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Only Nostalgia For A Glorious Past?

The war of the West against Russia in the Ukraine, which began in 2014, and the resulting schism among the Orthodox Churches, caused by Patriarch Bartholomew’s uncanonical actions in the Ukraine, which the US paid him $20 million for, has led to the isolation of the Russian Church. Although the over-reaction of the Russian Church may partly be to blame for that isolation, Patriarch Bartholomew has tried to increase it and told Orthodox and Non-Orthodox alike that the Russian Church is schismatic. Only he therefore, he claims, can represent the 16 Orthodox Churches.

On top of this, since 2017 the Russian Church has been unable to hold a Bishops’ Council, first because of covid, then because of that NATO war against Russia. As a result, the governance of the Russian Church has come to resemble that of the Vatican, the Pope and his Cardinals replaced by the Patriarch and his Synod. Countries like the Ukraine and Latvia have not been represented and crises are ongoing almost everywhere among Russian Orthodox in countries outside Russia.

For example, on 22 October 2026 the Moscow Synod met as usual and made a number of controversial decisions regarding certain bishops: Bishop Kirill (Zinkovsky) of Sergiev-Posad and Dmitrov, Bishop Feodosiy (Gazhu) in Omsk, Archbishop Varnava (Safonov) in Pavlodar, Bishop Gedeon (Gubka) in Nizhny Novgorod, Bishop Simon (Morozov) in the Don, Bishop Aleksei (Mulyar) in Irkutsk, and Metropolitan Konstantin (Goryanov) of Petrozavodsk and Karelia. 

Sadly, at every quarterly meeting of the Synod, certain, usually young, bishops are removed – not defrocked. But the damage has already been done. In the age of the internet – we no longer live in the USSR – the people know all about the moral or financial failings of those who have had to be removed and have discredited the Church in the eyes of the faithful and of Russian society at large. The actions of the Synodal meetings come months, sometimes years, after the whole of society knows all the gory details and is therefore scandalised why action was not taken long before.

As a result, some will say that the whole system is a hypocritically corrupt mafia, with all covering each other’s back. Unjust? Perhaps. But the refusal to take action for years on end and to brush everything under the carpet until crisis point has been reached and action has to be taken, means that the authorities of the Russian Church make themselves prone to charges of hypocrisy. And so all are stained because of a few.

At the same time some older and even distinguished and popular bishops, appointed by the much-respected late Patriarch Aleksiy II, are often retired at such Synodal meetings. The priests and people are never consulted about any of this and, all too often, walk away from Church life in disgust. And yet the Church is supposed to be Conciliar, not Papist… This is anti-missionary. Now the Synodal meeting of 22 October has decided that all new deacons and priests will have to take a solemn oath not to say anything on the internet or on social media which ‘discredits the Orthodox Church’.

This is so vague as to be dangerous. What does it mean? Censorship? What if a priest is being persecuted by a bishop who is a schismatic, a heretic, a freemason, a fornicator, a homosexual, a pedophile, or simply an open thief who persecutes his clergy? Must that priest submit, hush everything up and perhaps participate in the evil deeds, in exchange for a pay-off, a part in the spoil, or a mitre or some other tinsel, as we have so often seen?

To do that would precisely mean discrediting the Church and presenting it as a corrupt mafia to the world. Again, this is anti-missionary….All this does is to alienate the people from the Church, creating the impression that the Church is only for a self-serving clerical caste of self-governing bandits and oligarchs, who cover up for each other and act with impunity, rather as in the Vatican. Precisely, alas!, as Russian people who live here tell me about the Russian Church….

It seems that it never rains, but it pours in Moscow. Not only are there the scandals inside Russia, as well as in the Ukraine, the Baltics, Moldova, now there is the ROCOR scandal, which had been brushed under the carpet again and again since 2021. It has resurfaced again. It is time to see action from the Russian Church. When it has sorted out the disorder, not to say, chaos, in its own house, only then will it have a word to say to the rest of the world. Until then, it seems, there can only be nostalgia for a glorious past…

 

The Death of the Delusions of the European Elite

France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Albania (overthrown), Portugal, Greece…. Food and fuel prices, shortages, the high cost of living, protests, riots, fires, tear gas, violent paramilitary police, troops, thousands of arrests, panic among the identikit political and media elite, who all come out of the same Globalist factory managed by Antichrist… The genocide in Gaza and Iran runs parallel to the long centuries of genocide of Europeans by the Elite, hence the Palestinian flags.

These are the colour revolutions of the European People against the European Elite, that is, against the unelected EU Brussels bureaucrats, including the unelected Prime Minister and his bureaucrats in the UK, whose elite never left the EU with their empty promises. Europe is governed by neoliberals, the US by neocons. The only difference is in the hypocrisy, because all are the same neo-feudal Zionists and have the same Fascist instincts against ‘the plebs’.

The right-wing nationalists declare that the protests and chaos in Europe are caused by immigration, which is supported by the left-wing atheists. This is a lie. Unlimited immigration, legal and illegal, is only one factor in the crisis. Poor immigrants would not be immigrants if they could live in free, uninvaded, undestroyed and unexploited countries. Immigrants did not want to emigrate, leaving their ancestral homes and parents. They were forced into it.

Why the crumbling infrastructure, the food and fuel prices and shortages, the inability of some to pay for heating, and the unpayable debt in Western countries? Because all the spare money went to the Ukraine, hundreds of billions of euros and tens of billions of pounds. And because the European elite suicidally also cut itself off from cheap Russian energy. Just as many predicted, the curse of the Ukraine brought deindustrialisation, unemployment and poverty.

We have returned full circle to our beginning, for it is above all the ideological, political and financial distraction of the Ukraine and consequent deindustrialisation, which has engendered the present social chaos in Europe. That chaos will continue and grow worse until the European Elite has gone. Like a crazed poker player who has already lost a great deal, the Elite staked all that remained on the Ukraine, a number that many saw would inevitably lose.

We had hoped that the European Elite would go without violence. But the Elite is so obtuse that it is now suicidally encouraging violence. Sadly, the fall of the Western Europe Elite, after a thousand years of its delusional ‘superiority’ a la Rees-Mogg will neither be rapid nor peaceful. However, it is inevitable. We are now moving to a Europe-free Summit of the Great Powers, of Eurasian Russia, East Asian China and the North American USA. European ‘superiority’ is over.

What is left for Western Europe? To become a gigantic tourist theme-park? To scramble to create a European military superpower financed by destroying the social infrastructure? These are only the last desperate delusions of the failed Elite. The future is to cease exploitation – that has become impossible – and instead to co-operate and trade with the rest of the world on equal terms and return to the spiritual, moral and cultural roots of Western Europe – its saints.

 

Europe: Suicide in Isolation or Integration with Russia

Introduction: The Continents

The world is divided into ‘continents’, a word which means ‘continuous land’. This is because the different continents are separated from each other by water. Thus, there is Africa, North and South America (some see these as one continent), Antarctica, Australia/Oceania, and Asia. By far the largest continent is this Asia, which has over 36% of the world’s land surface and nearly 70% of the world’s population, together with tiny ‘Europe’. This ‘Europe’ is an artificial continent, part of Asia. In reality, ‘Europe’, which is not separated from ‘Asia’ by water, is at most only a subcontinent, like the Indian subcontinent.

Asia

Asia is the source of all civilisations, as is recorded in the Bible, a book written in Asia, which some Europeans claim to be the most important book in the world, though it is in fact a series of books (the meaning of the word ‘Bible’ in Greek), and which they claim to have read. In any case, Asia is the source of all the world’s oldest religions and civilisations, for example, in India and China. Until the eighteenth century, when looting began, these were the foremost and richest civilisations in the world and now, in the twenty-first century, are becoming so again, with China for some years now the world’s richest country.

Asia is so vast that it can be divided into four parts: North, which has long been dominated by Eurasia/Russia; East, which has long been dominated by China; South, which has long been dominated by India; and West, which is on the point of being dominated again, as for millennia before, by the ancient historic civilisation of Iran. The recent change here has come from the fact that West Asia was in recent times dominated by its neighbour ‘Europe’, which actually used to call West Asia by the ethnocentric name of ‘the Middle East’! Only now have Europe and its US offshoot stopped dominating West Asia.

Asia and Europe

The boundaries of this construct of ‘Europe’, in reality the north-western peninsula of Asia, have changed throughout history, sometimes the artificial border has been the Vistula, the Dnieper, the Volga, or the Ural hills. It is still not clear where the geographical boundary between ‘Europe’ and ‘Asia’ is for those who insist that ‘Europe’ is not part of ‘Asia’. Indeed, tiny ‘Europe’ is at this moment fighting another futile war of expansion to the Ukraine, which it claims as ‘Europe’, and where racist fanatics claim that everything to the east of the Ukraine is ‘Asiatic’ and so ‘inferior’ to ‘Europe’.

This is all the more curious, inasmuch as the ancestors of the peoples of ‘Europe’ all emigrated westwards out of Asia in previous millennia, as can be seen by the arrival of Celts and Greeks and more recently of Finns, Hungarians and recently Roma. Thus, all Europeans are by origin Asians (we do not use the racist term ‘Asiatics’). Moreover, most ‘Europeans’ speak an ‘Indo-European’ language, that is to say, an Indian language descended from Sanskrit. That is an ancient language which was once spoken to the north of India. Thus, all European languages, like all Europeans, are in fact Asians, and not ‘Europeans’.

The True Europe

I am a European, that is, I was born in, as were my ancestors for at least the past two thousand years, and perhaps much longer ago than that, and I live in, the north-western peninsula of Asia. This area calls itself ‘Europe’, which in the ancient Semitic language means ‘the West’ (‘Asia’ in Semitic means ‘the East’). In fact, ‘Europe’ is merely the western part of North Asia, which, because it spreads very far to the west, is also called ‘Eurasia’, literally meaning ‘West-East’. The vast majority of Eurasia has for centuries been occupied by the East Slavs of the Russian Lands, mostly now known as the Russian Federation.

The emblem of Russia has long been the double-headed eagle, which looks east and west. This is because the destiny of the Russian Federation is to unite east and west, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, from a united Korea and the offshore archipelago of Japan to Western Europe and the offshore islands of the North Atlantic, the British Isles, Ireland and Iceland. This destiny does not mean at all that Russia is destined to unite North Asia by force – it has never tried to, unlike Europe which has constantly tried to. Russian destiny means to unite all in co-operation and harmony, spreading peace and prosperity.

The False Europe

I am European only geographically, not ‘European’ in the deformed meaning of the word. That is, I have nothing to do with the ‘European’ ideology of secularist atheism, which was invented in recent centuries. This ideology has in fact slowly evolved over the last thousand years in the north-west peninsula of Asia. It is most clearly expressed by today’s artificial political organisation or construct, which calls itself ‘the European Union’ (EU). This ideology claims to express ‘European values’. These are opposed to the Church of God, which was founded in Asia. The EU claims that its ideology is superior to those of others.

Clearly, no Christian can accept the ‘values’ of the enslaving ideology of secularist ideology, of what the unelected and autocratic EU leaders call ‘freedom and democracy’. That ideology rejects Christ, because He was an Asian and believed in God. ‘European values’ reject Christ as an inferior ‘Asiatic’, Who sacrificed Himself and allowed Himself to be murdered for the sake of the salvation of the world from evil. No Christian can accept this Nazi ‘civilisation’ that rejects the humble Christ and arrogantly thinks Itself superior to all others, claiming that ‘the West is best’ and all others are inferior.

Europe and the US

This ideology is the source of Russophobia among the delusional neo-feudal elite of Western Europe, which Russia refused to submit to. Having begun arrogating power and wealth to itself a thousand years ago and proclaimed its leader in Rome to be the replacement of God on earth, the Western elite and its fawning followers declared themselves to be superior to all others and so entitled to conquer and exploit them. Today’s ‘infallible’ leader of the West, ‘God on earth’, is in the ultimate Western extension of Europe, the USA. The game is up for the elite: either return to North Asia or else commit suicide.

Today France is facing that suicide, with the riots in France against the corrupt and bankrupt State, which has sent tens of billions of French euros to the Ukraine, with even threats to guillotine President Macron. Implosion is also on the streets of other failed States, Portugal, Albania, Italy, Belgium and elsewhere, with protests for resovereignisation from EU and NATO dictatorships, in the UK (where the elite wants the young to die for its ideology), Romania and Germany. Europe has to choose between what was imposed by USA or the alternative – to reintegrate North Asia through Russia.

Conclusion: The Future of Europe as Part of Eurasia

The only future for Europe is to abandon the false construct of Europe as ‘superior’ and become again the true Europe, thus returning to its roots in Asia. It can only do this by reintegrating North Asia, ‘Eurasia’, which, as we have said, is dominated by the Russian Federation. For nearly a millennium the construct of Europe has claimed that its neighbours in ‘the Middle East’ and what is now the Russian Federation, and then in the rest of the world, should submit to it, subjugating itself to ‘Europe’. This is the exact opposite of what is necessary. Integration with its neighbours, not isolation, is the way forward.

Moscow Acts At Last

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In line with the recent statements of the Greek and Romanian Orthodox Churches, the crude racism of ROCOR is at last being reined in. The scandalous public statements by at least one of its bishops that ‘Patriarch Bartholomew is possessed and I don’t like Romanians and only half-like Moldovans’ have to be walked back at last. Too late, but it is at least a start.

It is wonderful news, though long overdue. The ‘Wild West’ has to be stopped. This is clearly the result of pressure from Moscow to rein in the untrained, crazy clerical converts of ROCOR. Moscow is utterly fed up with the Protestant sectarian ‘Orthodoxy’ (as Fr Seraphim Aldea has rightly called it) and Trumpery of ROCOR, which was introduced when untrained Protestant convert bishops took over in 2016. Now the ROCOR Synod has to apply these rules concerning priests to the bishops, some of whom have behaved far worse than the podcasting, tele-evangelist, tithe-demanding, right-wing, personality cult ROCOR priests in question. Otherwise, this will all be hypocrisy. Repentance is possible and we have been praying for it for years.

The next step will be to draw ROCOR out of its schism from the Archdiocese of Western Europe of the Russian Church and all its episcopal condemnations of the other Local Churches and constant refusals to concelebrate. ROCOR must finally decide if it is actually in communion with the other Orthodox Churches, or else that it is merely Russian Old Calendarism Outside Russia (‘ROCOR’) and therefore a sect. The only way forward in the Diaspora is to move towards the 200 million faithful of the Local Churches, not to isolate oneself like new pharisees in self-righteous and sectarian condemnation of others.

 

The Tragedy of Unions: Follow the Money – But Only If You Want to Understand Why It Is All Happening

The actor Zelensky, who has loyally played his role and read his Hollywood scripts as an illegal President for over two years, has stated that 43,000 Russians are being killed and injured in the CIA-organised war in the Ukraine every month. This figure is exact, but it is for the number of Ukrainian troops being killed and injured every month. In other words, Zelensky has projected the Ukrainian figure onto the Russians. As far as we know, there have so far been at least 2.4 million (some say far more) Ukrainian casualties and about 200,000 Russian casualties (Western source: BBC Mediazona), a ratio of 12 to 1. The proportions of dead to injured are unknown to us.

The reason for this ratio is not because of a lack of Ukrainian heroism, or effort, or the huge quantities of NATO equipment supplied to the Ukraine, but because of the massive superiority of Russian tactics and firepower, artillery, drones, missiles and planes, over the obsolete NATO weapons which the Ukrainians have to fight with. The figures are confirmed by the regular exchanges of bodies (ratio: 36:1), the numbers of huge new Ukrainian cemeteries, the numbers of missing and surrendered, the declarations of Ukrainian officials like Budanov and Mendel, who demand 30,000 new replacement troops per month, as well as by the official Russian figures.

However, this figure does include mercenary casualties, hundreds of French, British, Germans, Americans, Georgians, Latvians and others, thousands of Colombians and 10,000 dead Polish soldiers, who changed from Polish uniforms into Ukrainian ones in order to receive generous pay in dollars and die. The Western media account for the missing with all the usual obituary tropes for NATO officers: ‘He suffered a heart attack while climbing’ (a la Robin Cook); ‘he committed suicide’ (a la David Kelly); ‘he died unexpectedly in his sleep’ etc. However, the Ukrainian war is only one element in the vast international and interlinked chaos of today’s world.

There is the Israeli-US war against Iran, the long-running war between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, in which the Saudis genocided the Yemenis, the war in Syria, in which the CIA runs and supports the terrorist beheaders of ISIS, the countless anti-colonial wars in Africa etc. Conspiracy theorists like to blame some particular group for all these wars and catastrophes at this present turning-point in world history. Thus, some accuse ‘Bilderberg’, others the ‘Trilateral’, some the ‘Americans’, others the ‘British’, some the ‘CIA’, others the ‘Zionists’, some the ‘Freemasons’, others the ‘City of London’, some the ‘Jews’, others the ‘EU’, some the ‘Rothschilds’, others ‘Soros’ and so on.

All these groups and individuals belonging to them may to some degree be responsible for the chaos, but all of them and others too have one thing in common: these new Globalist aristocrats, whoever they may be, and they are all only pawns in the game, are defined by their lust for money, or to give it its Biblical name, their idolatry of Mammon. ‘Follow the money’. And ‘you cannot serve God and Mammon’, for ‘either you will hate the one and love the other, or else you will hold to the one and despise the other’. As a result of the present world disorder caused by Mammonism, many recently-constructed, artificial and even parasitic countries will disappear.

In their present form these include: Saudi Arabia, its genocidal leader and friend of Epstein, already on the run and hiding in bunkers, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrein, Dubai, Oman, Qatar, Jordan, Syria, the Lebanon, Kosovo, Bosnia, the Ukraine…As a result of foreign interference, crowds from Pakistan to Romania are protesting for the release of their for now imprisoned or arrested leaders whom the people voted for, and not the puppets imposed by US or EU diktat. Civil unrest, often very violent, is under way in France, in the Unionist UK (threatened by break-up into its component parts), in the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Catalonia, Albania, Canada….

It is all the fault of the centralisation of power, whether on the part of the USA, the EU, the UK, or of some other centralised, ‘United’, State. Centralised authorities have, ironically in the name of ‘Democracy’, imposed the myths of wokeness, LGBT, the climate change ideology, covid, and Russian aggression against the Ukraine. All in the name of the clinging on to power and money of the neo-feudal Western aristocracy. They cannot live without an enemy, as a pretext to start the distraction of a World War III, in which tens of millions of the non-elite ‘plebs’ would die in order for the elite, who are only satan’s pawns, to become even stronger and richer and more evil.

These centralised states or Unions (European, American, British etc) are reproducing the disorder that occurred after the break-up of the Yugoslav Union and, above all, of the Soviet Union, in the 90s. After the dissolution of the USSR, millions, not least Russians, died prematurely in the anarchy that followed, from hunger, despair, oligarchic mafia crime (‘privatisation’), alcoholism, drug addiction and the futility of life, which had been built on the illusory ideology of Marxism. With the failure of Marxist ideology, which had justified everything, there was no longer any justification for anything. As a result, lawlessness and death by mafia prevailed.

Here it is worth stopping to consider why the Soviet Union fell. There is a myth that it was defeated by the West, the Western consumerist capitalist system, or ‘superior Western technology’. This ‘End of History’, ‘West is Best’, thesis is of course complete nonsense. The Soviet Union fell because of its Trotskyist universalism – ‘we are universal’. This is exactly why the ‘American Union’ is falling – because it too claims to be universal, under the influence of the Trotskyist neocons. (Let us recall that Trotsky, real name Bronstein, came from a wealthy family in the eastern Ukraine – only fifty miles from the birthplace of his co-religionist, a Jewish atheist, Zelensky).

The problem of Union is now affecting France. Having entered monetary union through the euro, which put the French economy into a straitjacket, depriving it of its economic sovereignty, France is now suffering. France cannot be an economic Germany, the homeland of the euro. The only way monetary union can work is if there is first political union, in other words if all countries are ruled by the Brussels Politburo. France is now repeating the path of Greece, and the problems are spreading to Belgium and Italy. The French problem will either destroy the euro or destroy the EU. The tragic fall of the European Union will resemble that of the Soviet Union.

The fall of the Soviet Union continues in the main successor State to the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation. Even currently, it is said that up to twenty generals and the former Defence Minister of the Russian Federation are being detained for corruption – after several other generals and the criminal oligarch Prigozhin had previously been arrested. My knowledge of the profound, systemic and ingrained oligarchal corruption in the Russian Church confirms this. Again, this corruption, even 35 years after the fall of the USSR, comes from Soviet centralisation, precisely from ‘Unionism’, which has contributed to the tragedy of the persecutedUkrainian Church.

 

 

 

Six Questions and Answers Concerning Tsar Nicholas II

  1. What first comes to mind when you think of Emperor Nicholas II?

Faithfulness to Christ, love of country, love of family and hard work.

  1. How would you describe his personal faith and relationship with the Orthodox Church?

His desire was to see the Russian Church return to the Orthodox Tradition from its long period of decadence that had already lasted over 200 years. His model was the Pre-Imperial, Pre-Petrine Church of the 17th century, not the Italianate, theatrical, ritualistic, pharisaical, clerical, bureaucratic and superficial mentality, which helped to exclude the people from participation in spiritual life and so in moral life.

  1. Is there a particular quality or moment from his life and martyrdom that has left a lasting impression upon you?

His Gethsemane-like resignation when he was betrayed and arrested because of the ‘treason, cowardice and deceit all around’, in the hope that no-one would die because of him, in the self-sacrificing Christian tradition of Sts Boris and Gleb.

  1. How important are faith and Orthodox tradition in your own life, and has the example of Emperor Nicholas II and his family influenced you personally?

Speaking as an Orthodox clergyman of 45 years, we have always been on the same wavelength, with exactly parallel words, thoughts and actions.

  1. Are there any common myths or misunderstandings about Emperor Nicholas II that you believe deserve to be corrected?

He was weak, badly-educated, stupid, unprepared and reactionary.

  1. How would you hope future generations remember Emperor Nicholas II?

As he who could have stopped the disastrous events of the last 110 years throughout Europe and throughout the world. Thus, the tragic course of modern history with its continual world wars and regional wars would have been transformed, if he had not been betrayed by jealous and faithless international elites and traitors.

Four Lives in One Life

1956 to 1974: The Last of Old England

I was born into the rolling countryside of the Essex-Suffolk border, amid the green fields, whispering woods, gentle hills, cold springs and clear streams of water. And then it still was the country, still England, far from the smoke of alien British London, with its tiring bustle and very sinister finance. I grew up with people born in the nineteenth century, or at least those born before 1914 and saw the last horses and milkmaids. I was brought up with the clear knowledge that there had once long before been saints here, where I lived. This was Paradise, the summer sunshine of my life, but it was also the end of Paradise.

1974 to 1997: The End of an Era

In this world of England, we had met a Russian exile family, the Benkendorffs, who lived outside Ipswich. Both my father, for his roses and sweet peas, and my aunt, for her ladies’ clothes, had dealings with them. I learned this in the revelation of 2019, a few days before my aunt passed. Everything made sense at last. Great-great uncle Pavel Benkendorff had been faithful to the Tsar and we are proud of him. His book about the Last Days is a favourite. Like them, the last living Russian emigres who had been adults before the Revolution, were by now all aged over 70. Now, in this ending era, I met a whole gallery of such as they.

Like the Benkendorffs, they too came from the old aristocratic families, representatives of the Golitsyns, the Obolenskys, the Lopukhins, the Kutaisovs, the Zernovs, the Gorodetskys, the Dolgorukys, the Rehbinders, the Bobrinskys, the Tiesenhausens, the Ossorgins, the Shidlovskys, the Breverns, and of very many other distinguished families from Russian history. Most such emigres were constitutional monarchists. In the UK they voted Conservative, in the US Republican and in France for the conservative RPR. They were not Republicans, but neither were they for the Tsar, whom they blamed for their loss and exile.

That they were not at all mystically-minded was the result of their spiritual impurity. And after the 1990s young Orthodox, newly arrived out of the hellfires of the Soviet collapse, among them cousins of the Benkendorffs and venerating the Tsar, were shocked by the compromised, Westernised and sometimes downright treasonous values of the old aristocrats. The newly come were true nobles and mystics. We were on the same wavelength. No surprise here. We had long thought exactly the same as them. So all turned full circle. From Benkendorff to Benkendorff. Providence always gives poetic justice.

1997 to 2022: The Inbetween Time – Caught Between Too Late and Too Early

By 1997 it was too late to build the Local Church with the Russian emigres, as the last of those who had been adults before 1917 were buried – as a priest in Paris I had helped bury them. In Europe they had transmitted the Faith to only a handful of their children and grandchildren because they had wanted not to transmit the Faith, but a political and nationalist ideology. That was meaningless to those born in the Western world. In 2007 I helped create unity between the remaining not yet Americanised emigres and Moscow – the last chance for the Russian Church in the emigration, if were not to collapse into sectarianism.

It was the last drop of our blood to be sacrificed, for a few years later we were to be met with bullying and betrayal for helping to create that unity. True, we had only put off the schism of the now decadent émigré Church for a decade, for in 2016 persecution by the new schismatics began. This was pathological and political and we realised that there was no future in the face of this spiritual disease. That spiritual disease could only attract the pathological, who, ex-Protestant by mentality, wanted self-justification, ‘justification’ being the Protestant sickness. The Russian Church of the emigration was going nowhere.

It had been taken over. The schismatics and sectarians were turning it into a ghetto of decadence. Already in 2016 the dry as dust, bad-tempered, pharisaical, ritualistic ‘Feraponts’ of Unholy Protocol were taking over the Russian Church in the emigration from the fresh, loving, spiritual, charismatic ‘Zosimas’ of Holy Optina. These two trends had already been portrayed penetratingly in Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.  So the Russian Church in the emigration made itself spiritually irrelevant to the great task of converting to real Orthodox Christianity those of goodwill in Europe, who sincerely sought for Christ.

Shamefully, they had deserted the reality of the mission of St John of Shanghai in favour of sectarian ideology, of might and mammon. In early February 2022 a Metropolitan of the Russian Church whom we had known for 43 years, advised us, with regret, but also with envy, to turn to the Romanian Church for the future, after our 47 years of faithfulness to the Russian Church. Facing the betrayal by internal enemies we had met with, it was the only logical, though radical, thing to do. It was the turning point in the history of the Russian Diaspora and mission. A plague on both your houses of nationalist politics, of Russians and Greeks alike.

But this period was also too early to build the Local Church, as Western people were still not ready to receive the Light from the East, brought back to us from Russia, and so to return to their roots. Our words fell on deaf ears amid the deafening roar of the secularist, manipulating propaganda of the media of the Western elite, which stridently proclaimed atheism instead of Christ. Having sacrificed tens of millions of ordinary people in their absurd European Wars, which they even made into ‘World Wars’, they wanted blood as tribute to the satan they idolised, for satan hates Christ and slanders Him, ‘diabolising’ Him.

As for pathological Westerners, who sought self-justification in the Church of God, they were certainly not able to hear those words either, as pathology is by definition deaf to reality. The new world was not yet ready to be born. As the Italian philosopher Gramsci famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks: ‘The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters’. This was indeed the inbetween time and the time of egomaniac monsters, who still clung to the dead conservative past and refused the Holy Spirit, Who in streams of living water was leading us into the Kingdom to come.

2022 to R.O.M.E., the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of Europe

Providentially, eight days before the NATO war against Russia in the Ukraine, initiated in 2014, turned even more violent on 24 February 2022, with NATO plans for a full-scale genocide of eastern Ukrainians and the resulting Russian pre-emptive incursion, twelve of us clergy transferred to the Romanian Church. For over two-thirds of our thousands of parishioners were by then Romanians and Moldovans and one of them had already become a deacon and another a priest. The Romanian Orthodox Church provided the essential balance between the purely political and nationalist narratives of both Greeks and Russians.

We rejected their absurd and quite unChristian politics, masquerading as Orthodoxy beneath the camouflage of their mutual nationalist ideologies, called ‘Hellenism’ and ‘the Russian World’. We were merely the first of many to go to the Romanian Church and for the same reasons. After persecution from the schismatics and after the slander from those newcomers who were contorted by jealousy and who did not want to be set free by the Truth of Christ, but wanted convert ideology, we stood on the moral high ground. For as Orthodox Christians, we confess the Four Signs of the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic:

One: We confess what the Church is. The Church is One, living in spiritual unity in Heaven and on Earth, in Oneness, not in nationalism, not in political and racial arguments, in proud schisms and cultish sects, which refuse to tolerate others with generosity of heart and concelebration in love.

Holy: We confess where the Oneness comes from. It comes from the Saints, from Holiness, from the ever-fresh breathing of the Holy Spirit, Who is now so very close in these pre-apocalyptic times, and not from some ‘jurisdictional’ protocols and bureaucratic legalism, which will cause them to lose their souls.

Catholic: We confess how this Oneness is expressed. Oneness is expressed in Councils, for the Church is Conciliar/Catholic, expressing its Oneness in all places and at all times. Individuals may express these truths, but they must be confirmed by the common mind of the Church, inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Apostolic: We confess when the Church is. It is in the ‘Tradition’, that is, the continuous succession and legacy of identity, from the times of the apostles until our very own apostolic days, as we too await the Coming of Christ. For the Tradition contains the whole inspiration of the Holy Spirit to all humanity.

Glory to God for all things!

 

The Rome Congress Celebrates Twenty-Five Years of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of Western and Southern Europe (MOREOM)

800 Metropolia Delegates in Rome

From 7 to 10 October 2026 we took part in the biennial Congress of our Metropolia. This year the Congress took place in Rome, though only 800 of the 3,000 clerical and lay delegates could attend. Previous Congresses took place in Rome in 2012, Lisbon in 2014, Rome in 2016, Paris in 2018, (covid restrictions forbade the Congress in 2020), Madrid in 2022 and Dublin in 2024. In 2028 the Congress will be taking place in England and there are hopes to hold an even bigger Congress. This will be in venues with large hotels with at least 250 rooms, meeting halls and restaurants, catering for between 1,000 and 3,000.

All eight bishops of our Metropolia participated in the Congress and the theme was Faith, Communion and Mission, with a strong emphasis on family life. Metropolitan Joseph told us of the foundation of the Metropolia by the Patriarchate of Romania in 2001. At that time there were only seven parishes in Italy (today there are over 400) and how he used to stay at parishioners’ homes, as he could not afford a hotel and scarcely had enough money for petrol. Today the Italian Diocese is about to obtain official recognition from the Italian government,

The participants were mainly aged between 20 and 45, with only a few older. I was the third oldest present and I am considerably older than any of the bishops. On the evening of Thursday 8, the priests organised a football tournament between Spain, Italy and England (France were not able to organise a team), refereed by Archdeacon Paul. England won and Archbishop Atanasie declared England the champions! The Congress was notable for the presence of many women (sometimes priests’ wives), babies and small children.

Married clergy all have short hair and trimmed beards, as they are expected to have. Only monastics have long hair and beards. This is quite unlike the anti-woman attitudes at Russian Church Conferences and Councils, many of which I have attended since 1981, with their rigid, parade-ground, even militaristic spirit. There everyone has to stand to attention in full dress uniform and nobody is allowed to express themselves freely because of ‘protocols’. Otherwise, they will be shouted at and intimidated, as they are supposed to be monks and to dress as monks. Those who do not pretend to be monks are treated as second-class citizens.

On Friday 9, an episcopal liturgy was celebrated in Romanian, Slavonic, English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. Bishop Nectary of Dublin presided. This tied in with the presentation to all the bishops of our multilingual booklet, also in seven languages, of the Akathist to All the Saints of the Western Lands and copies of the Icon ‘Saints of the Western Lands’. The original Icon, which is unique, is venerated in Colchester, as a result of our association with St John, who as Archbishop of Western Europe revived the veneration of these saints in the 1950s.

Some Statistics: Towards ROME – the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia in Europe

There are about 5,000,000 Romanians (including some 1,000,000 children born in Western Europe) and 1,000,000 Moldovans and their locally-born children, all with Romanian passports in Western Europe. Romanian Orthodox far outnumber the Orthodox of other nationalities in our countries. In the UK there are 1,500,000 Romanian nationals according to official statistics and Romanian has overtaken Polish as the second language in the UK.

The wave of emigration has now stabilised, though Romanians are still coming to the UK from Germany, Italy, France and Spain, where the economies are in recession because, ironically, of anti-Russian sanctions. These have rebounded on Western countries which enforced them, thus they shot themselves in the foot. In other words, over 80% of all Orthodox in the UK belong to the Romanian Archdiocese and the proportion is similar in other Western European countries.

Romanian Orthodox are divided into two Autonomous Metropolias, one for Central and Northern Europe (three bishops and some 220 parishes for Germany, Luxembourg, Austria and Scandinavia), the other for Western and Southern Europe (eight bishops and over 1,060 parishes and 24 monasteries for Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Italy, San Marino, Malta, France, Monaco, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland and Iceland). It is clear that eight Archdioceses are beginning to take shape, two for the German lands (Germany and Switzerland-Austria), one for Scandinavia, one for the UK and Ireland, one for Italy, one for France, one for Iberia and one for Benelux.

Conversations with Romanians living outside Romania were interesting. As we know, Romanians help to staff the UK Antiochian and Greek dioceses, which are very short of clergy. Indeed, the Greek Archbishop Nikitas in London has publicly said that he is very grateful to Romanians who fill some of his emptying and elderly parishes. In the same way, Romanian-speaking Moldovans make up the vast bulk of the clergy and people who are under Moscow in the Diaspora.

However, the same thing is also happening in Greece and Cyprus. Thus, a Romanian lady who has lived in Cyprus for 20 years told me at the Congress how there are now no fewer than 17 Romanian priests in the Diocese of Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol. A few years back Metr Athanasios was chosen by the Cypriot people to be the Archbishop of Cyprus, but the US Embassy intervened to stop him and appointed their pro-schismatic Ukrainian candidate instead. As a result, there is more or less a schism in the Church of Cyprus between the Orthodox and the pro-Constantinople CIA appointees.

The World at War and the World After the Wars

Introduction: Truth and Mercy

I have been asked if I am neutral in my impressions (impressions, as I do not have opinions). Of course, I am not neutral. Neutrality implies a half-way point between Good and Evil and so is of no interest. What is of interest is Truth and Mercy, for Truth and Mercy belong to the Good God. I believe that all spiritual, moral, cultural, political, economic and social aspects of human life turn around Truth and Mercy, in other words, they turn around Christ.

The European-Instigated ‘World’ Wars

The greedy desire of rival European empires to asset-strip the natural resources belonging to others – mainly colonies in Africa and Asia, but for the Germans also the lands that became the Ukraine – lay behind World War I. The same motivation also lay behind World War II. Once more the ‘superior’ German Fascists wanted to expand for ‘Lebensraum’ and all that went with it, oil, gas, grain etc – to be taken from any Non-Germans, but especially from ‘inferior’, ‘Asiatic’ and ‘barbarian’ Slavs. To asset-strip is better known by the word to ‘loot’, itself a Hindu word which described British activities in occupied India. Here ‘looting’, that is to say, theft by systematic plunder and pillage, was the main British activity which reduced the advanced economy of the Indian subcontinent from riches to rags.

The Scramble for Russia

This greedy desire to loot Russia, as they did in India and Africa, was already clear from the Collective Western invasion of Russia under Napoleon in 1812, in that under the euphemism of the ‘Crimean’ War in 1854-56, in the unprovoked, full-scale proxy war of Western-armed Japan against Russia in 1904, in the temporary Western occupation of Russia after the Western-orchestrated 1917 ‘Revolution’, in the Collective Western invasion of Russia under Hitler in 1941, and in what greedy Western oligarchs did in Russia in the 1990s. The same also lies behind the present NATO proxy war in the Ukraine: the publicly stated aim of the NATO war machine and Washington warmongers has always been to destroy and dismantle Russia. And this in order to own, exploit and extract its vast natural resources.

2026: The World in Flames

In 1922 half of the Soviet Ukraine was stolen from Russia by the anti-Russian German envoy Lenin and the anti-Russian British envoy, a local man from what became the Soviet Ukraine, Bronstein (Trotsky), and given to the anti-Russian Marxist bandits. In 1934 half of Yemen was stolen from the present Yemen by British imperialists and given to the nomadic Saudi bandits. In 1961 Kuwait was stolen from Iraq by British imperialists and given to corrupt local puppets. In 1967 all of Palestine was stolen from Palestine by the Western-backed Israelis and given to the Zionist bandits. Today all the oppressed are claiming back what was stolen from them and rightfully belongs to them after so many generations and indeed, in the case of the English, centuries, of injustice and ‘looting’. This is, as they say, ‘karma’.

Will the Russian Church in the Diaspora Be Banned?

As the West loses its war against Russia in the Ukraine, its Nazi Kiev puppet regime collapses and the Gauleiter Merz rants like his Nazi grandfather, Western Europe wants revenge on Russia. The EU could steal the huge Russian assets, illegally frozen in Brussels, but that would lead to the financial collapse of the EU. Another way would be to ban the Russian Church in Western Europe, as in the Ukraine and Latvia. With ROCOR already infiltrated and neutralised as a CIA tool, there would remain an attack on the Moscow Patriarchate directly. Undermined by politics and defenceless, ghettoised Moscow parishes would be forced to turn to other Patriarchates. They would refuse to go under the Constantinople, which would leave Romania, as has already happened in France and in England.

Conclusion: Freedom for England

NATO is now divided and dying in its obvious defeat in the Ukraine and the NATO-dependent EU will die with the defeat of NATO. As for us, outside the EU, we too wish to claim back what belongs to us. Even if it was very, very long ago, nearly a millennium ago, ours is the England which was betrayed by internal enemies in high places. And then it was stolen by the Zionist-financed Normans and their equally genocidal Establishment descendants.

 

Banana Republic Europe: The Ukrainianisation of Western Europe

https://ruskline.ru/news_rl/2026/10/05/bananovaya_respublika_evropa

Without justice, what else is a State but a great band of robbers?

Blessed Augustine, The City of God, Book IV

Introduction: The CIA Playbook: How to Seize Power

The CIA playbook has been built up over nearly eighty years of more than sixty subversion operations (including in the Vatican and Operation Gladio), sanctions, economic wars, coups d’etat, regime-changes (as with De Gaulle in 1968), colour revolutions and proxy wars. These started in Latin America (even before the CIA as such existed, in the original banana republic of Guatemala), then spreading to Asia (Iran in 1953, Vietnam, the Philippines (Marcos)), Africa (the murders of Hammarskjold and Lumumba), Western Europe and the Ukraine.

Stage One: Leader Substitution.

One of the best ways of achieving regime-change is to corrupt the present leaders, finding dirt on them and then to threaten them: Resign or we will release the dirt we have on you. In their place the CIA appoints its Globalist puppets, elected or unelected, gangsters (in Central America, Kosovo, the Ukraine), terrorists (Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden), actors (Wojtyla, Reagan, Zelensky), oligarchs (Berezovsky etc) financiers (Merz), bankers (Sunak, Macron) and other failures and inadequates (Johnson, Starmer, Burnham etc) and anti-patriotic Zionists who cannot even speak the local language correctly (in the Baltics and in the Ukraine). The CIA also has dirt on these puppets to an even greater extent, including cocaine-taking and pedophilia.

Leader substitution is supported by the subservient Western European media (controlled by six US corporations), US-funded think tanks, ‘NGOs’, rent-a-mob crowds and imported snipers (as in Kiev in 2014). They all cry ‘freedom and democracy’ to get their way. We can see this process of leader substitution in recent decades, very clearly in the UK (very easy, ever since the half-American Churchill), the EU (through its Balticisation), in France and Germany (which a long time ago resisted the US invasion of Iraq), the Baltics, Norway, Poland, the Ukraine (beginning with the CIA success of 2014), Belarus (failed), Georgia (failed), Armenia, Finland and Sweden (two long-term projects that began with the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986 and have ended with the great CIA success of the NATOisation of both countries).

Stage Two

Use your total control of the media to create war hysteria, making all Western European countries into anti-Russia (and also anti-Iran, anti-China and pro-Israel) proxies, just as they did in the tragic Ukraine, from where millions have taken refuge in Russia, millions have self-exiled to Western Europe, and millions more hoodwinked Ukrainians have died fighting for the CIA, imagining that they were fighting for the Ukraine. The paid Western media are told to tell the zombified people that you must die for us, as in the Ukraine. This propaganda messaging is centralised and co-ordinated, as ‘defence’ spending is increased, destroying Western European social infrastructure and creating debt enslavement, as more and more people fall into poverty. Such outsourcing saves the US money, all the more so as the pathetically small Western European arms industries and armed services have to buy from the US.

Part of this anti-Russian hysteria includes infiltrating the Orthodox Churches to make them anti-Russian. The Greek Churches were a walkover – that aim was achieved in 1948 by substituting a Greek-American ecumenist puppet for the canonical Patriarch Maximos V, Archbishop Athenagoras. CIA control of ROCOR has been a long-term, on-off project with assets used as sleeper-traitors, to be activated whenever necessary, as has now happened. Sadly, Moscow has been naïve enough to play along with CIA infiltration of ROCOR through the Neo-Vlasovtsy, often sons and grandsons of the Hitlerite Vlasovtsy, and Moscow ignored the warnings we sent them by hand in 2021. Today ROCOR has been neutralised in this respect. For CIA agents try to silence critics, as the CIA agent tried with us. The ultimate goal is to close down all Russian churches in the Western world. Patriarch Kyrill was long ago sanctioned and banned from visiting them. The closedown of Russian churches here is now ever closer.

Stage Three

This consists of subverting and stealing any useful remnants of the old European empires, for example, carving out sovereign bases in Europe, for example in Fairford, Lakenheath and Mildenhall in the UK, Wiesbaden and Ramstein in West Germany, Aviano and Naples in Italy, the ‘British’ Akrotiri base in Cyprus, the Chagos Islands, the base here being Diego Garcia, Greenland (now de facto taken over by the US with the EU betrayal and humiliation of Denmark), and, if useful, the Falklands and Iceland will be taken too.

Conclusion: Man Proposes, But God Disposes

Such is what is proposed. Of course, people do not have to accept it, if we are free. After all, the people’s pockets are not being filled with money, unlike those of Western European/Ukrainian oligarchs, so why not exercise freedom? Perhaps, given the seriousness of the situation with the Ukrainianisation of Western Europe and the first fuel and food rationing now happening, the people will speak out at last and revolt and their CIA-appointed ‘leaders’ will be swept away. The only questions are when and where does such a real popular movement start? In Germany with the AfD? On the streets of Paris? Or somewhere else? The grace of God is unknowable. Lord, have mercy on us all.