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God Always Has the Last Word in History: The New World after the Ukraine

When a clown moves into the King’s Palace, he does not become the King, the Palace becomes a circus.

Turkish proverb

Foreword

There is a cliché which says that ‘History repeats itself’. Some strongly deny this and prefer to say that ‘History echoes’, or that people repeat History, because they fail to learn its lessons. However it is phrased, three things are clear: That human nature does not change (for example, money and power remain great motivations), that geography does not change (for example, mountains, plains and oceans do not move) and that the facts of history cannot be changed (for example, that country X invaded country Y three times). Thus, in 1904 Europe used Japan as a proxy to attack Russia – now the US wants to use Japan to attack China. and Europe uses the Ukraine to attack Russia. And here we are again back to Europe, with its two recent attempts at suicide, in 1914 and 1939, and now a third and final one in 2022. After a millennium of self-declared superiority, proud Europe is now faced with repenting for its millennial past and redesigning the present and the future.

The Ukraine Tragedy

The Ukraine is a failed State with crumbling infrastructure, a disastrous war which it has already lost, debts that it will never pay back and huge areas of the country sold off to foreign corporations. Moreover, from over 52 million in 1993 to 31 million in February 2022, its population has gone down even further to at most 23 million (some say even fewer) today, with millions of young men escaping to Russia and the West, fleeing from suicidal military service as soon as possible in 2022. Its birth rate is less than 0.8 per woman. Why bring children into a world where the land belongs to Blackrock, where rent-a-womb surrogacy, child-selling and organ-harvesting are common, thugs pressgang men on the street, a land of oligarchs’ corruption, widows and poverty? Its pensioners, civil servants and military survive on foreign handouts and weapons. According to the Ukrainian Constitution, its Autocrat-President, elected only because he promised peace, has been illegal for over two years.

Thanks to mainly foreign oligarchs, this Jewish comedian President became a multimillionaire media mogul and actor, learned how to speak Ukrainian and then English, and with US help became an expert on Public Relations. (Russians are useless at that). However, Public Relations does not alter reality, all it does is alter the perception of reality among the ignorant and the naïve. They think that Western propagandist narrative makers, Fox News, CNN, BBC, Sky News, the FT, Economist, Telegraph, Bild, Le Monde, Figaro and umpteen other State-censored tabloids, tell the truth. But there are the racist Russophobic hirelings who so hate truth and so love money that they can claim at the same time that, ‘Russia is weak and primitive and send its soldiers in human waves to die without guns and fight with shovels, but is so advanced that it will soon invade Lisbon’. The truth is that Kiev is losing the War that it has been fighting on behalf of rich Westerners, who envied Russia its vast lands and natural riches.

Those Westerners are going to go bankrupt together with their Kiev puppet. In reality, the Collective NATO West has never cared about the victory of the hopelessly provincial and bigoted, but very convenient Western Ukrainians – most in the West do not even know where the Ukraine is – they care only about the victory of Zionist Globalism, of which they are the American Empire’s agents, which pays them. Equally, Globalism is the movement in which the ultra-nationalistic Western Ukrainians have no interest, and yet for the sake of which those racist xenophobes have made millions of Ukrainian men into cannon fodder, as useful idiots. The Western Ukrainian elite loves pocketing billions of dollars, foreign passports and seaside villas on the Mediterranean and in Florida. ‘Daddy’ Trump has probably already understood that the bankrupt US has been backing a losing horse in Kiev. This is why he made his Western European vassals pay for vastly overpriced, obsolete US weapons.

After the Ukraine

As for the Western European elite, it is still unable to pursue reality, as it is blinded by its millennial ideology of ‘we are superior to all others’ and a Spanish racist proclaims that, ‘we are the garden and all the others are the jungle’. The reality is just the opposite: for instance, the Spanish created the jungle from the Amazon garden. Like all narratives, this is an ideology, and all ideologies are untrue and irrational, blinding those who cling on to them. However, Western Europe is not the only loser, for karma has also made the Hormuz of 2026 into America’s Suez of 1956. Seventy years have passed and now history has brought the betrayed British and the French their revenge. Not that they, or anyone else in Western Europe, wants to rejoice. The US Empire agents, who in France began with Sarkozy, have lost: Starmer was vomited out, Merz will be next, then Macron. The Zionist/Globalist clone factory is running out of identikit puppets like Burnham, who so strangely resembles Starmer.

We have come to a worldwide reshuffling of the cards. Non-Western countries have overtaken the ‘West is Best’ West. This is still stuck in its triumphalist myths of the Second World War, which in reality it did not win, but only created, for Fascism is an inherently Western European invention. It believes in its own virtual reality delusions. The Non-West is ahead of the West. Non-Western resources, rare earths, technology, AI, hypersonic missiles, fighter jets and diplomacy are all far in advance of those of the backward, increasingly Third World West. The institutions of the post-1945 world which the Western Powers, led by the USA, created for their own benefit, the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, the EU, NATO, the G7, are all disappearing into the dustbin of history. Crippled by debt, this narcissistic and so racist West has yet to face up to the New World, of which it will not be the centre and so is traumatised by it. Hence its violent tantrums, cancelling and demonising Russia, poking the bear.

The future means developing a new security architecture all over the world. The defeated US will have to retreat to North America, without, or perhaps with, Greenland. Like post-Suez Britain and France, all that the US will have left elsewhere is a few minor colonies and islands. Asia will be dominated in the North by Eurasian Russia, Eurosiberia, in the East, together with Oceania, by China, in the South by an internationally-minded India, in the West by Iran. Africa is already going its own way, throwing out the economic colonialism of the French, on whose behalf Ukrainian mercenaries are now fighting there, and Latin America is also declaring independence from the US Empire. Both have China helping them to independence. Europe will collapse, or rather, the old European elites will collapse, violently or peacefully replaced by the New Europe, divided into four regional communities of north-west, north-east, south-west and south-east, more or less allied with Russia and so with China.

Afterword: The Future

For the Western European elite this will be a catastrophe. After a thousand years that elite and the 20% of the population who self-servingly and subserviently cling on to it, will lose. Their millennial ideology will be shown to have been wrong all along and so will be rejected. Now the Western European elite is falling. Within twenty-five years Western Europe will be transformed, having faced the ideological and spiritual vacuum that the Soviet Union faced after it fell in 1991. This is because all of Western Europe has literally become a ‘European Union’, a second Soviet Union, run by a dictatorship, regardless of whether it managed to manipulate its peoples into accepting the Soviet ‘European Union’ as such or not. It is anti-patriotic and anti-democratic, running like its ancestor, pagan Imperial Rome, on bread and circuses. For the humble people, this will be an opportunity, for just as after pride comes the fall, so after the fall comes God. And God always has the last word in history.

 

The Russian Nationalist and Imperialist Church or a Trinity of East Slav Orthodox Churches?

By this all men shall know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.

Jn. 13, 34

You ask why I commemorate Patriarch Aleksei of Moscow. You say, ‘He’s a Soviet!’ I tell you, ‘Inside Soviet Rus is Holy Rus! God has not abandoned our people’.

St John of Shanghai and Western Europe

Foreword: ‘Princes of the Church’

I was brought up in the old, persecuted Russian Orthodox Church of St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, who himself was persecuted, suspended and put on trial by nationalist and imperialist ROCOR bishops, who also wanted to defrock him. For forty-seven years I remained faithful to that Church, until it became abundantly clear, in early 2022 before operations in the Ukraine, that the once Persecuted Church, which we had so loved, had become the Persecuting Church.

Worse still, the persecutors were shown to be none other than ROCOR’s newly-appointed, untrained, half-baked bishops. Those who called themselves ‘princes of the Church’ were those who loved money, stole, lied, slandered and cheated. The old bishops who belonged to the Tsar and whom we so loved and respected, must be spinning in their graves. How did this happen? Below I recount the story.

The Ukraine Tragedy and the Future of the Russian Church 

The armies of two brotherly peoples, both East Slav and both largely Orthodox Christian by history and culture, have been slaughtering one another for nearly five years in a war of attrition, just as in WWII. As a war of attrition, it will end just as suddenly. Two million have been killed or maimed, some 90% of them Ukrainians. Several thousand civilians have also been caught up in this since 2014 and died, mostly Russians (14,000 between 2014 and 2022 alone), let alone those killed in the NATO-armed Ukrainian invasion of Russia in 2024, run by NATO from Wiesbaden. And well over seven million Ukrainians have fled their country, heading, in almost equal numbers, east to Russia and west to Western Europe. They refused to be recruited by violence and needlessly die for the Globalists, who are being paid for Kiev’s NATO proxy Army to die.

Meanwhile, the majority of baptised Orthodox, whether practising or not, in both countries, as well as in Belarus and other countries in the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, look on many bishops as bullying bandits, feudal mini-oligarchs (I quote Russian clergy and laity here), who, like the New ROCOR ones, are out to steal their churches. And that mentality feeds down to many priests, obliged to squeeze money out of their flocks for their bishops. Then the clericalist contagion spreads to them and they squeeze some out for themselves. The example comes from the top. Many freshly-baptised, post-Soviet clergy (and then by imitation ROCOR bishops) fell into the money-loving, ‘Wild East’ Capitalism of the 1990s and got stuck there. (There are also the sexual scandals with bishops, but that is another story).

How is all this possible? Only when the majority of ‘baptised Orthodox’ in both countries long ago renounced Christ and are only nominally Orthodox Christians, if Orthodox Christians at all. (As they say, ‘many are Orthodox, but few are Christians’). And only when a majority have patriots and not the politicians, who prefer hundreds of billions of dollars, euros and pounds and huge quantities of lethal Western arms to peace. In reality, most in both countries, baptised but never instructed (despite Christ’s commandment in Matt. 28.20), are pagans who have not accepted Christ, Who told us to love one another. And most want to dominate one another as imperialists, again contrary to Christ, Who told us to serve one another. How do this paganism and imperialism manifest themselves in the Church?

Paganism

The paganism of both peoples can be seen in their superstitiousness, the use of witchcraft and the evil eye, which have always been very widespread in all the Slav (as also in Catholic Southern European) lands. This comes from the underlying paganism, which has never been completely defeated by the Church, as is witnessed to by accounts both in the nineteenth century and in Soviet times, and which then revived enormously in the spiritual vacuum after the ideological collapse of the USSR, with a fascination for ‘extrasenses’, that is, for occultists, magicians, wizards and gurus and their weird, exploitative sects for the naïve and disoriented, who felt lost after the Soviet fall. This paganism is clear in the utter confusion between the spiritual and inward, that is primary, and the material and outward, that is secondary.

This can be seen, for example, in the aggressive preference for secondary Church rituals and customs of dress over kindness and tolerance for one another, in a belief in magic, ‘miracles’, ‘prophecies’ and ‘elders’, rather than in the effort to overcome our sinful, fallen nature. Again, the outward and bodily prevail over the inward and spiritual. And the spiritual is what is required in order to acquire Divine grace. For these pagans, everything is automatic, as in magic – which the devil can indeed provide, if people do not exercise their own will and sell themselves to his occultist magicians and witches. In the real world, nothing comes automatically, including the grace of eucharistic communion. And acquiring grace, as St Seraphim of Sarov said, is the aim of our lives, needs effort – the meaning of the word ‘ascetic’.

This superficiality was also manifest in the Russian Emigration, where One Church split into three warring, spiteful and hateful sectarian groups, not because of any difference in doctrines and beliefs, but because of politics. Love one another, said Christ, but the main practice of each group appeared to be, Hate one another. Similarly, as is well-known, many Russian churches, run by careerists who are devoid of pastoral activity and interest, appear to have a bigoted and ignorant woman or two at their entrance, who enjoy shouting at visitors and insulting them because they have committed some ritual error or are not dressed according to the taste of the insulters. Poorly-trained priests or laity who make others cry through their insults appear to be the anti-pastoral norm in certain churches, especially at confession and during sermons.

In turn, superstition, the almost fanatical attachment to mere outward rites, grew into a love for schism. It is deeply significant that the main, State-enforced schism in Russian Church history is called ‘Old Ritualism’. There was never any difference in doctrine between the Old Ritualists and the majority, who may be called ‘New Ritualists’, all was about ritual differences, all about the arrangement of the fingers in making the sign of the cross. Superstition bred obscurantism, the spiritual disease of pharisaically and joyfully condemning and denouncing others, and the obsession with finding and identifying ‘heresies’ and ‘schisms’, words hatefully and lovingly bandied about in Russian as the ultimate insult. In the land of record numbers of abortions and divorce, all agree on the Creed, but as for someone who differs in ritual…

Here is the origin of the cult of holy water among some Russian Orthodox. Clearly, this relates back to Slavic paganism. Now there is a great need for holy water, to be baptised in it, to drink it and to sprinkle it, but the concept that a child will be magically protected from colds by it, or that you can virtually trample on other people in church in order to get some at the Feast of Theophany or at water-blessing services of intercession after the Liturgy, having ignored confession and communion, is not Christian. And the concept that the use of holy water will magically heal or transform everything is pagan. I remember being asked if I could bless a Russian brothel. I refused. Again, others have been asked to bless the palaces and limousines of Slav oligarchs, who obtained their money over the dead bodies of others. I would refuse.

It has often been said that if the Russian Revolution took place, it was because of the virtual clerical prohibition before it to take communion more than once a year, a practice long conserved by ROCOR, as I only too well remember. In other words, church practice had become a ritual of private services, memorials or intercessions, rather than the common act of taking communion and so becoming a community. The secondary and outward had taken over from the primary and inward. Most Russian town churches today appear to be railway stations, people coming and going, staying for a few minutes to light a candle, or coming only after communion for some private service they have ordered. There are in fact very few parishes in Russia, in the correct sense of communities. Indeed, they are almost unknown.

Imperialism

Like Rome and then Constantinople (the ‘Second Rome’), Russia became an Empire and so was in its turn called the ‘Third Rome’. In other words, all three of these important historical Christian centres were tainted by one and the same Imperialism. The worst case was Rome, which actually developed a systematic, theologically justified and institutionalised structure of centralised power, called Papism, which actually changed the Creed, in order to vindicate its desire to control the whole world. According to this, a mere human-being, the Pope of Rome is the Vicar (Replacement) of Christ, the Head of the Church, the Holy Spirit proceeds from Him, and he is therefore infallible. All this is logical, if you accept a human-being as the replacement for Christ. But that leads to humanist idolatry, as the God-man is replaced by a mere man.

However, if you think that this article is some anti-Roman Catholic polemic, you are mistaken. The Second and Third Romes have exactly the same Imperialism as the First Rome, even if they have not (yet) justified it theologically. Thus, there are virulent Greek nationalists who will tell you in all seriousness (!) that nobody can be Orthodox, if they are not in communion with their favourite Turkish citizen, their Greek ethnarch (‘the first without equals’, as some heretically call him), the Patriarch of Constantinople (by the way, that has not existed for 573 years, it is called Istanbul). However, there are Russian imperialists/nationalists who will tell you that anyone who does not commemorate the Russian ethnarch, the Patriarch of Moscow (his present title), in services is a schismatic. (That favourite Russian word again!)

The Greek case is very strange, since many Patriarchs of Constantinople were heretics, especially in the first ten centuries, until the fall of the City in 1453, though more recently too. So we have to be in communion with a heretic in order to be an Orthodox Christian?! What about being in communion with Christ? As for the equally strange Russian case, it is a result of superstition and in turn of nationalist ignorance. The average baptised Russian Orthodox has no idea that there are 16 Orthodox Churches and that only one of them, the Russian, commemorates its Patriarch or main bishop in the litanies in services. What about commemorating Christ? Does this mean then that the Russian Orthodox Church is the only true Church, as the Old Ritualists claim, and all others are schismatics? (That favourite Russian word again!)

Moreover, the Russian Church had itself to grant independence (autocephaly) to three of the 15 other Local Churches, the Polish, the Czechoslovak and the American – and therefore they do not commemorate the Russian Patriarch. And parts of the Russian Church outside the Russian Federation do not commemorate the Patriarch (as in France), or are not allowed to do so, by law, (as in the Ukraine and Latvia). Indeed, the Russian Patriarch is banned from even visiting such countries. The imperialist ignorance of many Russian Orthodox that there is a much older Orthodox world that exists outside Russia is astounding. Yes, diversity exists. The Church is like a bouquet of 16 flowers, all flowers, but all different. Accept the real Church, instead of living in a narrow nationalist ghetto, ignorant of history and reality.

Here we come to the essence of the ecclesial problem of both Greeks and Russians. Both have reduced the Church to a Greek or Russian Imperialist/Nationalist Church, they have put Caesar above Christ. This explains in the Russian case the aggressiveness, ignorance and even hatred towards Non-Russians, as displayed by Russians who were adults before the Revolution (I knew plenty of them), let alone by those after the process of Sovietisation. That Imperialisation of the local mentality has led to aggressive militarism, as can be seen in the recently-built Military Cathedral near Moscow, as can be seen in the behaviour of preachers such as Fr Andrey Tkachov, who appear to think, like other anti-pastors, Russian bishops and priests, that insulting Orthodox people is normal. How many women did you make cry today?

Some Russians were hated even before the Revolution, most notably in Poland, the Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltics, wherever people had been oppressed by centralised Russian nationalism and militarism. Nothing that happened after 1917 did anything to change that – indeed, Sovietisation made it all much worse. ‘We have the right to do anything we want, and local people must use our language in order to live’, they said, talking exactly like brash American Imperialists from ROCOR. Here is why the Estonian Kaja Kallas, the Pole Donald Tusk, the Moldovan Maya Sandu, the Ukrainian Yuliya Timoshenko and many a Georgian, came to hate Russians. And they found plenty of hypocritical and equally Imperialist Westerners, very jealous of Russia and greedy to steal its resources, to fund them for purely selfish reasons.

Towards the Restoration of Orthodoxy in the East Slav Lands

As the end of the Ukrainian tragedy and the Ukraine in its Soviet form draws near and it is carved up between the different countries, from which parts of it were taken, what is the future for the ‘Moscow Patriarchate’? For this is still the Soviet-invented name for the Russian Orthodox Church. Clearly, both names are incorrect in the sense that a Patriarchate in Moscow and a Russian Orthodox Church can only be relevant to the territory of the Russian Federation. Therefore, it has to stop imperialistically clinging on to territories outside the Russian Federation. Let the Baltics, Moldova, Belarus and the future Ukraine, whatever its actual national borders and future name (Kievska Rus?) will be, have their independence, just as the Orthodox in Georgia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and America had theirs generations before them.

Many Russians, and not only Russians, speak of Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine as a trinity. Indeed, they are, as all are East Slav nations, all speak similar, if not the same, languages, all are Orthodox by culture and history, all are closely related, with intermarriage normal. Now, the Holy Trinity is the model of Unity in Diversity, three Separate Persons in One ‘Undivided and Consubstantial Trinity’ in Church language. Is it not time for the three peoples and countries to have their own independent Churches, a trinity of Churches of Unity in Diversity, as is our model? Let each of them co-exist as friends, not as enemies, loving one another and intermarrying with one another, and not hating and warring against one another. Then we will see that they are really, and not merely nominally, Orthodox Christians.

For the moment, our hope is that all will start referring to the common spiritual heritage of the Russian Orthodox Church, that is, to the saints of all, perhaps especially to the New Martyrs and Confessors. The problem is that at present many only pay lip-service to the latter. The lives of the tens of thousands of those canonised so far are virtually unknown. Significantly, the baptised Orthodox masses still often prefer Stalin to his victims. The reason for this is that in their heads they belong to the Russian Nationalist and Imperialist Church, not to the Russian Orthodox Church. And this concerns not only many people, but also many clergy. The sad fact is that there has not yet been repentance for the past. And that is why they are still killing one another, idolising Lenin and Stalin, and massively aborting, divorcing and swearing.

Afterword: The King is Coming

Those who find this story sad or are scandalised by these truths should take consolation, recalling that the 16 Local Orthodox Churches number nearly 200 million. We, the masses of honest clergy and people, have suffered from or been misled by just a few thousand, who have like bandits seized and cling onto power and riches and war. Now when, as the proverb says, the fish rots from the head, then the head will be replaced by those rejected and placed at the bottom. Those despised, neglected, abandoned and hated at the bottom will replace the head. For when the King comes, and He is coming, the ‘princes of the Church’ will be swept away like so much chaff. This is not our doing, it is the doing of the Lord and it is marvellous in our eyes, for the stone that the builders rejected will become the head of the corner.

In the words of the Tsar’s Archbishop, St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, on the 950th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus:

The reality of Holy Rus is not a delusion or a phantom, but true. The prayer of the saints does not cease to rise up to heaven, those who shone forth in the Russian Lands pray for them now at the throne of God. But not only in heaven, but also here, on our sinful earth Holy Rus continues to exist. The power of those who fight against God has enslaved, but not destroyed Her. The Council of the ungodly who have dominion over the Russian people is alien to them, for it has nothing in common with the essence of Russia.

St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, on the 950th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus

 

 

Robert the Devil, the Dismemberment of the US Empire, the Dismantlement of the US Vassal States, and the Dewesternisation of the West, of Russia and of the Church

Foreword: Robert the Devil, the Grandfather of the Anglosphere: 1066-2026

Every year I go past the ruins of the castle of Robert the Devil (Robert le Diable), just outside Rouen in Normandy, France. This Robert is the main character in a medieval legend about a wicked man who was the offspring of Satan and a woman. Most historians identify this mythical figure with a real, evil man – Robert I of Normandy (1000-1035), the father of William the Bastard by his mistress, who was a tanner’s daughter. William (1028-1087) was the Norman mass murderer, who invaded England with some 750 Viking ships in 1066 and has ever since been known as ‘The Conqueror’. It was he who in 1067 transferred his Zionist financial backers from Rouen to his new capital of London, thus founding the City of London. He went on with his barbaric warriors to plunder England (his record is called the Domesday Book – the Book of the Day of Judgement), genociding England and greedily eyeing Wales, Scotland and Ireland for the future.

The 1066 Invasion was not an isolated or disconnected incident. It was only part of the whole process of imposing the new racist ideology of plunder, justified by the Divine superiority of ‘Europe’ or the ’West’, and implemented after the Germanic takeover of the Roman Papacy. There are many dates in this takeover, stretching between 1000 and 1100, marking events which would have been unthinkable in 1000, but which had become normal by 1100. These include the murderous heresy-hunting in the 1020s in France, military campaigns in Spain and Italy from the 1030s, which saw the Popes blessing massacres by their mainly Norman mercenaries, the cutting off of the West from the Church in 1054, the ‘Papal Dictation’ of Hildebrand in 1075, claiming that the Popes are infallible, and the First Crusade in 1095-1096, with its massacres of Jews in the Rhineland and of Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land, where both had been living in peace for centuries.

Like the rest of the European elite, the Bastard’s Viking-descended Norman aristocrats, who plundered England and then formed the ‘British’ ruling class together with English traitors, later took part in the looting of the Capital of the Christian Empire, New Rome, in 1204, and then attacked Russia in more ‘crusades’. That looting was to lead to the permanent occupation of New Rome by the Ottomans in 1453. In the nineteenth century, the Norman-founded British (the word ‘British’ marked the revival of pagan Roman Imperialism) Establishment sided with the Ottomans again. This was its full-scale, unprovoked invasion of Russia, known as the Crimean War, which left half a million dead. Later it supported the Muslim ethnic cleansing of Christian Bulgaria. Although, ironically, William the Bastard spoke no English, his father had founded the Anglosphere, whose centre was to go from Venice and Amsterdam to London in 1688 and then from London to Washington in 1941.

Meanwhile, in the Ukraine: 2014-2026

In 2014 the democratically-elected government of the Ukraine in Kiev was toppled by a violent US-organised and EU-backed coup using snipers, which cost the US $5 billion, according to the Europe-hating Nuland. The new regime, composed largely of extremist Neo-Nazis from the far west of the Ukraine, set about genociding the Ukrainians who did not agree with their Fascist ideology, especially in southern and eastern Ukraine, parts of Russia transferred to the Ukraine in 1922 by the sadistic Western-backed monster Lenin. After the peaceful and spontaneous self-transfer of Crimea (95% Russian) which joined Russia, few in the south and east of the Ukraine, terrified and intimidated, accepted their lot. Some rose up and formed peoples’ militias for armed resistance. And over three million fled Kiev’s genocide and oppression to live in freedom in Russia. To the frustration of the genocided Ukrainians, the weak Russian government did nothing, except engage in diplomatic talks.

The resulting diplomatic agreements, called the Minsk Accords, were never implemented by the Western Powers and its proxy in Kiev. Finally, at the end of 2021, huge Kiev forces, NATO-trained, equipped and financed, massed in the east of the Ukraine despite the Minsk Accords and stepped up their genocide. At this, Russia gathered a force of about 120,000 troops to protect the Ukrainians in the far east of the country and also to threaten Kiev from the north in order to pressure the regime into serious negotiations. After only one day, on 25 February 2022, Kiev agreed to talks in Minsk and Istanbul, after eight years of refusing them. However, at the start of April 2022, the regime reneged on its peace agreement under pressure from the Collective West – the US, the EU and the UK, through their emissary Johnson. Unexpectedly the Russians found themselves in a very weak situation. Their forces were too small to liberate even the east of the Ukraine.

Indeed, its main force was composed of the Wagner Group, a private army of mercenaries and ex-convicts, led by a corrupt, power-seeking oligarch, Prigozhin, and local militias. The small Russian Army itself was weakened by corruption and disorganisation. And the lawyer-led Russian political leadership, always acting according to international law, unlike Kiev, did not know what to do. The Russian chaos of the start resembled the same chaos there at the start of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in June 1941. Moreover, they naively realised that the conflict was not between Russia and the Ukraine, which was a mere proxy, but between Russia and the Collective West, represented by the Nazi-founded NATO. This wanted every last Ukrainian to die for it. The Russians of February 2022 had not at all been prepared for this. And so today the Western-created conflict in the Ukraine is in its fifth year and has left about 2,000,000 dead and wounded soldiers, the vast majority of them Ukrainians, outmatched by the very cautious Russian forces, who have lost about 120,000.

Defeat and Dismemberment: 2026 –

Despite military escalation, caused by hubris, that is, the arrogant overestimation of self and underestimation of rivals, the US Empire, formed in 1941, has now lost free access to the grain corridor of the blockaded Black Sea ports, which has become a Russian Lake. Elsewhere, and for exactly the same reasons in another conflict that it needlessly started, the US is losing free access to the oil corridors of the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. Through further hubris, it may yet lose free access to the Baltic Sea. The US thought it could defeat Iran in a weekend and so repeated Hitler’s hubris of 1941, when he thought he could defeat the USSR in two months. US forces have already been forced to flee West Asia, where Iran has destroyed US bases as far as the Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. The US will probably have to flee these and all the feudal puppet Gulf States, as Iranian missiles can reach them, and then quit its Crusader fortress, Zionist-occupied Palestine, where the people are in revolt.

The US also intends to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany. Will this lead to the US abandoning all its European vassals, its NATO and EU puppets, especially the minute Baltic States, occupied and held like an unloaded gun to the head of Russia? Withdrawal from Europe, from Italy, Britain and the rest of Germany? All is possible – the US is bankrupt to the tune of $40 trillion and has few arms left. What will happen to its Asian vassals, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines, where many also want an end to the US occupation? As for Latin America, with Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Nicaragua and Cuba, the US is hated by all there, except by the rich oligarchs and their puppets, corrupt politicians and journalists. The US is going to be left to concentrate on itself. Here, dealing with its bankruptcy and the collapse of its infrastructure, its hopeless public school and health systems, mass poverty, drug-addiction and much else, will keep it busy for decades.

The US-led West has behaved like a bully, whose victims have at last been technologically, militarily and economically strong enough to band together in solidarity because of the bully. Western aggressiveness has achieved the once unthinkable. It has allied the vastly diverse and once divided Russia, Iran and China (RIC), which have weapons far in advance of those of the now backward US. And it has also won them the sympathy of 90% of the oppressed, Non-Western world. After all, this is the third invasion by the Collective West of Non-Western Russia in just over 200 years, Napoleon’s, Hitler’s and NATO’s. Those invasions, although always led by one country, France, Germany or the US, were all multinational and all ended in the same way, catastrophically. This is a racist and imperialist war, for the West was trying to extend the border of its blocked ‘Europe’ to the whole Ukraine and so cut off the ‘racially inferior Asiatics’ in Moscow. 85% of the Ukraine is not Europe’s, but Russia’s.

Dismantlement and Freedom: 2026 –

As for that western end of the North-West peninsula of Asia, called Western Europe, two straitjacket organisations, both centred in Brussels, positioned between the Germanic north and the Latin south, are being dismantled. Both are ruled by nuncios, trained by the successor to the Papacy in Washington. The US-led NATO and the EU, that have held Western Europe together for over 75 years, are splintering. Their European administrative elite is irrationally destroying its own countries, cutting off its nose to spite its face, blowing up Nordstream and even refusing to use Russian aircraft to stop forest fires. The largely Orthodox south-east of Western Europe has had to be repressed by undemocratically-elected Germanic EU leaders, just as it was by the German princelings who were appointed to rule Romania, Greece and Bulgaria in the nineteenth century. All want to leave the EU straitjacket and NATO aggression. This is also visible in Catholic Poland, Hungary and Slovakia – see below.

For many in the ex-Catholic south of Western Europe too, in Frexit France, pro-Russian Italy, anti-Israeli Spain and little Portugal, never at ease with the US-imposed and desacralising Protestantisation of Catholicism in the 1960s, want out. Their peoples want their sovereignty back. This leaves only the largely Germanic and highly Americanised north-west of Western Europe. But even here there are voices, especially on the left, that dissent from US imperialism in Gaza, on the West Bank, in the Lebanon, Iran and the Ukraine. And on the right, many also want their countries back. Sovereignist Parties are taking over, whether they are the AfD in Germany, the National Rally in France, or Reform in the UK. Once the parasitic, US-trained and appointed elites of Europe, from London through Scandinavia and Germany to the Baltics, who only ever implement ‘Daddy’s’ policies, are gone, with or without their pay, the people could take over. Goodbye, EU and NATO.

The future is at stake. How new politicians of left and right can co-operate, and they will have to, in Western Europe, remains to be seen. In any case, it seems clear that the old Globalist/Zionist/American ‘centrist’ elite, which bet everything like a crazed gambler on the Zionist US, Ukraine and Israel, is doomed, rejected by left and right alike. It is doomed not only because of the popular opposition to it and its attempts to repress that opposition, but because it has bankrupted its countries. They cannot even afford the elite’s proposed absurd remilitarisation, which the people neither want nor need. New governments will emerge, faced with facing up to the horrific imperialist past of Western Europe. They will be forced to make peace with the first, third and fourth largest economies of the world, those of China, India and Russia, and with their ex-colonies. China for manufactures, India for labour, Russia for energy, and ex-colonies for justice. Here is the future.

Afterword: The Fall of the West, a Dewesternised Russia and a Dewesternised Church

With the defeat in 2026 of the US by technologically advanced Iran and the coming collapse of the US-imposed Kiev regime in the Ukraine and the advance of Russia to the western Ukraine, the delusional dreams of the West are over. Already many even very secular people are talking about ‘The Post-West’, what happens now that 500 years of supremacy based on a mythical racist ideology backed only by a now lost military superiority, are over. In fact, as we said at the beginning of this article, it has been going on not for 500 years, but for 1,000 years, headed by Robert the Devil. The criminal dreams of such as Kaja Kallas to destroy and then fragment Russia, plundering its vast natural resources, are over. The virtual reality of a Crimea occupied by the UK, as in 1854-56, a Belarus and Western Ukraine occupied by Poland as in 1920, a southern Ukraine, Baltic and White Sea, and eastern Siberia occupied by Italians, British, Americans, French, has remained virtual.

It means that Russia can at last free itself from the Western ideology of Communism, imported from German Jewry, and from the Western ideology of the Imperial period that began with Peter I, just over 300 years ago. This meant enslaving the Church under a Protestant Oberprokuror bureaucrat and Anglophile sadistic aristocrats enslaving in blind imitation peasants (as in the Enclosures and Highland Clearances in England and Scotland), as portrayed by Pushkin, Gogol, Saltykov-Shchedrin and many other 19th century Russian writers. A Russian Church would surely decentralise, at long last liberated, as it would begin behaving as a pastoral, and not as a political, arrangement. Its politics, whether under the Soviet, post-Soviet or Imperial periods are a 300-year hangover from Westernisation. The Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople has to do the same, ridding itself of its Westernisation, now evident in the fact that its administration is little more than a CIA front.

Although a dying, totally Amercanised and very right-wing sect of the Russian Church in the USA is now desperately clutching on to totalitarian censorship through dictatorial methods, imitating the autocratic Trump, the rest of the Russian Church is freeing itself. Dictatorship will be resisted in the Church in Western countries. Decentralisation after 300 years of Western centralisation means the return of both the Russian Church and of the Greek Patriarchate to Conciliarity. That is, to Catholicity in the Orthodox sense of the world, to the practices of a Church based on Councils, concelebration and the consultation between clergy and people working together in freedom. This Conciliarity is what in the secular world lies behind the developing economic Alliance of BRICS. However, its origin, however forgotten by decadent Westernised bishops, is in the Church. And there are plenty of real Orthodox bishops in the 16 Local Churches who have not forgotten the meaning of Conciliarity.

 

 

 

On the Present Decadence, the Post-West and the Pre-West

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the more insane its laws.

Cicero, c. 44 BC, assassinated soon after

A fish rots from the head.

International Proverb

Decadence is a period when all collective and individual excesses (= national and personal sins) are not only legally permitted, but also encouraged. This is because all spiritual and therefore moral values (since morality comes from spirituality) have been lost in those societies. Thus, collectively, Western nations, like the Vikings of old, make wars on behalf of Satan against other countries in order to steal their resources, murder or kidnap their leaders, hide behind proxies who foolishly die for them, engage in piracy and genocide, and despise international law. Individually, hundreds of millions of souls resort to drugs, alcohol and depravity, entailing epidemics of death, disease, abortion, divorce and broken homes, which create unbalanced and rootless adults.

A US President as foul-mouthed as any vulgar trooper and bullying as any mafia gangster, Fascist (‘liberal’) European politicians who despise their own and other peoples and more or less openly engage in sexual perversions and cocaine-consumption, laws which allow the State to murder young people (abortion) and old people (euthanasia), laws which allow men to become women and women to become men, adults to be infantile, psychic illnesses considered normal and, above all, terrible pestilences (covid) and wars (as prophesied in Matt. 24, 6-13 and Lk. 21, 11) take place. These wars are all about the lust for power of a ‘civilisation’, which is based on the plundering of other countries by organised violence, and therefore make war against peace.

That millennium of organised violence, which culminated in worldwide wars in the last century, murdering a hundred million Non-Western ‘subhumans’, half of them Russian and Chinese, is very nearly over at last. Today we are witnessing the dying flailings of the cornered beast, which is in fact World War III. Its politician puppets and media hirelings, who every day spout lies which would shame Goebbels, still glorify the Western past, which was founded on violence and loot, and praise its imaginary Global (Zionist) future: ‘The West is Best’. They do so only because they are paid to, as they have no truth, conscience, integrity, right and wrong (morality). They live for power, worldly glory (fame), riches, lust and war. ‘Every man has his price’, they say.

We saw this in the lock-ups (‘lockdowns’) of Western populations which accompanied the accidental (?) release of the covid virus. After that we saw this in the restrictions, censorship, illegal imprisonments and debanking of dissidents, and ‘cancelling’ of Russia, promulgated among Western populations, after the US-installed and financed Kiev regime began persecuting and genociding Russian-speaking Ukrainians. The only reason for all this was for the millennial elites of the Western European legacy States to cling on to power. By creating fantasy bogeymen, pestilence and a ‘war’ by a country allegedly intent on marching from Moscow to London, the elite paid by arms merchants proclaim to their brainwashed plebs that they do not need peace.

And because the Church is in the world, some individuals of the elite in the Church are infected and stained by all this. They are outwardly in the Church, but in fact they are ravening wolves in shepherd’s clothing, fallen into the same worldly passions as their masters who infiltrated them. They are not of the Church and the Church spits them out like fishbones that have been stuck in our throats for years and which we have been choking on. Meanwhile, the real Church goes on, seeking everything that is not of this world, spiritual power, the glory of God, the riches of the spirit, the love of God and peace. The rest has no interest. We look for the restoration of Holiness, the Nation, the Family, the Person and Peace. This will come after the collapse of it all.

This collapse is the collapse of the West. Russia is already becoming the ‘post-Western West’, by which we refer to the ‘West’ that was invented in the eleventh century, imported into Russia over 300 years ago, and now dying out. Even some in the West are following Russia and also becoming ‘post-Western’. Thus, the war in the Ukraine is between Europeans who follow the Tradition and ‘Ukrainians’, in fact Galicians, who share in the Fascist ideology of the 1022-2022 West, promoted by the elite of Western Europe, recently – Napoleon, Hitler, Churchill, Thatcher, Starmer, Sarkozy, Macron, Merkel, Merz. This is Fascism because it oppresses all who reject the cult of the West. It also rejects us, because we are ‘Pre-Westerners’, that is, we put Christ above all.

The thousand years of the West after ‘the Age of the Saints’ of the first ‘Pre-Western’ millennium were a technological ascent, but a spiritual descent, and have now reached an end-point. Although the elite, ever greedy for power, fame, money, lust and war, justifies its continuation, some people can see its end, especially the young. Having seen the consequences of war, drugs, alcohol, depravity, abortion, divorce and broken homes, they are starting to return to the Church, to the ‘Pre-West’. This is not the Church of the elite of ravening wolves in shepherd’s clothing, it is the Church that seeks spiritual power, the glory of God, the riches of the spirit, the love of God and peace, the restoration of Holiness, the Nation, the Family, the Person and Peace.

 

A Destiny

Foreword

Come from the country, from a very small town in North Essex, I have been asked why I am where I am today: a mitred archpriest of the Russian Church and rector of one of the largest Orthodox churches in England, which is in my native city. I have been persecuted and slandered by cruel and evil men for telling the truth, and sent by Divine Providence to the Moldovan part of the most hospitable and friendly Romanian Church, whose Moldovan Archbishop is the kindest bishop I have ever met. As one of our many Russian parishioners, who has known me for over sixteen years wrote to me just now: ‘You have gone from thorns to the stars’. However, the answer to the question why I am here is in four revelations that came to me long ago.

Revelation One: Childhood

In childhood I was influenced of course by my parents, my two elder brothers, grandparents, relatives, friends, schoolteachers and fellow pupils. The third child of a third child father and a third child mother, a great many of my relatives were Victorians from the century before last. From them and from all the local people, especially from the older ones, I obtained a keen historical sense. In childhood three people influenced me especially, an aunt and two elderly people, who were unofficially called saints by others. Although they were all Christians, they would not have called themselves Protestants or Catholics. They had been illuminated from on high. There were five other local people who influenced me in particular in early childhood, who were officially called saints by others. These were: Sts Albright (794), Cedd (664), Osyth (c. 700), Edmund (869) and Audrey (679), who had all lived in England’s golden age of holiness, within 250 years of one another.

I asked myself why there had not been any saints in England for nearly a millennium? Why had the Holy Spirit, whose fruit is the saints, dried up? What had gone wrong in the history of England? Why did the Establishment version of English history begin with the catastrophic defeat of England by Papally-blessed Norman Viking thugs in 1066, when I knew about King Alfred the Great, who loved other peoples and had converted the English Vikings to Christ nearly 200 years before? Why did the Norman-founded Establishment insist on calling the English ‘Anglo-Saxons’, when they never called themselves that? Why did the English write afterwards that the Norman massacres were so terrible that it seemed as though ‘Christ and His saints slept’? And how was Old England overlaid and concealed by a disreputable Britain and then British Empire? Here were questions to which I sought to find answers in many places and from many people.

Revelation Two: The Wars

Born in the middle of the last century, I grew up with my grandfather, who told me about his First European War in Baghdad, Jerusalem and Thessaloniki. And I grew up with my father, who told me stories of his Second European War in Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Italy, Austria and elsewhere. Snatched from a quiet and peaceful country home for military service and sent abroad, he saw what the British Empire actually was. He had had no idea what it was and had only been told something about a civilising mission. Instead, he found in Egypt, Sierra Leone and South Africa a thieving, corrupt and racist crime regime, which exploited the native peoples. Yes, the British drank tea from China in ‘china’ cups, but it had been paid for with African slaves and Indian opium and millions of lives had ruthlessly been destroyed. That was the Empire. My father also explained to me that the then British Prime Ministers are only puppets of the Zionist Empire – as they still are, all come from the same factory.

Revelations Three and Four: Christ and Russia

At the end of childhood, when I was twelve years old, I received a double revelation, when I saw my future. This came to me when I saw a film which opened with a scene of spiritual immediacy. This was a scene with a Russian priest conducting a funeral. After this, I simultaneously read the Gospels and began to teach myself Russian. All had become clear to me, except for the details.

Afterword

Aged twelve, I knew God’s will for me, my destiny, though I did not know when and how, who and what. The rest has only been putting two and two together. Fundamentally, nothing has changed. Today I am still waiting for the Russian Church to find its freedom. It has wonderful saints and martyrs, but its pastors have been suppressed by politicians and I am unlikely to see it free in my lifetime. 300 years have passed, but it is still subject to the rule of Caesar, to Imperialists, to Soviets, to the CIA, to the evil anti-missionary careerists, and to all the rest who oppose Christ. The greatest saint and missionary of the Russian emigration, St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, was essentially martyred by the ecclesiastical politicians of the USA.

 

Those who would like to know more can obtain the book Paradise Just Beyond: Fragments of an Autobiography, 1956-2026, 168 pages, A5, spiral-bound. This will be available in August from frandrew_anglorus@yahoo.co.uk for £5 or $10 from overseas, payable by Paypal.

 

 

108 Years of Treason and Cowardice and Deceit

The Romanov throne was destroyed not by young bomb-throwers or forerunners of the Soviets, but by the bearers of aristocratic surnames and court titles, bankers, publishers, lawyers, professors and other public figures.

Chapter 16 of the Memoirs of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich

Foreword

We are now in the fifth year of the disastrous and tragic war between Russia and the Ukraine. Between one and two million soldiers are dead. Of one thing we can be certain, this war would never have happened, indeed it would have been unthinkable, in the time of Tsar Nicholas II, because he represented not petty and hateful nationalist division, but multinational peace and unity.

In the meantime, pray for Amvrosy and Vladislav, young men in their twenties, dragged off the streets of Kiev by violent and overpaid thugs of the regime two weeks ago and now forced to the Front after two days’ training. They do not want to die needlessly. They do not want to fill the pockets of Ukrainian officials, warmongering Western politicians and arms-dealers with billions of dollars. Their only hope is surrender to the vastly superior Russian forces. Their mothers of these two young men, who live near my house in Kiev, are frenetic. But at least D. is safe in Portugal, and so is his brother in Norway. They got out in time over the mountains. Lord have mercy! Let us now return to our subject.

Slandered by Propaganda

Nicholas II is one of the most slandered people in history. He most certainly was not weak, indecisive, incompetent, stupid, or dominated by others, as atheist Western and Soviet propaganda portray. Every attempt to slander him with lies has been overturned. Thus, the tragic stampede after his Coronation, leaving 1,389 dead resulted from aristocratic incompetence, compared to the 2015 stampede in Saudi Arabia which left at least 2,400 dead; the unprovoked attack on Russia by Japan was plotted by the Western Powers and turned into a costly Russian victory, with Japan bankrupted by costly Western arms.

As for the 100 and more who died from the crowd of 3,000 in 1905, that was nothing to do with the Tsar – he was not even in Saint Petersburg when Marxists hid behind stolen church banners and icons ‘in a peaceful demonstration’ and opened fire on troops, who returned fire; the terrorist revolts of 1905 and their 9,000 victims were the result of guns smuggled into Russia for atheist revolutionaries paid to destroy Russia. As for World War I, this was the fault of Berlin, which supported the Austro-Hungarian attempt to genocide the South Slav peoples, and had been planning a War for years.

Socio-Economic Success

Even before he was crowned, Nicholas had worked for the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the remarkable opening up and settling of largely empty Siberia. Nicholas II reigned over an accelerating Industrial Revolution that led to a nearly 50% rise in the ever more prosperous Imperial population. This was accompanied by eleven reforms, including the huge agrarian reform, the reform which led to the massive growth of free education and literacy, which had reached 56% by 1916, and the introduction of a free health service in 1898, 50 years before the UK, and a social security and justice system.

The Tsar was a radical moderniser, who reigned over the electrification of his Empire, with the development of hydroelectricity, submarines, rocketry, radio, the first helicopter designs, monoplanes and bomber aircraft. Under the Tsar life expectancy reached 68. By 1913 he had brought Russian Imperial agriculture to be Europe’s breadbasket and its economy to be the world’s fourth largest, which is what it is again only today. By all accounts, by 1950, when the Tsar would have been 82 years old, the Russian economy would have overtaken that of every other nation, including that of the USA.

Foreign Policy

In foreign policy Nicholas II was the only world leader who promoted international peace, founding the Hague Peace Conference in 1899 and, though mocked, was called ‘the apostle of peace’. This was the beginning of many international treaties and the regulation of war. He had an excellent double education in law and military affairs, knew European history very well and spoke five European languages fluently. He also defended nations as diverse as Thailand, Ethiopia, Morocco, Persia, Tibet, Afghanistan, Hawaii and the Boers from aggressive Western colonisation and asset-stripping.

The Tsar also tried to find peace in the warring Balkans, with their divisive German puppet-kings, through establishing a Balkan Union. His diplomacy had long been successful in avoided the international conflict that the warmongering Western nations wanted to start in powderkeg Europe with its rival imperialisms in 1912 and 1913. His policy here was to balance each nation against the other. That he finally failed in this was not his fault. Tragically, it was not possible to stop the European attempt at suicide, when Europe absolutely wanted to commit suicide.

Projected Spiritual Reform

The Tsar wanted to debureaucratise the Church administration, which had opposed the canonisation of St Seraphim of Sarov, and to restore the Patriarchate. He failed, as he was opposed by the petty ambitions, jealousies, rivalries and quarrels of the State-loving episcopate. He had little time for the empty ritualism of a Church, where if anyone who took communion more than once a year would be eyed as a fanatic. He defended the pious name-glorifiers of Mt Athos, who were hated by loveless episcopal bureaucrats, who were backed by the largely atheist aristocrats. Both groups betrayed him in 1917.

He saw eighty-one saints canonised in twenty years against only five canonised in the previous 175 years. By 1917 there were 1,256 monasteries, against only 631 in 1890, 117 million Orthodox, with 163 bishops, over 115,000 priests and deacons and 78,767 churches – against only 39,700 in 1890. Tsar Nicholas made generous personal gifts to all the Local Churches which he wanted to free from ethnic narrowness. By 1898 there were 22,000 Orthodox in Japan, Orthodox missions in Korea and China, and seventeen churches had been built in major Western cities, including in Nice and New York.

A Military Genius

Nicholas II, a military man by training, was forced to become commander-in-chief of the Russian forces in August 1915, replacing his utterly incompetent and foul-mouthed overgrown cousin. That was the treasonous Grand Duke Nicholas, a snobbish, atheistic and anti-Semitic aristocrat, who treated his despised troops as cannon fodder, just like the Allied generals on the Western Front. His incompetence had led to the shell shortage and the retreat from the Carpathians in early 1915. Having taken 2 million Austro-Hungarian prisoners, by 1916 Tsar Nicholas had won the greatest Allied victory of the War.

If only his timid General Brusilov had had the courage to follow through on the Tsar’s carefully planned breakthrough in 1916, Austria-Hungary could have been knocked out of the war. Russian troops would have liberated both Vienna and Berlin by 1917. Unlike Napoleon who reached Moscow and later Hitler who almost did, the enemy in World War One did not reach Russia. They only occupied eastern Poland, Lithuania and what is now Catholic western Ukraine and western Belarus, where satanic anti-Jewish pogroms had taken place – none took place in Russia, though huge ones took place in Berlin and Vienna.

His armies suffered only some 50% of the casualties of the Allies on the immobile Western Front. This was despite the fact that his troops faced the vast majority of the German Army on a highly mobile Front that was half as long again as the Western, as well as facing the Austro-Hungarians and the Ottomans. Nicholas II failed on the very verge of victory in early 1917, as Churchill recorded. However, he failed only because of the ‘treason and cowardice and deceit’, as the Tsar described it, of decadent and Russophobic aristocrats, corrupt generals and bureaucrat-bishops, supported by the ‘Allies’.

Afterword

When Tsar Nicholas and his family were murdered 108 years ago on 17 July 1918, the order for it had gone out from financiers in New York. The victim of ‘treason and cowardice and deceit’, the world is still suffering from his murder. Without his overthrow, there would not have been a World War Two, let alone today’s tragedy. Without that, we would be living in a far different world.

Of this St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, who proposed his canonisation in the mid-1930s, wrote: ‘That blackest crime, which was committed against the Tsar, must be effaced by fervent veneration for him, glorifying his feat. The Russian Lands must kneel down before the humiliated, the slandered and the martyred….Then the Passion-Bearing Tsar will be granted great boldness before God and his prayer will save the Russian Lands from the disasters borne by them….Innocently shed blood will regenerate Russia….A restored Russia is needed by the world, which has lost the spirit of life and trembles with fear, as before an earthquake’.

17 July 2026

 

 

 

 

The Post-Western World and the Post-Fascist Western World

After the sacrificial victory of the peoples of the USSR over Nazism which murdered 27 million of them, and the ever more obvious and humiliating capitulations of the West after 1945, in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now in West Africa, Iran and the Ukraine, we began entering the post-Western world. This is a world that is no longer controlled by the Western elites. Even their technology and infrastructure have fallen behind those of China, Russia and Iran, as the Western economy has been overtaken by the economies of India, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkiye and Mexico. These countries, and others, are banding together in the BRICS concert of sovereign, but co-operating nations.

This means that we have entered a multipolar world, in which the USA and its vassal-states in the Western half of Europe and Australasia have put the countries they control at serious risk of being permanently left behind. This is the result of their quite unwarranted, racist superiority ideology. In short, we are returning to the Pre-Western world, to the world of a millennium ago, as it was before the rise of the Western elite, who little by little came to control and manipulate first the Western peoples, and then most other peoples, through their Fascist rule, from which so many millions died. Enough is enough. We are now gradually moving towards the Post-Fascist Western world.

And this means moving back to the Pre-Fascist West. In other words, the circle is being closed. The Pre-Fascist West is the West of a millennium ago, before the Western peoples were herded into submission and propagandised by barbarian and pagan elites, who behaved as mafia gangsters with their castles, camps and knights. The phases of their Fascist control techniques of divide and rule and bread and circuses have gone from Feudalism to Imperialism, from Capitalism to Marxism, from Nazism to Globalism. These proclaim that: ‘We are superior to you all and therefore we have the right to massacre you and exploit you and you must bow down before us and capitulate to us’.

We can see this quite clearly in the case of Russia. The West, which was superior to it only in its military technology, told Russians at the end of the seventeenth century that, as Slavs, they were fit only to be ‘slaves’. They were an inferior, backward, primitive, militaristic, aggressive, cruel, violent, devious, untrustworthy mass of evil, stupid, drunken savages, so servile that they welcomed oppression and tyranny. In fact, that was an exact description of the savage West. These stereotypes were those of universal Western racism – the same stereotypes were used for Blacks, Reds, Browns and Yellows, Africans, Native Americans, Hindus, Chinese, and all who are not of the Western elite.

Although today the Russian Federation has by PPE for some time been the world’s fourth largest economy and the largest economy in Europe, it was in the late seventeenth century that Russia began losing its roots and patriotic identity and accepted the Western nonsense. The inferiority complex had begun. First, it copied Western Feudalism and then its Imperialism. Its Westernised rulers, Peter I and then the German Catherine II, enforced Western Feudalism, serfdom and conquest, which its Westernised elite so much admired, as it benefited them. In the nineteenth century, the same elite adopted the next phase of the Western ideology of exploitation, Capitalism.

Peasants and workers alike were ruthlessly exploited by the ultra-rich elite. Despite the bold attempts to regulate the excesses of Capitalism by the Tsars and to work for social justice, the decadent Westernised aristocracy, who ruled the country unjustly provoked the adoption in 1917 of another Western ideology, Marxism. Although this ideology killed off the uniquely Western elitist ideology of Nazism after it had invaded Russia, that success came only by starting the long return of Russia to its roots and patriotic identity. Marxism failed to provide what it had promised, bankrupted Russia and fell. Thus, Russia was tempted by the final phase of Western Fascist ideology, called Globalism.

After over thirty-five years of Globalism, which brought Western oligarchy, tyranny, corruption and narcissism into Russia, it too has been rejected as anti-patriotic, as proved by its treacherous role in the conflict against the Globalist Nazi NATO in its proxy war in the rootless Ukraine. Although the remnants of Globalism survive in the tyranny and corruption of pro-Stalinist Russian oligarchs, still stuck in the Soviet past, not least the bandits who seized power in the still unSovietised Church elite, a deWesternised future is clear. And that means the full return to the Pre-Westernised Russia, so admired and desired by Tsar Nicholas II, who in 1917 was overthrown precisely for that by the West.

The Pre-Westernised Russia means a Russia which has Sovereignty and therefore secure borders, because Sovereignty, not vassaldom, is the precondition for economic prosperity. This means that the country is ruled by a government which has stability and continuity, as it has the best interests of the people at heart. This allows free enterprise, but not the law of the jungle with its huge gulf between rich and poor of the Western Globalist parasitic oligarchic system. This means social justice, but also opportunities for all. Such a government and people have their roots and identity in traditional spiritual and moral values, which provide social, family and personal stability.

The New World Order

The Past

The whole contemporary world has been shaped for the last millennium by the imperialism and technology of ‘the West’, also called ‘the Western world’. Although this began as a narrow racial and geographical European unit, founded by the Franks and ruled by Karl the Tall (in French called Charlemagne), it became an ideological construct – from local it went global. Thus, today we can find ‘Frankish Westerners’ of all races, in Japan, Australia, Argentina, and all over the world. Conversely, we can also find many who oppose the ‘West’ as an ideology, in the West itself and all over the world.

The Western Millennium: 992-1492-1992

‘The West’ in the ideological sense was born over a millennium ago. It began with 500 years of overland territorial expansion from the Frankish centre, from where is now the Franco-German border, moving out from its Rhineland ‘Carolingian’ (Charlemagne) base. It expanded first to what is now Central and Eastern Europe, then to Southern Italy and Iberia, then to the ‘Conquest’ of the British Isles and Ireland from 1066 on, to Scandinavia, to Palestine from 1096 on, and then to the Western Russian borderlands (borderlands in Slav languages = ukraina). This process played out from 992 to 1492.

The Western expansionists realised in the fifteenth century that their attempted conquests towards the east had failed, successfully resisted and frustrated by Orthodox Christendom and Islam. Therefore, the expansionists, initially also called by the Spanish word ‘conquistadors’, who in January 1492 had reconquered Granada and so completing the reconquest of Iberia, turned westwards. Thus opened 500 years of overseas expansion, westwards to the Americas and south-eastwards to Africa, Asia and finally to Oceania, so encircling Russia and Islam, starting in July 1492 and ending in 1992.

That millennium of expansion finally ended in 1992, after the fall of the USSR, which had been founded on the Western materialist ideology of Marxism, accepted by Russians who had lost their Faith. It ended because all the West’s attempts after 1992 to continue its overseas expansion, including that of its Israel settler colony, failed, from Iraq to Afghanistan, from the Ukraine to Yemen, from Gaza to Iran. So began the self-isolation of the West, which no longer had any credit, in contrast to the great popularity of President Putin, in Russia, Asia, Africa and Latin America, as well as in parts of Western Europe.

The World Millennium

So, with the fall of the atheist USSR, began the World Millennium – the New World Order of BRICS. This went back to the vision of Primakov in newly independent Russia in 1998, the failed US coup in Kiev in 2004-2005, President Putin’s Munich Speech in 2007 and his defence of South Ossetia from US proxies in 2008, BRICS marked the New World Order. It was formally founded in 2009 in Russian Ekaterinburg, set between Europe and Asia, the City of the Imperial Martyrs, who were executed by order from New York. Today BRICS, not New York, is the real United Nations, the Concert of Sovereign Nations.

Thus, BRICS China is now set to become the leader of East Asia, including eventually Japan, a United Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam and all South-East Asia, Indonesia and south-eastwards to Oceania. BRICS Iran is now set to become the leader of the whole of largely Muslim West Asia. If it can overcome its Hindu nationalism, BRICS India can become the leader of all South Asia. And as for Russia, if it too can overcome the Imperialist and Soviet hangover of divisive centralism and nationalism, BRICS Russia can become the leader of North Asia, more often called Eurasia. East, West, South and North.

Eurasia includes all of Europe, from Reykjavik to Dublin, London, Lisbon across Europe and Siberia, eastwards to Vladivostok, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Slovakia, Serbia and Hungary have already understood. First, however, its Church must be cleansed of its Soviet centralism, nationalism and corruption, planted by divide and rule Western ideologies and accepted by greedy and corrupt Russian would-be oligarchs. It must also overcome the assassination operation of its New York section, which parallels the Phanar operation, both CIA-run, and so both hating the independent Romanians and Moldovans.

The Future?

Only once it has resolved its own transatlantic moral decay, could Russia then begin to accept the independence of all Non-Russian Orthodox, starting with the Ukrainians, and then reverse the moral decay of Western Europe North America and Oceania by repentant example. Africa, Latin America and Oceania will follow China, Iran, India and Russia, as South Africa and Brazil are already trying to do, and as the BRICS peoples of Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia and the Arab Emirates want. Then the different spheres of civilisation will at last become spheres of security and spheres of peace and co-operation.

I Had a Dream: Twelve Days that Would Shake the Orthodox World

Moscow, Wednesday 1st, The Ascension Thursday 2nd, and Friday 3rd June

After the Liturgy for the Leavetaking of Pascha and the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Metropolitan Pavel was elected Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox (ROC). The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to rename the Soviet-era ‘Moscow Patriarchate’ ‘the Patriarchate of New Jerusalem and All Russia’ and to move his administration to the New Jerusalem Monastery outside Moscow for deSovietisation. Then the Synod refrocked all who had been defrocked for political reasons by the old regime and cleansed the Church by defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children.

After the Ascension Feast Liturgy, Patriarch Pavel set up four new Autocephalous Local Churches. These new Churches were: the Kievska Rus Church (for the new Ukraine), the Belarussian Church, the Baltic Church (for Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) and the Central Asian Church (for the five stans of Central Asia). Also the OCA (Orthodox Church in America), founded by Moscow, was renamed the NAOC (Northern American Orthodox Church). The ROC gave up its Northern American parishes to the NAOC, those in Oceania to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, those in South America and those in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the Patriarchate of Antioch, and all those in Western Europe and Hungary to the Patriarchate of Romania. They also told the rogue, schismatic ROCOR group that it had one year to follow or be excommunicated.

Finally, the Patriarch also transformed the Church’s Department of External Relations into the Department of Inter-Orthodox Relations. On Friday afternoon the new Patriarch left Moscow and proceeded with his delegation to Istanbul for reconciliation and the renewal of concelebration with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the other Greek-speaking Churches.

Istanbul, Saturday 4th, Sunday 5th and Monday 6th June

After the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Bishop Petros was elected Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to cleanse the Church by defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, freemasons, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children. Then Patriarch Petros and his Synod abandoned the fake ‘Church’ in the Ukraine, which had been known as the OCU, and told them to join the canonical Church. It then decided to recognise and concelebrate with the Patriarchate of New Jerusalem and all 20 Autocephalous Churches, including the four new ones.

Finally, all agreed to establish a new Autocephalous Church for Oceania, also giving its parishes in Northern America to the NAOC, giving up parishes in South America, and those in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, to the Patriarchate of Antioch, and those in Western Europe and in Hungary to the Patriarchate of Romania, where new Local Churches would be established.

Alexandria, Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th June

After the resignation of the previous Patriarch, Bishop Moses was elected Patriarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. Born in Uganda, he is the first black Patriarch of Africa. The first act of the Patriarch and his Synod was to cleanse the Church by refrocking those who had been defrocked for political reasons and defrocking ‘the princes of the Church’, placed there by the old regime. These were all the corrupt careerists, freemasons, thieves and sadists, who had humiliated and persecuted faithful priests and people, the sexually disturbed narcissists, intellectuals, homosexuals, pedophiles and psychopaths who hated married priests, women and children. He replaced all these with black African bishops. Then Patriarch Moses decided to move his administration to Nairobi, the Church keeping its ancient title as the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.

A number of Greek, Cypriot and Russian bishops were appointed to continue to serve in the Patriarchate as consultants. However, the Church is now dominated by African bishops, selected from the local clergy, who are spread out all over the African Continent. A plan has been drawn up to greatly expand their numbers, which is vital to the Africa-wide spread of the Church.

Cisinau, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June

The Moldovan President greeted Patriarch Pavel of Moscow, Patriarch Daniel of Bucharest, their delegations, and both Metropolitans of the two still separate parts of the Moldovan Church. As nationwide democratic referenda had already been organised on self-determination, the results were announced. Apart from Transnistria in the far east, Gagauzia in the far south and a small area in the far north, which all transferred to Russia, over 80% of Moldovans had voted to join the Republic of Romania, their new region to be called the Autonomous Republic of Bessarabia. Following this decision, Orthodox in Bessarabia joined the Autonomous Bessarabian Metropolia under the Church of Romania. Patriarch Daniel accepted this and agreed to lead the formation of a Western European Orthodox Church and also a Local Church of Carpatho-Rus and Hungary.

In return, Patriarch Daniel ceded Romanian Orthodox parishes in Northern America to the NAOC, the few parishes in Latin America, and the few in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean to the two new Churches to be organised there by the Patriarchate of Antioch, and those in Oceania to the new Church to be organised there by the Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Bucharest, Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June, the Great Council and Pentecost

At the new Cathedral of National Salvation in Bucharest, the largest Orthodox Cathedral in the world, all the leaders of the Local Churches held the Great Council of the whole Orthodox Church. There Patriarch Petros announced that his Patriarchal administrative centre would move to Thessaloniki, as the Church of Greece, centred in Athens, was merging with the Patriarchate after the uncanonical British-enforced separation of Greece some 200 years before. Thus, the episcopate of the old Church of Greece joined the renewed and cleansed Patriarchate of Constantinople and All Greece. The Church of Cyprus was represented by its new head, after the resignation in Nicosia of the old Archbishop of Cyprus. The Patriarch of Jerusalem announced a renewed episcopate, dominated by several Palestinian bishops and a Russian and a Romanian bishop.

In this way the Diptychs of the Church were renewed, listing 24 Local Churches in all, nine new. Thus, after the Great Council, on that great day of the Feast, the Feast of Pentecost, Sunday 12th June, all 24 Patriarchs, Metropolitans and Archbishops of the 24 Local Churches, old and new, concelebrated in the Cathedral for the first time: of Constantinople, New Rome and All Greece, of Alexandria and All Africa, of Antioch and All the East, of Jerusalem and All Palestine, of Georgia, of New Jerusalem and All Russia, of Serbia, of Romania and All Bessarabia, of Bulgaria, of Cyprus, of Albania, of Poland, of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, of Northern America, of Macedonia, of Kievska Rus, of Belarus, of the Baltics, of Central Asia, of Western Europe, of Carpatho-Rus and All Hungary, of South America, of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and of Oceania.

 

Towards the Future Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe

The Reconstitution of the Lost Local Church of Western Europe

For over fifty years we have actively prayed and worked for the restoration of the Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe. Unlike future Local Churches in the Americas and Oceania, this would be a spiritual restoration of what existed here, before the 11th century schism from the Orthodox Church by the Latin-speaking Patriarchate of Rome. Clearly, this would not be a literal restoration, which is impossible without a time machine – to think otherwise is the error of Western riters. Thus, in the 11th century, Old Rome fell. Meanwhile, New and Christian Rome had been established as the Capital of the Empire, on the edge of Europe, looking towards Asia, and that did not fall. The Western provinces had fallen to provincialism, so breaking off from the Christian Capital. (Indeed, in 1204 the Western barbarians sacked and looted the Christian Capital).

Old Rome fell because it had taken on the imperialism of the Pagan Roman Emperors, imposed by admiring barbarian Frankish leaders. The new 11th century Patriarchs (‘Papae’) of Old Rome, all Franks, claimed absolute authority over the whole Church, notably in the ‘Dictatus Papae’ of the German Hildebrand in 1075. Thus, the Pope became the ‘Pontifex Maximus’, the only intermediary between God and man. This was expressed in the invention by Old Rome of the filioque ideology of the second half of the 11th century. This claims that the Holy Spirit, the power and authority of God, proceeds from the replacement/vicar of the Son of God on earth, which that Patriarch claimed to be. This was in order to justify his universal power grab, expressed in the contradictory claim that he was both ‘Roman’ and yet ‘Catholic’.

They would eventually even declare that the Popes of Rome are infallible, though that was already inherent in the manifesto of 1075. Repaganised, Old Rome had made itself into the provincial ‘Roman Catholic’ Empire with absolute authority, cutting itself off from the Church in 1054. At once protests began within its territory of Western Europe, which was dominated by the Latin and Germanic peoples. These protests were met as ‘heresies’ with violent persecutions and inquisitions by what had once been a Church hierarchy, now a wealthy, feudalised and sadistic elite of ‘Princes of the Church’, who led armies and massacred freely. Eventually those protests resulted in the defection of a majority of the Germanic peoples and, initially especially, of others in the 16th century ‘Protestant Reformation’, in fact a ‘Deformation’.

Thus, Western Europe was controlled by Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, which errors were later exported to European overseas colonies, carrying division worldwide. Today, Roman Catholicism remains, despite the scandals of pedophilia and financial corruption, but Protestantism is dying out much more rapidly. National Protestant Churches, like the National Churches of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, as well as other Protestant groups like Methodists and Quakers are simply closing down and disappearing. However, the question remains as to which of the Local Orthodox Churches could lead the restoration of the Local Church of Western Europe by gathering all Orthodox and those of goodwill together, and not imposing some narrow nationalist politics?

Which Local Church Will Lead the Reconstitution?

The centralising and nationalist ideologues of the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople have never actually been interested in doing this, despite certain of its frustrated bishops and clergy showing such an interest. In reality, that Patriarchate has been so dominated by politics and hence so spiritually weak that its Vatican-visiting leadership appears to want to be a minor department of Roman Catholicism, only Greek-speaking and Greek nationalist. Personally, I realised this in 1982 after talking with the late Fr John Romanides, totally isolated in his views, though he was still captivated by Hellenism (Greek nationalism). His isolation was due to the domination of the episcopate of his Patriarchate by politicians, ‘Princes of the Church’, not by men of Faith, the authentic shepherds of the flock, like Sts Spyridon and Nicholas.

From 1982 on, if not before, I had hoped that the Russian Church would take the lead in the construction of a new Local Church, despite its threefold Diaspora divisions. For this, the Diaspora divisions would first have to be overcome and so I worked towards this throughout the 80s, 90s and 2000s. I helped to oppose secularising modernist and ecumenist liberalism, on the one hand, and censorious old calendarist and obscurantist phariseeism on the other hand. We saw great hope when came the fall of the atheist USSR in 1991. This was followed by the admirable 2000 Jubilee Council in Moscow with at long last the first canonisations of New Martyrs and Confessors and the 2003 statement of Patriarch Alexiy II regarding a future Western European Church. Finally, came the triumph of Russian Diaspora unity in 2007 and 2019.

However, in 2022 the CIA decided otherwise and destroyed that unity through the schism of a London asset planted in a Russian-American sect, which had infiltrated the Church inside Russia via certain extremely naïve senior hierarchs of that Church. This destruction was at the same time aided by a wave of Russian nationalism, which meant that the Russian Church suicidally lost the loyalty of Ukrainians, Moldovans, Western people and almost all who are not Russian. The international period of the New Martyrs and Confessors had been renounced by its bishop-politicians. Since the ‘Russian’ Diaspora in Western Europe is based not on Russians, but on the above Non-Russian national groups, Ukrainians, Moldovans and Western people, the divided Russian Church will not be able to lead in the reconstruction of the Local Church.

Although quality can be more important than quantity, until about 1965, most Western Europeans would have looked to the Russian Church to lead any possible restoration of a future Western European Local Church, simply because Russians were the majority Orthodox nationality there. From 1965 until about 2015, most would have looked to the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople, since they in turn had become the majority. Today, after the influx of well over four million young Romanians and Moldovans with EU Romanian passports into Western Europe since 2007 and the births of their children here and the organisation of a Romanian Church structure with ten bishops (and more to come), we look to the Church of Romania to lead the way in uniting all Orthodox in a future Local Church. Is this realistic?

The Romanian and Russian Churches: Advantages and Disadvantages

The Romanian Orthodox Church, the second largest Local Orthodox Church, has certain advantages. Unlike the Constantinople and Russian Churches, it is in communion with all Orthodox, resisting the political extremes of cutting of communion and attacking the catholicity of the Church. Its language is a Latin language in the Western Latin alphabet, not unlike Italian. (From Roma to Romania?) And though Romania suffered under Communism, it was not so much that the Tradition of Orthodox Life and hesychastic life were destroyed, only suppressed for a time. But unlike the Westernised Greek Churches, it was only recently persecuted and produced many New Martyrs and Confessors. However, unlike the Russian Church, it was not so persecuted that it was virtually eliminated and became a convert Church, without living traditions.

The result is that most Romanian clergy generally see themselves as servants of the people and encourage popular participation in services together, opening the royal doors, reading the eucharistic canon aloud. This is helped because the Romanian Church celebrates the services in an accessible language. This is quite unlike the Russian Church, where clergy are all too often a professional caste separated from the people. Choirs are often professional and the services are cloaked in inaccessibility and in a 17th century language which is largely not understood. The result is that the people prefer Akathist hymns to Vespers and Matins. Akathists are written more or less in Russian and all can sing the simple melody. Similarly, Russian piety prefers services of intercession and memorial services to the complex liturgical cycle.

This inaccessibility is the result of the State-run bureaucratic clericalism introduced by Emperor Peter I after 1700, with its purely subjective and favouritising system of civil service awards, is most obvious in the withholding of communion. This means the very rigid insistence of most Russian priests on confession before communion, although, hypocritically, they do not do that for themselves. However, this Protestant-style State domination of the Church, copied from the Netherlands by Peter I, leads to the ritualistic and militaristic ethos in the Russian Church. This is unlike in any of the other Local Churches, from which it has been very isolated for centuries. For some the Russian Church is only about standing through services, dressed like an army in a particular ‘uniform’, which is specific to Russians, not to all Orthodox.

The Russian Church also excluded itself from the local assembles of Orthodox bishops, at long last organised in 2009 throughout the 12 regions of the Orthodox Diaspora. True, these assemblies have not become popular, on account of their political and completely undemocratic domination by the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople and their lack of transparency, refusing for example to publish the minutes of their meetings. This means that most Orthodox have no idea that they even exist and do not feel involved in them in any way. Nevertheless, they do exist. However, Russian self-exclusion from them means that all the other Orthodox, Greeks, Romanians, Antiochians, Serbs etc are slowly starting to forge local Diaspora unity without the Russians. This is the path towards new Local Churches. Self-exclusion is a great mistake.

Nevertheless, the Romanian Church like any other does have its weaknesses. For instance, a few of its clergy have a reputation for love of money which compromises the principles of Orthodoxy and those clergy in the eyes of the faithful affected. However, its greatest weakness may be Romanian nationalism. This is a State Church, like the Church of Greece. If it follows in the suicidal footsteps of Russian and Greeks and falls into nationalism, it will fail to transmit the Orthodox Faith to succeeding, locally-born generations, who are integrated in all ways into the local culture. Then, like the Russian Church over the last fifty years and the Greek Church today, it will have to bury its last priests and sell off its empty churches, as we have witnessed so often in the Russian Church and recently the Greek Church since the 1970s.

The Future Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe

In our context, Western Europe can be defined as the 22 countries of ex-Catholic and ex-Protestant Europe, the exceptions being in countries in the east of the Western half of Europe. In order of size, these countries are: Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco and San Marino. They speak twelve different national languages. Thus, in this list we exclude countries outside Western Europe, in Central and Eastern Europe, such as the Baltic States, Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and ex-Yugoslavia. These have historically been canonically dependent or dominated by Local Churches, like the Serbian, the Polish, the Czechoslovak, the Romanian and the Russian.

Initially, as we already suggested in our report of 1988, called ‘Vision or Dream’ a regional but multinational Metropolia could be established. This would be based in Paris and have six regional Archdioceses, set up around Western Europe. Perhaps, in the long term, even if it is quite far ahead of us, each could become the foundation for a future Local Church, once other smaller Local Churches have entered into co-operation with the majority Romanian Church and its suggested structures. However, initially, this would look as follows: A Metropolitan of Paris and All Western Europe, First Hierarch of the Orthodox Church of Western Europe, with, initially, a Synod of 24 bishops. This would be made up of 6 archbishops and 18 bishops. They would look after over six million Orthodox of various nationalities who live in Western Europe.

Gallia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in France, Wallonia, French Switzerland and Monaco, representing Romanian, Greek, Russian, Serbian, Moldovan, Ukrainian etc

Italia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Northern Italy and San Marino; Central Italy; Southern Italy and Malta, representing Romanian, Moldovan, Greek, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian etc

Iberia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Spain; Catalonia, the Basque Country and Andorra; Portugal, representing Romanian, Moldovan, Greek, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian etc

Germania:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Germany; Switzerland and Liechtenstein; Austria; the Netherlands, Flanders and Luxembourg, representing Greek, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Moldovan, Ukrainian etc

Iona (Isles of the North Atlantic):

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in England; Ireland; Scotland; Wales, representing Romanian, Greek, Moldovan, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian etc

Scandinavia:

One Archbishop and three bishops with titles in Sweden; Denmark and the Faeroes; Finland; Norway and Iceland, representing Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Greek, Moldovan, Ukrainian etc

We suggest that the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of each region be chosen from the majority Orthodox nationality living in that region. Each regional Archdiocese should, if possible, have a bishop for other Orthodox peoples present, forming a kind of local Synod. When a new Metropolitan has to be chosen, every bishop in each regional Synod should have a vote. Clearly, with time, there would be bishops from local nationalities, Spanish, German, English, French etc. All bishops would be at least bilingual, if not trilingual. With time, the number of bishops would probably increase, according to local needs and the nationalities represented. This is what we have tried to do on a miniature and modest level in our parish, with three priests representing and respecting each nationality, calendars and customs.