For his part, President Putin said US-Russian “relations should not be sacrificed due to disagreements over individual, albeit extremely significant, international problems,” the Kremlin said.
Right out of the playbook. Yes we have our issues, but we’re really all still friends.
Think about it for a minute. If only Obama and the West in general would just stop keep going on about the Crimea then we would no longer have any conflict. They’re the troublemakers.
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Also, this:
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Nail. Head.
Problem is for Anglicanism (and many other denominations too, it must be said) that too many who remain orthodox have swallowed the “relations should not be sacrificed due to disagreements over individual, albeit extremely significant, [theological] problems” line.