It's Sunday. And Putin destroyed 113 Ukrainian churches.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

And you can bet they were beautiful.

"Zelensky: 113 Ukrainian churches damaged, destroyed by Russian shelling"

https://news.yahoo.com/zelensky-113-ukrainian-churches-damaged-003853346.html

[tirebiter]

1. White power advocates have this thing about churches that advocate freedom.

Can’t quite pin it down.

[CentralMass]

2. He is a scumbag.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. So-called 'special military operation' is not been targeting & destroying 'military installations'.

Churches, residences, hospitals, schools, grain storage facilities...

[rubbersole]

4. Genocide,

Plain and simple. Oil and gas rich, breadbasket of Europe.

[sprinkleeninow]

5. And fratricide. Merciless killing of brothers and sisters of the Faith.

Avarice, powerlust, megalomania.

'Sins' that clamor unto Heaven.

[C Moon]

6. I have a request: speed it up, putin's cancer. More vital organs.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. The churches in that part of the world are spectacular - and most are centuries old

[Irish_Dem]

8. Is the West letting the war drag on in hopes of destroying the Russian army?

At the expense of Ukrainian lives and infrastructure.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. No. n/t

[Wounded Bear]

9. This is, in some ways, a religious war...

The Eastern Orthodox church has power factions in Moscow and Kyiv, each claiming authority over the entire church, which is big in Eastern Europe and Russia. It started from the church in old Constantinople, now Istanbul since Turkey was taken by the Ottoman muslims back in the 15th Century. The power center of the church moved North and East to Kyiv and thence to Moscow with the nationalist currents of history.

I don't for a minute think Putin has any religious feelings or sensibilities, but the churches have aligned themselves with the secular governments in this struggle and the governments tend to exploit that. Religious involvement generally contributes to the ugliness of warfare. Nothing accelerates fanaticism like "God is on our side."

This war has a medieval feel to it, because part of it has a medieval, religious war feel to it from the 16th-17th Centuries in Western and Central Europe.