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Patriarch Kirill: “Any Desire to Destroy Russia Will Mean the End of the World”
Pravoslavie ^ | 1/20/23

Posted on 01/20/2023 6:49:51 PM PST by marshmallow

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To: marshmallow

TS considering Vladolf Putler is destroying Russia.


41 posted on 01/20/2023 8:08:11 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: buwaya

I’m a lifelong republican conservative, MAGA. And I despise the left.

But these folks are such extreme kooks they actually believe their own country is the enemy and dictatorial Russia is a savior!

And Putin is directing his propaganda to them because he knows they swallow it hook line and sinker.

Putin’s Russia is a nightmare for any liberty loving conservative.
But these idiots think Putin is going to save them from “homos” or something.

Russia - abortions, divorce, no fee speech, murders political opponents, no free press, no gun rights, no free elections, totally corrupt.
And WEF? What kind of world order do these idiots think Russia, China, N Korea, Syria and Iran are going to impose?


42 posted on 01/20/2023 8:15:48 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Good point. He’s invading because Russia needs the food, industry, and manpower because its population is crumbling.
A friend with a lot of background on Russia says they are weak because Putin has eliminated any possible opposition and they have no leaders to call on. He’s even throwing his own cronies off balconies if they imply any criticism.


43 posted on 01/20/2023 8:20:27 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: MarMema

Your description of the ethnic situation in Ukraine is utterly false. Every ethnographic study for the past 150 years has shown that every oblast in Ukraine, except for Crimea, has always had a majority ethnic Ukrainian population, not Russian. This includes Donetsk and Luhansk. The ethnic Russian majority in Crimea only dates from after WW2 when Stalin deported the Tartar majority to the interior of Russia.

Published in 1879:
https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1879_nation_europe1.jpg

Published in 1914:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0f/09/3d/0f093d9ed319ed61b678a225cb86a69e.jpg

Published in 1949:
https://euromaidanpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wMWjtUSAXoQ1.jpg

Published in 2001:
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hL85-21M0a4/VyigQss_JpI/AAAAAAAACTc/iZwo8Q8ZCIYyG8j-kdr8Hul2BTNPP0M8wCLcB/s1600/781f6031609e52f92003a7098d5fd73a.jpg

Even today, only 17% of the Ukrainian population identifies as Russian:

https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/People

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/major-ethnic-groups-of-the-ukraine.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/03/13/the-ethnicities-of-ukraine-are-united/?sh=605b0bdf110e

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine


44 posted on 01/20/2023 8:20:57 PM PST by Salohcin
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To: Salohcin

When last checked there were 6 million Russians in Ukraine in Eastern Ukraine areas.


45 posted on 01/20/2023 8:22:45 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Williams

To be fair, we are looking at an era of madness in the US, wherin the kooks on the other side seem to be prevailing. This creates counter-kooks. But they are all still kooks.

You know, for all the socialism and enviro-nuttery and pro-(the wrong kind of) immigrant fads, Europe seems way more sane.


46 posted on 01/20/2023 8:28:47 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: vespa300

Exactly- the patriarch seems not to know the bible very well- We have at the very least 1007 more years, likely many more years- but definitely that many left-


47 posted on 01/20/2023 8:29:40 PM PST by Bob434
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To: marshmallow
"Patriarch Kirill: “Any Desire to Destroy Russia Will Mean the End of the World”"

Reminds me of the joke about the ant crawling up the elephants tail ... with rape on its mind.

Why would we want to destroy Russia anyway? It's far crueler just to let them suffer.

48 posted on 01/20/2023 8:30:37 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: caww

Russian speakers, but not necessarily people who want to be ruled by Moscow.

The US and Eastern Europe and Western Europe and etc. other countries are also full of Russians who don’t want to be ruled by Moscow, maybe 15 million of them.


49 posted on 01/20/2023 8:33:02 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: MeganC
Your intense and often irrational hatred of Russians fits perfectly with the description of Russo’phobia’..... the people who hate Russia do so because of the anti-Russian rhetoric in our media.
50 posted on 01/20/2023 8:37:20 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Williams

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill is a Putin Stooge POS.


51 posted on 01/20/2023 8:41:45 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: caww; MeganC

MeganC’s comment was specifically against Terrorist Putin Supports. Not against people who are Russian. You owe an apology.


52 posted on 01/20/2023 8:46:44 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: marshmallow

So much for Beroglio’s so-called “consecration” of Russia (and the Ukraine) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.


53 posted on 01/20/2023 8:54:07 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: caww

That’s out of a total population for Ukraine of 48 million. Ethnic Ukrainians are the majority in both Luhansk and Donetsk.Ethnic Russians are only 39% of the population of Luhansk and 38% of Donetsk.

The Russian minority is even smaller in the rest of the so-called “Novorossiya”:
— Zaporizhzhia Oblast: 25%
— Kherson Oblast: 14%
— Mykolaiv Oblast: 14%
— Odesa Oblast: 21%

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine


54 posted on 01/20/2023 8:58:39 PM PST by Salohcin
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To: caww

I rather like most Russians and wish they’d end this pointless and futile war.

I even used to like Putin. Check my old posts and you’ll see.


55 posted on 01/20/2023 9:07:00 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Thank you. It seems to be a recurring troll tactic to purposefully miscast other people’s posts and I’m used to it now.


56 posted on 01/20/2023 9:10:02 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

Somebody wants Slavs constantly at each others throats. Putin is fulfilling their plan.


57 posted on 01/20/2023 9:13:49 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ebb tide

Francis is the fourth Pope to have done this. Piux IX, Paul VI and John Paul II did the same. I guess if it didn’t take, try, try again.

This is a plea for aid in resolving Russia’s problems, which are in fact spiritual.


58 posted on 01/20/2023 9:16:37 PM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: dfwgator

Don’t fool yourself. This is being driven by no one other than Putin himself.


59 posted on 01/20/2023 9:17:59 PM PST by Salohcin
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To: Williams

Lol


60 posted on 01/20/2023 9:19:18 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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