Praise God There Yet Remain A Few TRULY COURAGEOUS Folk - In This Case, Men - With the Intestinal Courage, the Guts, to Voice (If 'Only' By 'Voting With Their Feet') A Decided "NO" to Putin & His War Machine...

May God On High give them safe passage wheresoever they may travel/end up...

...even if - unavoidably - a few 'bad eggs' end up going along with them/being taken along unawares in their very midst... 

There Is No Accounting For How Much Evil and Destruction That One (In)Human Being Can Bring About...Given Enough Time & Opportunity: MAY God Almighty Help Us All!

But first and foremost may God save/deliver the people of Ukraine...

Though the Media Beat-Up (Over King Charles' fountain pen 'tantrum') Was Perfectly Understandable, Even Highly Predictable (& Then Some)...

Spare a split-second's (empathetic) thought, folks...

Hey, love 'im or 'ate 'im, the guy's just lost his own dear, beloved Mum...

'And the Wrath of Man Shall Praise Him': Yes, Even the Wicked Can Rise to the Occasion & Speak Words of Wisdom When the Opportunity Presents/Occasion Demands

But that proves nothing, except that one day - maybe a whole lot sooner than any of us realize - the entire universe will, in a similar way, in unison declare the LORD just and merciful and proclaim:

Great and marvellous are [T]hy works, Lord God Almighty;

just and true are [T]hy ways, [T]hou King of Saints.

Who shall not fear [T]hee, O Lord, and glorify [T]hy name?

for [T]hou only art holy:

for all nations shall come and worship before [T]hee;

for [T]hy judgments are made manifest.

Incidentally, to whom do I refer? 

A certain present-day Russian leader not known for saying much worth hearing, especially these days.

But the words of his inexplicably gracious and apt tribute to Elizabeth Windsor are true through and through, and will to his own abject and unending horror one day return to haunt his expiring agonies...

...no, not in an unending hell which someone like he himself might well cook up and dish out unmercilessly upon his enemies, but in God's comparatively merciful Lake of Fire wherein he and his ilk will meet their final, irrevocable end...

...with no second chance - for all of eternity (a pretty long time, I understand).

Postscript:

That this by chance is my 700th blogpost seems incredibly serendipitous, especially in light of the sheer significance of the death of Queen Elizabeth and the fact that she only just realized her 70th jubilee...

Yes, A Refreshingly Non-Partisan World Leader of Immense Stature & Gravitas Has Passed Away...Sadly, Her Kind Will Never Come Again (in This Life)

Within Nine Days A Second Larger-Than-Life Figure Has Completed their Earthly Sojourn: Adieu Elizabeth Windsor

With Mikhail Gorbachev (here's hoping) you will 'wing your flight on angel wings' (carried by a panoply of angels) to heaven...

As beautifully expressed - in somewhat more poetic language, admittedly - by the King Apparent this very day (of his assumption of royal duties and prerogatives), notwithstanding his somewhat faulty theology thereabouts...

For such will not occur till 

the last day...at the last trump...the trump of God

It Might Not Be News to Anyone, But a Great Person Has Recently Departed This Life, Though an Indifferent, Historically-Ignorant World Could Care Less...-Yes, I'm Not Embarrassed to Have to Repeat It: Rest in Peace, Mr Gorbachev, Sadly 'Your Kind' Will Never Come Again...to This World's Everlasting Shame & Regret