It's Friday, August 25, 2023. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Some of you remember Bernoulli's

principle of physics for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and that's

certainly true in moral terms, even as it's a physical principle or law. In physics,

you know how it works, you push one way, and eventually there's a force moving in the

opposite direction. You look at a rocket, the flame, the thrust is going down, the rocket

goes up. That's just how it works. But in moral terms, it works in very similar ways,

particularly when you see the effect of sin. And even as you're looking at something like

organized crime, you have a very old script that's been written already, which just shows

that when this action happens, the subsequent actions are extremely predictable. This is

especially true when you look at the code of organized crime, or you look at the way that

dictators act. That's why when the news came on Wednesday, that you've got any pregozion,

the former head of the Wagner mercenary group in Russia, who had led an abortive coup,

that's what it was called, even by the Russian government, an abortive coup against Russian

autocrat, president Vladimir Putin, the fact that in a matter of a very cold calculation of days,

his plane fell from the sky, well, as an accident, that was just a moral form of Bernoulli's

principle of totalitarian dictators at work. Just like watching what happens after one hit,

an organized crime followed by another hit, just when this thing happens and any informed

person knows that the next thing is going to happen, as soon as you've getting pregozion

failed in his coup against the Tsar, that is, Russian president Vladimir Putin, his days were

absolutely numbered. It's also clear that he was likely to go out in what would be at least

presented as an accident. In order to orchestrate an accident on this scale, it had to be a big accident.

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