There
is no doubt that the Ukraine issue is a clear unresolved border issue left over
from the breakup of the USSR. Crimea
should never have been part of the Ukraine to start with and substantial parts
of the eastern Ukraine do properly belong to Russia. This all fell out this way without any
attempt to do it right.
The
complete weakness and folly of Barack Obama has opened the door for a simple
annexation of the appropriate territories.
This should be negotiated.
However that involves moving a European Armored Corp with American
support into the western Ukraine to squat while everyone talks it out. Peoples may have to also be dislodged as well
or at least reconciled.
Russia
has shown strength and in the Slavic mindset it is now necessary for NATO to
show strength. That would be good enough
to have a pleasant tea over how to properly produce secure borders and
compensate those who need to move.
Understand
that Russia is sorting out its southern border.
This can still end well and leave a solid Ukraine in place that is a
homogenous state. Territory is a small
price to pay to be rid of their Russian population which skews the situation.
We
are going to let Russia make the necessary corrections. It just needs to be formalized.
Russia is Aggressive Feeling God is Now on Their Side
Black
Sea-- A Russian SU-24
Fencer fighter jet aggressively taunted the US destroyer Donald Cook in the
Black Sea by making “numerous close-range low-altitude passes on Saturday while
the destroyer was conducting operations in international waters east of
Romania. The Navy tried to communicate with the Russians, but to no avail. The
aircraft did not respond to multiple queries and is inconsistent with
international protocols. The Russian fighter jet flew within 1,000 yards of the
ship that carries helicopters at an altitude of about 500 feet.
The
destroyer was deployed to the Black Sea on April 10, in the wake of the Russian
military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimea region and ongoing unrest there. The
Su-24's fixed armament is a single fast-firing GSh-6-23 cannon with 500 rounds
of ammunition, mounted in the fuselage underside. Two or four R-60 AA-8
'Aphid') infrared missiles are usually carried for self-defense by the
Su-24M/24MK. The escalation comes just as the United States is preparing to
unveil to NATO leaders a list of recommendations on how to best ease the
concerns of its skittish Eastern European allies after the stealthy Russian
invasion and annexation of an eastern Ukraine peninsula. Riots and the takeover
by protesters of numerous government buildings in a dozen cities is occurring
by pro-Russian people in Eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian military retake back an
airfield in Eastern Ukraine, but some soldiers are defecting. Be aware Putin
is a Christian who attends church regularly And feels "If God is for
us, who can be against us?"(Romans 8:31). Putin
claims Ukraine is about to have a civil war.
The
Orthodox Church has long been central to Russian identity—ever since 988 A.D.,
when Vladimir the Great opted to convert to Byzantium’s form of Christianity
rather than Rome’s. The church’s power continued uncontested until the
overthrow of the tsars in the early 20th century, when it became a prime target
for the new revolutionaries. When Lenin came to power in 1917, the Soviet Union
started the persecution of Christians as 200,000 clergy were killed and 41,000
churches destroyed. Until 1989 the church was allowed to barely survive under
strict Secret Service supervision but it now has grown greatly with the
approval of the Russian Government. Vladmir Putin is very likely to attempt to
gain areas once controlled by the Soviet Union as he has done in Crimea. He
will likely invade Eastern Ukraine to build a land road to Crimea, as well as
Latvia where 20% of the people are Russian. Putin knows that NATO and the US
will unlikely risk war with the US so far in debt.
Patrick
Buchanan writes, Vladimir Putin is very intelligent man and realizes that
Communism failed because of its denial of God and Christianity. Russia is
now a Christian country and Putin is saying. Christianity is growing rapidly in
Russia as it declines in NATO countries. In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s
annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles
where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper
bond. Putin said,“Crimea Is where Prince Vladimir was baptized and
adopted Christian Orthodoxy that predetermined the overall basis of the
culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia,
Ukraine and Belarus.” This speech recalls last December’s address
where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West
with weak leaders. “Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from
their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place
on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in
God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.” Heard any
Western leader, say, Barack Obama, talk like that lately or even attend church?
Indicting the “Bolsheviks” who gave away Crimea to Ukraine, Putin declared, “May
God judge them.” What is going on here? With Marxism-Leninism a dead faith,
Putin is saying the new ideological struggle is between a debauched West led by
the United States and a traditionalist world Russia would be proud to lead. In
the new war of beliefs, Putin is saying, “It is Russia that is on God’s
side. The West is Sodom and Gomorrah.” Vladimir Putin claims to
stand on higher moral ground; he knows exactly what he is doing, and his new
claim has a venerable lineage. Putin is entering a claim that Moscow is the
Godly City of today and command post of the counter-reformation against the new
paganism in the West. Putin is plugging into some of the modern world’s most
powerful currents. Not only in his defiance of what much of the world sees as
America’s arrogant drive for global hegemony. Not only in his tribal defense of
lost Russians left behind when the USSR disintegrated. He is also tapping into
the worldwide revulsion of and resistance to the sewage of a hedonistic secular
and social revolution coming out of the West. In the culture war for the future
of mankind, Putin is planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional
Christianity. His recent speeches carry echoes of John Paul II whose Evangelism
Vitae in 1995 excoriated the West for its embrace of a “culture of
death.”
What did Pope John Paul
mean by moral crimes? “The West’s capitulation to a sexual revolution of
easy divorce, rampant promiscuity, pornography, homosexuality, abortion,
same-sex marriage, euthanasia, assisted suicide — the displacement of Christian
values by Hollywood values,” may cause the death knell of the
West. Thanks to Pat Buchanan
The Angel of the Lord
Attended the Resurrection of Jesus
Without
the resurrection, it is quite certain there would have been no Christian
church. There is no doubt that He
really did die on the cross. Pilate was given assurance of this by the
centurion. The savage spear thrust into His side by the soldier made certain of
His death, "and forthwith came there out blood and water," evidencing
complete collapse of the heart cavity. (John 19:34) With the ignominious death
of Jesus Christ his disciples were utterly confused and afraid for their own
lives. After the Romans crucify Jesus, he is anointed and buried in a new tomb
by Joseph of Arimathea. After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the
week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. 2 There was a
violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going
to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His appearance was like
lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. 4 The guards were so afraid of
him that they shook and became like dead men. 5 The angel said to the women, “Do
not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6
He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he
lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and
is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told
you.” 8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled
with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. 9 Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,”
he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. 10 Then Jesus
said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to
Galilee; there they will see me.” Mathew 28
Jesus
appears to many over a span of forty days before his ascension to Heaven, to
sit at the Right Hand of God. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on
Easter Sunday, the third day after Good Friday, the day of his crucifixion. But
with the assurance that Christ was alive, the disciples went forth everywhere
proclaiming the resurrection, and multitudes became believers in their Living
Lord. If the resurrection is really a demonstrable fact of history, then not
only are His claims vindicated, but so are His promises. Death is not,
after all, the great victor, but is a defeated foe.
After
saying this, Jesus was taken up while those who had gathered together were
watching, and a cloud took him out of their sight. Jesus was going away, and
the apostles were looking into the sky. Suddenly, two men (angels) wearing
white clothes stood beside them. The two men said to the apostles, "Men
from Galilee, why are you standing here looking into the sky? You saw Jesus
carried away from you into heaven. He will come back in the same way you saw
him go." —Acts 1:6-11
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