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The Last Stand of the Last Western Empire and the Great Church Project

End of Empire

Since the European suicide preceding 1945 the remnants of the last two European empires, the British and the French, survived only by riding on the coat tails of the American Empire. This has been even to the point of being humiliated by it, as at Suez in 1956 or pleading with Trump for diesel, and supporting US imperialism, however unprincipled. The American Empire has continually operated by setting up mafia regimes of oligarchs, supported by Fascist thugs, with hollowed out economies. Commonly called ‘banana republics’, these have existed not only in Latin America, but everywhere under the US Empire, from the Philippines to Vietnam, Iran to Kuwait, Africa to Western Europe. In the 1990s, it tried to set up exactly such a regime in the former Soviet Union. Here it failed, as the Patriots led by President Putin reclaimed Russia, but it did set one up in tiny, bandit-controlled Kosovo.

However, all such regimes survive only as long as there are enough US dollars to feed them, whether it is the colonels in Greece, Salazar in Portugal, Franco in Spain or regimes in Italy. Once the supply of dollars dries up, the regimes collapse and that very suddenly. We saw this in the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Now we are seeing it in the Ukraine, the Gulf, Saudi Arabia and, in time, it will happen in Israel. These are wars of attrition, as were the First and Second World Wars. For years millions of troops sat in trenches or battled backwards and forwards without any decisive collapse. And then it all happened. Both the First and Second World Wars were decided in the last four months. The same thing happened almost overnight in ‘South’ Vietnam, Afghanistan, with the dramatic scenes of the departure of the last helicopters or transport planes, now this is about to happen in the Ukraine.

The US/NATO proxy war in the Ukraine was triggered because greedy banks and CEOs of transnational corporations like Blackrock, Palantir, Starlink and Vanguard could see how rich they could become, if only they could break up Russia and pillage its natural resources, as they had already done in the Ukraine, and as they had already done in the enslaved Russia of the 1990s. This greed was entirely supported by EU politicians and businessmen for the same reasons. The British elite, always very sycophantic to the US, as they have since 1916 viewed the American Empire as their own Anglo-American Empire, had a special reason for supporting the wars in Afghanistan and the Ukraine. In the first case they wanted revenge for losing all three of their Afghan Wars (1840-1919). In the second case, they wanted revenge for the stalemated Crimean War (1853-56), seeing the present war as a Part Two continuation of that War.

The Western defeat in the Ukraine is a story of the hubris which lies behind Western lies and delusions. Convinced that the ‘end of history’ had come as a result of their ‘triumph’, Western elites persuaded themselves that Russia’s economy was the same size as Spain’s (in reality, it is the same size as Germany’s, France’s and the UK’s combined, and its industrial capacity is greater than the whole of Western Europe’s), that unarmed Russian troops fought with shovels, that Russians fought in ‘human waves’, that millions of them were dead, that Russians were taking computer chips from washing-machines because they had none, that the rouble was ‘rubble’, that Russia had no more fuel, bullets, tanks or missiles, that President Putin was about to die of cancer, but also that Russia was about to march into Western Europe….In reality, the Western elites need psychiatric help for their delusions.

As the American Empire declines and then finally falls, those who have had their imperial pretensions extended by riding on American coat tails, will also collapse. We can see this in Western Europe today. The UK has had six Prime Minister in ten years, in Germany the autocratic militarist Chancellor Merz is hated and in France Napoleon-Macron the dictator, who has lost French Africa, refuses to leave and allow a democratically-elected government. As the US retreats and abandons the artificial countries and mafia regimes it has set up worldwide, armies will surrender, political collapse and economic chaos will ensue. It is a repeat of the aftermath of the USSR. The Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and the tiny Gulf States, then Israel, will fall. Then will fall Western Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, the Baltics and the whole US-founded EU itself. All will have to adapt to an empireless world. Traumatic, but inevitable.

Church Freedom

In 1980 I had a long conversation with the late Fr Alexander Schmemann, whose books I had read in the 1970s and members of whose family, all belonging to ROCOR, except for his very conservative Parisian brother Andrei, I had met. In 1980 ten years had passed since Fr Alexander had implemented the autocephaly from Moscow for the largely Carpatho-Russian Metropolia in North America, which then became the OCA (Orthodox Church in America). He was able to do this, as he, a highly educated Paris aristocrat who spoke fluent French and taught Latin and had a strong character, dominated the Carpatho-Russian episcopate, which was generally poorly educated and also morally compromised, as Fr Alexander knew in detail. This is why to this day the OCA is still to this day dominated by its protopresbyters and not bishops, a bit like congregational, but not episcopal, Churches.

Fr Alexander was keen to get me to St Vladimir’s Seminary in New York, perhaps seeing me as a supporter for himself and a future seminary teacher. I thanked him, but informed him that I was not interested, even though I admired much of what he had done for the reorganisation of Orthodoxy in North America along canonical lines. My task, I told him, was to help in the building of a Local Church in Western Europe. Even then, I also knew that mistakes had been made in the construction of the OCA in 1970 and that if ever we were to have our own Local Church in Western Europe, we would have to learn from those mistakes and not repeat them. Those mistakes were in the ecumenistic, modernistic, anti-monastic and anti-ascetic compromises, resulting from a certain Protestantisation and Second-Vaticanisation of the would-be, ‘All-American’ conformist members of the OCA.

However, no Local Church can be built on such attitudes. All Local Churches began with monasticism. Although I never thought that I would live to see a Local Church of Western Europe, I needed to help in its construction, in this Great Project, for the sake of our children and their children. Although I had come to see in the 1970s that the CIA-run Patriarchate of Constantinople would never help in building new Local Churches, but only try to dominate, interfere and destroy, I sincerely believed that the Russian Church could do something. This I believed right up until 2021. Then that hope was dashed, as I saw that part of the New York Russian Church was compromised by that same CIA as of old and the main part was compromised by Russian nationalism and Russian politics. Until all were free of politics, there could be no hope here, there would be only compromise, impurity and Papist attitudes.

But precisely now is coming the defeat of the American Empire as a result of the backfiring or ‘blowbacking’ of its own ideology, for example, as in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and today in the Ukraine and Iran. So used to treating other countries as vassals, like Western Europe, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, and receiving tribute from them in dollar payments, US ideology never took into account the existence of sovereign nations. All were supposed to submit to its domination. But there are nations that refuse to be dependent on the American Empire and despite US sanctions, have become powerful, especially Russia, China and Iran. According to US plans, China was supposed to have been eliminated by US-bred covid, Russia dismantled by the NATO-supplied Ukrainian proxy, and Iran eliminated by assassinations. All these plans failed. Man proposes, but God disposes. With this reality, all changes in the Church.

The American Empire is declining more and more rapidly. This also means that the Greek Churches and the New York Russian Synod can, after eighty years of enslavement, repent and free themselves of CIA control. In turn, this means that the Russian Church inside the former USSR will no longer be obliged to counter the Greeks and could abandon Russian nationalist ideology outside the Russian Federation. With the depoliticisation of the Greeks and the denationalisation of Russians after the NATO campaign against them has been defeated, there is hope that long-awaited new Local Churches in the Diaspora can come into being. Delayed for so long by the political systems weighing on Greeks and Russians alike, those born outside the Russian Federation and in the Diaspora, will at last be free to establish their own Local Churches. We 50 million Orthodox and their 250 bishops could at last have our own Churches.

 

 

The Icon of the Saints of the Western Lands

With the blessing of Archbishop Atanasie, after the Liturgy and a wedding on 20 September 2026, the new Icon of the Saints of the Western Lands, 90 cm x 70 cm, was placed in its wooden shrine in St John’s Church in Colchester. After the Liturgy of the Nativity of the Mother of God on 21 September 2026, the Icon was blessed. It was painted by one of our deacons, Antonie Brailescu, who is also an iconographer and the shrine was made by a parishioner-carpenter, Daniel Radu. Around Christ, Who holds a cross over Western Europe and is accompanied by the Mother of God, St John the Baptist and the holy Apostles Peter and Paul of Rome, 30 main saints from all over Western Europe are depicted around the four sides. They are:

St James the Apostle, St Martin of Tours, St Irenaeus of Lyon, St Clement of Rome, St Ambrose of Milan, St Hilary of Poitiers, St Benedict of Nursia, St Eulalia of Barcelona, St Genevieve of Paris, St Julia of Corsica, St Lucy of Sicily, St John Cassian, St Vincent of Lerins, St Columba of Iona, St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, St Martin of Braga, St Hosius of Cordoba, St Patrick of Ireland, St Alban of Britain, St Maurice of Agaunum, St Boniface of Germany, St David of Wales, St Edmund, King of East Anglia, St Severinus of Noricum, St Anschar of Hamburg, St Sigfrid of Sweden, St Olaf of Norway, St Willibrord of the Netherlands, St Lambert of Maastricht, St Brendan the Voyager.

This Icon exists because our Church is dedicated to St John of Shanghai and Western Europe and the iconostasis already depicts his many friends, like St Nicholas of Zhicha and St Alexis of Carpatho-Russia, and of course here is the Kursk Root Icon of the Mother of God, before which St John reposed. We also have many relics of St John, such as his London cassock, placed in a full-length shrine, with an icon of him, and covered with his archbishop’s mantle, his paraman, decrees with his signature etc.

In the 1950s St John was instrumental in renewing the veneration for the Orthodox saints of the Western Lands. Thus, we are continuing his heritage, as we have been doing ever since 1973. Our Church is the Church of St John and All the Saints of the Western Lands. It will be consecrated as such by our Patriarchate of Romania, once the frescoing of the walls is complete, now that the ceiling repainting with its 2,000 stars is nearly done.

100 A4 copies and 500 A5 copies of this Icon have been printed. With the blessing of Archbishop Atanasie, the Icon is accompanied by an A5 book of akathists to All the Saints of the Western Lands, in Romanian and the six most common Western European languages, spoken by 90% of Western Europeans: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch. This akathist is based on our full service to these saints, which we composed over twelve years ago. All this comes ahead of the Congress of our Metropolia of Western and Southern Europe, with its 1,000 parishes and 8 bishops, which will take place in Rome from 6 to 9 October. The akathist was published on Amazon, as was a second book of activities in English, A4 format and 100 pages long, designed for children so they can understand the saints of this Icon. An extract from the akathist:

Akathist to All the Saints of the Western Lands 

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We sing the praises of all the saints who from time immemorial have pleased God, shining forth in the Western Lands and receiving crowns of glory in the heavens. You who have great boldness before the Lord can free us from all misfortunes, and therefore we call out to you:

Rejoice, all the saints of the Western Lands, and pray ardently to God for us.

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The saints of the North, the South and the East were added to by you, the saints of the West. Together you go forth in bright triumph and call the whole world to spiritual joy. We offer veneration, as we call out to the saints of the Western Lands in this way:

Rejoice, O saints, shining with the light of the Sun of Righteousness and making the sign of the Cross over the lands of the West.

Rejoice, O saints, who shine with the purity of the Orthodox Faith through your life in the Holy Trinity.

Rejoice, O saints, who call us to return to the roots of our first confession of the Holy Spirit in the bright Sunrise of Orthodoxy.

Rejoice, O saints, who pray to God for our repentance and return, restoration and resurrection.

Rejoice, O saints, who instruct us to leave aside the things of men and the fallen fleshly mind, bereft of the Saviour and the Spirit.

Rejoice, O saints, who brighten the ever-darkening shades of the Churchless night.

Rejoice, all the saints of the Western Lands, and pray ardently to God for us.

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The Smell of the Apocalypse?

Fear not, little flock!

Every day, we hear some new hysterical statement coming from hysterical Western European politicians. In Germany, the hated and deeply unpopular Merz wants to conscript young Germans, presumably by force, as in the Ukraine. He has been told to go and fight his own war. The no less hated and unpopular UK Establishment elite warns the public about stocking up with water and tinned food – warnings which are heartily ignored, as they are absurd. We have heard them all before. Stop your feeble attempts at manipulation. Then there comes the huge Kiev attack, orchestrated by American technology with Western European made drones, on Moscow, made by the unelected EU and UK autocrats in order to disrupt Russian democrats.

The Polish leader, an American-speaking agent with his Zionist American wife, who hates Russians even more than him, wants to invade Russia and ‘take it within six weeks’. NATO exercises are being carried out by the Russian border of Kaliningrad. Estonian leaders declare that they want to dismantle and break up Russia. Why? The Swedish elite tries to persuade its people that Russia is about to invade. NATO wants to double or triple offence (‘defence’) spending, cutting social benefits. The German Army is set to become the largest in Europe, according to their leaders’ propaganda, even though Germany is now, like the rest of Western Europe, bankrupt. When Germany has the largest army in Europe, we know how it ends. It has happened before.

In France 16% of fuel stations have no diesel. Elsewhere in Western Europe diesel has increased by 20% in the last month, also in the diesel-reliant USA, where economic collapse beckons. Aviation fuel, more or less diesel, is also short. Fuel and food shortages are threatened throughout Western Europe for 2027. As regards still free Iran and Yemen, the US is talking about dropping nuclear bombs on them, as it did on Japan in 1945. Apparently, this is in support of the Saudi Arabian head-choppers, who are beloved by the US and UK elites. Is this Western Peninsula of Asia about to be renamed? Perhaps the North-Western Peninsula of Asia, for now called Europe, will also be renamed? Today Western European politicians can only talk about war.

They especially like the phrase ‘The Third World War’. After all Western Europe is expert at starting World Wars. Cynics will point out that no World War happens without Italy changing sides and Poland being partitioned. The whole CIA-selected and trained Western European elite are appointees of banks, like Rothschild (Macron), or transnational corporations like Blackrock (Merz). None of these hated Zionist/Globalist leaders loves their countries, but they do love getting bribes from US arms companies. Their loyalties are elsewhere – to Zion. As a result, the UK is on its sixth hated Prime Minister in ten years and is threatened with break-up by the freedom-loving English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh. Fed up with the London clique, we envy the political stability of Italy.

Nuclear weapons? Intimidating the public with talk of invasions? The oldest techniques in Western politicians’ playbook. Should we fear the Apocalypse? We say No, for Christ, not man, is the Lord of History. And we cannot smell the Apocalypse. However, we can smell the Fragrance of Christ.

 

The Irrelevant Meeting of 30 November 2026?

Patriarch Bartholomew has disclosed that he has invited the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem to his Constantinople for a ‘brotherly Synaxis’ on 30 November 2026. The All-Greek meeting of these four tiny old Patriarchates is that of the unelected leaders of 3% of the world’s 200 million Orthodox. Is such a meeting is therefore irrelevant? So why will they meet? We suspect that they will meet to discuss the consequences of Constantinople’s disastrous decision to set up a fake Church in the Ukraine in 2018.

Now that the CIA regime in Kiev, which has viciously persecuted the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is collapsing under the weight of Russian arms. A new democratic government will be established in the post-War Ukraine, so that fake Church is heading for the dustbin of history. However, this in turn means that the CIA-sponsored Patriarchates of Constantinople and Alexandria will have to start resuming normal relations with the 97% of the other Local Churches, notably with the Russian, to which 70% of Orthodox belong.

Perhaps the Arab Patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem will be able to mediate between those two and the Russian Church? And what of the other eleven Local Churches? Not only does the Patriarchate of Constantinople have to renounce the thugs of its fake Church in the fake Ukraine, but it also has to renounce its fake churches in Estonia and elsewhere. On the other hand, the Russian Church will at last have to sort out its deep infiltration by the CIA and the mess it has made outside Russia, notably in the Ukraine and in Africa.

Africa has been claimed for nearly 100 years to be the territory of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. That is disputed. Who is capable of taking responsibility for the Evangelisation of the African Continent? It is our suggestion that it is Orthodox Africans themselves who should do this and not outsiders, neither Russians, nor Greeks, though their financial support and infrastructure could be welcome. Once that has been done, perhaps all sixteen Local Churches could talk about the real problems of Church life.

These consist of the fact that some 50 million of the world’s Orthodox, represented by some 250 bishops, do not have their own Churches, but have to rely on someone else’s Churches. This would not matter if ‘someone else’s Churches’ were politically free. They are not. This concerns the Orthodox who live on the vast territories of the Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltics, Belarus, Central Asia, the whole of Africa, Western Europe, North, Central and South America and Oceania. There is a need for new and politically free Local Churches here.

Perhaps initially these would be Autonomous, perhaps later they could become Autocephalous. Here is the real problem. Invading other Local Churches’ territories is not where it is at. The real problem is the lack of Evangelisation, the lack of pastoral care and the lack of political freedom for Orthodox and those who wish to join the Orthodox Church. Let us have a real meeting between all the Local Orthodox Churches. Who knows, if there is a free and non-political agenda, maybe that could evolve into a Church Council?

 

Whom the Demons Would Destroy, They First Make Mad

The wicked shall be turned to hell, all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 9, 17

After the great European suicide of 1914 and the subsequent falls of four empires, the Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman, Europe and the Middle East were transformed. Suddenly, from 1919 on, new borders and new countries appeared, carved out of the four old empires. Many of those borders, for example, those of the Ukraine, had little real meaning. And most unjust borders and even whole countries in the Middle East were invented by ignorant and arrogant politicians in London and Paris. Since then, and as a result of their second suicide of 1939, the remaining European Empires, precisely those based in London and Paris, have also dismantled themselves. They were all replaced by the American Empire, as had become obvious to all by 1945.

Now the US too is suicidally dismantling itself in Western Europe and West Asia (as the Middle East was called), just as it had dismantled itself in South-East Asia in Vietnam and in Central Asia in Afghanistan. This suicide has taken place through self-inflicted hubris, the US imagining that it could dominate the post-1919, post-1945 and post-1991 world and its artificial countries, from the Ukraine to Kuwait, from Iraq to Syria, from Jordan to Syria, from the Lebanon to Israel, from Kosovo to Saudi Arabia. The Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe will be redrawn by popular plebiscite. Israel, the Gulf autocracies and the brutal Saudi Arabian dictatorship, which survived only by corruption, will also fall. The whole Middle East / West Asia, with Turkey, Syria and Israel, will be reconfigured.

Despite Western delusions and fairy tale ‘narratives’, which are only fantasies, caused by a profound state of denial and hiding in the past, we are moving to a world without an Empire and to all that the American Empire established in the post-1945 settlement. This includes the United Nations, which like everything else, dismantled itself into irrelevance by not dealing with real problems and has been replaced by BRICS. The BRICS World is the new world of Patriots which is defeating the old world of Globalists. This we can see with Russia, Iran and Yemen, old historic countries re-establishing themselves over artificial new countries, the Ukraine, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. The latter were established by colonial powers after 1919 only for manipulation, exploitation and control.

The same thing will happen in East Asia, after the US occupation and vassalisation of Japan, the artificial division of Korea into two, the artificial separation of Taiwan from Mother-China etc. All that China has to do is to sit by the world river and watch the Western corpses floating by. For the Western Empire is dismantling itself, through its aggression, starting wars which it cannot win and so destroying whole countries, relying on subsidising corrupt elites, as in the Ukraine. Finally, there will come the time for countries like the UK (itself another post-1919 invention) to dismantle itself and the four peoples there to find freedom at last. The same with the US-designed vassal, the EU, a dictatorship and financial straitjacket, which is already unravelling to the joy of freedom-lovers.

Finally, the fate of the US itself must be decided. Founded by the theft of vast lands and resources from their native peoples and then by a bloody and still not forgotten Civil War, here too much will change. We are witnessing the reshaping of the world, as the old colonies free themselves and proclaim their sovereignty through the new UN, called BRICS, in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, and finally even in Western Europe and Northern America. True, the detested and discredited leaders of the West, a few of whom are still hanging on, are making a great noise about how they are ‘winning bigly’, but those are only empty words that echo in their empty minds. Only the foolish elderly or mercenary journalists believe them. Their sabre rattle is in fact the death rattle of their Empire.

 

A Parable: When is the Teacher Coming?

There was once a class of sixteen boys. Of these, two were troublemakers and were always fighting each other, as each considered that he should be the head boy. Although two or three of the other fourteen had some sympathy for one of the others (they lived in the same road), generally all fourteen would look on at the two who always seemed to be scrapping and shake their heads disapprovingly in disbelief. But, rather passively, they would look on, waiting for the teacher to come. When is the teacher coming?

The Three Illusions of Russia

First Published in Russian at: https://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2026/09/14/tri_illyuzii_rossii

Introduction: White Man Speak with Forked Tongue

I have known Russia and two of its incarnations, the Soviet and the post-Soviet Capitalist, for fifty-three years, since my first visit to the USSR in 1973. I also used to know the last Russians, now no more with us, who had been born in its previous incarnation, that of the Tsars’ Russia. One constant question throughout this time is why Russia has made so many tragic mistakes in its history, why it has been so misled and believed in the illusions sold to it. It often seems as though Russians have behaved like naïve Native Americans.

The latter sold their lands and their natural resources to the first colonists in exchange for strings of beads and other shiny toys from manufacturing industries, whether metal axes, rifles or fire-water whisky. It is rather as one South African Protestant Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, put it: When white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray’. We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. Russians too have believed in shiny beads.

  1. The Imperial Illusion: Nine Generations

The first illusion began around the year 1700. Members of the Russian elite, the boyars, were forced to shave off their beards and change their dress, selling out their national identity in order to imitate Western feudalism and its aristocratic ideology. Thus, Imperialism began, serfdom was introduced and a profound inferiority complex vis a vis the West appeared. The Russian elite parroted Western aristocrats, enslaving and exploiting their own, all in exchange for Constitutionalist Anglomania and Republican Gallomania. For Russia, for the Russian language and for Russian people they had only contempt.

The Russian aristocracy fell for Western toys and many came to speak French as their first language and speak Russian like Frenchmen. Some light came in 1861, when one Tsar had the courage to abolish serfdom. In the age of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, vast amounts of land were returned to the people, despite the treacherous aristocrats. Like him, the intelligent realised how they had been tricked and needed to return to pre-Imperial Russian Tradition, in Church architecture, iconography, singing and to the spirit of St Seraphim of Sarov, so despised by the elite. This illusion lasted essentially for 200 years until 1917.

  1. The Soviet Illusion: Three Generations

Then, in 1917, the intellectual elite, made up of the most Westernised elements of the aristocracy and the middle class, (‘the intelligentsia’) was sold another Western ideology. This time it was the old-fashioned German philosophy of Marxism, which promised ‘a bright future’, paradise on earth. And the natives accepted this new illusion and believed in it, many dying as a result, including themselves. For those who did not escape into exile died before firing squads and in camps, or starved to death in Saint Petersburg, besieged by another German ideology, the new-fashioned philosophy of Fascism.

It was only as a result of this Western genocide in the 1940s that the Soviet elite started out on the path to Russian sobriety. But this was also a path that was undermined by economic stagnation, the inevitable result of Marxist ideology, with its ideological blindness and so failure to recognise human nature and basic human needs. Thus, it was that after 75 years, three generations, of a fairy tale of economic illiteracy, at the end of 1991 Soviet Marxism collapsed into bankruptcy. It was not defeated militarily, it destroyed itself. But then yet another illusion would be naively accepted.

  1. The Capitalist Illusion: One Generation

From 1992 on, the Zionist billionaires who rule the USA and their vassals who rule Western Europe sold naive ex-Soviet people ‘freedom and democracy’, with the poisoned fruits of consumerist Capitalism and privatisation. Another shiny new toy for the natives. Again, the Russians accepted it all and believed it. And so treacherous oligarchs, CIA lovers, appeared together with a vicious bandit mafia. Lawlessness prevailed. Millions died prematurely in the 1990s epidemic of mafia murders, alcoholism and despair. However, unlike the first two illusions, this one began to end fairly quickly. In little more than 35 years it was over.

In 2015 the Zionist billionaires and their political vassals who rule the West persuaded President Putin to accept a new toy, the Minsk Accords. He agreed to these in the hope that peace and justice would come to the Donbass. Instead, the CIA-run Kiev regime continued its genocide there and simply gained time to build huge defences, minefields and trench systems, planned by NATO, which only after four and a half years the Russians are finishing off. Such naivety, as President Putin has himself admitted to, is now ending. In 1700 Russia turned West. After believing three Western illusions in thirteen generations, it is at last returning to its roots.

Conclusion: Tsar Nicholas II

Tsar Nicholas, who was the first to understand the error of the Imperial illusion and wanted to return to Russian roots, was betrayed by virtually his whole country, including most of the State-loving bishops. Aristocrats, like members of his own family or the pervert Yusupov, rejected him and joined in with the slanders. Only a few individuals remained faithful and most of them, like Patriarch Tikhon or our own Count Pavel Benkendorff, soon died or were martyred. And there was little repentance for any of this.

Neither among many old emigres, the last of whom I knew in exile in Paris, who went on justifying themselves and maligning the Tsar, nor among the majority of post-Soviet people, was there repentance. Russia and the whole Orthodox world are still suffering from that treachery, self-inflicted suffering. Healing will only come through repentance, for treachery cost millions of lives. All this goes back to the first illusion and spreads to the second and third illusions. Without the return to its roots, the Russian tree will die.

 

 

 

On the So-Called ‘Russian World’ Heresy

Ever since 2022 Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow has been accused of ‘heresy’ on account of his belief in the ‘Russian World’ ideology. Those who have accused him of this all hate Russia. The ‘Russian World’ ideology which he, like others in Russia, believe in, is simply Russian nationalism. This ideology is parallel to ‘Hellenism’, which is the ideology of Greek nationalism, practised widely among Greek Orthodox, not least among Greeks in the USA. If Russians are heretics because of nationalism, then so are the Greeks. Indeed, all others too are guilty of nationalism, not least Americans. And yet the ‘American world’ ideology, masked by the name of ‘Globalism’, is not condemned as a ‘heresy’. Why the double standards?

As soon as we mention ‘double standards’, we always know that politics are involved. The accusation that someone else’s nationalism is a ‘heresy’ is just like the accusation that ‘Sergianism’ (the compromising co-operation by some bishops with the anti-Christian Soviet State) was also a ‘heresy’. That and the accusation that the Russian Church was ‘graceless’ were anti-Soviet smears invented by the CIA. And that is the case here with the declaration that the ‘Russian world’ ideology is a ‘heresy’. A heresy means renouncing that God is the Holy Trinity, or not recognising Christ as the Incarnate Son of God. We do not accuse of heresy those who commit sins or make mistakes. Such accusations are just politics.

Vulgar nationalism – a heresy?! I have not found such political accusations anywhere among the Church Fathers or at Church Councils. True, ‘phyletism’, which is simply the Greek word for racism, was condemned by some Greek bishops in the century before last. However, those who condemned it were all Greeks, who were complaining that Bulgarians wanted freedom from Greek racism! It was just another piece of hypocritical politics. Does this mean that we are in favour of Russian nationalism, of the ‘Russian world’ ideology? Of course not. We are not in favour of any Russian or Greek or other world, we are in favour only of the ‘Christian world’. We cannot be anything else. This is our world and no other is.

Apart from making the ‘Russian world’ ideology and ‘Sergianism’ into heresies, another CIA political ploy has been to get Orthodox bishops close to the US State and its American world ideology to issue appeals to Russia to withdraw its forces from the Ukraine. This one-sided absurdity is apparent to all. If Russian must withdraw its forces, so also must the USA, as the CIA has controlled the Ukraine ever since its ‘regime-change’ coup in 2014, which cost the USA $5 billion. Let the Ukraine become an independent, sovereign nation. Free of Russia, free of the USA, of the CIA and their EU and NATO proxies. That would be ideal. The model here would be like Slovakia, though the latter has not yet freed itself of the EU and NATO.

In this matter we should be aware of the political stance of the ‘Neo-Vlasovtsy’. (Vlasovtsy were Soviet soldiers, who from 1942 on changed sides and fought for Hitler). Sadly, some figures in the contemporary New York Synod, many of whose spiritual ancestors and actual fathers and grandfathers supported or fought for the treacherous Vlasovtsy during the Second World War, are now in turn American Sergianists – supporting the US State and the CIA. Infiltrated by the CIA and its Globalist ideology, they hate the Russian Federation. Here is why those figures have always attacked Russia, using a fictitious communion with the real Russian Church as an excuse to continue and develop their sectarianism.

Glasnost, Dissolution and Collapse of the Western Empire and its Spiritual Consequences

Introduction: The Parallel Dissolution of Two Empires

1991-92 saw the dissolution of the red-star Soviet Empire, the USSR, as a result of the ideological failure of Marxism. This had been flatteringly packaged for vain Russians by intriguing Non-Russians and was implemented from 1917 on. That ideology had lasted for 75 years, or three generations, the time that failed ideologies usually last. Dissolution was preceded by ‘glasnost’, translated by the euphemism of transparency, but in fact meaning no longer telling lies, and followed by ‘perestroika’, translated by the euphemism of restructuring, but in fact meaning collapse. The ideological failure led first to the collapse of the Soviet Union’s Eastern European Empire, sometimes non-violently, as in the fall of Czechoslovakia, sometimes violently, as in the fall of the other artificial union of Yugoslavia. That collapse has not yet ended, as we can see in the present dismantlement of the artificial union of the Ukraine.

Today we are seeing the dissolution of the white-star Western Empire, the USA, as a result of the ideological failure of Imperialist Globalism. This had been flatteringly packaged for vain Americans by intriguing Europeans and was implemented from 1945 on. That ideology had lasted for 75 years, or three generations, the time that failed ideologies usually last, until the US rout in Afghanistan in 2020-21, the turning-point. The dissolution of this Epstein Empire will mean the collapse of that Empire, sometimes non-violently, as we may yet see, sometimes violently, as in the end of US dominion over Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and in its self-inflicted defeats after its suicidal attacks on Russia from the Ukraine and on Iran. That collapse has not yet ended, as we can see in the coming dismantlement of artificial unions maintained by the Empire, notably, of the EU and the UK.

Glasnost and Perestroika in Western Europe

Telling the truth, that is, giving up mythical and delusional narratives, precedes dissolution and collapse follows it. This concerns not only the US centre of the Empire, but also its vassals. Just as once the Eastern European vassals of the Soviet Empire began to tell the truth, they were only then able to throw out the elites of the old structures, so it will be in Western Europe. For example, once Poland had thrown off the Marxist yoke of lies in the quest for free speech and a more efficient economy, leaders like Jaruzelski, subservient vassals to Marxist Moscow, were forced to resign. The same was true of the movement to tell the truth in East Germany and Romania and then the non-violent fall of Honecker in East Germany and the violent fall of Ceausescu in Romania. In each case collapse inevitably followed the dissolution of the old regime, which had followed the destruction of the underpinning lies.

So will it be with the parallel artificial unions of the Ukraine and Western Europe. The crass propaganda lies of the CIA-directed actor-dictator in Kiev and his corrupt and bankrupt EU/UK backers are daily being exposed. Soon he will fall and his country, sacrificed by the treacherous Western Empire on the altar of its proxy war against Russia, will collapse. Then will follow the collapse of all the other US Globalist anti-patriot puppets in Europe, imposed on their peoples by the USA, especially after they had refused to back the genocidal, US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Starmer has gone, his clone replacement will go, as will von der Leyen in her EU fortress in the Brussels slum, Merz, Macron, Tusk and all the other clownish liars and war criminals. NATO, the EU and the UK, morally and financially bankrupt, will surely break up and be restructured into their component parts. Freedom is in the air.

Glasnost and Perestroika in the USA and Asia

As for the USA itself, its mythical narratives, fairy tales about itself, and pedophile elites are already dissolving. The acronym MAGA, a decade old, is itself proof that the USA is no longer great. The ceasefire in Korea, the best it could obtain, then its defeats, not to say routs, in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now in the Ukraine and Iran, have discredited it before the world. Its last victory was in Western Europe in 1945, but only after 80% of the German Army and its allies had been defeated by the Soviet Army. The US never even reached Berlin. (Of course, some desperate Americans will tell you about their ‘immense’ victory in their illegal occupation by overwhelming force of the tiny island of Grenada in 1983, but nobody takes that absurd claim seriously). With these lies exposed, the US elite, in power since 1991, is now collapsing. The elite members will be ‘retired’, hopefully without violence.

Surely, this will also lead to the dissolution and then collapse of the other Imperial vassals like Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. The collapse of all these vassals in Western Europe and in West and East Asia, will surely lead to the decentralisation of the USA and to the end of its threats, like those to Guatemala, Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland and Canada. It could also lead to a democratic revolution in the USA, which may see that unwieldy land break up into its five constituent parts: An Anglo north-east, a Confederate south-east, a Hispanic south-west, a Californian north-west and an All-American mid-west. The symbol of its deindustrialisation and moral and financial bankruptcy with $40 trillion of debt is Trump. A failed real estate dealer with little knowledge of the real world, he is the symbol of the old-age dementia of the Epstein elite, which clings on to power in the Western world.

A Three-Hour Visit to Moscow

Bogged down in its two lost wars of choice, the USA and its US Vatican ally are now pleading with Russia to help it end both CIA wars, in the Ukraine and Iran. This comes after the weak and flailing Trump failed to implement the peace deals that he had agreed to with Putin in Anchorage, whom he then tried to assassinate in Valdai in December 2025, and with Iran in the Memorandum of Understanding. His failure to do so came from hostile pressure from others, from the Ukraine and its European string-pullers, and from Israel and the Zionist lobby. On 25 August, Trump, deprived of competent diplomats, sent the CIA spy chief on a huge plane to Moscow to pick up the corpses of dead CIA and NATO agents. Advised by Western Europeans, Kiev tried to kill him with drones, in order to sabotage any possible deal, of which they were all so frightened. A deal would destroy their careers and their bank accounts.

Of course, the Russian President refused to entertain any CIA or Vatican promises in return for help in ending wars that they started. These seem to have been delivered from the frightened bullies of Washington to minor Russian officials, but Russia does not negotiate with the sponsors of terrorism. Now, originally, the Russian President was chosen, because he was neither a Globalist oligarch, nor a nationalist Communist, but an Orthodox patriot, though at that time he had little idea of Church life. We now predict his recentring of the inter-patriotic BRICS movement which he founded. After the ineffectiveness clearly shown by Brazil, India and South Africa over the last two years, its essential members are now seen to be the United Eurasian SCO or BRICK, that is, Belarus, Russia, Iran, China and (North) Korea. From that base, the other hesitant members can be revitalised and others can join.

Conclusion: The Spiritual Consequences

The suicidal collapse of the millennial Western Empire, which actually began as long ago as 1914, is now clear to all. It had become clear to us over fifty years ago and we have been writing about it since 1973. Now others are beginning to see it. The Protestant world, with its once State-controlled regimented and rigid moralism, and nowadays its anything goes immorality, means spiritual starvation. It is closing down, with thousands of its churches for sale. It convinces no-one any more. As for the founder of the Western Empire and its delusional claims to Divine authority, the Vatican, now occupied by a very political American, who appears to some Catholics to be more like a Protestant than a Catholic, it is leaking. Its slow-motion collapse began as long ago as 1964, after its modernist conclave in the Vatican. Many serious Catholics still feel betrayed by that conclave and still refuse to implement it.

As sources of the authentically spiritual, there remain only the Orthodox Churches, which conclusion we came to in 1971. Despite a number of empathy-free and pathological representatives, whose main interests have been more narrowly ethnic than generously well-disposed, more political than pastoral, more marginal than mainstream, more sectarian than spiritual, there have been and are plenty of righteous and even saintly men and women, who have witnessed and witness in our Churches in Western Europe. We are besieged by young men who wish to join us. They are aware that in the spiritual desert of the contemporary Epstein West, the only source of uncompromised spirituality is the Orthodox Faith. This is in our Churches, Romanian, Greek, Serbian, Antiochian and all who are in canonical communion with us, anchors in the storms of today’s collapsing Western world.

 

The Great European Suicide: Discussions with Exiled Ukrainians in Poland

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

Matt 24, 7

See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Ephesians 5, 15-16 

Better an honourable death than a shameful life.

St Dmitry Donskoy (+ 1389)

On our knees only before God.

Chant of the Pochaev Pilgrims in the Ukraine

Foreword

I have been asked why I speak of politics. Well, first of all, that was my secular profession as a lecturer in France. But in the Church, we must also know what and who. You could easily accuse St Cyril of Alexandria, St Maximus the Confessor, St Photius of Constantinople, St Mark of Ephesus and St Gregory Palamas of being political. I do not think they were, but they had to know their enemies and understand their motivations. My life has been spent avoiding politics, both the KGB sort and the CIA sort. But in order to avoid that, you first have to be aware of it, in order to keep to the royal path, avoiding extremes because they are spiritual diseases against communion. In terms of the Sixteen Local Orthodox Churches, this means Conciliarity, Catholicity, avoiding exclusivism, which leads to isolation on the fringes.

Krakow, Poland and Eastern Europe

In mid-August I was invited to Krakow. Old Krakow, with its Wawel royal castle, was the historic capital of Poland before Warsaw and is still the capital of the Polish Catholic Church. It has a typically Habsburg city centre, like Prague, Budapest or Vienna. On the River Vistula and not far from the Tatra mountains, the Beskids and the Slovak border to the south, this city of about one million is a tourist city, a University city, and is full of churches, its monks, nuns and priests walking in their cassocks, as used to be the case in Western Catholic countries until the early 1960s. Poland kept its traditions thanks, ironically, to the Communist Party. Conversely, Catholicism in ‘the Free World’, the Western countries, seems to have become as spiritually empty and vapid as Protestantism, thanks to Capitalism.

I am here for a week with Ukrainian friends, whom I have known since 2020 and who have introduced me to the Orthodox Ukrainian community here. Their interest comes because I am Russian Orthodox, but not Russian, and was forced to flee the Russian Church after 47 years to the Romanian Patriarchate for canonical protection from schism, sect and persecution. The centralised and politicised Russian Church administration does not protect its own, but persecutes them. As we communicate in Russian, suspicious Ukrainians ask to see my passport to check that I really am an Englishman. I recommend to them the Polish Orthodox Church and its local priest, Fr Rostislav, who is building a very large new and beautiful church on the outskirts of the city, retaining the present smaller city centre church.

Krakow and Poland bring me to reflect on Eastern Europe, of which I have visited every country and where I have travelled widely over the last five decades. Overwhelmingly, it seems to me that instead of joining the German Fourth Reich of the Western European EU club, which the UK left, and Switzerland, Norway and Iceland never even joined, Eastern Europe should have created its own Eastern European Confederation, a broader and formal ‘Visegrad Four’. Eastern European nation-states with their strong patriotic identities have so much in common with each other and so little in common with atheist and Globalist Western Europe. Of course, the USA would not allow that. This is their tragedy, that Eastern Europe once again became colonies and vassals, of the US via its German puppet.

Even in Catholic Krakow, a home to the Polish Sovereignist Party, hostile to the Polish-American puppet leader Tusk, there are ‘vape shops’, cannabis stores, tattoo parlours, a few young people dressed as Goths, burgers and fries and MacDonalds, and all the trappings of international tourism, brought to it by the Zionist/Globalist elite in Brussels. Today Poland is fighting for its national identity. I was pleased to see Polish folk dancing in the city centre, to see Catholic churches attended, to see the national sense of identity of the refusal of some to dress like Americans. Some of what I see has virtually disappeared in the West since the 1950s. But how long can Poland, like the rest of Eastern Europe, retain its identity and keep its sovereignty? How long can Eastern (like Western) Europe survive without Russia?

The Ukraine

Ukrainian refugees here expressed many different views to me. One was an ex- soldier who had deserted, others had saved themselves as soon as possible in 2022, in order not to have to die in the Kiev Army. They are refugees not from the Russians, but from Zelensky, protecting themselves, their husbands and their sons. Of course, there are others, those who just wanted to get out of the grinding poverty and corruption of Kiev as soon as possible, some were realising their cherished dream of living in an EU country, since the Ukraine itself will never be allowed to join the EU. I found all well-informed and they provided me with confirmations of my impressions, but they also gave me some surprising details, which I had not expected. They also needed to talk to a priest from outside about Church life.

First of all, all twenty people I met dislike, or rather hate, Zelensky above all. Elected by PR only because he had promised peace, instead he delivered a horrifying war. All confirmed to me their belief that the number of dead Ukrainian troops is about 2 million. They have seen some of the massive new Ukrainian military cemeteries all over the country, not least outside Kiev. One of the Ukrainians told me that in the recent exchanges Kiev has so far returned the corpses of 600 Russian troops, but Russia has returned the corpses of 18,500 Ukrainian troops, a ratio of 1 to 31. They detest Zelensky, since he chose war for the huge financial opportunities it gave him and his cronies to pocket billions of US dollars, EU euros and GB pounds and buy villas and casinos on the Mediterranean and in Florida.

The war continues only because of Western money. If it dried up for the already bankrupt Ukraine, the war and the tens of thousands of Ukrainian deaths every month would end at once. Here is why the second most hated man for them is Boris Johnson. This was a surprise for me, as here he was sacked in disgrace for his lies and has gone into the dustbin of history, almost forgotten. Not so in the Ukraine. For them he is the worst of the Western war criminals who have so much blood on their hands, blamed for persuading Zelensky not to sign the Istanbul peace agreement made at the end of March 2022. Since then, 2 million Ukrainians and 160,000 Russians have died. Only in third place of hatred for them came Putin (and Patriarch Kyrill alongside him, for the Ukrainians I spoke to, they are indistinguishable as murderers).

Few canonical churches in the Ukraine now commemorate the Russian Patriarch. They call him ‘the Muscovite’. He is the Russian enemy, ‘not one of us’. The Ukrainians I speak to, who all belong to the canonical Church, envy the Polish Orthodox Church under Metropolitan Sava of Warsaw. They eye autocephaly and the official non-commemoration of Russian enemies. Here we come to what so many nations, victorious in war, forget. You must also be victorious in peace. The Americans failed in this in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the Russians think that they can take the whole of the Ukraine, apart from the four or five far western provinces, in which Russians have no interest and which will surely be returned by referendum to Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania (from whom Stalin stole them), they are wrong.

All the Church Ukrainians I spoke to want an independent Ukraine. Of course, this means at last a Ukraine independent of the EU and America (unlike the situation since 2014, since when the Ukraine has been a fully dependent Western vassal and colony), but also independent of Russia. In Church terms, this means either an Autocephalous Ukrainian Church, or, at the very least, an Autonomous Ukrainian Church with the right for all clergy not to commemorate the Russian Patriarch, except for Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev, who alone would have to sacrifice himself to do that, as now. One Ukrainian told me that he has friends in Belarus who want the same thing for Belarus. Instead of being an Exarchate, as at present, the Belarussian Church should also be an Autonomous Local Church.  So they said.

This would mean the development of a Russian Orthodox Church with four Autonomous Churches, two in the west, the Belarussian and the Ukrainian, and two in the east, as now already, the Japanese and the Chinese. This would mean the Baltics and the Moldovans (jointly with the Romanian Church, which has already given autonomy) alone receiving autocephaly – for that is the only way for them. Perhaps. What is certain is their admiration for Metr Onufry. He is a real monk, a man of silent prayer. He says only: ‘Pray!’ When will the war end? This was a very debated topic. One was certain that it would be next month, in September 2026, one said 2027. Another said 2030. Another said it would drag on for ten years. What is for sure is that all are fed up, they just want it to end as soon as possible, so they can live normal lives.

The Ukrainians are well informed through the internet. Ignoring US-controlled Kiev PR and propaganda, which is fed to and actually believed in by gullible Westerners, they know far better than Western people what is happening and just how corrupt the Ukraine is. Everything is for sale, not least Ukrainian women’s wombs, which provide 25% of the world’s surrogate children, and then there is the highly organised organ harvesting of dying soldiers. Another surprise for me is how much they consider that Jews run the Ukraine. Zelensky is of course a Jew, but he has also settled Israelis to live there and spoken publicly of the Ukraine literally as ‘A Big Israel’ and ‘A New Jerusalem’. They tell me that the Ukraine is run by ‘The Tribe’. And the Tribe has, they say, monetised death. But is this not racist?

Violence against a Jew now gets you eight years in prison. To insult a Jew costs you a lot. But surely that is the way it should be? And yet insults of and violence against Russians are encouraged, not fined or punished. Is this not racist? But the Ukrainians know that Russian military equipment is much better than that of the obsolete NATO. The Ukraine resembles Germany in 1945. They know they are lost. 66% want peace talks now, but they live in a dictatorship, surrounded by barbed wire. The bankrupt Ukraine is committing national suicide, demographically and economically. And, in moral suicide, the bankrupt West does not care how many Ukrainians die – they are just cannon fodder. War is business. They cannot say this out loud in the Ukraine, if they do, they will be arrested by the dreaded SBU Secret Police.

Last year one of the Ukrainians, in his 30s, escaped in the back of a lorry, wedged between fridges going to Romania, and from there made his way to Poland via Slovakia. For this privilege he had to pay $8,000. It was the seventh time he had tried to escape. As he was in IT, he would otherwise have been co-opted at once as a drone operator. He did not want to lose his soul. (See below). Some may say that in that case he could have deserted or surrendered. But the reality is that if you do this, you are likely to be shot in the back by the SBU Secret Police at the Front. The Russians have horrible weapons, artillery, drones, glide bombs, thermobaric weapons. They are awful. You do not stand a chance. If you can surrender, do so. If you cannot, you will die as a result of the horrible and brutal killing technology of the Russians.

They tell me: If Ukrainians in the Crimea and in the east who cannot even speak Ukrainian and do not want to learn it, since they, as Russian imperialists, disrespectfully regard it as a dialect, and they want to join Russia, let them. ‘We do not want to die to keep them’. We are Ukrainians and the Ukraine is only for Ukrainians, for us, not for Russians, but also not for Zelensky and his foreign Zionist oligarchs. Ironically, in Latvia, where they tried to ban Russian in public places, including on the street, they were swamped with Ukrainian ‘refugees’ who spoke Russian. Unlike local Russians, they could not be touched when they spoke Russian in public, however, because they were ‘refugees’ (refugees from Zelensky’s pressgangs sending them to die as cannon fodder). They could not be fined or spat on like native Russians.

A special hatred goes towards the recruiter thugs who pressgang men, and now some women, off the streets to fight. Social media show a multitude of these horrible videos. They draft the sick, the mentally handicapped, anyone, for they are paid for the number of bodies they can abduct, as they have quotas to fill. They are so violent that some ‘recruits’ die from beating and kicking on the way to the recruitment centres before they even get to training. Who cares, at least their organs can be taken and sold before they die. It compares so badly with the now professional Russian army of paid and trained volunteers, a far cry from Wagner Group cannon fodder. Training abroad in Germany, France or Britain is valued, as it gives the Ukrainian ‘recruits’ a chance to ask for asylum. This is why only very few are now being trained abroad.

The recruiters search especially for future drone operators, many of whom are now women (dronshchitsy). For any who like video games, being a drone operator seems very attractive – at first. However, it is the path to insanity. When pilots drop bombs, they do not see the horror on the faces of those whom they kill and maim. Drone operators do. It is frightening. They cannot sleep at night. However, all this nightmarish death fills the coffers of European politicians and spies, grandchildren of Nazis, like the Ukrainian-descended Metreweli of MI6, Western arms dealers and Ukrainian bureaucrats. Little wonder if, when it is all over, Ukrainians will treat Zelensky like the Italians did Mussolini. Will Western politicians and journalists then be asked why they lied for twelve years and will they be put on trial for those lies?

The clearly stated Western aim, of such as Brzezinski, the Rand Corporation, von der Layen and Kallas, is to destroy and dismantle Russia, stripping it of its assets. What cheaper way to murder Russians, as the dead US Senator Graham said quite openly, than using Ukrainians to do the job for us? But no Ukrainian wanted a ruined Ukraine, no Ukrainian wanted to die, few wanted to join NATO. This is enforced suicide. I am shown the video of a funeral in the Ukraine. The traffic stops. People get out and kneel down in respect. Not because they agree with this war, but because for them the Ukraine is the victim of the West, which wants to kill it. This is why the defeat of the Ukraine, about which the West is in denial, will be the end of NATO, the EU and the unelected Western autocrats, who work for and feed off the oligarchs.

These servants of the oligarchs include NATO generals, hated European politicians, such as the unelected British Prime Minister, and also the whole Western journalist class who sold out their profession for thirty pieces of silver. They do not care that the Ukraine is surrounded by barbed wire, like a giant concentration camp. I am shown a video of this. If you do manage to climb over it using carpets and thick gloves, beware. If you are seen, you will be shot by the dreaded border guards, who are also paid by quota. All paid for by the generous West. I was told of two women ‘back home’. Both lost their sons at the Front. One hates all Russians and the Russian language, as a result. The other, a believer, accepts it in humility: ‘This was for our sins’. She just prays for his soul and gives alms twice a week.

No Ukrainians I meet support the absurd fake church of Dumenko, founded and sponsored in 2018 by the CIA via the Greek Patriarch in Turkey. They know they are just a bunch of gangsters. But again and again the Ukrainians ask: ‘The Bulgarians have a Patriarch, so do the Georgians. They are very few. Why don’t we more numerous Ukrainians have a Patriarch? The Poles, Albanians, Czechs and Slovaks have their own Churches, why can’t we’? They want a Sovereign Ukraine and a Sovereign Church, neither a puppet of the Greek Patriarch, nor of the Moscow Patriarch. What is also clear is the hatred of Ukrainians not just for Johnson, but also for the elites of Germany, Britain and France, who have all paid for the deaths of Ukrainians, ‘to the last Ukrainian’. Here is the same very old Aryan racism against Ukrainians.

Apocalypse

Another aspect of these Ukrainians is their sense of the Apocalypse. After the covid disaster, which we now know to have been an American virus experiment from North Carolina that (accidentally?) escaped from a Chinese laboratory, the involvement of the Jewish people in the Ukraine, the birthplace of Trotsky (Bronstein) and Zionist Trotskyism, which in the USA became the ideology of the neocons, called Globalism, the rumours of ritual murders in the Ukraine, blood and organs being taken out of dead bodies, the open occultism and proud neo-paganism of leaders in Kiev, the involvement of Persia-Iran, Turkey, the war in the Holy Land, the recent uncovering of the relics of St Dmitry Donskoy in Moscow, all this is apocalyptic, signs of the times. And it is all amid the suicide of the Ukraine and Ukrainianised Western Europe.

Surprisingly, two Ukrainians mentioned the name of the eccentric and insulting Russian nationalist geopolitician Zhirinovsky to me. ‘He was a prophet’, they say, ‘and a fool for Christ’. And then they turn to blaming Putin. ‘He is incompetent’, ‘too cautious’, ‘a coward’. ‘He could have finished it all in a few weeks, instead he has dragged it out for nearly five years and two million are dead’. ‘He should have killed Zelensky at the start and taken Kiev, then we would have lived in peace’. This ignores the fact that in 2022, Russia was not prepared for a full-scale war against NATO, its army disorganised and part-privatised, and many of its military leaders were corrupt or incompetent, getting soldiers killed. Perhaps Putin was simply naïve? All that can be said is that Ukrainians are desperate for peace. They just want it all to end.

Perhaps, the present, third incarnation of Russia in 300 years, the Russian Federation, founded in 1991, which followed the Soviet Empire, founded in 1922, which followed the Russian Empire, founded in 1721, is also doomed to fail. 300 years of failure. Its Wild East Capitalism of the 1990s, producing the mafia oligarchs, the new aristocrats or boyars, is its final failure. Sadly, that spirit in turn infected the Russian Church. As in the 1990s, let alone today, any Russian will tell you that the Russian Church is run as a ‘Business’, that many bishops and senior clergy just want to play at ‘bandits’, ‘mini-oligarchs’. The problem with the 280 new Russian bishops appointed in the last 17 years is that the old bishops chose quantity, not quality, perhaps in a failed attempt to get a dominating majority of the 1,000 bishops of all the Orthodox Churches.

Pilgrimages and processions of the faithful have taken place in Russia, in Belarus, and to Pochaev in the Ukraine. For the faithful, the Mother of God has been in charge ever since the faked abdication of the Tsar and the immediate appearance of Her Sovereign Icon in 1917. The faithful oppose the overt Nazi satanism of the elite in Kiev, of Zelensky with his personal wizard. We also oppose the will to dominate, the Imperialism of elites who claim to be above the Church, above Christ, imagining that they have some sort of exclusive and infallible Divine Papal right to control all others. ‘Three Romes have fallen, a Fourth there will not be’. Surely, that all the Imperial Romes have fallen is the best thing possible for the Church, which has in history been riven only ever by the Imperialism of personal and national pride?

Afterword

The Sixteen Local Orthodox Churches are a Family, but families are sometimes split by arguments. Brothers and sisters fall out for a time. They may not talk to each other for a while, but eventually they can get back together. Our unity is in the Holy Spirit, not in an individual, Patriarch or Pope, whatever his title, for we are not an earthly organisation, not a profit-making corporation, not worshippers of Apollo and Cephas, but of Christ, the Head of the Church and the King of kings. And our model is the Holy Trinity, unity in diversity, praying for the peace of the whole world, the good estate of the holy Churches of God and the union of all people. All we know, and from very recent examples, is that through the Church we can become saints. And that if we are not saints, then we have only ourselves to blame.