Holy shit, Russia claims Ukraine invasion is a holy war

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

'Holy war': Russia now depicts Ukraine invasion in spiritual terms

WASHINGTON — “I promise that we will win this holy war,” the Russian officer tells the recruits arrayed before him in a video recently shared by the popular, pro-Ukraine Saint Javelin social media account. “Who is fighting against us? People who say that their God is Satan. Satanists are at war with us. People who insist we attend LGBT parades.”

The officer’s exhortation had nothing to do with territorial claims, or the supposed “Nazism” of the ruling regime in Kyiv, both of which were the original pretexts for Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Russia’s much smaller neighbor. Instead, the reference to “holy war” mirrored the increasingly sharp spiritual rhetoric emanating from political and military leaders in the Kremlin, who are desperate to retain public support for the faltering war effort.

To a degree, that effort has always involved some reference to spiritual warfare, despite the fact that Russians and Ukrainians share deep roots in the Orthodox Church. Those ties have been downplayed as the Kremlin has rebranded the war as an intrusion of Western values on the so-called Ruskyi mir, or Russian world, of which it sees itself as the custodian — and sole legitimate ruler, to the exclusion of sovereign governments in Kyiv or Minsk, Belarus.

“They’re not fighting Christians in Ukraine,” a scholar of Russian culture and religion at Wesleyan University, Victoria Smolkin, said, explaining how the justification for the invasion has shifted. “They’re fighting Satanists. They’re fighting the West.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/holy-war-russia-now-depicts-ukraine-invasion-in-spiritual-terms-090053888.html

‘all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword’ (Matthew 26:52).

[TheRealNorth]

1. They sound like Republicans....

Or maybe Republicans sound more and more like Russians.

[Boomerproud]

6. Sounds very Michael Flynnish to me, as well as the hundreds

of twitter reposts showing repugs saying the same thing about Democrats and child blood sacrifice.

[Jerry2144]

2. Is this a corollary to Godwin's Law?

You’re losing the war when you call it a holy war. Should we name this DU’s Law?

[Lovie777]

3. What is it?................

RWers are even more crazier and have gone to the dark side hiding behind the Bible and the flag(s)

I think Putin mind is in a mental breakdown.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Nope. It's a Holy Special Operation. . . . nt

[PortTack]

5. And that claim got 33 russian soldiers killed by their own

Russia is a huge land mass and has just as many religious sects. Lots of Muslims. When a commanding Russian officer answered a conscript about what they we’re fighting for, the commander said it was a holy war. The conscript told him that a holy war was between Christians and Muslims and it was not a holy war. The commander then made some off handed comment about Allah so the conscript opened fire and killed the officer and 33 others.

[usonian]

7. It's all about the power trip.

Fake "Christians" selling out to politicians to gain power.
And politicians LOVE IT.
Politicians making a mockery of clergy,
AND CLERGY LOVE IT.

They all claim (here and in Russia) to be Christ's army AGAINST THE ANTICHRIST.

Of which they are PERFECT EXAMPLES in every way.

[Model35mech]

8. Gott Mit Uns, for a guy that hates Nazis he sure

seems have learned a lot things to emulate them

[dembotoz]

9. church leaders go along with political leaders seen this before

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state

[Just A Box Of Rain]

10. It is human nature for combattants to claim god "is on their side."

No matter how preposterous the claim.