Jesus and The Art Of The Deal - April 28th 2025
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It is April 28. I really love the episode in the Gospel where, while tempting Christ, Satan offers him dominion over the whole world in exchange for just a single act of bowing before him. But Jesus refuses. He does not need the world especially at the cost of bowing to the devil. Jesus does not want such a deal. He does not want any deals at all.

The only successful deal in the Gospels is the story of Judas and his easy money, but as everyone remembers, nothing good came out of it in the end. In general, all the Gospels are about how life is far more complex than just a constant series of deals. Jesus, the Apostles and all the positive characters simply do not know how to make deals.

And do you know who does? Putin. Just one example. He came up with a scheme to kill Americans by proxy. Russia paid $200,000 to the Taliban for each US soldier they killed in Afghanistan. For Putin it is like present.

200 000 it is pocket money for him, just nothing. So he was paying pennies for his bloody entertainment. For him this was like a video arcade, but in real life. The Taliban earned about 30 million dollars through this scheme, maybe even more. Again, Putin incentivized the Taliban to kill Americans by paying them for every American casualty.

Why did he do this? Because he hates the United States, he hates the free world, and he is ready to bow to any Satan, to crawl at his feet not even for dominion over the planet, but for a few burnt-out villages, just so that the free Ukrainian flag would not fly over them, but instead his own filthy, mud-smeared wreck. He kills Ukrainians, he has killed Georgians, Chechens.

Americans. And America keeps forgiving him. Steve Witkoff, the US president's special envoy, goes to Kremlin like it is his day job, greets the murderer, asks how he is doing, says he is very glad to see him, and he shakes a hand that is stained with the blood of countless

thousands murdered by this master of the deal. For three months now, the United States administration has been trying to figure out exactly what kind of deal Putin wants and what more they could offer him, like Vitkov's humiliations founding over the murder of American soldiers.

And Putin simply enjoys it. How a high-ranking American official travels to meet him, how he grovels around him, how he turns a blind eye to his blood thirst and hatred, including hatred toward America. Putin does not need any deal. He wants the world itself, preferably a world full of Witkows, unable to distinguish good from evil, scissors from guts, cheeses from satin.

It's a terrible world for those who value freedom, for those who would never bow to the devil, for those who refuse to become subjects of a murderous maniac. And let's do everything we can do to prevent our world from becoming Putin's world. And one more request. I'm no master of the deal either. I depend heavily on your support, which, unfortunately, is becoming scarcer.

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