Putin Sending Coded Message Quoting The Bible? Or The Mountain Goats Rain In Soho? "There Is No Greater Love Than To Lay Down One's Life For One's Friends."
"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends."
Putin Quoting Mountain Goats Rain In Soho
'It's Like Billy Graham Meets North Korea': Pundits React to Putin Speech
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a rally on Friday in Moscow to support his position regarding the Ukrainian invasion, and pundits have drawn comparisons between the current situation and Nazi Germany.
As Russia's war with Ukraine continues into its 23rd day, Putin spoke to a packed Luzhniki Stadium in the capital, attempting to rally Russia's citizens and defending the reasons behind the war.
"We know what we need to do, how to do it and at what cost. And we will absolutely accomplish all of our plans," Putin said, insisting that the conflict was a necessary feat to prevent the "genocide" of Russian people. "To liberate people from this suffering, from the genocide, is the main inspiring motive of the military operation we started in Donbas and in Ukraine," Putin said. The speech did not enhance Putin's standing with Western commentators. Linas Linkevicius, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, compared Putin to Adolf Hitler, showing pictures of the Nazi leader when he held rallies in Germany during World War II.
Linkevicius posted two photos side by side in a tweet on Friday, writing, "Almost 90 years ago was no internet, live stream news, was easier to fool around. Mass rally today in Moscow welcomed war criminal #Putin. Crowds are convinced they are on the right side. Lamentable." During the rally, Putin praised the unity of the Russian military forces, saying, "Shoulder to shoulder, they help and support each other and when needed they shield each other from bullets with their bodies like brothers. Such unity we have not had for a long time." Putin even paraphrased the Bible in his praise of Russian soldiers: "There is no greater love than giving up one's soul for one's friends," he said. Journalist Alec Luhn commented on what he saw as the absurdity of Putin quoting the Bible, writing, "It's like Billy Graham meets North Korea." Source
"Freeing people from genocide is the reason, motive & goal of the military operation we started in the Donbas & Ukraine," Putin says, then quotes the Bible: "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends."
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) March 18, 2022
It's like Billy Graham meets North Korea pic.twitter.com/EZkKl0wcID
Putin responding in coded message to one of these Mountain Goat posts:
"There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends."
Lyrics
No one knows where the lone wolf sleeps
No one sees the hidden treasure in the castle keep
No one learns the secret name
No one burns in the absent flame
No one broke D.B. Cooper's fall
No one hopes to hear the bagman call
Children piping in the main square
But no one's dancing
No one's dancing down there
The river goes where the water flows
But no one knows when the Batcave closed
The river goes where the water flows
But no one knows when the Batcave closed
No promise sweeter than a blood pact
Nothing harder to go through with than a vanishing act
No morning colder than the first frost
No friends closer than the ones we've lost
Nothing sharper than a serpent's tooth
Nothing harder than the gospel truth
Though you repent and don sackcloth and try to make nice
You can't cross the same river twice
The river goes where the water flows
But no one knows when the Batcave closed
The river goes where the water flows
But no one knows when the Batcave closed
There's a club where you'd like to go
You could meet someone who's lost like you
Revel in the darkness like a pair of open graves
Fumble through the fog for a season or two
No town more barren than our town
No haven safer than the one they tore down
No greater love than to lay my life down for a friend
No sweeter pleasure than to see the credits clear through to the end
No one knows where the lone wolf's gone
No one sees it camped out right there in the front lawn
We played for you but you would not sing
No one was going to get away with anything
The river goes where the water flows
But no one knows when the Batcave closed
The river goes where the water flows
But no one knows when the Batcave closed
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