“Once again, as was the case in Iraq, the US is acting as an international executioner,” Metropolitan Hilarion, who heads the external-relations department of the Moscow Patriarchate, told the AsiaNews service. “Once again thousands of lives will be sacrificed on the altar of an imaginary democracy.”

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This is why the Mandean community is facing extinction, as are Christians in Iraq.

But, we go headlong into war with imaginary reasons and imaginary goals.