Also, /u/edric_o condemns it when Russia's neighbors dare to have any national pride, when someone pointed out that Ukraine wants to have a better life and be pro-western, /u/edric_o answered:

So "becoming a sad little puppet state" seems to mean "you live better, but your national pride is wounded".

Yet somehow, when Russia's national pride is wounded, its a horrible thing. They for some reason have absolute right to it but no one else have any right to sovereignty in edric_o's opinion. Because "Holy Mother Russia" and other similar nonsense.

Very hypocritical and clearly slavophilic and very much quod licet Ioni non licet bovi.

edric_o has also said how important it is that there is a strong Russia, and how it is what Orthodoxy needs, basically claiming that Orthodoxy cannot be relevant without having an authoritarian, militaristic, Great-Russian chauvinistic and increasingly more and more fascist political power as an ally. That if Russia falls, then there can be no Orthodox unity, but Moscow patriarchate will fall into several smaller churches. That its the only way that Orthodoxy can have its own cultural influence.