antoine sugar on Twitter: "Russian Orthodox Church declares war on Ukraine a "crusade" "Putin sees himself as the successor to the Russian Tsars, and his mission is to create an autocratic, Christian and imperial realm on the Roman Byzantine model." https://t.co/g29Ycg9OZH" / Twitter

Russian Orthodox Church declares war on Ukraine a "crusade" "Putin sees himself as the successor to the Russian Tsars, and his mission is to create an autocratic, Christian and imperial realm on the Roman Byzantine model."

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Why Putin's invasion of Ukraine is an utterly modern holy war

It is not possible to understand the war in Ukraine without understanding the way faith is weaponised, how religion as identity can exert a deadly hold, writes Stan Grant.

6:17 PM · Mar 20, 2022Twitter Web App

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