No, I honestly don't, and you just called me a liar. I understand that you are still an enquirer into Orthodoxy, but you should at the very least be striving to enter into the Orthodox phronema as we move into Lent.Yes. You do.
Rus tries to see things from both sides and speak calmly and collectedly about it--qualities sorely missing in some here.
No, I honestly don't, and you just called me a liar.
FYI, I interpreted your post the same way prodromos did. Could be an honest mistake, possibly due to being taken in context of other posts of yours. And over the years I've never seen a single post of Rus's that read anything like he's a Putin apologist.Just for the record, I most definitely did not.
You said: "I fail to understand"
And I said: "Yes you do" meaning that indeed you do fail to understand. I did not say that you do understand.
You have a rather "rose-colored glasses" view or may just be uninformed. Our foreign policy has been horrible since JFK's time. Gulf of Tonkin, the Vietnam War, overthrowing the leader of Iran and putting in a dictator that was a US puppet that caused much suffering for the Iranian people, regime-change toppling of the president of Chile and inserting a horrible puppet leader there, CIA training the Mujahideen (aka bin Laden and his group that became Al Qaeda later on), the Afghanistan mess that showed the generals were even asking "What are we doing here?", the Iraq invasion, the destruction of Libya, the coup in Honduras, the coup in Ukraine, Syria meddling and arming terrorists to try and topple Assad, the Surveillance state. Those are the ones I am aware of off the top of my head. Really, there's plenty wrong our leaders and intel caused over the decades.Than whose?
Looking at US foreign policy over a long period this is just simply not true.
Yes, the US took some terrible decisions in the years following 2001. Specifically the Iraq was very, very foolish. But that is all history.
The US never attacked and bombed a country in order to occupy it, install a dictatorship and thus to incorporate it into its sphere of influence. Which is what Russia is doing now. The US tried to turn Iraq and Afghanistan into democracies. That was foolish and naïve. And lead to civil war in Iraq. But it not threatening and brutal.
My response was a polite way of saying that Rus has never been an apologist for Putin. I apologise for misreading your post, however it was not hard to do since you have been on the offensive in this thread from the get go.Just for the record, I most definitely did not.
You said: "I fail to understand"
And I said: "Yes you do" meaning that indeed you do fail to understand. I did not say that you do understand.
No one here is saying that. You'd realize that if you tried to understand the people you're speaking to.Let me be counted among those who would fail to speak calmly and collectedly when people are thrown into the ovens or being carpet bombed by poor misunderstood dictators who are really the victims if only properly understood in the eyes of some.
Well, I wouldn't say Patriarch Kirill's role isn't properly addressed - there's the sizable quote from Metropolitan Evlogy of Sumy all about Patriarch Kirill. We didn't talk so much about the invasion itself because that doesn't seem to be the reason they've stopped commemorating - they took this step specifically because of how Patriarch Kirill responded.Good to see a report, although it is sad (and disingenuous, I dare say, for you surely know better) that Kirill's role in the case at hand is not properly addressed but rather the whole thing is at the outset pretty much chalked up to "aggression of Ukrainian nationalists", without even mentioning the root cause -- the Russian invasion, of any possible current tensions. I say this without malice; the report itself is a commendable thing considering that the concept of "free press" does not exactly exist in Russia or even the Russian Church.
In that case, I think the United States should stop a potential invasion from Communist countries by seizing control of Cuba and Venezuela. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.Really! Or is Russia just trying to stop a potential invasion on THEIR doorstep now or in the future by forces that go around the world destabilising countries and causing untold numbers of death, suffering and misery?
Peace be to all those in the Body of Christ.
So the best way to put out a fire is to throw fuel on?In that case, I think the United States should stop a potential invasion from Communist countries by seizing control of Cuba and Venezuela. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
In that case, I think the United States should stop a potential invasion from Communist countries by seizing control of Cuba and Venezuela. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
It's not your impression, it's reality. The USA should not have stretched near the Russian borders and make Ukraine it's own puppet. Putin and the Russian government have said many times since 2008 to back off from the Russian borders. The USA and EU did not respect that. This conflict in Ukraine started in 2014 backed by the EU and USA.My impression is that the West has deliberately thrown the Ukraine under the bus.
It's not your impression, it's reality. The USA should not have stretched near the Russian borders and make Ukraine it's own puppet. Putin and the Russian government have said many times since 2008 to back off from the Russian borders. The USA and EU did not respect that. This conflict in Ukraine started in 2014 backed by the EU and USA.
Here's a video explaining the situation, why this is happening. This is the best accurate video (non-propagandist) I've seen thus far.
The only reason "civilians" are dying is because the USA and EU are supporting them with weapons and on the order of Zelensky and the neo nazi Azov battalion ordinary men are getting armed to put a fight against the soldiers. Men aged 16-60 cannot leave Ukraine. Zelensky should be condemned for what he is doing and playing the so called "hero".
My impression is that the West has deliberately thrown the Ukraine under the bus.
Sure they are just as the comments from the Westerners.Those comments are right out of the Putin playbook.
Ukraine's problems are all a result of the American's, or so the argument goes. Vlad is the victim here and is actually liberating the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians should be thanking him for liberating them, but we don't see that do we?
Ukraine is not allowed to be pro-western so close to the border of Russia, because that will make Putin mad. And because Ukraine would not marry Russia as Putin demanded he wants to kill them and is doing that right as we speak.
War criminal.
You have 0 knowledge of geopolitics and history.
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