Just for the record, you asked me to post an explanation, I gave one. You're posting memes. But hey, your choice.
Except that post wasn’t even addressed to you, so I have no idea what you’re complaining about.
He banned the Russian orthodox church.
So, now I am curious.Because the leader of said Church also is a puppet of Putin.
There is evidence that the previous patriarch was a KGB agent...So, now I am curious.
Was he actually.
or is this another one of those "vatnik/tankie" accusations I keep on seeing flying about?
Also the highest ranking eastern block defector confirms this:His superiors in the KGB, that is, not the Orthodox Church. As a young priest and bishop, Kirill spent years infiltrating the World Council of Churches (WCC) and other international bodies on behalf of the Soviet Union.
The evidence is set out in a paper entitled ‘The Mikhailov Files: Patriarch Kirill and the KGB’, published by the historian and human rights activist Felix Corley in 2018. His sources are documents from the KGB archives in Moscow which, he writes, ‘were seen by a number of researchers after the archives were briefly opened in the wake of the failed August 1991 coup, but access was then closed again after the Russian Orthodox leadership protested against the extent of the revelations’.
The panic was understandable. The then patriarch, Alexy, was himself a KGB agent. No religious leaders were allowed out of the country unless they were doubling as spies, and that included Catholics, Muslims and Buddhists from the USSR. So it goes without saying that Father Kirill would have been one. What’s interesting is the sinister nature of the tasks to which he was assigned.
According to Pacepa, ‘Kirill/Mikhailov’s main task was to involve the WCC in spreading the new liberation theology throughout Latin America’. Pacepa also repeated a claim by Moscow News that Patriarch Kirill was worth $4 billion in 2006, partly thanks to abusing his Church’s bizarre privilege of importing duty-free cigarettes into Russia.
Daymn Timoshenko is still hot!
Chucrh corruption is not out the ordinary for any country, especially poor places that got smashed economically a few decades ago.So, now I am curious.
Was he actually.
or is this another one of those "vatnik/tankie" accusations I keep on seeing flying about?
There is evidence that the previous patriarch was a KGB agent...
Russian Patriarch 'was KGB spy'
A secret Soviet-era document uncovered in Estonia suggests that Patriarch Alexy II, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and spiritual leader of tens of millions of Christians, was a fully fledged KGB agent.www.theguardian.com
There is evidence that he got rich off doing smuggling with the old one and getting away with it...
He's just like any oligarch:
And last but not least, he's an old guy, ever wondered what was he doing before the 90's?
Kirill, the Patriarch in league with Putin
Until very recently, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, was most famous for being the owner of a phantom wristwatch. It had the magical property of disappearing from sight, visible to onlookers only as a reflection. Don’t believe me? Google ‘Kirill’ and ‘watch’...www.spectator.co.uk
Also the highest ranking eastern block defector confirms this:
- the death of Pope John Paul 1, which conspiracy theorists believe was due to his penchant for reform
- The Banco Ambrosiano scandal – this Italian bank – touted as a “catholic bank” was embroiled in huge corruption investigations – and the Central Bank of Vatican City was its majority shareholder. There were deaths associated with the dealings too!
- The missing 50 million – in 2018 the Vatican charged a former bank president with embezzlement and laundering
- The Clearstream Scandal – tangled up with the Banco Ambrosiano scandal, the clearing company also experienced deaths and underhand dealings
- Dodgy political dealings. Some claim Vatican City bankers hoarded
Nazi gold, or used CIA money to support political agendas in developing countries- Allegations that they were involved in facilitating the purchase of weapons in the Falklands War. These missiles were used against British forces. It is rumoured that the Argentines, through Peru, bought the weapons from France
Paid for some FSB agent's yacht?Paid for your indulgences?
Lol, as above.What about the charges for eating fat on a fast day?
I'm starting to believe your history book for non-Orthodox parts of the world ended somewhere around late middle ages.Also, you can't get a cleaner Papacy than a Borgia one, or a Medici one, which reminds me, most of the biggest accounts in the Medici banks were owned by cardinals.
Funny that you have no arguments against it.And I love how a rando Russian site in English must automatically be true...
Other than Catholic church corrupt too, lol. At least it's not invading anyone since centuries, and it's head doesn't glow.
I see a news article from fake news company that states "a document was found proving it"There is evidence that the previous patriarch was a KGB agent...
At this point put a quarter of a billion dollar bounty on his ass.He is taunting the UN for the international warrant on him for murder, war crimes, interfering in the USA electoral system with bribery and hacking for which the US and others have tried and convicted him in absentia. While setting himself up as the strongest of the slew of strongman candidates for succeeding Putin.
Did you even read the article?Is Ukraine a puppet of putin because 50 years ago it was controlled by the USSR?
It used to be, and look at what the ex-KGB colonel is doing now that it stopped.Is Ukraine a puppet of putin because 50 years ago it was controlled by the USSR?
Which Emperor did this?I mean, one Byzantine emperor had it with the massive amounts of money the Church was hoarding and started a wave of iconoclasty, culminating with him making priests run around naked on the hypodrome in Constantinople and married them off to hookers.
There is an American bounty but the contact number only works I'm the continental USA. So I guess from their POV there are bigger fish to go after.At this point put a quarter of a billion dollar bounty on his ass.
I think Leo V the Armenian.Which Emperor did this?
You could use exactly the same arguments for not supporting the French in WW1 or the French and Soviets in WW2, or South Korea and Chinese Nationalists in Cold War, and so on.
As the saying goes, ask not if they are bastards, ask if they are our bastards.
Unfortunately the rival powers would be in danger of laughing themselves to death if you expected them to follow this rule too.
For one at least it's not Afghanistan, and the investment in fighting your enemies by proxy actually pays off in said enemies being fought properly.
After all, some of the most successful contenders in this context were at their time considered the peak of civilized and fair governance, starting with Rome.
Yeah, the level of public discourse about it sucks, but at least some of the public doesn't want honest, they want simple and feel-good, and it's far from being limited to this particular topic or even geopolitics in general.Difference is that United States nowadays tend to use language of rather lofty principles ("freedom", "democracy" and so on) to justify their involvement in stuff.
Sure, support Ukraine, but at least be honest why. Because if you lie to other people, and even to yourselves, as to why you are doing something... you end up confusing yourselves, getting stuck in a permanent mission creep, and in the end, either achieving nothing (best case scenario) or making things even worse than they used to be (most likely scenario). It is kinda like Communism: a lot more things become justifiable when you justify them with lofty ideals.
And it is just assholish as well.
Yes. And it still was far from the nastiest option around at the time.Roman civilized governance considered of genociding anybody who opposed them. Sure, they were OK rulers once they conquered you... but until then, they'd make a desert and call it peace.
Murika has turned into a Mix of late Hapsburg HRE and Brezhnev-era USSR with a big dash of Wiemar, IMHO.Difference is that United States nowadays tend to use language of rather lofty principles ("freedom", "democracy" and so on) to justify their involvement in stuff.
Sure, support Ukraine, but at least be honest why. Because if you lie to other people, and even to yourselves, as to why you are doing something... you end up confusing yourselves, getting stuck in a permanent mission creep, and in the end, either achieving nothing (best case scenario) or making things even worse than they used to be (most likely scenario). It is kinda like Communism: a lot more things become justifiable when you justify them with lofty ideals.
And it is just assholish as well.
Roman civilized governance considered of genociding anybody who opposed them. Sure, they were OK rulers once they conquered you... but until then, they'd make a desert and call it peace.
The Krauts and the Austro-Hungarians actually had cleaner, more democratic and decentralized governments than the West did, life for Serbs and Bosniacs under Austria-Hungary was actually better than in Serbia proper, and Russia backing those [10 pages of "niceties" about the neighbors removed], TL;DR Serbia was a shithole that would be fine putting large VAT on textbooks but not on alcohol, was the Russians dumbest blunders, ever.