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Cursed are the Warmakers: The End of the Year and the End of Western Supremacy

The old world is dying, and the new world is struggling to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Gramsci

Introduction: War and Peace

In early 2022 I was asked who I supported in the conflict in the Ukraine. I answered that what I supported is peace and I pray for peace at every service. I added that if Russians and Ukrainians had been Orthodox, there would never have been a war, (At most only 2% of each actually go to church; both countries are racked by very high abortion and divorce rates and so have a huge demographic problem). In fact, this is a proxy war between Great Powers, the pro-Nazi, NATO West and nationalist Russia. The Kiev regime has been armed for half a trillion dollars by NATO nations as a naïve proxy, exploiting its provincial nationalism, to destroy and break up Russia, which is far too big and strong for the jealous West. All are victims in this war of attrition, which will end, like all such wars, like World Wars I and II, very suddenly, in just a few months.

Four Years of Conflict in the Ukraine

For Kiev to fight against Moscow is industrial and strategic nonsense, because Russia’s economy is many times larger than the Ukraine’s, indeed it is the largest economy in Europe and the fourth largest in the world, even by the vast underestimate of Russian GDP by the absurd PPP measure. Then Russia’s population is five times larger than the pre-war Ukraine’s (and millions of Ukrainians have since fled for Russia – today Russia’ population is at least seven times larger than the Ukraine’s) and its territory is 30 times larger. How can Russia, a military superpower, with production so vastly superior to that of the whole West and weapons so advanced that the West can only dream of them, not win against the corrupt and bankrupt Kiev puppet regime? It is motivated, as it is fighting an existential war, for the West this is just a neo-colonial war.

The 30,000 or so illegal sanctions against Russia (legal sanctions are voted in by the United Nations) harm only the West. Notably, they are destroying Western European industry and have doubled the cost of energy for consumers. For example, German car companies are moving to China, where they can obtain cheap Russian energy, unlike in Germany. The Russian economy is autarchic, independent, and has almost everything it needs. If ever it wants something else, it can simply obtain it from the 90% of the world which ignores those absurd sanctions. The world will look back on 2022 as the year when the Western world began its final act of suicide. In trying to destroy and take over patriotic Russia, it repeated its same failures as under the Teutonic Knights, the Poles, the Swedes, Napoleon I, Napoleon II with the British, the Kaiser and Hitler.

The West never learns from history. This is because it is utterly blinded by the history of its arrogant hubris – ‘we are allowed to do everything’. The discredited Kiev regime is in place only because the West had in 2014 usurped the previous democratically-elected and peaceful Ukrainian government by violence. By its own admission, it had used five billion dollars in US bribes to install the genocidal, pro-Nazi regime. The conflict was inevitable. If Russia had violently overthrown the democratic government in Mexico, trained and armed the Mexican Army to the teeth, ordered ‘Trump, tear down this wall’, threatened to supply it with nuclear and bioweapons and, despite peace agreements, genocided 14,500 Americans, women and children included, who lived in Mexico, would the USA not have reacted? Such was the situation in the Ukraine.

After fourteen years of incredible hesitation, naivety, disorganisation, corruption and weakness, its military in part outsourced to the incompetent and corrupt, Wagner private mercenary group, Russia did finally react, in 2022, just as it said it would, but failed to, in 2008. This time, since 2023, the Russian military has been strong. And so, alas! much too late, some in the US administration in Washington have at last realised that the US cannot win its very costly, lost war in faraway Ukraine. The US, now engaged in Caribbean piracy, genocide in Gaza and taking over Greenland, is deindustrialised. In its greed it started making all its needs in China. The US can never match Russia’s technology, productivity and vast and advanced military potential. Most US needs are made in China. That is not the case for the booming Russian economy.

The War Party in Western Europe

Unlike the US elite, the grandfathers of the Western European ruling elite were mostly Nazis and political failures in their own countries (like Merz, Kallas, von der Layen, Metrevelli). Their grandfathers were defeated by Russia and they want to avenge them. The elite has swallowed its own virulently anti-Russian wishful thinking propaganda (‘narrative’), and so amazingly, it still believes that it can win in the Ukraine! This is because that elite and its globalist media are deluded by their colonial and imperialist past. After French and German leaders refused to back the illegal, US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, political power in Western Europe was seized by US-backed oligarch candidates. Reality began to dawn in bankrupt Washington only in 2025, after a string of trillion-dollar foreign policy disasters, that the USA must extricate itself from its quagmire in Kiev.

This meant the new US abandoning its Western European elite, which had been imposed by the pre-2025 US elite. However, the Western European elite, feeling betrayed by Trump’s new policies, is stuck in its threefold megalomaniac delusions, those of Napoleon, Hitler and Churchill. The US is abandoning it, together with its similar, regime-changed and losing elite, which it positioned in Kiev in 2014. The US has only existed for 250 years and can abandon any of its useful idiots in Eurasia, Western Europeans or Ukrainians, and blame them for everything. However, dictatorial Western European leaders cannot abandon Kiev, for they are prisoners of a proud, feudal ruling caste and its thousand-year Nazi ideology of ‘The West is Best’ and ‘We (the elite) are the garden, the rest (the 90%) are the jungle’, of which garden, they claim, the Ukraine is part.

Only belief in this ideology, perhaps credible on account of Western European colonial empires before 1914, but today completely delusional, can explain the irrational and suicidal behaviour of the present autocratic Western European warmaking elite. This group, largely composed of sexual perverts, pedophiles, transgenders and cocaine addicts (Epstein, ex-Prince Andrew, H. Biden, Zelensky and all the others – we know their names), is doing its utmost to foment an unjust and lasting war against Russia by 2030. It uses censorship and bogeyman tactics against its own population: ‘The Russians are coming’. According to it, Russia had been losing the war for three years and ‘is on the brink of collapse’, and yet they are begging for a ceasefire and ‘Russia intends to invade all of Western Europe’. Which set of their contradictory lies should we believe?

The elite needs to seize ever more money not only to finance the bankrupt Kiev regime, but also to buy time for itself. It has no interest in the Ukraine, Ukrainian history and the Ukrainian subhuman people (‘Untermenschen’), but it is interested in prolonging its careers. In its demented and narcissistic delusions, it is forlornly hoping that in 2029 Trump will be replaced by someone from the equally demented US past who still thinks like them. But in reality, it is too late. The Kiev regime is already collapsing militarily. No amount of money (or lies) to further the Kiev regime’s corruption will help it now, for with its much depleted stocks of its very mediocre weapons, lying burned out on the steppes, the West lacks arms for Kiev to buy and Kiev lacks soldiers to operate the non-existent arms, which are to be bought with their non-existent money.

Conclusion: Sons of Satan

The warmaking ruling elite of Western Europe has utterly isolated and alienated itself from the rest of the world, from international law, which it no longer observes even though it created it, and from most of its own population. The latter, the ‘serfs’, detests the undemocratic and repressive elite, which bans free speech and debanks and hounds its critics into exile, so that it is supported by the 10% of the population which is sufficiently brainwashed. For a change of policy on the Ukraine, the old dictatorial elite will have to be replaced by candidates from the peoples of Europe, the ‘populists’. The latter are not Western supremacists, not Globalists. They want to work with the Global Majority, not against it. The perverted warmakers of Western Europe should be warned: Cursed are the warmakers, for they shall be called the sons of satan.

 

 

The Continuing ROCOR Schism and the new Canonical Russian Orthodox Bishop for Britain

In December 2020 the New York-based ROCOR (those initials used to stand for the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia) of the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) consciously engineered a schism by forbidding communion with its sister Western European Archdiocese of the Moscow Patriarchate, based in Paris. Thus, ROCOR cut itself off from communion with canonical Orthodoxy, from the catholicity of the Church.

ROCOR lost everything because of its crazy converts. This single act of folly resulted almost immediately in ROCOR in England losing well over half its Diocese, 5,000 people in six parishes, with twelve clergy. They included the senior priest of the Diocese, with 36 years of faithful service to the Russian Orthodox Tradition and the Russian Tsar, who had played a role in the crucial and long-awaited canonical reconciliation of ROCOR with Moscow in 2007.

Although the Moscow Patriarchate itself declared that ROCOR’s act was insanity, it did nothing to counter it and a senior Metropolitan in Moscow instructed all who had quit ROCOR to join another Local Orthodox Church. This was a suicidal act of support by the MP for the ROCOR schism and a stab in the back for its decades-long missionary work in Western Europe. Thus, in obedience, we all fled the new, uncanonical ROCOR and joined another Local Orthodox Church, of which many were only too happy to take us.

Since then, the new sectarian ROCOR (apparently now standing for the Russian Old Calendarist Church Outside Russia) has refused to repent. As a result, it has now lost another subdeacon (and future priest) in Northern Ireland, a priest in Canada and a priest in the USA. All were converts, who had recently come into the new American ROCOR. Without any sense of history, they had never known the old canonical ROCOR, which was an integral part of the Orthodox Church and Tradition.

All of this is a replay of ROCOR’s Boston schism of 1986, exactly as the late Fr Seraphim Rose had time and again warned would happen back in the 1970s. Then some sixty small parishes of rootless people left ROCOR for old calendarist sects, just as other smaller groups would later leave in 2000 and in 2007.  The Protestant-style 1986 schism was a clear consequence of sectarianism among ungrounded ROCOR clergy and converts. Those who took part in it had no knowledge of the Tradition and so fell away from the Church into old calendarism.

These schisms are what happens when you abandon communion and concelebration with the Canonical Local Orthodox Churches, that is, with the mainstream of the Church. Now the chickens are coming home to roost again, for when ROCOR bishops claim that no other Orthodox bishops apart from themselves are Orthodox, what can their uninformed converts conclude? Only that, if there is ‘One True Church’, it must be schismatic, not one which is in communion with others, even if only on paper, like ROCOR.

The viewpoint of the schismatics is the only logical one for their sectarian mentality, which makes even the calendar into a dogma of the Faith. When their ROCOR bishop – although on paper in communion with the rest of the Orthodox Church – publicly declares that the Greek Patriarch is possessed by demons and that he personally hates Romanians and half-hates Moldovans, what can you expect from his followers? His converts demand logical behaviour of him, that he abandon communion with all others formally, not just in words. Otherwise, they see him as a hypocrite, as they publicly say.

These schisms are the clear result of the new ROCOR’s rejection of the Orthodox Tradition, the Tradition confessed by St John of Shanghai and his successor as the ROCOR Archbishop of Western Europe, the ever-memorable Archbishop Antony of Geneva. They quite naturally concelebrated with everyone. Here today is the result of the crazy convert policy of the very ignorant bishops of the new American ROCOR. With no love for others, they fall out of communion with all, like judgemental pharisees.

Little wonder that in despair at the behaviour of the new ROCOR, Moscow has now gone ahead and at last consecrated its first local bishop in Britain. Bishop Augustine MacBeth is for its Archdiocese of Western Europe (the former Rue Daru jurisdiction) of the MP. Given the ROCOR schism from Moscow’s Archdiocese of Western Europe and its refusal to accept and respect local people and local languages, relying on convert Americanisms with their theological and historical ignorance and google translate to communicate, Moscow had no choice but to consecrate a canonical Russian Orthodox bishop from the local population for the local population.

Of course, it is all too little and much too late, as the Orthodox left for another Local Church four years ago, as advised by the MP Metropolitan Antony (Sevryuk)! Then the Moscow Patriarchate refused to receive those who had quit the schismatic ROCOR even in the face of the sectarian and hate-filled actions of the new ROCOR episcopate.

Since then, the former members of ROCOR, zealous for canonical communion and the catholicity of the Church, forced to join another Local Church by the new ROCOR fanaticism and ignorance of the Tradition, have gone from strength to strength. Now we live in canonicity, in the mainstream of the Orthodox Church and concelebrate with all (though not with the schismatics), far from the tiny ghettoes of crazy convert bishops, their clergy and their incessant scandals.

The Fall of the Empires and the Rise of the Anti-Empire

Foreword: Orthodox Church Life

Ever since 1917 the life of the Orthodox Churches has been pulled apart and polarised by manipulators who have wanted to weaken and so control the Church in order to further their own, anti-Christian political aims. Thus, Greek Patriarchs in Constantinople have been manipulated and their nationalism flattered by their secularist paymasters in the American Empire in Washington. As for Russian Patriarchs in Moscow, they too have been manipulated by the power- and money-seeking spirit of those who want to try and make and remake the Soviet Empire.

However, in reality, despite the negative concentrations at the extremes, both Local Churches have a broad left to right spread. The spread goes from Constantinople’s pro-Catholic gay ecumenists to the old calendar monks of Mt Athos (though they too are divided 1). And it goes from Moscow’s gay clerical intellectuals who visit the Pope of Rome as often as possible to the American Synod of the now spiritually irrelevant, New ‘ROCOR’, which resembles a Neo-Protestant American old calendarist sect that even dares to rebaptise other Orthodox! (2)

However, there are the many who keep the Tradition in both Patriarchates who agree with the majority who follow the Tradition in the fourteen other Local Churches. We follow the golden mean of the pastors, steering between the extremes created by politicians, and we maintain the piety of monastic and family Church life. But what if both the American Empire and those who want to restore the Soviet Empire fell and the Church were left alone? Surely then the Centre would be strengthened? Is this about to happen because of current geopolitics?

Introduction: The Fall of the Pagan Roman Empire

A long, long time ago, in 409-410 AD, Emperor Honorius of Old Rome sent the ruling elite in Britain an instruction known as the ‘Rescript of Honorius’. In this he told its members that they must in future defend themselves. With bankruptcy which was caused by usury ending the dominion of Old Rome over its Western provinces, the Roman Legions were leaving. True, New Rome and its Christian Roman Empire would continue until 1917, but that is another story. This story is about the fall of the Western provinces, which are now called Western Europe.

All the subsequent attempts by the only superficially Christianised to restore the pagan Empire of Old Rome failed. These attempts were made by the Carolingian, the Papal, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the French, the German, the British and the Soviet empires, as well as today’s EU sub-empire. Similarly, today the American Imperial successor to all of them is falling and now has to retreat from the sub-American Empire of Western Europe, despite EU false flags (non-existent Russian drones, aircraft and submarines), desperately staged to keep the USA in Europe.

The Fall of the American Empire

In 2025 the bankrupt American Empire had to retreat from Eurasia because of its imperial overreach, as it had repeated the errors of its predecessor and model, the British Empire. The latter began its fall, due to overreach, in 1900, overtaken by the German economy, defeated by Dutch Boer farmers, losing the Titanic in 1912, suffering humiliation in 1914 and 1929, and later the humiliating routs of its Army at Dunkirk in 1940 and Singapore in 1942. The American Empire is following the same path of failure and has to admit that its sphere of influence is very limited.

Five generations behind the British, the dementia-led American Empire is following its own narcissistic decline, having refused to learn from British hubris and history. The US is having great difficulty even holding on to Latin America, already dominated by China, as shown by its pirate attacks on Venezuela. The US already has to abandon Afro-Eurasia, after the bloody and costly routs of US forces in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and today the Ukraine and Gaza, with millions of lives and trillions of dollars squandered, leaving all to China and Russia.

The Fall of the Ukrainian Empire

The nationalist junta in Kiev, busied with the theft of tens of billions of dollars of ‘NATO aid’ and of Russian assets, and its oligarchs busied with laundering money and buying seaside villas in warm countries, is made up of war criminals. It has sent a whole generation of ill-trained and ill-equipped Ukrainian soldiers, aged between 25 and 55, to the slaughter, all for vain dreams of nationalist power and ever more lucre. Two million Ukrainians are already dead or maimed. And yet for Western European political leaders, as for Zelensky, Kiev’s proxy war must continue. Why?

Firstly, because they do not want to admit that they were from the outset wrong. Secondly, more than this, , they do not want to stem the cashflow that they and their political industrial, military and media oligarch masters have pocketed. The desire to continue to line their bloodflowing pockets is why they repeat the absurd lie that after victory in the Ukraine, Russia will invade the financially and spiritually corrupt and deindustrialised EU. They think that Europeans are so stupid that they too will be willing to send their sons to die on their behalf.

The Fall of Soviet Western Europe

Having learned from the errors of the Soviet Empire, Russian politicians would hardly invade the bankrupt museum-countries of Western Europe. The latter are plagued by debt, social breakdown, failed infrastructure, illegal immigration and their costly defeat in the Ukraine. Of course, the Western leaders never had any interest in the Ukraine or the ‘subhuman’ Ukrainians – the latter were only ever useful idiots employed to weaken Russia and, if necessary, die for the Western elite ‘to the last Ukrainian’. Today’s Western elite is more Sovietised than today’s Russian.

Indeed, the unelected Eurocommissars of the European Union form today’s Soviet Union. Western political theatre and its fairy-tale media narratives, do not change the realities of the Russian victory in the Ukraine. Despite the blatant lies of the Western media about their corrupt Ukrainian puppets, it is clear that the West is destroying the Ukraine. The corrupt EU and NATO Empire will expand no further. Both are crumbling, as they fantasise about peace negotiations with themselves. They cling to their Ukrainian dream, as it alone holds them together.

The Fall of the EU Sub-Empire

Having cut themselves off from cheap Russian gas and oil and illegally stolen Russian assets, the EU Globalist elite has deindustrialised its peoples, showing their hatred of Sovereigntist patriots. They preach that their bloody sub-Roman empire stands above the interests of their own peoples, whom they so despise. Imperialist globalism is opposed to patriotism and persecutes and mocks it. Thus, the proud elite of ‘Great Britain’ mocked ‘Little England’, for it did not understand that only humility will ever make Little England, or any other country, Great.

For the same is true for every single country in Western Europe, naively deceived by the Great Delusion of the EU and the illusory allurements of now failed and defeated US hegemony. As a result of the retreat of the American Empire from Western Europe in the face of Russian might and of the Western rout in the Ukraine, the EU is crumbling, the countries of Western Europe, a mere 14% of the world economy, but once, in 1990, 30%, are now only minor powers on the world stage. Those countries, their sovereignty restored, will have to join the future – BRICS.

Conclusion: Towards the Anti-Empire

Having regained their freedom, the peoples of ex-Habsburg and ex-Ottoman South-Eastern Europe will join BRICS first, escaping the autocratic clutches of the unelected EU Commissars. The EU sub-Empire has lost because, thanks to its stupid and racist hatred of Russia, China and Russia are now completely united. Decommunised China already economically dominates East Asia, including Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and more. And desovietised Russia will economically dominate Western Europe, once its present elite has been dismissed.

Post-1945 Western organisations, weaponised against the Global Majority by their masters, have been pushed into the background. They have become irrelevant. Thus, the G7 has long since been a secondary organisation, like all the other post-War Western organisations, the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, the EU, NATO, which are all collapsing. BRICS is the new United Nations, replacing it as the one and only Anti-Empire, composed of the Sovereign Nations of the world, the real United Nations, led by China, Russia and all decolonised and free peoples.

Notes:

  1. Monks of the Tradition on Mt Athos told us only three weeks ago, when we were there, that if there are currently many earth tremors on Mt Athos, it is because certain abbots have weakly accepted instructions from Constantinople to allow the gangster ‘clergy’ of the so-called OCU (‘Orthodox Church in the Ukraine’) to celebrate there.
  2. The new ROCOR has rejected the vital spiritual heritage of the ever-memorable Archbishop Antony of Geneva, the successor to St John of Shanghai, and all us disciples, who have kept to the royal way between both new calendarists and old calendarists, as St Paisios the Athonite himself praised Archbishop Antony for doing. Thus, Vladyka Antony heroically rejected the extremist right-wing policies of the CIA agent Grabbe, who manipulated the Americans in the 1980s New York Synod with various absurd directives. Vladyka Antony and his disciples, like Bishop Ambrose (Cantacuzen), consistently refused to have anything to do with old calendarist schismatics, never concelebrating with them, unlike those in the CIA-funded American Synod. The CIA has always tried to split the Russian Church, whose unity we fought for so hard, and under its NATO-CIA bishops, besieged by homosexual and pedophile scandals, has now achieved that aim, sundering the new ROCOR from the Russian Church and from all canonical Orthodoxy. Quite simply, old calendarists are not Orthodox, as they are not in communion with the Orthodox Church.

 

 

On the Rise and Fall of Empires

Introduction

Forty years ago I used to work for a well-known French company in Paris. Founded in 1900 by a very dynamic man, who had seen a market opportunity, it had become quite large. However, the son, profiting from his father’s success, had simply managed the company, resting on his father’s laurels. All went fairly well, but there was no innovation. The company had then passed on to the grandson. He did nothing and took out money for his expensive lifestyle. By the 1980s all was in decline and it was something of a ‘museum’ or ‘heritage’ company. As there was little investment in new equipment and ideas because the grandson was taking out the money, it was declining. A three-stage process similar to this one happens with empires.

Imperial Rise and Fall: The Three Stages

There are apparently some 200 theories to explain the fall of the old pagan Western Roman Empire in the fifth century. This clearly suggests that there was not one simple cause for it, but a combination of causes. Nevertheless, perhaps we can put forward three general stages associated with the rise and fall of empires, as did the British military hero Sir John Glubb (1897-1986) in his interesting analysis, The Fate of Empires. Here he suggested, controversially, that many empires seem to last about ten generations, 250 years, before they fall. He admitted that although this was a generalisation, his remarks did come purely from practical observations, not from some intellectual theorisation or ideology. We too suggest three stages in the rise and fall of empires:

  1. The first stage, that of the grandfather, in the rise of empires is the Age of Conquest, in which great self-belief, energy and courage, as well as great cruelty, greed and racist superiority are shown. (‘All others are barbarians’. ‘The West is Best’). We can see this with the aggressive expansion of the West in the eleventh century, which led at the end of that century to the official ‘First Crusade’ and to the accelerating expansion of settlement, colonisation and exploitation, starting in 1492, with a further drastic and global acceleration about 250 years ago with the conquest of India. This period is the age of the spirit of enterprise and positivity, of ‘we can do it’. We can clearly see this in the recent Victorian Imperial Age of Great Britain and then in the post-1945 Imperial American Age.
  2. This is followed by the second stage of profit-taking, the stage of the son, of affluence, arrogance, self-congratulation, complacency and hubris. ‘We will rule for ever’, as was expressed in the Edwardian British anthem Land of Hope and Glory, glorifying the Empire ‘on which the sun never set’. That ended with the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic and the suicide of 1914. This was also the slogan of the ‘thousand-year’ Third Empire (= ‘Reich’) of Hitler, which lasted for exactly twelve years. Complacency means that there is a refusal to learn from history and from mistakes, a lack of openness to others, to anything new. ‘We are the greatest, we have nothing to learn from others’. At this stage, empires fall into denial and cannot see how low they are sinking.
  3. The third stage in the fall of empires, the stage of the grandson, interests us most, since we believe that this is what the Western world is now going through.

Falls are marked by mismanaged crises, dissension, lack of cohesion and common goals. This produces a disparate society because of the lack of shared beliefs and values. As society pulls in different directions, there follow disintegration, negativity and pessimism. Immigration takes place, for there are few to do, or who are interested in doing, vital tasks, since those who were born into that society are interested in the selfish infantilism of ‘fun’. ‘Why bother?’ The lack of energy comes from the lack of self-belief, courage and so passivity. One of today’s phenomena is ‘snowflakes and wimps’, those who constantly suffer from ‘anxiety’ and ‘stress’. People say: ‘There is nothing in it for me’, which shows the selfishness that comes from their lack of aims and values.

Decline is also marked by loss of faith in any religious aim or belief. This creates personal and collective decadence. As Glubb remarked: Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not convinced that anything in life is worth saving. This cynicism is the result of despair. In the case of Britain, no longer ‘Great’, this can be seen in the satire that has pervaded society since 1945. The spirit of mocking everything, especially the discredited Establishment, can be seen in many satires, such as Monty Python and Mr Bean. There is even a satirical show called Mock the Week.

Conclusion

This cynicism or, in English, world-weariness, can be seen everywhere in contemporary Britain, and in Western countries in general. The lack of self-belief can be seen in the young people, in fact beggars, who stand in the street and sing American songs or, at least, songs in an American accent. When you cannot even sing in your own language, that is the end. The result of the absence of any respect for God and for neighbour ends in a lack of self-respect. This nihilistic attitude to self is seen in poor dress and diet, tattoos, pieces of metal fixed in the face, and the use of drugs, whether vapes, tobacco, alcohol or harder drugs. The decline proceeds generation by generation until it results in nihilism. The cynicism is such that all alternatives are rejected. And so the fall comes.

On the Six Divisions in the Russian Orthodox Church in the Diaspora

In the twentieth century the Russian Orthodox Church outside the borders of Russia split into six groups, three splits took place for ethnic reasons and three splits took place for political reasons.

The Three Non-Russian Ethnic Divisions

Firstly, there was quite a large Carpatho-Rusyn group in the USA, founded by immigrants who had been forced into Uniatism. They had arrived in the US from 1880 on, not from the Russian Empire, but from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Once in freedom in the USA, most of them returned to Russian Orthodoxy (the strongly Uniatised did not and were called by the absurd term ‘Ruthenians’). The return was for two reasons. Firstly, an infamous Roman Catholic Archbishop in the USA, called John Ireland (1838-1918), refused to let the Carpatho-Rusyns have married clergy and, secondly, he tried to steal their churches from them. As a Roman Catholic bishop (just like ROCOR bishops today), he did not understand that Carpathian Orthodoxy is founded on churches built or paid for by the people for the people. In real and not clericalist Orthodoxy, the hierarchical principle is always balanced by the congregational principle.  Led by the future saint, Fr Alexis (Toth), most people returned to the Church. The People’s Orthodoxy always triumphs over greedy clericalist bishops, who have the State mentality and dreams of power and riches. The Carpatho-Rusyns came to form a group known as the Metropolia and then from 1971 on the OCA (Orthodox Church in America).

After 1945 there formed second and third groups, a small Belarussian group and a very large and also very nationalistic Ukrainian group, mainly in Northern America, but also to some extent in Western Europe and elsewhere. After the fall of the Soviet Empire in 1991, most of the Ukrainian group, hating Russians, ended up under Constantinople. The small and weak Belarusian group more or less died out.

The Three Russian Political Divisions

As for the ethnic Russians in the Diaspora, after 1917 they too split into three. Initially, until the 1990s and renewed emigration, the smallest group was the Moscow Patriarchate group. This was at the centre of Soviet patriotism, which after 1991 transferred to Russian Federation patriotism. Many in this group never dared contradict whoever was in power in Moscow, whether they intervened in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Afghanistan or the Ukraine. A blind patriotic loyalty even to an atheist regime (!) prevailed among some in this Church. For them, the Russian Patriarch is an ethnarch, in the same way as the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople is an ethnarch. For example, when Orthodox in Latvia were recently obliged by the local government to stop commemorating the Russian Patriarch, many there stopped going to church. I was asked if people should continue to attend churches there. I answered: If churches there continue to commemorate Christ, then of course they should attend them. Clearly, for many, the commemoration of the Patriarch was much more important than the commemoration of Christ. This is a parallel to the Roman Catholic attitude to the Popes of Rome. For them too the Pope is the head of the Church. No Pope, no Church! And the same ‘phyletist’ disease is present among some in Constantinople, Moscow and elsewhere.

The second smallest group in the Diaspora after 1917 was the Paris-centred group. This was led by Westernised aristocrats and intellectuals, mainly from Saint Petersburg, who had betrayed the Tsar, organised the first ‘Revolution’ (palace coup) to overthrow him and showed loyalty to Western values such as liberalism, ecumenism etc. In general, they showed little interest in fasting, monasticism and piety. This is now an even smaller group, as it has largely died out.

The largest émigré group, called ROCOR (Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, also Russian Orthodox Church Abroad or in Exile), was always anti-Communist. However, since being anti-Communist is not the same as Orthodox Christianity (to the amazement of some of them!), this led them into deviations and perversions, such as Nazism, then the CIA, NATO, the Republican Party and American Imperialism. The erroneous idea was that anyone who was anti-Communist was their friend. That hatred blinded many of them to the fact that all those movements embodied hatred for Russia. And yet these people were supposedly pro-Russian! After multiple scandals in ROCOR over the last decade, involving narcissists, homosexual and pedophile clergy, this group has also become very small. Many have left it in disgust at its anti-Christian ethos and so it has in recent years become a rather irrelevant fringe group and a very great embarrassment to its Mother-Church in Moscow.

As for us, we continue to confess our loyalty to Christ and His Saints, the New Martyrs and the New Confessors, in faithfulness to St John of Shanghai and his successor the ever-memorable Archbishop Antony of Geneva. In 1975, we were already venerating the still uncanonised (after some 50 years!) New Martyrs and Confessors. Moscow refused to canonise them, like the two other groups – refusals all from lack of spiritual freedom. Apart from some quite exceptional individuals such as St John of Shanghai, all three groups also refused to venerate the Saints of the first millennium West when it was still Orthodox.

After the long overdue reconciliations with Moscow and apparent unity of the three ethnic Russian groups between 2007 and 2018, in the 2020s, the situation worsened sharply, as nationalism, Russian, American or French, seized hold of the leadership of the three groups. Moreover, as a result of Soviet-style nationalist centralisation, the Russian Church began to suffer from further splits with Orthodox in Estonia, the Ukraine, Moldova and Latvia. These splits spread everywhere outside the borders of the Russian Federation, among all who felt they had been treated as second-class citizens by the Centre and its emissaries. This left the Russian Church drifting rudderless and heading for shipwreck, as we continually described at that time.

Although we ordinary clergy and people were left leaderless and abandoned by politicians instead of pastors, we shall never respond to lies with lies, to slanders with slanders, to hatred with hatred. But neither shall we remain silent in the face of lies, slander, hatred, schism and sect. We shall continue to defend our canonical communion with the mainstream, all the Local Churches of the Orthodox Faith, and defend the spiritual freedom of our clergy and parishioners to be in communion with the whole Conciliar Church, to guard our Catholicity, and to keep the memory of the Saints, who are the identity of our Church. And in our case they are the identity of our England, as also of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. And no foreign sectarian and schismatic interloper from the USA has impeded us from so doing.

 

Keeping to the Golden Mean: Avoiding both New Calendarism and Old Calendarism

Last week the Greek Patriarch once again compromised himself with the Pope of Rome, this time in Muslim Turkey. Many have been shocked by his ecumenism. It seems strange, since this Greek Patriarch has been doing such things for decades. And he is not the first Greek Patriarch to do such things. Many fail to understand that he has once again compromised only himself, not the Church. The Church is not some member of the clergy, a mere individual, whatever his title. Our salvation comes only through Divine Mercy following our repentance for our own sins, not through trying to save someone else. Only Christ saves.

Just because one of the Twelve was called Judas Iscariot, we do not reject the Eleven. Christ did not do so. Just because one of the apples in the basket is bad, we do not throw away all the others. To do so is puritanism, phariseeism, the heresy of the Donatists. As I remarked to a parishioner, at the Dread Last Judgement we shall have to answer for our own sins, not for the personal sins of someone else’s Patriarch. And even if he were our Patriarch, his personal sins would engage only himself, not us.

Here is the error of those who are scandalised by the deeds of such a Patriarch and join the old calendarists. Through not wishing to be in theoretical communion with such a Patriarch, they then put themselves out of actual communion with the whole Church! The old calendarists are not Orthodox, as they claim to be, since they are not in communion with the Orthodox Church, but only with a tiny sect, made up mostly of neophytes who are not rooted and grounded in the Faith.

Once again, the old calendarist group in question consists of members of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlTaXUfyL6U&ntb=1&msockid=c33b6ec0ce1e11f0b05ac565ade6baa5).

That small group which has been spawning and feeding multiple old calendarist groups ever since 1986. In 2007 the campaign, in which we played an active part, to reunite ROCOR, especially in the USA, with the Mother-Church in Moscow, so that it would never again entertain the temptation of falling away from the Orthodox mainstream, seemed to be successful. All went well for the first ten years after 2007 until about 2017. Then sectarian elements in the USA, basically Russian old calendarists, took over ROCOR.

Then ROCOR soon began to fall out of communion from the rest of the Church, most notably in December 2021 under pressure from a former old calendarist priest, from another part of the Russian Orthodox Church! To quote the Book of Proverbs and the Second Epistle of the Apostle Peter, the dog returned to its vomit. When this became known, six parishes, twelve clergy and some 5,000 people, well over half of the ROCOR Diocese in England, warned the governing body of ROCOR in New York. However, that body, the American Synod, backed the schism. Thus we left the newly schismatic ROCOR, so that we would be able to remain in communion with the mainstream, the Church of God.

The only confusing matter here is that the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow itself did not take any action against the uncanonical and schismatic actions of ROCOR. For ROCOR, by the Act of Canonical Communion signed by ROCOR in 2007 (I was present), was supposed to be in communion with the rest of the Orthodox Church. This was why in 2006 my friend, Fr Alexander Lebedev, had visited the tiny old calendarist groups in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania to make it clear to them that no part of ROCOR was any longer in communion with them (our Western European part of ROCOR had never been in communion with them anyway).

It has been suggested that the inconsistent policy of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow in this matter was connected with political affairs connected with the Ukraine. Once the military operations in the Ukraine have been concluded, we can only hope that Moscow will discipline ROCOR and bring it to obey the canons. However, much of ROCOR will refuse to do this and break away from the Church into full-blown old calendarist schism.

 

The Defeat of the Kiev Regime and the Rewriting of Human History

Introduction: The End of the Ukraine Fantasy

The oligarch-controlled rulers of the most corrupt country in the world, the ex-Soviet Ukraine, face a threefold crisis: the corruption crisis with its golden toilet scandal, which has made several corrupt ministers under investigation flee abroad amid US threats to release more recordings, amid infighting for power. The rats are leaving the Sinking American Empire, which is now also a Shrinking Empire, as Trump gives up on feckless Western European leaders. But they are only rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic, since the bankrupt Ukraine also faces a financial crisis, with no money to pay the running costs of the country, and a military crisis, with Kiev’s worn-down armed forces collapsing in the East.

Trump is so tired of the defeated Ukraine and the lies of its elite that he has invented a fantasy, draft ‘Peace Plan’, with the bullying ultimatum that it be signed by Kiev. European-backed Kiev at once rejected and radically changed the proposal, for it would mean the capitulation of the ultra-corrupt Kiev regime gang and that of meddling European politicians. As Vance has said, the ‘failed politicians’ (in parentheses, those of the now abandoned Ukraine and of the sidelined huddle of Western European politicians) who live with the ‘fantasy of Ukrainian victory’ have to sign it. This is regardless of the fact that the ‘Plan’ is fantasy and Russia will never sign its absurd conditions, but will win militarily.

The Three Russian Aims

The Western elite has never understood Russia. It feared a sweeping Russian victory in two weeks in early 2022, as the West had experienced in Afghanistan – at first. In fact, in Afghanistan, the US spent over $2 trillion and 20 years in order to replace the Taliban by the Taliban – it was no sweeping victory at all, just the long-term rout of the West. In the same way, if swift military victory had occurred in the Ukraine, Russia would then have faced many years of local popular insurrections, terrorist attacks and civil disobedience. The West was banking on this, a repeat of the anti-Russian war it financed and ran in the Western Ukraine from 1945 until 1958 and even after, revenge for Afghanistan.

Russia’s aims were long-term, to ensure that the regime would engineer its own downfall. To do this, it set itself from the outset three very clear, non-territorial, long-term aims. Firstly, there was the aim of liberating the Russian Ukraine (symbolised initially by the ‘Donbass’), either militarily or else by internationally-observed referendums for self-determination, as it implemented in the five provinces which it is absorbing. Secondly, there was the aim of demilitarising the Ukraine. Thirdly, there was the aim of denazifying the Ukraine. Showing the very patient, Oriental attitude of letting the rotten fruit fall by itself and then taking over with the minimum of losses to itself, Russia has done precisely this.

Since then, the ‘Donbass’ has been extended to mean the whole of Kiev-genocided and menaced Russian ‘Ukraine’, the east and south of the 1922-founded Soviet Ukraine, which had previously always been part of Russia. And the war of attrition, originally aimed at ‘demilitarising’ the Ukraine, became a war of military attrition against the whole of Western Europe because of Western Europe’s self-declared war on Russia. After destroying all Kiev’s arms, all NATO’s arms had to be destroyed, with American, French, British and German armour burning on the steppes. The Russians had to demilitarise the ever-present NATO threat. As a result, NATO’s war stocks have dwindled to very little.

The Broader Consequences of Denazification

In this way the final aim of ‘denazification’ came to mean not only the denazification of the Ukraine, but also of Western Europe, since Western Europe was supporting the Nazi values of the regime in Kiev. The latter still suffered from the Far Western Ukrainian (Galician) Nazis. Russia, like the rest of the Global Majority, never forgot that Nazism is merely one form of the purely ideology of Western supremacy. The only difference was that the Germans genocided the Slavs of Europe (30 million of them died in their genocide of World War II) and the Jews of Europe, and not the brown, black, red and yellow peoples of the Americas, Asia and Australasia, genocided by other Europeans.

Germany has never shown repentance for its Slav holocaust, unlike its repentance for its much smaller Jewish holocaust. The German repentance for its genocide of the Jews is then exceptional, as can be seen by the lack of any repentance by the other Western colonial elites, who are still justifying their genocides of ‘coloured peoples’. Today Russia (with US help) is indirectly going to regime-change Western Europe. From this moment on, the absurd 30,000 anti-Russian sanctions of the EU will be lifted, diplomatic missions, free travel, commercial links and freedom of speech (no more censorship of the Russian media) re-established, and frozen Russian assets in Western Europe returned.

Free of Nazism, the future government of Kiev will establish freedom for all minorities, Romanian, Hungarian, Rusyn, Polish and Russian, with self-determination. This will include freedom for the Russian language, culture and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The Russian State will be victorious, but the great loser will be the still Sovietised Russian Church. It will have to be deSovietised, that is, decentralised, for it will, true, decades too late, finally have to cede autocephaly to Russian Orthodox outside the Russian Federation. Now nationalist to the core, it has lost credit among Orthodox outside Russia and inside Russia. This is because of politicians, career bureaucrats, and not pastors.

Conclusion: Southern Italy 1022: Columbus 1492: Donbass 2022

The ‘Ascent of Latin Europe’, to use the medieval historian Karl Leyser’s term, that is, the gradual Western domination of the periphery and neighbours of Western Europe by organised violence, including to islands and peninsulas like Orthodox Southern Italy in 1022, Iberia, the British Isles, Ireland, Scandinavia, and to Eastern Europe and the ‘Near East’, began a millennium ago. However, the Global Ascent of Latin Europe began in 1492 with Columbus’ voyage to the ‘West Indies’ and in 1498 with that of Vasco da Gama to the ‘East Indies’. In this way, the ‘Far West’ and the ‘Far East’ fell under Western domination with the dream/nightmare of its total planetary control – called Globalism.

The writing of the history of these events and all that preceded them has been nearly entirely ethnocentric, described almost uniquely by State-funded and State-manipulated Western academics. They always told the story as viewed by the Western elite, not by Western people or Non-Westerners, for those academics had been bought out by that elite. Our Story, unlike Western ‘His-Story’, the actual story of the real World, has yet to be written, despite partial attempts over the last fifty years. This means the rewriting of the history of humanity, not only of Non-Western peoples, but also of Western peoples themselves, a great many of whom have always opposed their tyrannical elites.

The East Anglians

Like the majority of English people, the East Anglians are chiefly descended from the Angles, who once lived on the Angeln Peninsula in the present northern tip of Germany, just below the south-eastern corner of Denmark. They began settling here with some of their neighbours, Saxons, Frisians and others, already at the end of the third century. Some intermarried locally, but in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries their wider families joined them. By about 600 the Angles dominated the whole region and indeed the whole country, giving their name to England, for they were the majority of the new settlers. Thus, they gave their name to this part of Eastern England, which bulges out into the North Sea, once called the German Ocean. This is in fact more a relatively shallow lake than a sea, with a clockwise current that separates Eastern England from the coast of the Netherlands and Belgium, some 200 miles away.

The River Waveney divides the East Anglian folk into two regions, north and south, which became Norfolk and Suffolk, although these used to extend into the eastern half of what came to be called Cambridgeshire, beyond which lived the Angles of Mercia, now the East and West Midlands (1). In the early sixth century the East Angles formed their own Kingdom of East Anglia. In the ninth century they were joined by numbers of Danish invaders, especially on the coasts and along the rivers. Living in this relatively isolated region and facing an often hostile Continent, over time East Anglians came to display suspicion, aloofness, independence and individuality and were reputed as modest, hard-working, brave, reliable and frugal in their attitudes. Living near the sea, like that famous East Anglian, Lord Nelson, they also displayed a spirit of adventure, inquisitiveness, love of freedom and fair dealing.

Despots have learned about this East Anglian love of freedom to their sorrow. Such despots include the first Norman invader in St Audrey’s Ely, where he was resisted by Hereward. Then new resistance appeared on St Edmund’s Day in 1214 at Bury St Edmunds, which became not only ‘the shrine of the king’, but also ‘the cradle of the law’. For St Edmund, King and Martyr (+ 869), is our East Anglian champion. Then there came the examples of independence given in Norfolk by Geoffrey Lister and Robert Kett in their rebellion against injustice of the fourteenth century, those who rose up against tyranny under the early Cromwell (before he became a tyrant), and later against the European tyrants Napoleon and Hitler. All the foreign tyrants, and to this day, have always been confused by the old East Anglian subtlety of feigned simplicity and apparent ignorance, and the reluctance to show what is in fact deeply-felt emotion.

This feigned ignorance. ‘playing dumb’, is only a sign of our modesty. East Anglians have never liked know-it-all boastfulness, American-style flamboyance and alien pomposity. We prefer the culture of our own modest simplicity, which is so disrespected by some. Partly for this reason, East Anglia is the home of English Painting, with its soft, homelike scenes and our native, pastel-shaded woods and fields. This School was led by such as the famed Gainsborough, Constable, Crome, Cotman, three generations of the Norwich School, and in the last century the great Sir Alfred Munnings. All were inspired by the broad skies, cloudscapes, seascapes and landscapes of the East Anglian scene. East Anglia is our home and in our international age of constant change and instability, all the more an anchor to which we hold. Let London and other big cities go their way. We are here, we are staying here and we are defending here.

Note 1:

With the River Waveney flowing through its middle, the North Sea to the north and the east, the East Anglian border with Essex to the south formed by the River Stour, and to the west by the Rivers Ouse and Cam, East Anglia was distinct from the rest of the country, almost an island. Beyond the Ouse and the Cam, as far as a line descending from Newark, stretches the East Midlands, thereafter it is the West Midlands as far as the Welsh border. Traditionally, East Anglians drank ale, in the East Midlands beer, and in the West Midlands they drank cider.

To the north of East Anglia, in what is now called Lincolnshire and in Northumbria, lived more Angles. Like the Jutes in Kent, southern Hampshire and on the Isle of Wight, the Saxons lived in the south of England, in Essex (East Saxons), Middlesex (Middle Saxons), Sussex (South Saxons) and Wessex (West Saxons). There are no North Saxons, only Anglians, so numerous that they gave their name to the whole country. The term ‘Anglo-Saxon’, is historical nonsense. Indeed, today it is used to mean ‘Anglo-American’, or rather ‘Modern Norman’.

 

 

 

 

We Have Seen It All Before

To the Tsar you did not  belong,

And that is how it all went wrong:

The foe whispered: Scatter and squander,

Give your treasure to the rich yonder,

Your power to slaves, your strength to enemies,

To serfs your honour, to traitors your keys.

Holy Rus, Maximilian Voloshin, 1918

Introduction

It is said that history does not repeat itself, it only echoes down the ages. This is hair splitting. It is the same thing in different words. Since geography does not change, mountains and plains, oceans and rivers do not move, and since human nature does not change, history does repeat itself. We have seen it all before.

The Ukraine

The Ukraine has been known for decades to be the most corrupt country on earth. The West has poured in hundreds of billions of dollars over the last four years. The money has all disappeared, just as the trillions did in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Kiev regime is utterly corrupt. Ministers are now finally being threatened with charges for corruption involving a mere $100 million. Some have fled abroad, their suitcases stuffed with dollar bills (London, the money-laundering capital, is a popular destination). The US is trying to regime-change by charging members of the regime with corruption, rather than by assassinating them. It is time to get rid of the intransigent Zelensky. Its oligarchs and their puppets, like the violent medieval princes and their corrupt retainers who used to live there, vie with one another. We have seen it all before.

For ordinary Ukrainians who have stayed, power cuts have become ever longer and they look anxiously at the destructive moving lights in the night skies and tremble. 1.8 million Ukrainian soldiers are dead or seriously wounded. Millions of young men and their families have fled abroad, 100,000 in the last month alone, in order to avoid the certain suicide of military service against a far stronger enemy. In his bunker in Kiev the actor President Zelensky himself now appears to be in a state of utter delusion, just like the artist Hitler in his bunker in Berlin just before his end, in denial, talking about moving non-existent armies and divisions, as bombed-out Berlin was surrounded by apocalyptic Soviet forces. We have seen it all before.

After taking back Russian Crimea (given to the Ukraine by the atheist monster Khrushchov in 1954) and then the four southern and eastern Russian provinces, given by the atheist monster Lenin to create the Soviet Ukraine in 1922, the Russian Federation may take back the next southern and eastern slice of the Soviet Ukraine. That consists of the other four Russian-speaking provinces (Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev and Odessa), also given to the Ukraine in 1922.

Russia may also give the bit that the other atheist monster Stalin stole in 1945 back to Romania (Romanians want Romanian North Bukovina/Chernivtsy back, just as they want Romanian ‘Moldova’, which Stalin also stole in 1945). Russia may also give the other Stalin-stolen bits (Zakarpattia) back to Hungary and (Catholic Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk) to Poland (if the Poles want them back). Then, what remains will basically be a mirror image of Belarus to the north, the New Ukraine (or whatever it will be called) resembling a Southern Belarus, the East Slav Russian Protectorate of Kievan Rus. As for the delusional Western European elite, it will brush off its defeat in the Ukraine with the fantasy narrative that the Ukrainians were corrupt and Trump did not send enough aid. It was certainly not their fault.

Russia

The corrupt oligarch-gangster and traitor Prigozhin died in 2023, when a grenade exploded in his business jet, ‘in mysterious circumstances’, as they say. Whenever Russia is in trouble, there always appears a traitor or a rebel, a ‘false Dmitry’ or a Pugachov, who always ends up badly. Meanwhile, loyal Russian oligarchs prosper, as they receive plentiful military contracts from the State. It appears that between 100,00 and 150,000 Russians soldiers are dead, perhaps some 250,000 are seriously wounded.  And though Russia has won the war in the Ukraine, crushing and demilitarising not just the Ukraine, but also NATO, and dividing it into coalitions of the willing and the unwilling, Russia must also win the peace. How will they deal with the hatred they have stirred up against themselves? The mourning widows, orphans, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, the survivors maimed in body and soul, the economy in tatters, the exiled in misery, the lives ruined. Russia continues with its own problems, almost the same as those as those in the Middle Ages, the rival princes of then have become the rival oligarchs of today. We have seen it all before.

President Putin, the once naïve Europhile lawyer from Saint Petersburg, a fluent German speaker, who knows English quite well and who wanted to join NATO, has closed the window on the West, opened by Peter I. He was forced to do so, astonished and hurt by the rejections and hostility of the West that he used to love. And instead he has opened a window on the East, which Tsar Nicholas II once tried to open, but was stopped from doing so by Western-armed and financed Japan in 1904. Now dewesternising Russia has the deep friendship of the East. This is a turning point not only in Russian history, but in Eurasian, and therefore World, history. For the only reason why Eurasia has never dominated the world has been its divisions; those divisions are no more. Western aggression and dishonesty have thrown them all together, Russia, China, India, Iran and North Korea, well over a third of humanity, and receiving all the sympathy of Africa and Latin America.

The greatest problems are faced by the Russian Orthodox Church. Once multinational, it has become national, indeed nationalist and centralised, clericalist, ritualist and militarist, a uniform army. The new quasi-Iranian fundamentalism there has cut the Russian Church off from the mainstream, from the Catholicity of the Orthodox Church. No-one is convinced by Russian Orthodoxy now, as it reels from the scandal of openly blessing weapons of war used to kill other Orthodox, from that of last year’s open adultery of its main ‘Orthodox’ TV oligarch, from the homosexual scandals of senior bishops from Budapest to Chicago, to the scandal of another who plays poker internationally for big money.

The main Patriarchal candidate actually dreams of anointing and crowning President Putin Tsar. As a result, far fewer Orthodox than before go to church. Many boycott it, not only outside the Russian Federation, but also inside it, repelled by the darkness of the new fundamentalism with its boorish and misogynistic attitudes, its ever-growing quasi-Old Ritualist isolation from the mainstream. Fr Ferapont of The Brothers Karamazov has won against Elder Zosima. Russian Church isolation is determined by the fact that it cuts itself off from any who disagree with it. This is a Soviet attitude, not a Christian one, just as parallel US Evangelism is a Zionist attitude, not a Christian one.

The USA

As usual, the USA just wants to double its dollars. After all, it has wasted some $350 billion of them in the Ukraine. It wants them back, with a return. However, the reason is not the usual profit-seeking greed, it is about astronomical US debt, which now amounts to $38.2 trillion. Deindustrialised, it faces economic crisis. The crisis is also moral, as the USA faces the problems engendered by the genocidal results of US Zionism, US-backed and US-armed Israel against Palestinians, and by the crisis of the Israel-linked Epstein scandal. We have seen it all before.

Western Europe

The Establishments of most of Western Europe, their lies backed to the hilt by their generously-funded and utterly mercenary media and academia, are indebted to the ultimate degree. Therefore, they have been busy fabricating provocations: Russian submarines off the coast of Sweden (in fact American ones), Russian missiles and drones flying over Poland (in fact Ukrainian ones), imaginary Russian drones flying over Germany and Denmark, imaginary Russian aircraft flying over Estonia, imaginary Russian arms on ships, leading to French piracy on the high seas, the sabotage of French hotels by ‘Russian’ bedbugs etc. Any fiction to scare the brainwashed sheeple, to justify absurd NATO and the huge expenses of the military-industrial complex, creating the long-desired Third World War. We have seen it all before.

France

President Macron, called Micron by his enemies, and his band of perverts, their popularity standing at 11%, appear to have halted democracy in France. The President himself is obsessed only by his overweening ambition of becoming a second Napoleon, the first President of Europe. His hubris will be followed by nemesis. We have seen it all before.

Germany

Germany is in recession, as it has suicidally destroyed its industrial might by cutting itself off from the cheap Russian gas and oil which once made it competitive and mighty. Fascistic green policies have helped its decline. Its ultra-militaristic Chancellor, amazingly still on 18% of popularity, together with many members of his government, appears to want revenge for 1945. They dream of surrounding Moscow and pounding it with NATO artillery. So far all they have seen is German tanks burning on the steppes near Kursk, in the same area as in 1943. We have seen it all before.

The UK

The Ukrainian armed forces have been provided with a great many British ‘military advisors’, ‘technicians’ and MI6 spies and bodyguards. All their terrorist operations have been run by the British. These are terrorist activities of the cinematic James Bond type, repeats of those between 1941 and 1944, like the disastrous Dieppe raid, which killed and wounded thousands of Canadians, or the futile Dambusters raid, which killed a thousand Ukrainian slave-workers, let alone the then terror bombings which killed half a million German civilians.

The present operations, based in Odessa, Ochakov and Nikolaev, have often been naval in type. Thus, they attacked the civilian Kerch Bridge, sent naval drones against ships, blew up a dam, planned a suicidal and very costly attack to break through strongly-protected Russian territory to the Sea of Azov, landed Ukrainian troops on an island in a suicidal attack, invaded a border region of the Kursk Region in Russia (70,000 Ukrainian dead or wounded), attacked a Russian train, set fire to Russian bombers, tried to assassinate President Putin, tried to bribe a pilot with $3,000,000 to fly his plane with a missile to the West. Since the bankrupt and deindustrialised British are so militarily weak, and their anti-democratic leader very unpopular at 16%, they can do nothing else except commit futile and suicidal acts of terrorism. The only thing they are good at is PR, confusing virtual reality with real reality, cinema fantasies with real war. We have seen it all before.

Poland

Some in ‘the hyena of Europe’, as Churchill called Poland, dreamed of restoring the past, a Greater Poland, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. It is all nonsense. Polish pragmatists, seeing the attitudes of nearly two million Ukrainians living freely among them and bankrupting them, are now turning towards an anti-Ukrainian attitude, remembering the Ukrainian Volyn massacres of the Poles over eighty years ago. The Poles will never forget. It is embarrassing for the Ukrainians, who would like them to forget.

Italy and the Others

It is said that no war in Europe can end until Italy has changed sides. This is because, sensibly, most Italians are not warlike. This change of sides will of course happen. Indeed, all the at present vassal states in Europe will do the same, according to how much good sense they have. Hungary and Slovakia have already done so. Croatia and Austria are slipping towards it, also passing from being pro-Kiev to being anti-Kiev, like Poland. Romania would do so, but Brussels forbids freedom and democracy there. Eventually even the Nordics and the other Baltics will go neutral again, once they have rid themselves of their American-imposed elites. We have seen it all before.

Conclusion

I love the stubborn design you hold,

And I agree to play my role.

Now another drama will unfold:

This time please, please let be my soul.

 

But the order of the acts is planned

The end of my path has been revealed.

I am quite alone; all drowns in the pharisees’ cant.

To live your life is no simple walk across a field.

Hamlet, Boris Pasternak, 1946

There is nothing new under the sun. An observer of this inanity and insanity, I will return to my Suffolk village, where the clocks go slow. Why adjust the clocks, when we are headed for eternity anyway? We have seen it all before.

 

The Western Empire Wanted to Dismember Russia, But Instead the Western Empire Dismembered Itself

The West’s Delusional Divine Mandate

Historians have often noted how the Western elite, unlike the elites of all other Civilisations, has for a millennium claimed that it possesses a ‘Zionist’ Divine mandate. This justifies its continual organised violence against those outside the Carolingian First Reich (Reich = Empire), which was founded in 800 AD in the Frankland centre of the Western world. This became clear in the eleventh century in the Frankish ‘proto-crusades’ on the European periphery, in Sardinia (1016), Sicily (1022), Iberia (1064) England (1066) and then in its attacks on West Asia, formally called ‘Crusades’, which began in 1096. This also became evident in the ‘Teutonic Crusades’ of the 13th century against North-Eastern Europe and later the genocides, colonisation and exploitation of what is now called Latin America, starting with the gold-hungry Columbus in 1492. These extended to North America, Russia (which it then called Muscovy), Africa, Asia and Oceania.

At that time this Divine mandate was justified by the Western European leader, absolutist by Divine Right, the absolute power of the Popes of Rome. This mentality was continued by anti-Catholic Protestants, such as the British, who justified their genocides and asset-stripping by claiming that they were bringing ‘the savages’ their ‘civilising mission’ through the equally absolutist authority of their Bible. Today, when Western leaders are anti-Catholic and anti-Protestant, they justify their genocides and asset-stripping by their equally absolutist ‘moral crusade’ of ‘humanitarian intervention’, as in Iraq – ’God told me to invade’, said George Bush. All is permitted because only the (authoritarian, oligarchic and Globalist = Imperialist) Western world brings ‘freedom and democracy’, that is, freedom for perversion and for its elite to tyrannise and exploit the whole Globe.

Where does this supposed Divine mandate come from? Secularists say that it comes from their ‘superior’ ideology of ‘humanism’, which ‘primitive peoples’, ‘blacks, browns and yellows’, do not possess. The scientifically-minded prefer to speak of the technological advance of Western countries over others. All this is cultural arrogance, hubris. For most of the past millennium the civilisations of countries like China and India, as well as the many Latin American civilisations, were in all respects well ahead of Western civilisation. In our view, what lies behind the hubris of the belief of the Western elite that it has a Divine mandate, is their dogmatic self-belief that God told it that the Holy Spirit comes to it uniquely from its leader, the sole representative of God on earth, originally the infallible Pope of Rome, but now the infallible Western elite, the new Popes.

The Long Century of Fallen European Empires

In July 1918 the Russian Empire, modelled by its elite since 1721 on Western Empires, fell. In November 1918 the German (the Second Reich = Second Empire, founded in 1871), Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires followed. Twenty-seven years later, in May 1945, the German Third Reich fell. Thirty-eight years later, in October and November 1956, the British and French Empires also finally fell, after their last gasp failed invasion of Egypt, which the ultra-imperialist USA refused to support.

In December 1991 the Soviet Empire fell, after the morally bankrupt Western ideology of Marxism, which had invaded, ravaged and occupied Russia, had gone financially bankrupt.

In the 2020s the faltering Western Empire also fell. Having created appallingly bad relations with Russia, China and India, the world’s three great powers, it failed morally, diplomatically, militarily, technologically and financially. The divided Western Empire fell through its extraordinary hubris, in the same way that the Nazi Empire fell through its hubris, convinced that it was (racially) superior, in the same way as all empires fall through their hubris. The Roman, Carolingian (the First Reich), Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, British and American Empires – all those ‘superior’ empires fell through hubris, absurdly high self-esteem and equally absurd low esteem of others, as best displayed in Fukuyama’s delusional 1992 The End of History and the Last Man.

The Old Western World

The Western world consisted of its leader, the US elite, its vassal-elites in the NATO-EU/UK, and to a lesser extent, those on US-controlled islands and coastlands of Eurasia, such as the settler colony of Israel, in South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. However, the highly unpopular US-backed and trained, Globalist elites in these countries are all cut off from their peoples. Sooner or later, after the collapse of their proxy Ukraine, those elites will also collapse, like dominos, beneath the weight of what they contemptuously call ‘Populism’, that is, the pressures of the People and their National values.

For the Western world, the Ukraine was only ever a strategically-located battering ram, to be used for its project to weaken, conquer and then dismember the Russian Federation. The Western-installed, pro-Fascist Ukrainian regime, which violently usurped the democratically-elected Ukrainian government in Kiev in 2014, was flattered, bribed and used, or rather abused, to reject peace and attack Russia. The Ukrainian peoples were the naïve or foolish victims of the little Kiev gang and this Western ideology, led into that delusion by their outraged sense of nationalism, which has led to the deaths of nearly two million of them (‘war to the last Ukrainian’) and the exile of seven million, most to Russia. They were caught in the middle of the Great Game of the contemporary American-led Western world, a repeat of the equally paranoid British Great Game of the 19th century.

The infallible Old Western world has tried to destroy and dismember the Russian Federation by encircling it with bases and carrying out its hypocritical regime-change operations, with illegal bullying sanctions and tariffs, in surrounding countries (and also those surrounding India), despite the UN Charter which forbids such operations: in Georgia (failed), Belarus (failed), Kazakhstan (failed), Afghanistan (failed), Hungary (failed), Slovakia (failed), Serbia (failed), Iran (failed), the other four ex-Soviet stans in Central Asia (failing), Bosnia (failing), Kosovo (failing), Montenegro (failing), Macedonia (failing), Moldova (failing), Romania (failing), Bulgaria (failing), Syria (failing), Pakistan (failing), Bangladesh (failing), Nepal (failing), Armenia (failing), Azerbaijan (failing), Argentina (failing) and Venezuela (failing).

The New BRICS World

The UN has failed, sabotaged and paralysed by the three Western countries on the Security Council, which have blocked all democracy and abandoned the UN Charter and international law. As a result, BRICS has been established to represent the real world, the 90% which are not US vassals. The new BRICS world is dominated by the vastness of Asia, which is populated by nearly 60% of the world’s population: North Asia, led by the Russian Federation (Eurasia and the Eastern half of ‘Europe’, that is, the peoples of East Slavdom from Belarus and the New Ukraine through Russia to the Pacific); East Asia, with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the rest of South-East Asia and Australian Oceania, led by China; South Asia, led by India; West Asia, led by Iran and Saudi Arabia, with the newly-created State of Palestine; Central Asia, led by Kazakhstan, plus the four ex-Soviet stans, Afghanistan and Mongolia.

As for the two other Non-Western Continents, there are Latin America, led by Brazil and Mexico, and Africa, led by South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

Then there come what are for the moment the Non-BRICS countries of the half-Continent of Northern America (Canada, USA and Greenland), led by the USA, and the half-Continent of Western ‘Europe’ (in fact, the North-Western Peninsula of Asia). The latter consists of the former US vassals in the Western half of Europe, in the EU and Non-EU Western European countries like the semi-American UK. These countries will go their own way, different from that of Northern America, which will be the last to abandon their hubris and start co-operating with BRICS. Thus, the once Hapsburg Hungary and Slovakia, to some extent Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Czechia, are already leading the Western half of Europe, which stretches as far as the borders of East Slavdom, in making peace with the Eastern half of Europe. Once its US-imposed and manipulated leaders, who imagine that they are infallible, like the Pope of Rome, have fallen, the other Western European peoples will be free to join BRICS as sovereign nations.