The hypothesis says Putin wants to restore the Byzantine Empire, unify the Orthodox world, and retake Constantinople, with Ukraine as the mechanism for those ambitions.
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Jiang says the end state of this Russian civilizational mission is reclaiming Constantinople, unifying the Orthodox world, and restoring a Byzantine-style order.
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"...Russia to return the Greeks to Istanbul and thus unify the Orthodox world and claim the titles of a third Rome."
"And, and yeah, so, so again, there's, there, there are these wars happening, but I think these wars are happening because different players are..."
"...wants to restore the Byzantine Empire. He wants to unify the Orthodox world. And he wants to retake Constantinople from the Turks. And this..."
"Then we will become the leader of the Orthodox world. It can reconcile the Greek and the Russian Orthodox. And then this will lead..."
"then Russia will, of the Orthodox world, will form an alliance with the Islamic world and they will march against Israel. And it's called..."
"...what does this mean? It means that Russia will unite the Orthodox world. Okay? So, right now, the Orthodox world is split into Eastern..."
"...and Magok are Russia and Persia, right? A combination of the Orthodox world and the Islamic world will march against Pax Judaica."
"...that Moscow will become the Third Rome and rule over the Orthodox world. To do that, what they need to do, according to this..."
"...and so he's kind of been the leading voice in the orthodox world talking about prophecies and these eschological unfoldings uh whether it be..."
"...it also argues that there'll be a grand alliance between the orthodox world and the islamic world so to me that's that's really interesting..."
"...that Moscow is the third world it will unify the entire orthodox world the orthodox world is huge by the way right because you"
"...and and Russia but but also the prophecy states that the orthodox world will align with the Islamic world um in the fight against..."
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