death destruction and misery, he is neither named vladimir putin as the aggressor, nor appealed to crill to intervene on the side of peace. i'm a john the studio by w as a religious fs analyst, a martin got martin at it's religion has been sort of a bit of an under exposed side of this, this conflict. many people have been asking themselves, why is putin doing all this? and how important is faith for putins rule? i think the for the war itself, religion place actually pretty important role. it's very difficult to gauge how important is for putting her house in sir. he might be his religious commitments, but there is a very long history in russia of essentially recruiting political, sent a religious sentiments of the among the population. are there to support political crusades. and the brooks amity of the orthodox church, particularly must divide bratcher take to the kremlin, has been essential for putting to actually rally the population behind the war effort. so in a sense, it's not really just a theological matter, but the church represents a very strong cultural position which is ver