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Marvelous relapse
Can you imagine that Putin began a big war because of the question of how to be baptized correctly? You say: what kind of nonsense? XXI century and all that. And for Putin to start a big war in order to disrupt the official provision of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Patriarchate of Constantinople? Not nonsense? But it can.
In Turgenev’s novel, Rudin has one secondary character - a small provincial landowner African Semenovich Pigasov. Emerged, notorious cynic, constantly striving to humiliate someone. In general, a typical "quilted jacket". Mocking and carpeting words, he with fervor proves that there is no "Little Russian" language. All this is a whim.
150 years have passed, and the thesis remained a symbol of the faith of modern imperial "quilted jackets" that there is no Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. The predominance in Ukraine by the number of parishioners of a church organization formally subordinating the Russian Orthodox Church MP, the recognition of its “canonical” for Ukraine has several most significant churches in the modern world supports the illusion among the Russian imperials that this is all “our flocks”.
This is very important for imperial consciousness, no matter how ridiculous in the 21st century the showdown due to "canonical territories". If the Russian Federation does not interfere with the creation and official recognition by other Orthodox the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church, not subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church, then this means that "Russia does not exist at all," as the "patriotic" fantasy writer Lev Vershinin.
Such an exalted audience is the solid core of that loose and heterogeneous “Putin majority”, which was glued by imperial revengeism. The core supporting the fire of passion in the Putin conglomerate. The demoralization of this nucleus will lead to the fact that everything else will spread quickly. Especially in the context of aggravation of social problems.
Putin will use any possibilities to prevent what will be perceived within the country as a "geopolitical defeat." Therefore, the question of Ukrainian autocephaly may well be one of the reasons that prompted him to provoke the "Kerch crisis". Not the only one.
Another reason lying on the surface is the extreme geographical vulnerability of the annexed Crimea. Putin cannot be sure of the strength of his acquisition until he sets control not only over the land corridor to the Crimea along the coast of the Sea of Azov, but also over lands adjacent to the channel supplying Crimea with water from the Dnieper. Throughout this channel.
This does not mean that Putin has already decided to start a large -scale war with Ukraine. However, the annexation of Crimea will remain a constant source of tension, which generates more and more conflict situations. And in any conflict situation, not even provoked by the Kremlin intentionally, he will have a strong temptation to resolve the case dramatically.
The Kremlin is constantly asserted, humiliating Ukraine. Demonstrating to her that she considers her undergoing state that exists exclusively by his mercy. And only within the framework in which the Kremlin allowed it to exist. Frankly fascist publications are not only written by direct text. This also says Maria Zakharova, when she shines with her bazaar wit, saying that the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation in the Ukrainian capital can easily turn into a representative office of the Russian Foreign Ministry in the Russian region.
The empire, like a shark, cannot but be in motion. Otherwise, the shark will drown. Empire too. Once having embarked on the path of international robbery, Putin can no longer stop. Since the robbery capture of Crimea, the meaning of existence for the Kremlin has become a constant demonstration of the ability to give a damn about all its own obligations, the norms of international law, international organizations and international public opinion. Demonstration of disobedience to humanity developed by humanity.
No one is a decree for us. This, in fact, is the ritual of "getting up from the knees." Or "dropping Versailles", like Hitler. In response to each next portion of sanctions for the next international crime, the Kremlin seeks to commit a new defiant international crime. You do not stop us with your sanctions.
The purpose of the Putin Kremlin is to coercive the surrounding world by agreement to turn a blind eye to its international crimes. In the Kremlin, this is called "reckon with our interests." While the power of law in international relations will not be completely replaced by the right of power, the mastery of the Crimea is fragile.
Therefore, no angelic patience of the German Chancellor will be enough to affected Putin to stop international robbery and return to compliance with international law. To this, Putin can only be forced by force. If the infection destructive in the body starts in the body, then the body either perishes or mobilizes resistance resources and suppresses the infection. Putinism is an infection that destroys the organism of the world community. In order not to die, the body must suppress the source of infection. The world around us must force the Russian Federation to leave Crimea.