This is an intriguing take on Vladmir Putin as a new Vladmir of the Rus – or ‘the Great’, a title given any number of Russian leaders – he who originally converted his nation to Christianity in 988, after he had accepted baptism, to marry the emperor’s sister. Is Putin, who perhaps sees himself as his successor, trying to rebuild an Orthodox Christendom, a conqueror of neo-paganized lands? Such would go some way to explaining why the ‘west’ and its leaders will never understand his motives.

Let us hope and pray some rapprochement may be reached.

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