Peter Harris argues that Putin’s warped religious beliefs are at odds with the Orthodox faith he claims to hold.

Much has been rightly said by commentators about Vladimir Putin’s religious motives for his bloody démarche against Ukraine. It is almost now a cliché to say that this conflict is not only about geo-political aims, but is motivated by religious convictions.

To us in the secular West, whose politicians as Alistair Campbell declared, do not ‘do God’, Putin’s crusade is hard to grasp. Recent Western wars have been justified on the grounds of eradicating religious extremism in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, not the imposition of Western Christianity. Yet still so thoroughly… (Register to read the rest of the article)