@shalt_not_kill Thank you for the clarification. I suspect a larger concern relates to Patriarch Krill's advice to Putin "to take fateful, formidable decisions" that "involve victims", precisely at the moment the prospect of a NATO-nuclear encounter takes on sudden, powerful, escalatory impetus.
@MassimoFaggioli Let's not fool ourselves. An identical religious logic stands on both sides. The American-speaking version? "Just war theory is still applicable to questions in the nuclear age. The principles of 'jus ad bellum' and 'jus in bello' can be applied to the use of nuclear weapons."
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Copy of tweet here: 1/ It's perfectly clear once you see it, of course: the spiritual derangement of a modernist worldview offering no exit strategy other than the common, explicitly stated right and readiness to blow the world to smithereens, presents every last one of us with an epochal conundrum.