Righteous Russia vs. the Godless West

In all of this, Putin and Kirill are tapping into the deep-rooted abhorrence that many around the world feel toward the West’s embrace of promiscuity, divorce, feminism, pornography, homosexuality, abortion and so on. But even as Putin and Kirill portray Russia as the righteous answer to this embrace, they also invoke Divinity regarding Russia’s expansionism. “May God judge them,” Putin said after annexing Crimea in March, in words directed at the “Bolsheviks” who gave the peninsula to Ukraine decades ago. https://www.thetrumpet.com/article/11862.33627.0.0/religion/does-vladimir-putin-have-god-on-his-side-regarding-ukraine?preview