Monday, February 28, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 28 February 2022
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, February 28, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, |
| 0:10.0 | a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | The big story continues to be developments in Ukraine. |
| 0:17.0 | Russian forces having invaded the nation have faced greater opposition than had been expected. |
| 0:23.0 | The Ukrainian people are responding with some remarkable stories of courage and even as the |
| 0:28.0 | overwhelming force of Russia is directed towards its neighbor in what can only be described as a planned aggressive invasion. |
| 0:37.0 | The fact is that many of the Ukrainian people and the Ukrainian military are proving themselves |
| 0:42.0 | far more formidable as a defensive adversary |
| 0:45.0 | than the Russian forces had evidently expected. |
| 0:48.0 | There are some huge developments that demand our attention. |
| 0:51.0 | One of them is the fact that the international press has reported what has been confirmed by Russian authorities |
| 0:57.0 | and that is that Vladimir Putin has put the nuclear forces of Russia on high alert. |
| 1:02.0 | As just about everyone recognizes the headline forces of Russia on high alert. |
| 1:02.9 | As just about everyone recognizes, the headlines are saying things like escalating tensions. |
| 1:07.3 | That's an understatement. |
| 1:08.7 | But it requires us to look back and ask the question, why would Russia under these circumstances in which there has been near universal international opposition? |
| 1:18.0 | Certainly United opposition coming from the United States, our allies, and Europe, but you have to ask the question, |
| 1:24.4 | why would Vladimir Putin do something that appears to be not only so radical and dangerous, |
| 1:29.3 | but injurious to his own nation and his own position. The answer increasingly seems to be the fact |
| 1:36.2 | that Vladimir Putin is not a rational actor. He is acting in ways that are not completely |
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