Russia is not going to stop with the Ukraine.
You’re probably, unfortunately, correct.
Didn’t the Mexican government try something like this back in the 1920s? How’d that work out?
Every time someone attacks the Church there’s a lot of bloodshed but in the end, the Church still stands stronger than before.
No. They are acting like Russia again.
If Turkey turns the Hagai Sophia into a mosque again, they might use the Crimea for what they originally wanted to. A staging area to retake the Second Rome.
I am not surprised they moved against the Ukrainian Catholics. The old Orthodox view them as traitors for the sack of Constantinople. Maybe collaborators would be a better term.
Either way, they are viewed as non Slavic.