Because we have the attention span of 1 season of Married At First Sight, we don’t appreciate the power and importance and motivator Russian Orthodox Christianity plays out in Putin’s desire to invade the Ukraine.
In 988AD, Vladimir the Great, whom Putin takes his name from, mass baptised 1000 Russians at the River Nee-Proh in what has become the founding spiritual moment in Orthodox Russian Christianity as the moment Russia became Christian and led to a cultural narrative structure that Moscow is the third Rome and was a homeland for Christianity.
What isn’t widely known is that Putin himself is a very staunch Russian Orthodox Christianand that he has used the Russian Orthodox Church as an enormous control mechanism over the Russian people.
Putin has spent billions rebuilding the Churches smashed down by Communism and uses his relationship with the Church for political advantage. It was the Orthodox Church who first praised Putin for annexing Crimea, a region with much religious importance for the Church.
Recently the Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church severed ties with the Russian branch because they felt Putin was having too much influence over it.
If Moscow is the third Rome, Kyiv is the second Jerusalem.
Putin sees himself as part of a long line of Christian Defenders of the true faith.
If we don’t understand Putin’s relationship with God, we misunderstand his invasion of Ukraine.
Likewise with Trump, I just don’t believe we are appreciating the impact of the failed assassination attempt…
Trump says maybe God saved him from assassination attempt to fix ‘broken country’
…which leads me to question, ‘Has God told Trump to build a casino on Gaza’ because his inane commentary that Gaza will be handed over to him and he will build resorts is so fucking deranged and delusional it’s got ‘God is talking of me’ written all over it.
This is insanity is an actual war crime…
Trump says Palestinians will have no right of return to Gaza under his plan
People will have ‘no alternative’ but to leave territory after destruction left by Israel, US president said in Fox interview
…and so is this threat…
Trump says Gaza ceasefire should be cancelled if Israeli hostages not freed
President proposes letting ‘all hell break loose’ if hostages held by Hamas are not returned to Israel at noon on Saturday
…this is all terribly dangerous rhetoric and crazy ill thought out ideas detached from reality.
So your average Christian then.
The difference between war crime and genocide tends to be the belief of the one causing violence that God is on their side.
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Bid “No Trumps?” best.
To answer your question Martyn, if God has, Trump will guarantee it to fail like everything else he touches.
The tenth commandment says not to covet (gamble) so you can be sure that God isn’t telling Trump to build a casino in Gaza. Trump could be listening to the opposition though as that would explain a lot of things about him.
You need to be a bit more realistic in your suggestions or have a longer Xmas break if you want to preserve your good reputation.
The cavalries charged. The Indians died. Oh the country is still young. With God on its side.
Well the stupid old prick backed the Kansas City Chiefs, so clearly God’s not sold on the idea of being associated with Ronald Mac Donald Trump
My wife bids ‘no Trumps’ regardless. Saves her tryna think about which bower is left & right… and how can the Jack of Diamonds beat the Ace of Heart on a Hearts is trumps??!??!?
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Trump says there will be no US boots on the ground, the ethnic cleansing of Gaza will be done by the Israelis. The cost of the redevelopment will be borne by the Arab Petro States. And the US will own the final result.
What’s not to like?
Trump has put in “the big ask” part of the “Art of the Deal”. The notion of the US annexing Gaza of course sent shockwaves because that is exactly what it was meant to do. Now that “the big ask” has been revealed, the negotiations begin of what will actually happen to Gaza…. which more than likely will amount to nothing since no one really is interested in it or its people.
What is the difference between a colony and neo-colony?
The world is about to find out.
Donald Trump has threatened to cut US aid to Egypt and Jordan if they don’t assist Israel in ethnically cleansing the Gaza strip.
The majority of aid that the US gives these two countries is military aid
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-administration-grants-egypt-13-billion-military-aid-despite-rights-2024-09-11/
In the early days of imperialism the home country would send their own armies to maintain control of their colonies, In the modern era the home country give local dictators and autocrats the money and arms to maintain control of their neo-colonies.
Cutting military add to the pro-US Al Sisi regime and the pro-US Jordanian autocrats will weaken these regimes ability to maintain control over their people.
If President Trump follows through on his threats to cut military aid to these two countries if they don’t do his bidding, US imperialism may be shooting itself in the foot..
Do King Abdullah II and General Al Sisi risk weakening their regimes by turning down US military aid?
Does King Abdullah II of Jordan and General Al Sisi of Egypt risk internal rebellion by agreeing to cooperate with Israel and the US in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
Either way the US risks losing control over these two pro-US neo-colonies, which would sink the Abraham Accords, the American imperialist’s wet dream of achieving a Middle East co-prosperity sphere, encompassing Israel and its Arab neighbours.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity_Sphere
If you want to re-write borders you need a big pen.
Will we see a mushroom cloud over North Gaza?
(After the inhabitants have been given a warning to leave, of course)
In a move that was resisted by the Democrats, Donald Trump has delivered Israel America’s largest most power non-nuclear bomb, the MOAB. (Mother Of All Bombs)
Why would a MOAB be used on Gaza?
The MOAB is so powerful that, similar to a nuclear weapon, a MOAB generates a distinctive mushroom cloud. The US military refer to the MOAB generated mushroom cloud as an added advantage in creating psychological terror. But the biggest advantage of a MOAB, is that the MOAB leaves no nuclear contamination, or fall out. allowing immediate ‘redevelopment’ of the land.
On the legal front, unlike gas or nuclear weapons, MOAB is not an officially internationally designated WMD,
In an obvious parallel to the Hamas tunnel complex, a MOAB used in Afghanistan successfully destroyed a Taliban tunnel complex.
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1151139/us-bombs-destroys-khorasan-group-stronghold-in-afghanistan/
Donald Trump has said that he intends to clear the whole of Gaza of its Palestinian inhabitants and rehouse them in Egypt and Jordan. Trump’s intention to clear the whole of Gaza flies in the face of the reality of the 300,000 plus Palestinians who have just voted with their feet and returned to North Gaza.
According to some, if the Palestinians are given a warning to leave Northern Gaza, and don’t, dropping a MOAB on them will not be an act of genocide.
Every empire throughout history has always employed some mystical or religious moral veneer to justify and hide their real motivations for imperial expansion.
For the Holy Roman empire it was the Church of Rome.
For the British Empire it was the Church of England.
For the Czarist imperialists it was the Russian Orthodox Church, (and for Putin it still is)
Every empire needs to have God on its side, specifically their very own God.
The US Christian evangelicals serves that purpose for American imperialism and their hyper-imperialist President, Donald Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIfzkPxcwpw
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