{"id":1204,"date":"2022-02-28T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T18:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2025-07-26T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:46:30","slug":"the-battle-for-kyev-and-the-soul-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/malcolminthemiddle\/2022\/02\/28\/the-battle-for-kyev-and-the-soul-of-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle for Kyev and the soul of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have to post this link as an intriguing look at what may be going on in Putin’s head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A very different perspective for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One surely has to believe that there is more going on here than meets the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilisation. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual. Putin regards his spiritual destiny as the rebuilding of Christendom, based in Moscow<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin’s Spiritual Destiny<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Putin appears to have baptised himself? Bizarre at best. Blasphemous at worst. The merging of church and state has been a bad idea ever since Constantine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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I quote “Admirers and appeasers of Putin \u2014 who can be found across the political spectrum \u2014 often repeat a well-worn clich\u00e9 that he plays chess while his foes play chequers<\/strong>. He captured Crimea, crushed Chechen rebels, weakened Ukraine and grabbed effective control of Belarus, while detaching a chunk of Georgia and breakaway republics in the Donbas. He intervened in Syria to shore up his fellow dictator Bashar Assad. He supposedly interfered in the US election and has since made sinister moves in African states. \u201cPutin has run rings around whoever was in the Oval Office, getting away with invasions, hacking, human rights abuses, assassinations, shooting down passenger airliners,\u201d complained one US columnist<\/a> last month<\/em>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godless and gutless<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Putin is no Christian bastion, but neither is the West<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Putin’s grand plan failing?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have to post this link as an intriguing look at what may be going on in Putin’s head. A very different perspective for sure. One surely has to believe that there is more going on here than meets the eye. \u201cWe see many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the … <\/p>\n

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