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The Fascist Flags Are Coming Down

The war in the Ukraine was started by Ukrainian Fascists, not by Russians

Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia

Introduction: Collapse

The Western world is now faced with the imminent fall of the US-created Kiev government and its near-annihilated NATO-armed and NATO-trained forces. Indeed, so short of cannon fodder is Kiev that it is recruiting women; the first pregnant Ukrainian soldier surrendered on 11 November. (Only Fascists would send pregnant women to fight at the Front).  Kiev can survive for only a few months longer at most. It must be regretting the Russian offers of peace between February 2014 and April 2022, which the US elite forced it time and time again to reject. Events are moving rapidly, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces begin to collapse along the Front and the infighting Zelensky regime is treacherously abandoned by the Western elite, which made so many empty promises. For example, the West has just announced officially what was known, but what it denied all along – that a Ukrainian, Colonel Roman Chervinsky, was behind the blowing up of the Nordstream pipeline to Germany, leading Germany into economic recession.

In reality, he was probably only acting on US orders and with US logistics, but the US will blame the Ukraine for everything. They want to shift the blame. The Western media are now also beginning to admit the Nazi links of the Ukrainians, though they still hide the fact that NATO itself was initially largely run by former Nazi Germans. America’s war in the Ukraine has been lost. Russia first defeated the Pan-European invasions of Napoleon and Hitler and now of NATO, that is, of the whole US-led Collective West. Now the Russian economy is booming – thanks to backfiring Western sanctions. Most in the West are now indifferent to the Kiev regime. The fast-declining and much-indebted West has basic economic problems and has had to turn its back on Kiev. The rats are already leaving the sinking ship.

The Ukraine

The Western elite now admits that NATO can no longer supply the Ukraine with arms; NATO’s weapon stocks are depleted and the deindustrialised West does not have the production capacity to make more. Russia is planning war crimes trials in Moscow and Donetsk of Ukrainian Nazis and NATO war criminals for when the conflict is over. After two years of a generally unpleasant holiday in Western countries, millions of Ukrainian ‘refugees’, the majority of whom never were refugees (most of these fled for safety to Russia), will either stay in Western Europe and start working, or else, if patriots, will return to the much smaller New Ukraine. There they can help rebuild their homeland, which does have a brilliant future as part of BRICS ++.

What is that future? Russia has always been going to win the war, but how can it win the peace? First of all, from the outset, Russia’s aim was not to gain territory or to occupy the Ukraine. Russia has plenty of territory already.  All it wanted was to liberate the Russians in what was Russia until 1922, those to the east and south of what was the Soviet Ukraine, and ensure that the rest of the country is run by a government that is not hostile to Russia. This would have to come about through a coup d’etat from inside the Ukraine, creating a pro-Russian independent Ukraine and not a pro-American dependent Ukraine. What disenchantment there will be when Ukrainians realise that they were never fighting and dying for the Ukraine, but all along were fighting and dying for Washington.

If Kiev wants peace soon, it must recognise that the four provinces, which have already more or less returned to Russia together with the Crimea, will always be Russian and also Kiev must give up on NATO, the EU and therefore militarisation and Nazification. If not, then Russia will take back the next slice of southern and eastern Ukraine, with another four provinces, including Odessa and Kharkov, making nine Russian provinces in all and making the Ukraine landlocked.  As regards the rump Ukraine, Russia may agree to handing back one province (Chernovtsy) to Romania, one (Transcarpathia) to Hungary, and perhaps two, Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk, to Poland. This would leave the New Ukraine with 13 provinces out of the original 26, exactly half.

Churchwise, the almost deserted fake Orthodox Church, set up five years ago by Constantinople and run by the USA, will have to be abandoned. However, Moscow will have to grant the real Church, under Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev, full independence, autocephaly. Just as nobody wants to go to a fake Church, nobody wants to go to a Church under Moscow. Multipolarity, not imperialist centralism, is the order of the day. Centralism is over. Although President Putin knows that, the Russian Church administration has not yet caught on. President Putin is no imperialist, he learned from the Soviet error, which is why he is a Russian nationalist. He has no interest in taking over other people’s countries, only areas where the Russian majority is mistreated. This is why Orthodox in Moldova will also leave the Russian Church – the Russians are a small minority there. The age of the multinational Russian Church is over: it showed itself unable to accept other nationalities. Sadly, it fell into the centralising Greek trap, as practised today by the Patriarchate of Constantinople. It is too late now and all Moscow can do now is grant Non-Russians their freedom.

Israel

The Western elite is acutely embarrassed. It is running from Kiev. In its navel-gazing hubris it completely underestimated Russia’s energy, technological, industrial, agricultural, military and diplomatic Superpower status. It also ignored the will for freedom of the seven billion of the post-colonial Non-Western world. Russia, which alone stood up to the bullying West, has become its moral leader. In Washington, Brussels and London, the neocons who ran the show are backing out. First, there was the humiliation in Saigon, then that in Kabul, then in Kiev and now in Israel.

The problem is that the Western elite is also faced with crimes against humanity, over 4,000 dead Palestinian children killed by American bombs from American bombers, being supplied every day, the military stalemate in the giant concentration camp called Gaza, the collapse of the Israeli economy, Palestinian revolt in all occupied Palestine, and its refusal to call for a ceasefire. The terrorism of the West’s Israeli colony still means that Israel is bleeding to death with heavy losses in men and tanks, encountering the realities of urban warfare and trained Palestinian fighters equipped with modern weapons. American bombs and bullets are massacring or maiming Palestinian men, women and children, as vividly shown by social media, which are still for the moment uncensored. And occupying American soldiers are dying in Syria as Muslim militia groups attack them there.

Confronted by the suicidal effects of its anti-Russian sanctions and the chaos in the Middle East, where the Palestinians are supported by the whole world, including very large sections of Western society and millions of brave Non-Zionist Jews, the US-selected and vetted Western ruling elite is at a loss. Although in the UK the neoliberal Starmer’s wife (which is why he got the job) and the Fascistic Braverman’s husband are Jews, President Macron and Prime Minister Sunak are Rothschild bankers and The Economist is a Rothschild magazine, the Western Zionist elite is not a Jewish elite. In the UK the elite is Anglo-Norman, in Continental Europe it is Frankish, in the US it is mixed. But everywhere it is Zionist.

It is Zionist in the sense that it believes that it is a chosen people, an exceptional people beyond the reach of international law, even when it commits war crimes, and to whom the rest of the world must bow down in worship. However, now the elite has now clearly lost, so the Non-Western world will no longer bow down in worship. The elite’s feudal-style bullying no longer works. To replace the old ways, we are seeing the birth of World Order. This is not a New World Order because there was before only Disorder, the ‘rules-based’ Western Disorder. That is now rapidly ending. The global American yoke is falling.

Conclusion: The Turning Point

We are at a millennial turning point in history, a historic shift is taking place now. What used to be called Western Civilisation, at the moment led by the American Empire, is collapsing, together with its puppet regimes in Western Europe, Eastern Europe and indeed all around the world. It is suffering multiple crises and shocks as a result of its previous blunders. Like all narcissists, the US elite has no friends. Everywhere its Empire, in Israel, Eastern Europe, ex-Yugoslavia, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Taiwan is collapsing, not to mention the collapse of the dollar as an international currency. This is called retribution, or popularly, karma. The boomerang is returning and is going to hits its thrower on his head. Given the collapse of the US boss of Europe, countries there are going to search for their real identities, beneath the polluting plastic and silicon, beyond Coca-Cola, MacDonalds, Google and Netflix.

In the case of former Catholic and Protestant Europe, this means that those nations must re-find themselves, their roots, their national sovereignties, their identities and their patriotism. Here is an opportunity for us Orthodox Christians to preach the real Christ, Who is untainted by the strange but now dying millennial Western deviations of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism and untainted by the episcopal corruption which exists in several Local Orthodox Churches. In the case of the Orthodox countries of Europe, they will also be able to re-find their freedom from their Roman governors, called US ambassadors, and re-enter the Global Majority, the Community of Sovereign Nations which is called BRICS. We look forward to the multipolar future, to the revelations of the saints and the prophets, to preparing for the Second Coming of Christ.

 

 

Reflections on the New Offer to Join the Moscow Patriarchate

On Saturday 11 November 2023 we were asked by a bishop of the Moscow Patriarchate if our group of six parishes and 5,000 parishioners would like to transfer from the Patriarchate of Romania to the Moscow Patriarchate. He has told us that this can be arranged, apparently following new instructions from the now besieged Moscow, backtracking from the past. Here is our answer, reprinted and updated from 20 February 2022:

 

Even if I look at the situation as an outsider, just objectively, it will seem absurd, unthinkable and outrageous. There is a very small ROCOR diocese covering a sizeable part of Europe. Its bishop created a schism, causing a lot of damage and pain to many faithful and clergy, including to some widely-known priests. And its American Synod is paralysed due to Metr. Hilarion’s illness (dementia and cancer). And there is the Moscow Patriarchate, the main centre, which can take steps and heal the schism any time, and punish its instigator, any time it wishes. But, instead, it coldly and calmly observes the situation, pretending to ignore it, and in effect taking the perpetrator’s side, without protecting the suffering faithful and clergy. How does it look after that? As if the main centre is afraid of the instigator. Even if you look at this as a pure outsider, its behaviour appears absurd and far from Christian.

From a Correspondent in Moscow, February 2022

 

Many untruths, slander, vilification and much misinformation have been posted about us on the internet over the last thirty months. It is the same vilification as led to the unjust suspension of the great St John of Shanghai in his time, sixty years ago. These postings have clearly been centrally organised. Other lies, or simply misunderstandings, will follow.

This whole affair has been a story of bullying and then betrayal. Throughout the several months of this affair, a certain young, inexperienced and non-seminary trained neophyte bishop, formerly a tutor in a Roman Catholic college in the City of Oxford, has consistently portrayed our departure from the Russian Church as a ‘personal rebellion’. He did this in order to portray himself in a good light and to minimise the gravity of the situation, in which he has lost over half his diocese in the British Isles.

On 23 August 2021 16 clergy left ROCOR in the British Isles in all. True, three of them were Western rite and they are not involved in our group, now that we have been forced into leaving the Russian Church. The annual throughput of our six parishes (excluding the Western rite ones) is about 5,000 Orthodox.

This was never a ‘personal rebellion’, but the collective decision to reject the ROCOR schism from the MP Archdiocese of Western Europe on the issue of rebaptism, which began over a year ago in Cardiff and has now spread throughout both ROCOR dioceses in Western Europe.

ROCOR’s excessive reactions were caused by what really lies behind his attitude: the determination to seize our properties and extract more money from us by bullying over the last four years. We resisted this, but never dreamed of leaving his jurisdiction for reasons of disputes about property ownership, or his bullying, negativity and spectacular rudeness. We consider that you can only canonically leave a jurisdiction in cases of episcopal heresy, episcopal schism or episcopal attempts to force people into acts of gross immorality.

That very young and untrained bishop managed to offend everyone in our multinational group.

He offended our Russian core by writing the most untruthful and unChristian personal attacks against the popular Fr Andrew Phillips on the internet over the last thirty months. As one of our parishioners said: ‘Everyone who knows Fr Andrew and the other 25 members of his family knows all that to be lies. He is a well-known figure internationally, tireless worker for Russian Church unity over the decades, writer, hagiographer, European cultural historian, author of the Services to All the Saints of the Isles (of the North Atlantic) and to All the Saints of the Western\ Lands, and the greatest Russophile you can find in England, who has been faithful to the Russian Church despite continual persecution for nearly fifty years. Unlike his bishop, he speaks and writes fluent Russian and he does not tell Russians to ‘learn English’, so they can speak to him. If the Russian Church rejects him, it will have no friends left in Western Europe. What an appalling way to treat people who have sacrificed their whole lives for the Russian Church’.

The young neophyte bishop then offended the Romanians, telling them to their face that he did not like them and then offended  the Moldovans that he only half-liked them and then forbade them from kneeling on Sundays, something that Orthodox in Moldova have been doing for centuries.

He offended the Greeks by telling them publicly that they must not venerate the icon of St Sophrony, whom Fr Andrew knew well and who was also forced to leave the Moscow Patriarchate because of persecution, and that their Greek Patriarch is ‘possessed’.

He offended the French, with whom he communicates by Google translator, by excommunicating members of their family and friends of 50 years standing who live in France and have always belonged to the Western European Archdiocese of the Moscow Patriarchate. For decades Fr Andrew had battled for this Archdiocese to rejoin the Russian Church and he with others had been successful in this.

He offended the English in an act of swaggering American imperialism and crass cultural insensitivity by insisting that they speak American English, instead of their own native English, which they had been using in the Orthodox context for long before he had been born.

He insisted that we left ROCOR without letters of canonical leave. At any point he could have written those letters in a matter of 15 minutes. Although these letters were politely requested on several occasions by Metr Jean and then by Metr Joseph, he refused to write them. However, in reality no letters of canonical leave were ever necessary, since clergy do not need letters of canonical leave in order to quit a bishop who is in schism (Canon XV of the First and Second Council held under St Photius the Great).

After Metr Jean of the Moscow Patriarchal Archdiocese of Western Europe was forced, stabbed in the back by a certain MP Metropolitan (even younger than nearly all our children), to abandon us on 10 February 2022, with the words ‘I could not care less about them’, We discussed what to do. Tired of the utter divisiveness and sectarianism of the Russian Church, whose bishops are out of communion even with each other, we as a group considered offers from various Local Churches to join them.

We decided for the following reasons to join the Romanian Orthodox Church:

The Romanian Church is in communion with everyone. They are not involved in the Russian-Greek dispute, which began in the Ukraine and has already spread to Africa and elsewhere, isolating the Russian Church.

Over 60% of all Orthodox in England are Moldovans or Romanians. They have an Autonomous Synod of seven Bishops for Western and Southern Europe, nearly 700 parishes, a large number of parishes and two monasteries. No Local Church will ever be formed in the British Isles and Ireland without this majority.

Among our 13 clergy are two Moldovan priests, one Romanian priest, one Moldovan deacon, one Moldovan reader and one Romanian reader. Thus, nearly half our clergy are Romanian-speaking.

The majority of our people are Moldovans or Romanians. As we have so many Moldovans, Ukrainians and Russians, we remain on the old calendar and all our liturgical customs, with the full blessing of Metr Joseph. Nothing changes. Effectively we are a Diaspora part of the Metropolia of Bessarabia, which is under the Patriarchate of Romania.

There are 30,000 Moldovans in Essex and East London who have been pastorally neglected. We have a pastoral duty towards them.

All our six parishes and twelve clergy were received into the Patriarchate of Romania in just four hours on 16 February 2022, with the help of the leading Professor of Canon Law of the Patriarchate of Romania.

We believe that the four very aggressive clerical personalities in the Russian Church who are entirely responsible for the divisions and who have either created or else supported sectarian division inside it will in time be removed.

Then will have to begin the work of re-establishing canonical, and not political, principles of action. The present situation leaves the Russian Church in Western Europe in a state of three jurisdictions, divided and feeling betrayed. It has created great scandal among the people who can only see warring, aggressive and bullying bishops. This is all because of the lack of conciliarity between the three Russian jurisdictions. They ask: ‘Are those bishops even Christians?’

This whole intra-Russian situation reflects the wider and scandalous divisions between the Local Orthodox Churches, which can only be overcome through a return to canonical, and not political, practices, to be re-established by a Council of the whole Orthodox Church.

20 February 2022

This very cruel rejection and betrayal by the Russian Church of its greatest Non-Russian friends in the United Kingdom, ourselves, after nearly fifty years of faithfulness, has led to a spiral of departures from it caused by further astounding acts of Russian nationalism, resulting in November 2023 in its now disastrous situation in the Ukraine, Latvia and Moldova. In the last case, senior priests are now pleading with their Metropolitan to lead the remains of his Church and follow the 30% who have already left it into the Patriarchate of Romania (See the article below, Metropolitan Vladimir….). This is exactly what we did first, over twenty months ago on 16 February 2022, fleeing schism, sectarianism, cultishness, phariseeism, censoriousness, bigotry, greed, sheer lack of love and lack of pastoral care. We fled a very young, inexperienced neophyte bishop who knew very little about the realities of Orthodoxy, only bookish theories, and did not understand even the language of his Russian clergy and people. As by far the senior and most experienced priest in his diocese and financially and morally independent, I had the responsibility and duty of leading the exodus across the Red Sea of his old calendarist schism. What began then has now developed into the heresy (I do not use that word lightly) of the rebaptism of Orthodox who wish to join ROCOR. As the proverb says: ‘Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind’.

City of Colchester

13 November 2023

 

Metropolitan Vladimir convenes a meeting with all the deacons, after receiving the letter from the priests from Botanica

On Thursday, at the Metropolia of Chisinau and All Moldavia, a meeting is to be held with all the archpriests and abbots of monasteries subordinate to Metropolitan Vladimir, at which the proposal of some priests regarding the in corpore accession of this Church structure to the Patriarchate will most likely be discussed in Romanian.

According to the priest Pavel Borsevschi, the Metropolitan convened the meeting, after receiving today the letter from the clerics of the Botanica Deanery of Chisinau, which urges him to switch to the Romanian Orthodox Church.

A single priest from the II Deanery of the Archdiocese of Chisinau spoke out against the accession of the Metropolia of Moldova to the Romanian Patriarchate. The Dean of Botanica, priest Pavel Borșevschi, said this for Jurnal.md. We mention that 30 churches from the Botanica Deanery, but also from the villages of Sângera, Revaca, Băcioi, Străsiteni and Brăila are part of the II Deanery of the Archdiocese of Chisinau.

“The letter is signed by most of the priests in the diocese. We do not propose to join the Metropolia of Bessarabia, but we demand that the entire Metropolia, as a canonical structure, led by Metropolitan Vladimir, renounce the Russian Church and Patriarch Kyrill and come under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Patriarchate. We cannot be in a church where the Patriarch blesses his priests to pray for the victory of the Russian army over Ukraine, which is our suffering sister. We have just had a war in Transnistria, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexiy II. In such cases, when we say “victory”, we are talking about humiliation. It is something that cannot be explained from a Christian point of view.

When he received the letter, the Metropolitan did not tell us either yes or no, but decided to summon all the deacons and abbots of the monasteries on Thursday to discuss this issue. I don’t think he has any reason to disagree with us, based on his letter to Patriarch Kyrill and considering that this opinion is not only ours, the priests’, but also that of the religious community, which we shepherd” . priest Pavel Borševschi reported.

We remind you that, on September 5 Metropolitan Vladimir addressed a letter to Patriarch Kyrill, in which he informs him that he cannot do anything to stop the rise of the Metropolia of Bessarabia in the Republic of Moldova and that the Russian Church is perceived in society as an outpost of the Kremlin and a supporter of the Russian intervention in Ukraine. The letter also states that “the people of Moldova have Latin roots and it is perfectly normal to aspire to remain in this civilizational space, after centuries of artificial division”.