Granted - Or Let's At Least Accept for Argument's Sake - Putin is a Madman...Fair Enough (Assessment/Evaluation), To be Sure...And So You're Telling Me (& the Remaining 7.5-8 Billion Inhabitants Upon Planet Earth) That Such a - Indeed Any - Madman Ain't, When Push Comes to Shove, Gonna React EXTREMELY When Literally Pushed to the Wall...Launching Nuclear Weapons (at Ukraine), Whether 'Limited' or Otherwise - It Matters Not, They're Really All of a Muchness - and Thereby Help Precipitate/Launch WW111?

 Hey, if that's the case, you're even madder than the Russian leader...and that's saying something!

But For Once to Give the General, Mainstream (Kiwi & Western) Media Some Overdue Credit, They At Least Gave a Fairly Well-Rounded Portrait of the Two, Not Altogether All That Flattering In Fact

And appropriately so, as Pope Benedict was once awaiting a citizen's arrest upon his (2010?) visit to the United Kingdom, and one-time Australian Archbishop George Pell even went to gaol - though later his conviction was unanimously quashed by the nation's Supreme Court...

Both men may well have been 'not guilty' of heinous crimes against innocent youth, but neither 'comes out of the wash' very well vis-a-vis their determined and well-documented - all too successful - attempts to cover up the RCC's shameful and shameless record of simply 'moving along' those priests, prelates and cardinals guilty of the same...

For as the Holy Bible well states:

He who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it sins.

And about such sins the Scripture also states (in firstly (at least one of) the gospels and in the Revelation):

It is better to have a millstone tied around your neck than to sin against one of these little ones (i.e. innocent children who believe in Jesus Christ), and furthermore, that that great (as in important/significant and influential, but not at all remotely 'good' in God's sight) city Babylon will be cast into the waters (of judgment), with a millstone tied around its (metaphorical) neck, never (ever) to resurface

And said scriptures (of the Revelation, the Book of the Apocalypse) furthermore ask folk to count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666.

Another (Thoroughly Rotten) 'Un Bites the Dust? Some Would Make a Fairly Reasonable Case Thereabouts (As the Vatican's Former #3, One-Time Australian Cardinal Pell, Departs This Life Closely Upon the Heels of the Papacy's Former #2, German Cardinal Josef Ratszinger, Better Known as the Previous (265th) Pope (Benedict the 16th))

Incidentally, is it a mere coincidence that Ratszinger was the 265th pope, the three numerals adding up to that unluckiest of numbers, 13? He was, after all (is said and done), the first to resign in *600 or so years...

Or, for that matter, that the present pope - Frances - is the **266th, the last two digits thereof being extremely reminiscent of a certain number ascribed the head of a particular religious system in the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation?

*His 'resignee predecessor retiring like him to seclusion, but unlike Ratszinger not really achieving this, and being disposed of shortly thereafter (presumably by his wicked successor, Pope Boniface (the 16th?)).

**Weird-ish in itself, as the famous 13th/14th-century prophecy of Irish Archbishop Malachy only progressed as far as the 265th pope, appropriate enough ironically in view of the fact that Pope Frances is the first (at least known and well-acknowledged) pope to come from that most clandestine of Roman Catholic orders, the Jesuits.