Comments on: Ukraine and the end of social democracy [quotage] https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/03/ukraine-and-the-end-of-social-democracy-quotage/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 By: chrisgale https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/03/ukraine-and-the-end-of-social-democracy-quotage/comment-page-1/#comment-3342 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:38:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=3696#comment-3342 Yes, it is very difficult, and it goes back a long way further. I keep on thinking that the boundaries of Catholicism were set by the Polish-Lithiuanian commonwealth, which disappeared during the Hundred years war or thereabouts as its territory became Austrian, Russian or under the Holy Roman Empire. The Russian Empire until Nicolas I included what is now Finland, Poland and the Balts: Poland as such re emerged in the Victorian era — and the current state is much smaller than the one that existed before WWII.

Stalin wanted all the old Imperial Russia back under the Soviets in my opinion and thus left Poland as a Stump and was somewhat annoyed he did not get the Finns.

I knew about the Catholicism of the Ukraine, but not the split among the Orthodox.

As far as Putin, we cannot tell what is on a man’s heart, but his use of Orthodoxy is classical Western Tsarist or Imperial behaviour: having the church support him and he supporting the church. Just as both the Haspburgs and Romanovs did before him.

I agree the West is on dangerous grounds. It would be like Russia supporting an independent Texas or a Resurgent Confederacy (without slavery) — the Monroe doctrine works both ways.

]]> By: ThisFascistKilledYourMachine https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2014/03/ukraine-and-the-end-of-social-democracy-quotage/comment-page-1/#comment-3333 Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:09:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=3696#comment-3333 What the name says.

AH, but who is the greater tyrant: Putin or the EU?

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