Hopefully, I'm wring this as conscientious and conscionable peace and freedom-loving world citizen living in Sweden.
If we pray at all, it's perhaps better to pray for peace than for mere victory which after all could be a temporary affair. As is advised in the Torah: Seek peace and pursue it.
In the same spirit – just a few days ago, PRIMATES OF JERUSALEM, SERBIA, ALBANIA, AND ALEXANDRIA ISSUE STATEMENTS CALLING FOR PEACE AND PRAYER
Since both Russia and Ukraine are largely Orthodox Christians, with the emphasis on largely (Orthodox Christian) taking into consideration the fact that Vladimir Putin is a Russian Orthodox Christian whereas Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and just as Jesus, Ukraine's Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman is also Jewish… it's certainly a fratricidal war ( but are not all wars not fratricidal wars, since, at least Abrahamically speaking, all men ( and women) of common ancestors such as grandpa Adam & grandma Eve are supposed to live with each other/ one another as brothers and sisters ?)
Let us at least thank God, our Father in Heaven, that it's not a religious war, or a war between Semites and some God-forsaken anti-Semites, or between Semitism and anti-Semitism, or between anti-Semitism and communism.
Nor is it a war between evil, the all-evil anti-Semites and Neo-Nazis on one side and the good and wholly Holy people on the other side; in fact, as I was just saying, the war is being widely viewed as a fratricidal war between Christians who have mostly lived in peace and harmony closely linked together by a shared history, with very similar if not identical religious, cultural ideals, everybody in both Russia and Ukraine speaking the Russian language fluently.
Nikita Khrushchev who was President of the USSR during the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962, was born in Kaliningrad which is "11 kilometres east of the border with Ukraine"
If "The first casualty of War is Truth", then it looks like Russia is the victim of a huge deception perpetrated by Zellenskyy's Ukraine which apparently is much better equipped than Russia's military intelligence had anticipated. At this moment in history, Ukraine is asking for more weapons, and, as from a very generous Santa Claus, more and more weapons are supposedly pouring in from about 17 nations that are sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause.
It's incomprehensible that super-power Russia with a seasoned battle-ready army and after much detailed planning for such a serious national/international enterprise, in full display on the world stage should be running into elementary logistical problems such as soldiers running out of food and the stalled military convoys on the way to Kyiv, said to be over 40 miles long, already running out of fuel….
With a nuclear-armed (6,000 nuclear-tipped warheads) and increasingly frustrated and therefore incrementally evermore desperate Russia, the outcome of the Russian incursion (an understatement) isn't looking too good when it's already 6,000 Russian soldiers dead, just in the first week of fighting, according to Ukraine's sitting President Zellenskyy. The current figure for Ukraine's civilian losses military and civilian combined stands at less than 2,000 - a miracle.
The final outcome isn't looking too good since no one expects a humiliated and thereby degraded Russia ( a wounded and therefore more dangerous lion) to withdraw their troops from Ukraine any time soon and to leave behind them (God forbid) a few bombed-out cities and retreat back to Moscow, with their tails between or behind their legs.
The final outcome isn't looking too good, especially when we compare those figures with what the US and allies got away with in Iraq and Afghanistan:
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590": Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In U.S. War And Occupation Of Iraq 4,801, Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan: 3,487. Total Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001, $7,545,407,573,493
Nor should we lose sight of the fact that Afghanistan ruined the Soviet economy and this happened without any punitive sanctions by the Wild West, of the sort we see have been put in place today – against Russia. The present and possible future impact of these sanctions were discussed here at al-Jazeera.
What happened in Grozny is also a case in point, to quote from Michael Winiarski's DN article of Sunday, 27th February "Kiev offers more resistance than Putin expected" -
"A frontal attack with armoured forces, of which Russia has superior numbers, is still less likely. No Russian military has forgotten the battle of Grozny on New Year's Eve 1994-1995 when Russian tanks attempted to capture the Chechen capital. Russia's defence minister, General Pavel Gratyov, had boasted that he could capture Grozny "in two hours with a paratroopers' regiment."
Russian armour penetrated the city from three directions, but after a few hours, they had run aground and were surrounded by Chechen guerrillas. The result was devastating for the Russian side, which lost 105 of 120 tanks and armoured vehicles. Thousands of Russian soldiers fell.
The lesson was that tanks are ill-suited for urban warfare. All the more so as Ukraine claims to have already knocked out 102 Russian tanks in two days. If this is true, it means that the new armour-breaking robots that the Ukrainians have received, Javelin from the USA and NLAW from the UK, have been effective. "
One of Nigeria's Pentecostal pastors is praying for Ukrainian victory, whilst as the missionary that he's supposed to be, he should be praying for peace - praying for peace is much more Islamic than Christian.
In an all-out ground assault after the Russians have softened up the Kyiv environment with precision long-range missile attacks and some ariel bombardment by Russia's second to none airpower, there's the possibility of Kyiv winning the ensuing nightmare street by street and hand to hand street fighting as occurred in the heroic Israeli liberation of Jerusalem in 1967, known in history as the Six-Day War
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