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The Temptation of the Borderlands, the Collapse of Globalist Western Europe and the Resovereignisation of the Western World and the Church

Foreword: The US Empire (1917-2024) and the Third European War

The so-called World Wars have always been Great European Wars, into which the then European Empires dragged their worldwide colonies as useful cannon fodder. The First War, begun in Sarajevo in 1914, was joined late by the USA, in 1917. The Second War, begun exactly one generation later in Warsaw in 1939, was joined late by the USA, in 1941. However, the Third European War, begun by the USA exactly four generations after the first, in Kiev in 2014, was abandoned early by the much-weakened USA, in 2024. This left Western Europe, which had backed the USA to the hilt, with responsibility.

However, the elite of a deindustrialised, demilitarised and impoverished Western Europe, could only provide the Kiev regime with war rhetoric and hundreds of billions of euros in bribes, in which that corrupt elite could share. Thus, in the UK, the warmongering elite, which takes a generous cut from wars, found that only two from tens of thousands of reservists were prepared to volunteer to fight against Russia. Similar patterns have been observed everywhere else in Western Europe, not least in Germany. Indeed, the present Europe-wide riots can largely be considered to be anti-war riots.

The Temptation of the Borderlands

Hitler’s Third Reich was delusional. So is the Fourth Reich EU, which has been sending its tanks, guns, drones and armoured cars to be destroyed by Russia on the steppes of the Ukraine, just as it destroyed those of the fuel-thirsty Third Reich. The EU attempt to expand its impoverished Fourth Reich eastwards to the mineral- , fuel- and food-rich Ukraine is in fact Churchill’s Operation Unthinkable, delayed from 1945 by US opposition. It is the Operation to destroy and dismantle Russia. Since 2014 the neocon gerontocrats of the US and its NATO vassals have been implementing the 1945 Operation Unthinkable. They have been living in the past, for their post-1992 unipolarity is dead and Russia has won.

The results are indeed unthinkable. This Operation, the ultimate attempt to expand Europe by aggression in order to plunder valuable resources and conquer Russia through its vulnerable borderlands (in Russian, ‘ukraina’), ends the millennium of aggression. This means the collapse of the culminating, Western unipolar ‘End of History’ project to dominate the world as the unique centre of power and culture. Having lost its spiritual and moral values, Western power and culture is coming to an end. As after the collapsing pagan Roman Empire, only museums remain. As for the defeated USA, it will have to retire to lick its wounds and dismantle the all too expensive neocon CIA which ran the USA with impunity for over 25 years.

The flat and fertile Russian Lands, difficult to defend, have attracted all sorts of bandits over the centuries. First there were Scythians and Turkish Pechenegs from the east. From the west came the ever power-greedy German Hildebrand, Pope Gregory VII, with his flattering letter of 17 April 1075 to try and seduce Kievan traitors in the Russian borderlands (ukraina), which are especially hard to defend, unlike the Slav home in the marshlands of Belarus. Hildebrand’s successors sent the Teutonic Knights to slaughter, plunder and conquer in the north, but they were pushed back by the hero St Alexander of the Neva. At the same time there were the Tartar-Mongols, from whom he defended the Russian Lands. In the early 1600s came the Poles, again via borderland Kiev, but they were chased out of Moscow, and in the early 1700s, again via borderland Kiev, came the Swedes, defeated at Poltava.

Next time there came more organised, collective invasions from the West. In the early 1800s the French and the twelve tribes of Europe invaded under the antichrist Corsican bandit Napoleon. They were followed in 1854 by the British, French and Turks, who invaded the borderlands again, this time through the Crimea, which they attack today in the Second Crimean War. Every hundred years at least, the West has invaded by Russia’s soft sidebelly borderlands. In 1914 came the Germans and Austro-Hungarians, supported by Judas-fed British and French spies, who led to the rule of the still unrepentant Georgian bandit, and in 1941 came many nations under the antichrist Austrian bandit Hitler. After Napoleon and Hitler in 2014 came the US-led Collective Western (EU/NATO) invasion, which paid Ukrainians huge amounts to die for them in their millions and tried and failed to take the Crimea and Ukraine again.

Revolutionary France

In 1789 Revolution broke out in France. This was as a result of the debts incurred by the French King Louis, who spent huge amounts of money fighting German-ruled British and Hanoverian mercenaries, who were attacking settlers in the future Republic of the USA. The French King wanted to ensure the defeat of his hated rival German kings of London and the victory and independence of the mainly English-born refugee colonists. As a result of the enormous expenses entailed, debt-ridden France collapsed, its people rioting for lack of bread, and the King literally lost his head. Hatred is very expensive.

In 2026 Revolution is breaking out in France again. It is a result firstly of the huge amounts of money that the French King Macron has given to the Neo-Nazi regime in Kiev. This was installed by the USA after overthrowing the democratic government in 2014. Secondly, it is a result of the urgent need to subsidise French energy bills since 2022, after the King had cut off cheap Russian energy and imposed illegal sanctions on Russia, as he hates Russia, including its energy, and replaced it with US energy that costs three times more. He did this on orders from the US Empire. Hatred is very expensive.

The debt that has come from trying to expand the West means that France may default. Debt-ridden France is collapsing, its people rioting for lack of bread, and the King may lose his head. Since France gave up its sovereign currency for the German-run euro – just as the now rejected EU leaders of Bulgaria also recently did against the people’s wishes – France can no longer print money, even if that causes inflation, to pay off the interest on its debt. Moreover, that debt is mainly in the hands of foreign investors. And they can at once disinvest in France, to which they have no loyalty.

So the USA has bankrupted France twice. However, both times this was the choice of French rulers. The first time was the attempt by the French Empire to found a Republic in the future USA. The second time was the attempt by the French Republic to support the US Empire in the Republic of the Ukraine. King Macron (called ‘Napoleon’ and also ‘the Pharoah’), a former Rothschild banker, whom many believe to be married to a transgender a generation older than himself, clearly hates French people. He prefers to give their money to others. That is why his popularity rating in France hovers between 10% and 15%.

Totalitarian Western Europe

Not only is France exploding because of State bankruptcy, leading to very high taxes and very high prices, so also are Italy, Albania, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Greece, Serbia (for now free of its pro-EU and Kiev-arming leader and traitor), Bulgaria, and the UK (in illegal immigration protests). In Germany the EU wants to ban by far the most popular political party, AfD. Will they assassinate its leader? The Supranational EU has put its unelected dictators into power, but not into authority. There is the unelected Burnham in the UK, who has been set up to drag the UK back into the EU and who has just given Kiev another £10 billion without any mandate, which may yet cause civil unrest. Or else there are leaders who are hated by the popular masses, like Blackrock’s Merz, who stands at 10%-13% of support in Germany. The four countries that border the Ukraine are in an even worse position.

Nationalists in them all want to get back their lands which the Georgian bandit stole from them in 1945 and added to the western end of the Soviet Ukraine conglomerate. In order to prevent the irrendentist, national forces from claiming back their stolen territories from their Ukrainian idol, the EU wants to set up anti-national puppet governments in all four bordering countries. Thus, Poland had a now failed coup d’etat against the President of Poland, planned by EU Brussels through its puppet Tusk. This is similar to Romania, where the highly popular future leader, the patriot Georgescu, was removed by the EU in 2024 and replaced with yet another despised EU puppet. As for Hungary, with help from huge doses of propaganda, the EU overthrew its leader Orban. And as for Slovakia, the supranational powers sent a Ukrainian hitman to assassinate its democratically elected leader, Robert Fico. They may yet try again.

All the EU-appointed dictators and gerontocrats all over Europe are Globalists, Anti-Patriots. They support the bankrupting climate change ideology, the covid lock-up and vaccination manipulation, the Zionist genocide in Gaza and the Lebanon, and imprison those who oppose it. However, their loyalty to the Soviet-style EU is above all expressed by their loyalty to the ultra-corrupt, Neo-Nazi Kiev regime, and its dreaded, CIA-trained secret police, the SBU. There the hated Globalist actor, who in 2022 had to begin learning Ukrainian and English in order to perform his role as President and read the scripts of his minders, is intent on killing Ukrainians to the last Ukrainian, as his totalitarian sponsors proclaim. And when he cannot kill them, he has them tortured.

After all, the gerontocratic European elite, stuck in the past, is itself intent on killing its own peoples, by starting a war against what is easily the world’s fourth economy (its real GDP is over $10 trillion by PPP) and greatest nuclear power, the Russian Federation, ‘by 2030’. Through the mouths of crazy NATO armchair generals and greedy Lithuanian and Polish politicians, the elite has several times declared its intention of invading Russian Kaliningrad to start with. In order to make sure that this will happen, the elite is setting up the EU surveillance State to silence, debank and imprison all who oppose its tyranny and lies. However, the European elite is being regime-changed by its catastrophic support for Neo-Nazi Kiev and its torture-houses and camps.

Multipolarity and the Holy Trinity

The EU, better called the USSE, the Union of Subjugated States of Europe, is the last example of a multinational State, exactly like the old USSR. Centralised to the core, its elite refuses to accept that the age of Unipolarity, World Dictatorship, a One World Empire, is over. The beloved post-1945 project, of Rockefeller and all his followers, like the senile Biden and the demented Trump, regime-changed by Iran after his unprovoked aggression against Iran, is over. Though octogenarian US Presidents cling on to their imaginary superiority, the world has left the 1950s and is in the Age of Multipolarity, multiple Civilisational Centres, as seen in the Sovereign Nations of BRICS. Centralised, Unionist dinosaurs like the EU/USSE/UK/USA/and those nostalgic for the USSR (all have the letter U in them), which want to desovereignise all the nations, must catch up with reality. Their dinosaur delusions are being destroyed by the asteroids of reality.

Desovereignisation is also the desire of the Soviet KGB and unipolar CIA figures (they are the same), who dominate the various departments of two of the sixteen Local Orthodox Churches – centred in Moscow, New York and Istanbul. They too have to stop living in the past and catch up with the non-imperial, multipolar reality of the fourteen other Local Churches, which has always been the Catholic reality of the Church. Their Unipolarity is in the image of the Old Testament God of Papal, Imperial, Unionist and Uniat (the letter U again), tyranny. Our Multipolarity is in the image of the Holy Trinity, Unity in Diversity, the Catholicity and Confederation of Sovereign Orthodox Churches. A new age is dawning, with the purging of many corrupt bishops and Resovereignisation, the restoration of the Confederation of the Orthosphere, united by the Holy Spirit, expressed through faithful pastors, free of the unionist tyranny of faithless politicians.

There is a large white church on a hill on Military Road, in a city that was the first capital of the Roman province of Britannia. This church, built to prepare mercenaries to fight in the first British invasion of Russia, known as the Crimean War, nearly 200 years ago, is now an Orthodox church. It is dedicated to St John of Shanghai and Western Europe, a recent saint born in what is now called the Ukraine, and to All the Saints of Western Europe. Among its parishioners are many Russians and Ukrainians. I have been its rector from the start of its Orthodoxy. From there, with thousands of Orthodox and others in the churches we have founded from this centre, we proclaim the Orthodox Christian Faith without ‘princes of the Church’.

This means that we proclaim the love of God and the love of our neighbour. This means that we believe that the way forward for our lands is through the Holy Spirit, to Christ, His Mother, His Angels, and to His Saints, who have lived from the beginning in Western Europe and who have given us a multitude of examples of this love. We say: Enough of the millennium of invasions and the plundering of the lands of our neighbours. We call for this love to be incarnate in all the Ancient Peoples and Lands and Tongues of Western Europe. Firstly, this will be in the soon again-to-be Sovereign Lands of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, without political and secular ideologies, cleansed of extremes, in freedom from compromise and sect alike.

The Protestant Orthodox Disease: The Eighteen Anti-Commandments of Unconverted Converts

Unconverted converts, unlike converted converts who are known as ‘Orthodox Christians’, imitate only the outward signs of the Orthodox Church and Faith. This is because the unconverted are only ‘Orthodox’, but not Christian. In other words, their hearts have not been changed by Faith and they remain unconverted because they live in their heads. This is because they do not confess Faith, but a pathological ideology. They suffer from ‘convertitis’, a word which I first came across over fifty years ago – there is indeed nothing new under the sun.

Unconverted converts are centred mainly in the USA, especially in Protestant-populated Old Calendarist sects, in ROCOR and in Antioch, though also there are a few of them under the Greeks and even under Moscow. California produces an inordinate proportion of them – as East Coast Americans say: ’When God made America, he tilted it to the west, so that all the oddballs would run down to California’. However, thanks to the worldwide web, their influence is spreading and they can be found in every country.

They can be recognised by eighteen practices, which reject and despise the way of life of 99.99% (199,980,000) of the world’s 200 million Orthodox Christians. These ‘anti-commandments’ against Love are given below:

Pride

The unconverted consider that they are better than real Orthodox, whom they dislike, shun, condemn, persecute and slander.

As in the public words of one convert bishop: ‘Patriarch Bartholomew is possessed by demons. I dislike Romanians and I only half-like Moldovans’. Needless to say, that convert is in communion with no-one, like an old calendarist. This shows the essential sin of pride, which also causes their jealousy and their love for condemning others against the commandment of Love.

The unconverted refuse any ‘foreign’ language.

This is all part of their rejection of real Orthodox. Just a note: English is a foreign language to any non-native English speaker. One American convert cleric we know even tried to impose his American on English people in England, as he obviously considered that we too spoke a ‘foreign’ language, though he did affect a pseudo-English accent, which marked him out as a pathological case (‘weirdo’) among English people. He insisted that his own ‘idiom’ was the only canonical one. I did point out to him that the Greek word ‘idiom’ is related to the Greek word ‘idiot’. Obviously, he did not last long here and Russians treat him as a psychiatric case.

They refuse to kneel on Sundays, even when the Feast of the Exaltation falls on a Sunday, let alone on the Sunday of the Cross, unlike virtually all Orthodox.

They call those who do kneel on Sundays ‘heretics’ – one of their favourite words for Orthodox. Such is their lack of humility.

Old Testament Protestantism

They study and practise ritualism intensely.

They are pathologically attached to ritual details, like the pharisees, and love debating the Typikon, ‘the most important book’, as someone from Jordanville actually told me and which another convert bishop called ‘his Bible’, together with the Book of Canons, ‘The Rudder’. This shows their essential Talmudic Judaism. They look for reasons to condemn others, to find fault, to nit-pick. They are ‘Orthodox’ Jews, but not Orthodox Christians. As Protestant fundamentalists and literalists, they follow the word, not the spirit, and selectively quote the canons (which they do not understand), just as real Protestants selectively quote chapter and verse of the Scriptures. Their Judaism show that they are closer to ‘Orthodox’ Judaism than to Orthodox Christianity.

They are obsessed with the Old Testament against the New Testament.

This comes from the Calvinism or Lutheranism in their backgrounds. Let us not forget that the Protestant Reformation was financed by Jews, as later in the case of Cromwell, and that explains their obsession with money. This Old Testament obsession with money can be seen in their scandalous attempts to tithe the faithful. One convert bishop we experienced treats the Church as a franchise operation which must bring him profit, as he considers that he is the owner of the franchise, that is, of every parish. His corporate mentality has caused and causes scandalised Orthodox to desert him in ever greater numbers.

Their Old Testament mentality brings them to be obsessed with fasting.

The new Pharisees fail to understand that fasting is a purely personal matter, dependent on family circumstances, health, age, guests etc. I remember one case in California in 1993, where a woman contacted me to tell me that she could not afford to fast, as it meant going a long way to a special shop and seafood was too expensive for her. She regretted joining the Russian Church. She had totally missed the point. A few days in a monastery in Eastern Europe on very tasty cabbage and potatoes would have sorted her out.

They are morally very strict and puritanical. All is sin.

For example, we had a young man from Eastern Europe who visited a little ghetto-church for converts. This was run by one of these ex-Protestant clergymen under Constantinople, who likes parading around his town in flowing black robes and a chimney-pot hat. The young man was ordered to leave the church at once, taking care not to touch anything, as he would ‘make it impure’. Why? Because he was already living with his future bride before he got married in his native country the following summer. This censorious moralising, puritanism and harshness come from the Calvinism or Lutheranism in their backgrounds.

They are extremely intolerant.

They are not only intolerant of Non-Orthodox, but also of Orthodox. This witch-hunting mentality is a pathological, not a theological, problem. I observed a typical example 20 years ago. We had a crazy convert visit us who as a Protestant fundamentalist condemned Harry Potter as satanic, whereas an old Russian grandmother loved the books, as for her they were like fairy-tales, with their magic, giants, fairies and demons. Eventually the convert left us, much to our relief.

They are obsessed with ‘spiritual fathers’.

They like to give themselves pretentious authority over others by boasting that they have a ‘spiritual father’, ‘starets’ or ‘geronda’. (A foreign word gives them am imagined exotic interest and authority). By this they mean that they go to confession (often over the phone!) from time to time. They confuse spiritual fathers with clairvoyant elders. The two things are quite different. All Orthodox go to confession regularly or from time to time. In this way the unconverted encourage ‘guruism’, that is, charlatans and frauds, who have never studied in an Orthodox seminary or been a novice in an Orthodox monastery for several years, or been a second priest in a normal Orthodox parish (of at least 100 parishioners) under a first priest who has decades of experience. We can see this in so many podcasts, where some self-appointed ‘spiritual father’ of Protestant origin mixes ‘mystical’ sentimentality and exotica with Orthodox Christianity – loving your neighbour.

As authoritarians they want to impose their own Protestant past on real Orthodox dictatorially.

Their Salem-type autocracy comes from their intolerance, like those who went witch-hunting, both literally and metaphorically.

They want to convert all others to their delusions.

I was told how three converts from Platina went to London in the 1970s, in order to ‘convert England’. Although they were not monks, the three bearded Americans, dressed up in flowing black robes without any blessing went to Oxford Street, London, and pestered shoppers about ‘converting to the True Faith’. The vast majority of the shoppers ignored them, but some who were annoyed told them ‘where to go’. The three converts decided that Antichrist had been born in England and there was no hope.

Pseudo-Russianism

Male unconverted converts have long hair and beards. Female unconverted like to dress in frumpy long dresses and skirts down to the ground and even put what seem to be tablecloths on their head, somewhat like pre-Revolutionary Russian peasants. Some even wear Russian peasant dress – to the astonishment of real Russian men, who are not bearded, and of real Russian women, who dress like any contemporary women.

The unconverted like to dress as monks or nuns, usually in black, specifically like nineteenth-century Russian monks and nuns, with whom they are obsessed. This delusion goes back to ROCOR Platina in the 1970s. A visit to ordinary, baptised but not practising, Russians in Russia would soon disabuse them of this delusion. But they do not speak Russian and do not know Russian literature, which describes reality. But they do not want reality, they only want delusion.

They love to cover the walls of their homes with icons and themselves with a cross.

Orthodox usually have two or three icons in their homes. A few have more. But no normal Orthodox cover their walls with them. As regards our small neck cross, we wear it inside our clothing, next to our hearts. We do not put it on outward display and it is not big.

Only the three-bar cross is acceptable to them.

The rejection of the simple cross, ‘stavroclasm’, is a delusion that also goes back to ROCOR Platina in the 1970s.

They like to litter their speech with and lecture others on a few Russian words that they have picked up, like ‘Vladyka’, ‘starets’, ‘omofor’, ‘podvig’, ‘pustynja’ or ‘prelest’. They mispronounce these, mistranslate them, and do not know the Greek or Latin originals (the Russian words are only translations from the Greek and have no mystical or sacral significance), or what they really mean.

Pathology

The unconverted reject their own past, for example, insisting on rebaptism and changing their names to some exotic name, for example, changing from Antony to Vladimir, Emmanuel to Avksenty (real examples).

I once met one refused to attend his father’s funeral. After all, his father was a ‘heretic’…

The unconverted are depressive, they have no joy.

Since the unconverted lie to themselves about reality, they are isolated and depressed. This is evidence of their psychosis.

They dislike family life and children.

Their rejection of the Incarnation comes from the fact that many of them are repressed homosexuals. They should read the canons of the Council of Gangra (340).

The Spiritual Impurity of Ideologies and the Truth of Christ

It is not evil that will conquer evil, but only love.

Tsar Nicholas II

Some ideologies, or isms, veer towards the one side of secularist and modernist Liberalism, which puts sinful man above Christ, others veer towards the other side of sectarian and pharisaical Donatism, which condemns and enslaves human-beings to vindictive and merciless gurus. Regardless of which ideology, or ism, it is, they are all opposed to the Church of Christ.

This is because those ideologies are based on personal pride, which is the essence of spiritual impurity. The prime example of this is Arius, who tried to corrupt the Church’s teaching on Christ with his own personal rationalistic imaginations, repeating the sin of Judas, who thought that he knew better than his Maker. Arius finished very badly, in his own human waste.

Ideologies are opposed by those who pursue the Truth of Christ, for like all other ideologies, or isms, both Arian Liberalism and Monophysite Donatism are based on a lack of Love, which is what the Truth of Christ consists of. There are so many examples of this in history, from Job the Much-Suffering in the Old Testament to our own New Testament times:

St John Chrysostom, who was chased out of the City by an empress of evil glory who denied the Gospel, but justified by the people who loved him and then by the hierarchy, who caught up with the people, who proclaimed him a saint.

St Gregory Palamas, attacked by swim-with-the-tide secularists like the humanist Greek-Italian Varlaam, who did not know the Holy Spirit, but St Gregory was justified by Church Councils, which proclaimed him a saint.

St Mark of Ephesus, who alone stood for Orthodoxy against all the hierarchs who had been corrupted by the emperor, but was justified and loved by the people and then by the repentant hierarchy, who proclaimed him a saint.

St Paisy (Velichkovsky) of Neamt, chased out of the Russian Empire by an atheist German Empress and those with her, but venerated by monastics and all those who love prayer everywhere, who proclaimed him a saint.

St Nectarius of Aegina, who should have become Patriarch, chased out of the Patriarchate of Alexandria by a corrupt and jealous hierarchy who had fallen into decadence, but was loved by the people, who proclaimed him a saint.

St John of Shanghai, who was slandered and put on trial by his fellow hierarchs, and within three years went to heaven, exhausted by persecution, but was loved by the people, who proclaimed him a saint.

Today nothing has changed, first among the Slavs and then among the Greeks:

Metr Onufry, deprived of his nationality and persecuted by the neo-pagan, nationalist Ukrainian State and at the same time attacked by Russian nationalists who only accept their own nationality and language.

Metr Tychikos of Paphos, deposed in Cyprus by corrupt and mercenary hierarchs who obeyed atheist and mercenary politicians, both foreign and local, but is loved by the people and will like St Job be restored.

The Confessors of the Faith resist hierarchies and emperors, who are corrupted by wealth or power and quench the Spirit (1 Thess 5:19). But we are not corruptible and cannot be manipulated. And all those who attack have compromised themselves, taking the side of evil, showing that they lack Truth and Love. But Truth and Love always conquer all ideologies.

Narcissism and the New World Order

Introduction: Narcissism and World Wars

The most beautiful angel whom God created was called the Bringer of Light, ‘Lucifer’. However, as the angels were bodiless, unlike human-beings who are embodied and so able to repent, they were given the freedom to choose only once – to serve God or to serve self. Lucifer and a host of angels chose to serve themselves, because they admired themselves so much. Lucifer was given the name of satan (‘the enemy’) or the devil (‘the slanderer’) and the angels who fell with him were called demons (‘lesser gods’).

Lucifer and those with him committed the sin of narcissism; they found themselves better and more beautiful than God, and therefore they were always right and were never wrong. If you so admire yourself and make yourself into such a ‘lesser god’, you are indeed a narcissist. This is the spiritual disease that began to spread among the Western European elite in the eleventh century, when they declared that they were the replacement for God on earth, ultimately declaring themselves ‘infallible’.

Whether they call themselves the Pope of Rome, the Pope of Constantinople, the Pope of Moscow, the Pope of London and Western Europe, the Pope of Washington, or the Pope of anywhere else, narcissists always end up being alone and losing. This is because their hatred for others always ends up in ‘splendid isolation’ and being hated. It is the fate of all narcissistic leaders, from Alexander to Cleopatra, from Caesar to Nero, from Hildebrand to Henry VIII, from Napoleon to Hitler, their names have gone down in history as haters of others.

Narcissism is by definition jealousy, because it cannot accept that others can be as good, or better, or even right, and can never admit that it is wrong. This is the cause of hatred of the Western elite towards God, towards anyone who stands in its way, and also the cause of its self-hatred (as in transgenderism and transhumanism). This is the inversion of the Gospel Commandments, which tell us to love God and to love our neighbour as ourself. The inversion of this is hellish, just as war, especially World War, because it is satanic, is hell.

World Wars

As for World Wars, they have always begun as a result of artificial countries with artificial borders, which became pretexts for those Wars. Thus, Belgium was founded as a buffer state in 1830 and by 1914 it made a local Austro-Serbian conflict into the cause of World War One; Poland, a Fascist state which had viciously persecuted its very considerable minorities and after occupying Trans-Olza in Czechia became ‘the hyena of Europe’, as Churchill called Poland in 1938, became the cause of World War Two. And what of today?

Today, it is the political manipulation of three tyrannical Soviet dictators, the Ukraine, where the vast majority is oppressed by a small US-appointed and directed Neo-Nazi minority in Kiev, which has become the cause of what is in effect World War Three. Why has the US, the originator of the minority regime in the Soviet Ukraine through its violent $5 billion coup there in 2014, recently changed its attitude towards this Ukraine? It is because the USA has at last realised that it has backed a loser and lost its proxy war against Russia.

Typically narcissistic and therefore ‘infallible’, Trump naturally blames others for the US defeat in the Ukraine. From the outset he blamed Biden, falsely claiming that the war would never have started, had he been President. Now he has had to shift blame to Zelensky, because the latter refuses to make peace. Zelensky refuses to make peace because, unlike Trump the loser, he is pocketing money from the war, because he is frightened of Neo-Nazis, and because his backers in Western Europe refuse to make peace.

Why do they refuse to make peace? Because its unelected EU and UK leaders and their friends in the arms industry, militaries and media are also pocketing money from the Ukrainian war. As heirs of millennium-long ‘infallible’ narcissism, in love with themselves, they will never admit that they made a huge mistake in backing Zelensky and wasting hundreds of billions of Western taxpayers’ money without authorisation in supporting the Fascism, corruption and genocide of millions of Ukrainian people who voted for peace, not war.

The New World Order After the Ukraine

After the defeat of NATO proxy war forces in the Ukraine, fought by Ukrainian, NATO or Columbian mercenaries, or those of other nationalities, the whole world will change. Firstly, the Soviet Ukraine itself will disappear, just as its founder, the Soviet Union, disappeared before it. It will break up into its component parts, returning its captive peoples to the countries they identify with – Russia, Romania, Hungary, perhaps Slovakia and Poland. The much smaller Ukraine that will remain may even come to bear another name.

The narcissistic leaders of Western Europe – discredited for encouraging corruption and genocide – will have to resign or else be overthrown. Narcissistic Europe is in its century of humiliation, a word that comes from ‘humus’, meaning the ‘earth’. Europe will be brought back down to earth from its hubris. NATO and the bankrupt EU, abandoned by the US, will dissolve like the bankrupt USSR, nations will regain their sovereignty. The backfiring sanctions against Russia will end, with stolen assets returned.

Outside Europe, the defeat and discrediting of Western Europe in the Ukraine is already affecting the (former?) French colonies in West Africa, which have thrown out the narcissistic French elite. This process will continue elsewhere. The defeat in the Ukraine has also discredited the USA in West Asia (formerly called ‘the Middle East’) and is forcing out the USA and shaking the future of the Western colony of Israel. This affects the whole of Asia, which is becoming independent, shaking off Western shackles after centuries.

As Russia (North Asia) and Iran (West Asia) lead the independence movement away from the Western world, so India (South Asia) and especially China (East Asia) also become independent, countries like Thailand, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan will abandon their vassal status towards the USA, just like Western Europe. This will leave the narcissistic USA to retreat into the ‘Western Hemisphere’. If it cannot hold on to Latin America, then it will have to retreat into Northern America – in splendid isolation.

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 its isolation 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 Papal… 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, false or not is not the point, 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 2018. It has resurfaced again. It is time to see action from the Russian Church, not paralysis. 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, perhaps 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

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

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

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 17^th 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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