far enough, making concessions to Islamists in a shortsighted attempt to try to hang on to Russia’s Muslim southern territories.

It’s probably not surprising that American conservatism has been reduced to defending free speech only for leftists and concealing its own powerlessness with swaggering bellicosity against media-approved enemies. The problem is that’s not where the enemy is anymore.

There actually is an imperialist, left-wing power that interferes with other countries. It pushes mass Muslim immigration on Western nations. It tries to displace traditional values in Christian countries. It hands over former American allies to the Muslim Brotherhood. It supports progressive activist organizations with millions of taxpayer dollars in collusion with far-left activists like George Soros. That country is the United States.

American conservatives should be angry about the subversion of their own country, not following the left’s orders yet again by bellowing attacks against the Third Rome.