[Wallace T.]

I don't know President Zelensky's religious convictions. However, when Vladimir Putin, a former KGB official who owes his career to faithfully serving the atheistic Soviet state, invokes Orthodox Christian symbolism, I find his pretensions more offensive than Zelensky, raised in Judaism, invoking the same symbolism to encourage his fellow Ukrainians to fight..

Western Christian religion has the "just war" doctrine, from Augustine and developed in Catholic theology by Thomas Aquinas and among Protestants by Hugo Grotius. I don't know if Eastern Orthodoxy has a similar doctrine.

Aquinas set forth three principles of a just war:

First, the war must be waged upon the command of a rightful sovereign.
Second, the war needs to be waged for just cause, on account of some wrong the attacked have committed.
Thirdly, warriors must have the right intent, namely to promote good and to avoid evil.

Putin's invasion of Ukraine does not meet at least the second of these criteria. Re-establishing the USSR or the Tsarist Empire does not fall under any of these categories.

[jjotto]

Putin is absolutely known to be friendly with Jews and Israel, dispute the history of Czarist Russia and the Soviet Union. Zelensky is an apostate Jew whose wife and children are proud Christians.

Why would you think Zelensky was “raised in Judaism”?