To bless "Satan" and destroy the world in a nuclear war It's a mad, mad, mad, mad Russian world

The farther it goes, the messier it gets. The longer the Russian-Ukrainian war lasts, the more madness spills out, shocking not only the world community but even the part of Russian society that refuses to get used to it. Do you remember the horror stories of the Cold War: dark Russia, a country of wild people with nuclear weapons, a country where bears roam the streets of cities? Looking at the events taking place in Russia with a clear eye, you begin to understand that the Zhirinovskys, Makashovs and Nikonovs can leave, but the passion for shocking outrage and even self-destruction has already completely got the better of judgment, and the need for construction and improvement of the better life, the level of which in Russia is the lowest in Europe.

However, let's not be unfounded and give illustrative examples of what has been said. A couple of years ago, Dmitry Adamsky's book "Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy" was published in the United States, in which the author talks about the relations between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and weapons, as well as about ties with Russian weapons enterprises. Adamsky raised an ambiguous question for pre-war Russia: should the church consecrate weapons? The very weapon that is designed to kill people. This practice has become widespread since the early 90s. However, in 2019, a special commission on church law decided that "clergy should not consecrate weapons of mass destruction," as reported by the deputy managing director of the Moscow Patriarchate, Bishop Savva (Tutunov) of Zelenograd. According to him, "we can talk about the blessing of a warrior for military service, for the defense of the Motherland. When performing the appropriate sequence, personal weapons are also blessed, and precisely because they are associated with the one who is being blessed. For the same reason, weapons of mass destruction and non-personal weapons should not be consecrated," the bishop wrote then.

However, the decision of the Ecclesiastical Law Commission remained on paper. This was pointed out by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a well-known Russian oppositionist and former owner of the Yukos oil company, who shared a relevant post on social networks.

"I don't think you'll ever see a bigger weirdness. Russian Orthodox Church leaders blessing a rocket called Satan," Khodorkovsky wrote and shared the corresponding photo.

It would seem that in the twenty-first century, such a combination should make any civilized person's mind blow. But for today's Russia, it is the norm. By the way, there is already an anecdote about this in Russia: "The essence of Orthodoxy in Russia is to call a priest to consecrate a Satan missile. Apparently, the ROC interprets God's commandment "Thou shalt not kill" in its own way. Especially in the case when Russia is essentially not threatened by anyone."

If anyone thinks the insanity in Russia ends there, he is deeply mistaken. Having failed to achieve the initial goal in Ukraine, some of the Russian people's deputies are dreaming of expanding the geography of the "denazification". Is there any better place than Rzeczpospolita, so disliked by Russian propaganda? In particular, Duma member Oleg Morozov, chairman of the State Control Committee, pondered this, writing on his Telegram that "the Polish authorities might encourage the Russian Federation to make it its next denazification target." Apparently, Morozov was offended by a statement from Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who called the idea of a "Russian world" a "cancer that devours much of Russian society and poses a deadly threat to all of Europe." Except that the State Duma deputy forgets that Poland is a no less hard nut to crack than Ukraine, and is also a NATO member. And we should not forget the sad experience of the Soviet-Polish war and the disgrace of Trotsky-Kamenev-Tukhachevsky.

And to crown it all, another example of the insanity that has struck the socio-political consciousness in Russia. Here, also a member of the State Duma Alexei Zhuravlev, who threatened that "the Russian Federation is ready to be the first to use nuclear missiles".

This will happen "if there is a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation," he said. The U.S., complained the deputy, is doing "everything to start World War III," trying to draw Europe into a conflict with Russia in order to take advantage of the situation and get out of the internal crisis.

An external adversary, life under siege, enemies all around, and the United States is the main one. It would seem that after the collapse of the USSR and in the 1990s, Russia began to build a new relationship with the outside world, forgetting about confrontation and mutual destruction. Alas, life has shown that the age of these propaganda theses and national horror stories was long. And they have become even more in demand now that Russia has turned the whole world against itself by its aggression against sovereign Ukraine. But since Russia has nothing to boast about in the "special operation", threats to use nuclear weapons have been used again. There is a feeling that Moscow forgets that not only Russia possesses such weapons, but also those countries from which the appropriate "retaliation" might well come. On the other hand, the statements and actions of Russian government politicians are consistent with the publicly supported "let the whole world collapse, as long as the hated West doesn't win" logic. Thus, it is not a sin to sanctify "Satan" for such a "noble purpose".