"I think you're going to see it in Latin America, I think you're going to see it in Asia, I think you've already seen it in India," Bannon told a small Vatican audience via skype in the summer of 2014.
"Modi's great victory was very much based on these Reaganesque principles, so I think this is a global revolt, and we are very fortunate and proud to be the news site that is reporting that throughout the world," he said, according to the transcripts of his Skype address released by Buzzfeed.
"I'm not justifying Vladimir Putin and the kleptocracy that he represents, because he eventually is the state capitalist of kleptocracy. However, we the Judeo-Christian West really have to look at what he's talking about as far as traditionalism goes - particularly the sense of where it supports the underpinnings of nationalism - and I happen to think that the individual sovereignty of a country is a good thing and a strong thing," he had said.
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He had described Putin as an interesting character.
"He's also very, very, very intelligent. I can see this in the US where he's playing very strongly to social conservatives about his message about more traditional values, so I think it's something that we have to be very much on guard of," he said.
Responding to a question, he had advocated a very aggressive stance against radical Islam. "I realize there are other aspects that are not as militant and not as aggressive and that's fine," he had said.
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