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  Considering the way his health has downturned in the last little while....
context: Highly symbolic of extreme isolation. Despite being staged to deliver a message of piety and respect for tradition. >
  
  This was my thought - any time you see a lonely person in a church in a film it’s when they’re questioning everything or have lost everything. >
  
  Lmao that was incredibly cringe, 
  he stood there alone 1000 km from the priest, looking miserable. >
  
  He stands there like a wax statue, the fuck >
  
  2 photos of putin, and some photoshop skills is what it looks like to me. >
  
  So ronery. >
  
  So very ronery. >
  
  So Ronery and Sad and arone! >
  
  Pathetic little human being. >
  
  This is just a photo op I would bet on it. >
  
  Of course.  And a terrible one at that. Imagine thinking- “this will make the Russian people think I have moral value” and having the actual takeaway be 
  “even Jesus hates me”. >
  
  This reminds me of Donnie standing in front of a church awkwardly holding a bible. >
  
  Interesting parallels. 
  When Donnie decided to do that stunt he tried to get the national guard to clear the yard and DOD refused because it is flagrantly illegal to have U.S. troops beating on U.S. citizens. So his workaround was to go through Barr (department of justice) to get prison S.O.R.T teams to come in. Still illegal, just grey area instead of act of war territory. Hence why they had no names on their uniforms and the riot shields and batons to beat people with. 
  This whole thing was done without letting Mark Milley know because he stood up to trump and hated him for being a moron.  They (Barr and trump) then had Milley come through the door on the opposite side of the White House so Milley couldn’t see what was happening and brought him through for trumps “parade” because he felt Milleys uniform showed him as strong. 
  You can literally see Milleys face as he is walking and realized that he is being used as a prop for trumps bullshit and he basically veers off and gets the hell out of there while Donnie holds his upside down Bible to compete his “god, military, bbq” shtick for his photo op. 
  Milley, someone who has spent a career dealing with incompetence and bureaucracy, wrote a C.Y.A. Letter the next week that officially recorded his version of “fuck around again and find out”. 
  If you can find it, it’s pretty glorious.  
  Putin is a small mob boss desperately trying to hold onto relevance by projecting his 1950’s illusion of strength.  But just like any mob boss, there is always someone stronger just waiting to knock the old man off his perch and prove that he is tougher.  
  It’s the fatal flaw of a authoritarian system.  You are either already ruled by the worst of men or breeding the worst of men to take their place.  
  Luckily it’s almost dead because corruption is the bedfellow that always comes with terrible men and as the invasion of Ukraine showed, corruption has eviscerated the Russian military.  Everyone in Ukraine had some sort of a collective realization in the first weeks of the war that it just wasn’t possible to keep living like that.  It’s a big part of why the Ukrainian delivery system of weapons and supplies to the front has been so effective and efficient.  They are just done with this old world bullshit.  
  It was pretty cool to witness in person.  When they say “glory to Ukraine” they mean it. They aren’t going back to being slaves to a corrupt old man ever again.  The taste of being a free man is too strong to ignore >
  
  Well written, and good points that are reasoned out ---You made the internet just a little better here today guy. >
  
  Looooooooser. >
  
  That Orthodox Patriarch is like worst than him, a religious leader saying that "dying in Ukraine washes away all the sins"...like really..a christian leader saying stuff like this. >
  
  So to my limited understanding there are two churches in Ukraine. One based in Moscow and delivering services in Russian. The other split from a few years ago, is based in Kyiv and does services in Ukrainian. Obviously Putin would be at the former, so this may be simply propaganda. >
  
  The photo of him.... alone.... is more telling than anything.  His decisions are isolating him and separating him from the people. >
  
  Happy Christmas your arse
  I pray God it's your last…