On the other hand, Victor’s sending off might provide Putin with a clear need to use an armed intervention to protect himself from an expanding Western influence in the region. Ukraine redux. We have long passed the point where logic and truth mean anything at all; both the supreme leaders of Eastern and Western power blocs have divorced themselves from any need for public believability because it became clear that their respective fan bases no longer bothered about such minor technicalities either: too dumb to care or to think. One might as well stop reading the newspapers and/or watching the box: even if snippets of truth accidentally slip through, one’s ability to intervene is almost zero.
In some countries, Roman Catholic and Protestant religions find it practically impossible to avoid hostility. How (or if) such things work/exist in the US is something I don't know much about. If tension are already there, slurs against the Pope can only aggravate an unfortunate situation, just what everybody needed today. Which, as two big group fight one anther, leaves the Israeli contingent in what might be an even more influential rôle in US politics than the one it already enjoys. Peace, baby, peace: the same God, but problematic fan bases. It seems impossible that one, shared deity can be used and misrepresented to such devastating degrees. We, the people…
