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Thank you my my friend PO1 Tony Holland for posting the perspective of The Telegraph author Juliet Samuel 'How [Vladimir] Putin found God'


1. To be honest, I expect Vladimir Putin's hope such as former POTUS Barrack Obama, former POTUS Donald Trump, and current POTUS Biden's hope is to be honored after their death to be revered as a leader of the nation.
2. Just because Vladimir Putin quotes Russian religious and Russian fascist political philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, 'in which the philosopher predicts the emergence of a “national dictator” who will be “the living organ of Russia,” I don't think he is foolish enough to believe he is “the living organ of Russia.”
3. Vladimir Putin is schode


Images:
1. Archimandrite (Abbot) Tikhon Shevkunov of the Sretensky Monastery, Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in 2017 at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ and the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church - Alexei Druzhinin
2. Vladimir Putin takes a dip in the water during Orthodox Epiphany celebrations at lake Seliger, Tver region, Russia January 19, 2018
3. Vladimir Putin with Patriarch Kirill, the most senior official of the Russian Orthodox Church, who is rumoured to have been a KGB agent back in the day
4. Vladimir Putin with Archimandrite (Abbot) Tikhon Shevkunov , said to be the man who brought Putin to Christianity and hears his confessions - Sergei Karpukhin
5. Vladimir Putin attends an Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow on May 2, 2021 - Sergei Guneyev
6. Russian religious and Russian fascist political philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin, circa 1920


By the way Russian religious and Russian fascist political philosopher Ivan Alexandrovich Ilyin died at age 71 in Zollikon, Switzerland

Background from {[yahoo.com/news/putin-found-god-140954380.html]}
It was a sodden spring day in May 2009. A small group of men trooped solemnly across a leafy cemetery in central Moscow. The priest in flowing black robes was Archimandrite (Abbot) Tikhon Shevkunov of the Sretensky Monastery. Obligingly, he held a black umbrella over his honoured guest, President Vladimir Putin.
Much of the graveyard was filled with victims of the Soviet secret police, the Cheka, but it was not they he had come to see. The president was there to pay his respects to a philosopher called Ivan Ilyin, whose body had on his orders been dug up in Switzerland four years before and flown 1,400 miles to be reinterred in Moscow. He laid a bouquet of red roses before the black granite headstone and stood with Tikhon a short time, regarding the grave. Then he left. [
This week, across Russia, devastated families also gathered to honour the dead. They were burying young men killed fighting for Moscow in Ukraine. At one funeral witnessed by The Moscow Times, the priest spoke of the deceased, a lad in his 20s: “He fought against evil, Satanic spirits: Ukrainian Nazis, created by American multinational corporations.”
The young man in the coffin was separated by 80 years from the remains of Ilyin in that Moscow cemetery, but according to the Kremlin’s increasingly strident ideological creed, the dead shared one important feature: they were part of the same God-given mission to gather up the scattered lands of mother Russia and rebuild its Christian empire.

Yet somehow, this billionaire Soviet gangster has become a leader beloved by the Russian Orthodox Church, held up as an ideal by a messianic, neo-fascist movement called Eurasianism and presented by his propaganda machine as the man who will establish the Third Rome of Christendom in Russia.
Western analysis, trapped in its own worldview, has tended to focus on arguments about Nato, the EU, resources or spheres of influence in the search for Putin’s rationale. But this misses that the war in Ukraine is a conflict with an overwhelmingly religious and cultural dimension, in which the Ukrainian government is cast as a malignant tool of Satanic and degenerate Western forces. The Russian takeover of this land was to be the start of a great revival of the ancient Russian civilisation, welcomed by its virtuous Slavic inhabitants, and signal a precipitous decline for the decadent, doomed West.
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Aside from demography, the Church’s anxiety has been exacerbated further in recent years by a direct threat to its authority: a schism.
In 2018, the chief patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, decided to recognise a new, independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church. At a stroke, Ukrainian Christians were taken out from under Russian religious authority, changing an arrangement that had existed for centuries. Patriarch Kirill immediately cut all ties with Constantinople – the very seat of Byzantine Christianity from which Russia supposedly derives its entire spiritual heritage.
In a letter written to fellow Orthodox churches in mid-March this year, Kirill blamed the West for the war and emphasised that “the peoples of Russia and Ukraine, who came from one Kievan baptismal font, are united by common faith, common saints and prayers, and share common historical fate”. Kirill and his fellow clerics believed that the Ukrainian government had deliberately engineered the schism, and began to push for measures to undo this calamity with increasing urgency."
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After that, the Arab Spring and the colour revolutions spreading across Eastern Europe unsettled the aspiring dictator. Faced with the need to legitimise his rule and consolidate power, he turned to the Church and the useful hodgepodge of imperialist, autocratic ideas floating around Russian military and intellectual circles. It wasn’t long before his regime was televising footage of priests sprinkling holy water over missiles bound for Syria.'
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Unfortunately, he appears to have spent too much time drinking his own Kool-Aid. He convinced himself that the story told about the ancient, spiritual union of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples was true. If Russia were bold enough to regather the land, the lost Russians of Kiev would soon come flocking back to the bosom of the motherland.

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“The Russian Orthodox Church is a major force around what’s happening in Ukraine,” says Artyom Lukin, associate professor of international relations at Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University. “Putin started his career as [a] KGB [man], but now he’s closely affiliated to the Church… [He] wants to recreate not the Soviet Union, but the Russian Empire.”
Somehow, while most of the West wasn’t paying attention, Russia’s nostalgia for Soviet greatness merged into a longing for the imperial father-king, the tsar, and Putin duly transformed himself from a ruthless but boring state functionary into a modern approximation of the old autocrat: an infallible messenger of God in Aviators. But how did this happen, how did it help to justify a bloody invasion of Ukraine and what will happen now that the venture has stalled and Russia is teetering on the cusp of bankruptcy?

I’ve always heard V Putin was a Christian (starting from his Christian mother’s influence). Putin’s detractors will be even more vexed if he’s the man God chooses to lead Russia as an End Time empire that’s given authority to “devour.”
> Rev 7:5 The Bear end time empire https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%207&version=KJV&interface=amp