how nice of you to take such delight in their impending death. You are a true patriot sir.
Given the far greater potential of the dismal Russian invasion of Ukraine to harm the Russian state, the support offered by the church is on a far larger scale and even includes a willingness to indulge the widespread Russian belief in miracles.Some of this is frankly bizarre. The pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda has been promoting "Orthodox battalions" in Donbas whose units successfully reported sustaining fewer casualties after each was renamed after Orthodox saints, the paper reported.
Renamed and blessed, something strange happened. Losses began to dramatically decrease and miraculous salvations grew. "There are no more heavy casualties," the story’s headline assured readers.
Since the war in Ukraine began, the Church has made itself an arm of the Kremlin, not only justifying the war but also blessing Russian troops regardless of their conduct in an attempt to raise morale and provide a cause worth dying for - something Putin’s regime has so signally failed to do. The more primitive and mystical that cause is, the better, as long as it bolsters the war effort.
What will we be fighting for when the time comes, mRNA “vaccines” and sex changes on children?
“In times of war and not before,
God and the soldier we adore.
But in times of peace and all things righted,
God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.”
- Rudyard Kipling
More deliberate obtuseness and childish reasoning: “we just can’t figure out why Russia would fight a war against NATO right on its border with Ukraine! The only explanation - Putin is Hitler!”
After committing war crimes that have murdered thousands upon thousands of innocent Ukrainian women, children and the elderly, the Russian bastards want to get right with God. Hope the day comes when the Ukrainians can hang them in the village square.
BS. FSB is just revamped KGB. They are materialists and deny the existence of a spiritual aspect to existence.
Alex Christoforou of The Duran: "Looking at the physical reality of the situation. There are no tanks, there are no fight jets and there is no ammo to give.
"Tanks and fight jets, if there are available to give, the time it would take to train (Ukraine soldiers) will take too long.
"It's not going to make a difference. Everyone knows it isn't going to make a difference. It's obvious.
"We've even had commanders in the Polish military, former ones, that have said it's over.
"Ukraine doesn't have the ability to launch an offensive."
I served during the Cold War (1980s through 2005). I remember the tales of missionaries being jailed for smuggling bibles across the iron curtain. Fast forward to 2003, I’m on a START inspection team in Bryansk, Russia for a rail mobile launcher elimination. There were two Russian Orthodox churches outside the team hotel, and we walked over for a look. One of our FSB escorts crossed himself upon entering the sanctuary, and I bought a pretty good quality Russian bible for ten rubles. The change was pretty cool to see.