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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alexandria, Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th June

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

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

Cisinau, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June

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

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

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

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

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

 

Towards the Future Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe

The Reconstitution of the Lost Local Church of Western Europe

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

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

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

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

Which Local Church Will Lead the Reconstitution?

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

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

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

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

The Romanian and Russian Churches: Advantages and Disadvantages

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

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

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

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

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

The Future Local Orthodox Church of Western Europe

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

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

Gallia:

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

Italia:

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

Iberia:

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

Germania:

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

Iona (Isles of the North Atlantic):

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

Scandinavia:

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

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

 

Half a Century in the Orthodox Church in Western Europe (1)

Introduction: Nothing New Under the Sun

Apart from one year in Greece and several months in the Soviet Union, and then in Russia and the Ukraine, with brief visits to Orthodox in Moldova, Romania, Belarus, Czechia, Slovakia, Finland, Serbia and Bulgaria, I have spent 51 years as an Orthodox Christian in Western Europe, 41 of them as an Orthodox clergyman in Western Europe, in France, Portugal and England, but with liturgical celebrations in Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. My conclusions?

First of all, there is nothing new under the sun. This is because human nature does not change. Anyone who reads the Acts of the Apostles or the writings of the Church Fathers from the first centuries knows that all the difficulties and scandals of today have already occurred in the past. Of 80,000 Orthodox priests, I have perhaps met perhaps 1,000 and of the 1,000 Orthodox bishops, I have met about 100. I have never seen anything new compared to the past.

Seven Local Churches exist in the Western European Diaspora today: the Romanian, the Greek (Constantinople), the Russian (divided into three parts, one of which refuses to be in communion with another, so is in fact in schism, as well as the 100 new but independent parishes of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church), the Serbian, and then the three very small groups under the Churches of Antioch, Bulgaria and Georgia. Only the three first big Churches carry any weight in terms of the Diaspora Church as a whole.

The Three Big Churches in 1976

Fifty years ago, there were two Russian bishops in this country. As they were both Russian, they were, naturally, at daggers drawn and out of communion with one another. One was an anthroposophist (look it up), a great eccentric who believed in Atlantis. The other one was a notorious womaniser. A few English people were allowed to join the two Russian groups, usually provided that they learned some Russian. This was because both groups were rapidly dying out (1917, after which most of the still living but elderly Russians had come here, was nearly sixty years before 1976). Priests, very few of them lived outside London and they were also elderly, spent much of their time doing funerals.

Fifty years ago, the Patriarchate of Constantinople in this country was dominated by Greek Cypriots, whose lives were largely devoted to Hellenism. Most had arrived here between 1950 and 1974. A homosexual archbishop preferred to ordain his boyfriends and one of his vicar-bishops was a pedophile, who at that time got away with it. Of course, there was at least one bishop who was excellent and many very virtuous priests and pious people. However, the opening to non-Greeks was all but non-existent. From the archbishop down, English people were told to go away, at best being told to join the Church of England or else to learn Greek, ‘if you want to become a Greek’, at worst being told to ‘go away’ by one Cypriot priest, only in the most vulgar way possible in the English language.

Fifty years ago, the Romanian Church was more or less inexistent, as the whole country was controlled by the Romanian Secret Police.

The Three Big Churches in 2026

Today, the Russians remain in small groups here, small because they have all failed to pass on the Faith to locally-born children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and so on. No Russian group has learned how to cope with assimilation. Today, the larger (still small) group is 100% attached to the Russian Federation, politically and in all other ways, and is much compromised by scandals. The smaller group, dominated by American Trumpians, just encourages the crazies and so spawns old calendarists, just as the Russian Church inside Russia once spawned old ritualists, and is much compromised by appalling scandals. Another even smaller group just hangs on. All three groups are dying out – for all have survived largely because of immigration from Moldova. By far the saddest thing about the Russian Church is that it did not learn from history and so it has condemned itself to repeat the same mistakes as before the Revolution. Today, inside the ex-Soviet Union, the Russian Church strangely resembles the pre-Revolutionary Russian Church, with the same politicisation, the same militarisation, the same empty ritualism, the same inhuman rigidity, the same pharisaic and blind repetition that only they are ‘canonical’, the same blind obedience to the hierarchy and the State, regardless of Christ and His teaching.

Today, the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople in this country, although still dominated by Greek Cypriots whose lives are largely devoted to Hellenism, has a very dynamic archbishop, whose English is better than his Greek, and who is desperately trying to save his archdiocese from self-extinction despite his elderly flock. As he said to us a few months ago, he has one hundred priests who are so old that they are likely to die within the next five years and three candidates to replace them. For forty years the previous administration ignored all the warnings that this would happen. The saddest thing about the Greek Church is that they did not learn from the suicide of the Russian Church, so they are condemned to repeat the same suicide and also die out.

The Romanian Patriarchate is today by far the largest Church as a result of the immigration of four to five million Romanians and Moldovans here over the last 20 years. Overall, our two Autonomous Romanian Orthodox Metropolias in Western Europe have 10 bishops, 1,283 churches and 30 monasteries, which makes them by far the largest Local Church in Western Europe. We are about four times larger than the Greek Patriarchate of Constantinople in Western Europe, five times larger than the Russian Church in Western Europe (most of which is composed of Romanian-speaking Moldovans) and incomparably larger than the tiny ROCOR and Antiochian dioceses, both with less than 100, mainly tiny (between 10 and 50 people), communities.

Conclusion: The Challenge for the Romanian Church

Between 1917 and 1962 by far the largest Diaspora Church in Western Europe, albeit divided into three warring groups, was the Russian Church. Between 1962 and 2007 by far the largest was the Patriarchate of Constantinople. But they both lost their dominating positions and indeed the respect of others, the Russians through their isolationist totalitarian politics, which excludes Non-Russians, and their lack of communion with others, the Greeks through their sheer racism. Today some 85% of Orthodox here are Romanian or Moldovan. Can the Romanians, now by far the biggest group, keep their position and the respect of others?

The Romanian Church has many devout clergy and people. It has the Carpathian spirit of solidarity. We are together in the Romanian Church, this is the People’s Church, with a sense of community, family and friendship. The Romanian language is a Latin language, written in the Latin alphabet. There is neither the politics, nor the military-style rigidity of the Russians, nor the racism of the Greeks. Moreover, and most importantly, the Romanian Church alone is in communion with everyone, in schism with no-one. However, the Romanian Church still faces two great challenges.

The first weakness of the Romanian Church, at least in Romania, is the temptation of money. Any Romanian layperson will tell you of a bad experience in Romania with a member of the clergy who demanded money from them. This is why some Romanians have become Protestants. I have not seen this temptation in the Romanian Diaspora, but we cannot be complacent. The second weakness of the Romanian Church is the potential lack of openness to others, in other words, the weakness of nationalism. To found a new Local Church in the Diaspora means to be open to others, to warring Greeks and Russians in particular, to be able to co-operate with others in a common language, accepting different languages, calendars and customs, and not imposing one’s own. Is this possible? Will it too fail to learn from history and repeat the errors of the Russians, repeated by the Greeks? We await the inevitable verdict of the history of the future.

 

 

After Globalist Davos: Will All Globalist Organisations Now Also Collapse?

‘It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal’.

Henry Kissinger

The current President of the USA may yet be removed from office either for insanity or else as a result of his poor physical health. We have only ever seen such narcissistic egomania and amoralism once before and that was in the case of a psychically deranged American bishop. In the meantime, however, Trump goes from his failed US proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine, which now faces military, economic and political collapse, to genocide in Gaza, to Caribbean piracy and murdering fishermen, to kidnapping the President of Venezuela, to a failed regime coup operation in Iran, to threatening Canada and Western Europe with tariffs because he wants to invade Greenland, to a disastrously failed ‘Board of Peace’ attempt to dissolve the United Nations, and to murdering his own citizens through his masked Gestapo Police.

At Davos the Prime Minster of Canada admitted that ‘the rules-based international order’ had indeed only even been a myth, a ‘narrative’, which justified the Western world’s grabbing of whatever it wanted from the rest of the world and sharing in the spoils. From Iraq to Venezuela, it had always been obvious. Nothing new here, except that a Globalist banker publicly admitted it. Also the President of the Ukraine, sent by Ukrainian oligarchs to garner even more lucre from stupid Europeans, had yet another spoilt child tantrum of entitlement. As usual, he vilified Europe for not giving him everything he wanted and received a standing ovation from the crawling Europeans. Nothing new here either, except that what was true all along has become undeniable.

Davos meetings always assembled Globalist oligarchs and promoted their ideology. However, the ‘battle’ for Greenland in January 2026 destroyed their ideology. The Europeans had thought that President Trump was bluffing about Greenland, for the idea of war between the USA and Europe was unthinkable to them. Instead, the American President deployed his favourite tool and threatened to levy import tariffs on Europe, with threats to raise them, in order to pressure the Danish government to give Greenland up. That was enough. The cowardly European NATO appeasers, who despise international law, compromised and forced little Denmark to give Greenland to the USA, piece by piece. It will be called ‘The Greenland Purchase’.

In retaliation, the Europeans are scurrying to Beijing, as the Canadians have already done. Will some of them sheepishly began crawling to Moscow, pleading for the gas and oil from which they had cut themselves off, and will some even apologise for supporting the Ukraine, hypocritically blaming the Americans? At the Russian request, Europeans and Canadians may yet leave NATO, giving an excuse to Americans, who will be all too happy to leave their NATO bases in Europe, Ramstein, Lakenheath, Aviano etc. Globalist NATO may duly be dispatched into the dustbin of history. The Europeans may gleefully begin to prosecute American tech giants like Google, Meta, Tesla and X and the Chinese would be happy to provide Baidu, BYD, Huawei and others instead.

By spring 2026 the Globalist regime in Kiev may collapse. New representatives in Kiev could sign a peace treaty acknowledging the long-awaited return to Russia of Novorossiya, that is, of Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhia, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa, Dnepro, Kharkov, and guaranteeing human rights to Russian speakers elsewhere. As we predicted in 2022, two and a half far western provinces may be returned to Poland (Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and western Ternopil), one to Romania (North Bukovina) and one divided between Slovakia and Hungary (Zakarpat’e). The New Ukraine, demilitarised and renamed Kievska Rus, could consist of Kiev and eleven and a half provinces of the Soviet Ukraine. The evils done by Lenin and Stalin would at last be undone.

After the collapse of the Globalist NATO, its Globalist economic and political wing, the EU, may also begin to collapse. Former EU members, starting in central and south-eastern Europe, could leave the EU and join BRICS. followed by south-western Europe, Italy, Spain, Portugal. The EU would be left in tatters and dissolve itself. Meanwhile, Europeans may cancel orders with US defence contractors and begin placing orders with local producers like Rheinmetall, BAE Systems and SAAB. However, even small orders would take years to be designed and delivered and costs would overrun. Nobody would admit it, but everyone would wish that they could get back everything they had earlier given away to the Ukraine, where it was immediately destroyed by Russian arms.

Meanwhile, following Ukrainian-style corruption scandals at last made public, the peoples of the three Baltic States, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, may yet topple their old American elites and replace them with democrats. These would restore to their Russian minorities their human rights and restore Russian and Soviet historical monuments, hoping for desperately needed Russian investments in their deindustrialised and depopulated statelets. After referenda, the vast majority of Moldovans may return to Romania, though small parts in the east and south would join Russia and small numbers in the north join Kievska Rus. As for Finland and Sweden, like Switzerland, they too could overthrow their American elites and return to neutrality.

Prudently biding its time, China would be the last to act. In late 2026 it could blockade Taiwan, which would capitulate within weeks. Most Taiwanese would rejoice at long-awaited national reunion with the Motherland and the coming economic boom and investments in infrastructure. As the world enters 2027, the new geopolitical landscape would be unrecognisable. America’s occupation of islands and peninsulas in East Asia and in Oceania, as throughout Eurasia and Africa, would be over. The Philippines, South Korea, Japan and Australia would stop being American vassals – the failure of the bankrupt ($40 trillion) United States to defend Taiwan would sober them and they could all made friends with China, signing trade deals and demilitarising.

Viewed from outside, America’s One Hemisphere policy (in fact, One North-West quarter-sphere) would be a failure for the isolationist US elite. True, they might have their united Northern America, but not a united North America, since Mexico, let alone the rest of Latin America, would have nothing to do with ‘Gringo’ ‘Trumpland’, and would resist its imperialism. Turned inwards, the US elite would not see its failure. After all, in the North, Greenland could be absorbed as the 51st American State and then Canada might begin to crumble into US hands province by province. And so after four years in power, Trump could transform the world, though in reality he would only have acted as a catalyst in hastening the inevitable decomposition of the Western world.

 

 

 

The New World Order and Orthodox Christianity

Eurasia

In 2026 we have finally entered the real New World Order. Afro-Eurasia, including the Ukraine and Western Europe, is now being freed of the last remnants of the European and American colonial empires. Asia, by far the greatest and most populous Continent (over 60% of the world’s people) is being separated into North Asia (also called Eurasia, and eventually to include its Western European tip), led by Russia; East Asia, led by China; South Asia, led by India; and West Asia, which will be led by the Islamic world, once it has been freed from US-Israeli divide and rule policies and begins to work together.

After the US defeats in Eurasia, in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and a few days ago, in Iran, where it was frightened off by its advanced missiles, the Americans are scurrying back to the Western hemisphere and a first adventure in Venezuela, kidnapping the President and his wife. With the US leaving Eurasia, France too is being thrown out of its last footholds in Africa by Russia. It is clear that Africa and Eurasia are being freed, despite hesitations in the South Korean peninsula, on the island of Taiwan, in parts of Thailand, in the settler colony of Israel and in the north-western tip of the peninsula known as ‘Europe’.

Europe and the Rest of the World

Some ask why it is the tiny Baltic States in ‘Europe’ which are so opposed to being part of Russian-led North Asia. It is because its US-imposed elites are the last converts to the obsolete Western Establishment ideology that ‘the West is Best’. The UK left the EU – the Baltics are fanatics for it. For as recent converts, these Eastern European neophytes are more Western than the West, ‘more royalist than the King’, as the French say. They are the last believers in Western superiority, together with the tiny number of its ideologues of the Western European elite. Western people have never believed in their elitist nonsense.

As for Africa, it is separating into Northern and Islamic Africa and Southern and Christian Africa. Then there is Oceania with its very large territory but tiny population, dominated by Australia, whose economy is now largely dependent on China and East Asia. It too has already moved away from the UK and the USA. Finally, there are the Americas, or ‘the Western Hemisphere’, dominated by the USA, which is separated into Northern and largely English-speaking America, and Southern or Latin, largely Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking America. The latter has yearned for generations to liberate itself from Yankee oppression.

Greenland

However, Latin America is now breaking free from US domination. For the USA is too busy absorbing Greenland and may be too busy trying to absorb Canada. After all, Greenland is the Western shield of the USA and once it has been absorbed, Canada will be surrounded. Tiny colonialist Denmark and weakling Europe, whose self-styled Napoleonic leader, Macron, sports dark glasses to cover his black eye, given him by his husband, will not defend the colonial anachronism of Greenland. In 1974 NATO Turkey invaded Cyprus and NATO Greece and the rest of NATO did absolutely nothing. Why would they act now?

Trump’s interest is to end European colonies in North America through taking Greenland. His excuse? The waters around Greenland are infested by Russian and Chinese ships – invisible to everyone else. If Europe expels the USA from its bases in Europe, Trump will be only too pleased to end NATO – and also to distract from Epstein. The European Globalist banker leaders will simply appease Trump, as they did Hitler in the 1930s. Yes, Trump is prepared to go to war to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize. In this distraction, Kiev oligarchs argue and Russia cuts off power in the Ukraine, copying the tactics of the USA in Serbia.

Although Greenland is much smaller than shown on absurd world maps, it is still twice the size of California, currently the largest state of the USA. However, unlike ‘the sunshine state’, with a population some 750 times greater than Greenland’s, Greenland is covered in very thick ice. Possibly, if you knew where to drill down through hundreds of metres of ice, some useful minerals could be found. But that would make them very expensive minerals. The Greenland block of ice is rapidly turning into the block of ice that sank the Titanic, only this time this Titanic is the sinking ship of relations between the USA and Western Europe.

Europe’s Weakness

Trump wants to seize Greenland in a land grab vanity project. It is inhabited by 55,000 people who live in peace and do not want to be invaded, but that is OK with Europe. However, when Russia invaded the Ukraine, inhabited by huge numbers of ethnic Russian Ukrainians, who asked to be invaded, or rather, ‘liberated’ by Russia, since they were being genocided by an illegal, anti-democratic, Fascistic, US-installed regime in Kiev, that was not OK. Hypocritical double standards have morally discredited the Western world so much that the phrase ‘Western values’ has now become a subject for worldwide laughter.

Trump saw European weakness, when they called him ‘Daddy’. So he decided to take European territory in a repeat of US Independence from Europe in 1776, 250 years ago. The Europeans have brought this on themselves. The Germans allowed the Americans and their proxies (Russian-hating Danes among them) to blow up the Nordstream pipeline, so they would become dependent on overpriced US liquified gas. Russia never cut Europeans off from Russian gas. The Americans did. Now the Europeans have no Russian gas and, if they defy the Americans in Greenland, they will also lose American gas. Karma for Denmark.

Orthodox Christianity

We have for now entered a Tripolar World of China, the USA and Russia. The last of these is, nominally, Orthodox Christian. All the prophecies agree that its present leader will be succeeded by a Tsar. After various Orthodox peoples, like the Ukrainians, the Belarussians, the Baltics etc have at last received their inevitable Church independence (Autocephaly), this Tsar will still directly represent over 50% of all Orthodox. Then at last authentic Orthodox missionary work can begin. At present, this is not possible, as the Russian Church, once captive to Soviet atheism, is now captive to extreme Russian nationalism.

Russian nationalism openly and publicly rejects, sometimes very aggressively, all Non-Russian Orthodox. They complain how for decades they have been treated like third-class citizens by Russians. In fact, the Russian Church is now in schism with other parts of the Orthodox Christian world. However, it has also alienated many other Orthodox, in the Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Baltics and throughout the Orthodox world. It will need a Tsar to reverse the disastrous clericalism, ritualism, militarism and nationalism that so disfigure today’s Russian Church, which is lost in the labyrinth of these post-Soviet deviations.

 

 

The Collapse of the Globalists?

Russia hoped for a swift end to the genocide of Russians in the Ukraine by demilitarising and denazifying the illegal and Fascistic Kiev regime. Instead, after April 2022 Russia was obliged by the West to demilitarise and denazify the whole of the West, changing its racist and imperialist mentalities. The latter had depleted its weapon stocks and treasuries, sending so much of what it had to Kiev. Today, at last, although Kiev is running out of Ukrainian men, Ukrainian men are running out of the Ukraine. They do not want to die for a corrupt oligarchic regime. Russian victory is coming.

As a result, the EU and the UK are now in crisis. The unelected head of the EU has again faced a vote of no confidence. The French government has collapsed again and its disruptive narcissistic President, the Rothschild Macron, may have to resign, to the relief of the people he has bankrupted and the Sovereignist National Rally Party. In Britain there seems only to be hatred for the puppet Starmer, the bankers’ candidate, chosen by the oligarchs mainly on account of his Jewish wife and children. The UK Opposition, the 200-year-old Conservative Party, has all but disappeared beneath the tide of the Sovereignist Reform Party. In Germany the militaristic Blackrock Chancellor Merz, is just as unpopular as Starmer and Macron, even though he is trying to forbid the German Sovereignist AfD Opposition.

In Italy Meloni looks as though she could be replaced by the Sovereignist Salvini. The new Polish and Czech governments are realists, not ideologues, and are gradually dropping their support for Kiev. A Georgescu government in Romania would have done the same, only it was banned by the EU, and the EU only won in Moldova because of its massive electoral corruption. Meanwhile, although corrupt pro-EU cliques are still in power in Armenia and Azerbaijan and UK elites are trying to corrupt Bosnia and Kazakhstan, the democratically-elected government in Georgia has held firm against the latest EU attempt at regime change. In Canada, there is repression, as in Switzerland and Britain, where they want digital ID. Authoritarian, police-state movements are in power everywhere in the West.

In the other part of the Western world, the still neocon-controlled USA, there is bankruptcy and chaos, with threats of disastrous new wars against Iran, Venezuela and the Russia – wars of fanatics on three continents at the same time. However, National Sovereignist (Populist) leaders are challenging the old post-World War II order, with leaders like Trump in the USA, Orban in Hungary and Fico in Slovakia. Thus, Orban has rejected the EU euro currency, as he considers that it is dead. For them the future of South-Eastern Europe is with BRICS. Many consider that both the EU and NATO are doomed.

 

Orthodox Pray in Our Own Church in Dublin

The Church of St John of Shanghai in Colchester was built in 1855 and is the largest wooden church in the British Isles and Ireland. St John’s is attended annually by 5,000 Orthodox of 25 nationalities. It has two altars, three priests of different nationalities, two deacons and Sunday attendance is between 200 and 400.  It is administered by the East of England Orthodox Church Trust (Charity No. 1081707), centred in the City of Colchester, which cares for our Deanery of seven multinational Orthodox parishes in Colchester, the East of England and beyond.

St John’s is a parish of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part of the Autonomous Orthodox Metropolia of Western and Southern Europe with its Synod of 7 bishops and over 900 parish churches and many monasteries. Our rapidly expanding Archdiocese  already has 108 priests and 17 deacons in 95 parishes and 5 monasteries, as Vladica Atanasie ordains our many candidates throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Next to us, however, with Bishop Nectarie of Ireland and Iceland there are another 10 parishes and 15 priests and his Diocese has had wonderful news:

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2025/09/14/miracle-from-god-romanian-orthodox-community-gathers-in-newly-purchased-cathedral/

 

 

September 2025: A Tale of Two Cities and of Two Saints

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way…

Charles Dickens

Two Cities (1859)

Dickens’ The Tale of Two Cities was published 166 years ago and concerned the two cities of London and Paris. Today these cities have become rather irrelevant on the world stage and been replaced by others. These are Ekaterinburg, which in 1918 became the New Paris, the City of Martyrdom, as was old Paris for a time after 1789, and Shanghai, which has become the new centre of commerce, the New London, as was old London until 1918. Ekaterinburg is in North Asia (Eurasia), at the very frontier of Europe and Asia, and Shanghai is in East Asia. In the first days of September 2025, they came to the fore, as three out of the four most important world leaders met because of agreements made in them.

Firstly, there was the meeting of the SCO (Shanghai Co-operation Organisation) and secondly that of the Intercontinental BRICS, founded in Ekaterinburg. The main languages were Mandarin and Russian. And on 3 September over twenty of the most important world leaders gathered in Beijing to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Chinese victory over the Western puppet of Japan, turned rogue, and against Japanese Fascism. 20 million Chinese were killed in this struggle, 16.5 million of them civilians, for China had to fight for fourteen years from 1931-1945 against 70% of the Japanese Army. This is unlike the USA which fought only from 1941 to 1945 and lost 400,000 from its armed forces.

In its battle against German Fascism, the USSR lost 27 million, 19 million of them civilians. In other words, the USSR and China lost 47 million people against Fascism, whereas US lost fewer than 1% of this. The world leaders gathered in Beijing were national leaders, not tyrannical, oligarch-appointed sexual perverts and puppets of the global banking cartels, as in the West, like Trump, Merz, Starmer and Macron. BRICS is the Concert of Sovereign Nations, which preaches non-interference, co-operation, and refuses to engage in regime-change operations or assassinations of the democratically-elected leaders of other countries. They highlight today’s Tale of Two Cities and Tale of Two Saints.

St Nicholas of Ekaterinburg (1868-1918)

BRICS was founded in the Tsar’s Capital of Saint Petersburg in 2006 and its first summit took place in Ekaterinburg in 2009. Ekaterinburg is the City of the martyrdom of Tsar Nicholas II, his Family and four of his faithful servants in 1918, though the first of them had been martyred in 1916. Tsar Nicholas had reigned over a summit of cultural achievement: Dostoyevsky (1881), Chekhov (1904), Tolstoy (1910); Tchaikovsky (1893), Rimsky-Korsakov (1904), Rakhmaninov (1943); Levitan (1900), Serov (1911), Repin (1930). In 1917 this apex of culture was overthrown in a right-wing plot of aristocrats, generals, politicians and lawyers, orchestrated by British perfidy and hatred of Russia in wartime.

The plotters were themselves soon overthrown by the crude and reactive Western ideology of Marxism, accepted and imposed mainly by Non-Russians. Mass genocide followed. Today, those of us who are faithful to the memory of the righteous Tsar continue his mission. Count and Countess Benckendorff, ambassadors of Holy Rus, travel throughout the East of England and beyond, recently visiting Royal Sandringham and greeting King Charles III, and renewing with St Edmund, the last East Anglian King, who was martyred like Tsar Nicholas by the same heathen. This is despite the apostasy of certain members of the Russian Church, whose liberation from the politicians we all await.

Tsar Nicholas II spoke five languages, Russian, English, French, German and Danish. He was multinational, wanting to build a church for Orthodox in every Western European capital, before the First European War prevented him from implementing this project. Today the Benckendorffs fly the multinational White Russian flag combined with St Edmund’s standard as their confession of the Faith. But a number of Church leaders are still stuck either in the masonic (1721-1917), or the Bolshevik (1917-1991), or the Capitalist (1992-2022) past. Thus, the plagues of nationalism, centralism and sectarianism infect the once great multinational Russian Orthodox Church and sadly enslave it and limit it.

St John of Shanghai (1896-1966)

Ekaterinburg has its saint, but so does Shanghai. Multinational, Imperial and Prophetic like our Tsar, St John (Maximovich) preached repentance for his martyrdom not only to the apostatic Russians in Shanghai, Western Europe and the USA, but also to the whole Western world. As a result of the weaponisation of Western finance, trade, the dollar and diplomacy, the United Nations (UN) may yet move from New York precisely to Shanghai, together perhaps with the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank and the WTO (World Trade Organisation). Although St John was persecuted, suspended and put on trial by the apostatic Russians in the USA, his victory in Shanghai is coming.

After all, the three largest BRICS nations alone, Russia, China and India, that is, North Asia (Eurasia), East Asia and South Asia, represent over three billion people, some 36% of the world’s population. All Eurasia is now being interconnected, as symbolised by new pipelines which are only reinforcing these interconnections. Even West Asia, the greatest nation of which is Iran, is entering into those interconnections, despite the Western wars against it. Africa, Latin America and even Oceania are also now entering into those interconnections. Missing only is the self-isolated and barbarically aggressive north-western peninsula of Eurasia, that pretentiously calls itself ‘Europe’.

That ‘Europe’ and its US master is now a blend of failed (bankrupt) states and rogue (which murder the heads of other countries) states. As globalists, their leaders hate as ever their own peoples. The 750 + US bases worldwide are not threats to freedom, but monuments to its bankruptcy. The Western world, Northern America, Western Europe, the crusader settler colony of Israel, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the 47 million of Oceania, is isolated. And so it mounts attacks against BRICS in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia, Syria and Iran, Thailand and Cambodia, Venezuela and Brazil, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Serbia, Romania and Moldova, Hungary and Slovakia.

The Way Ahead (2025)

First the Western world lost its diplomatic, technological and military war against Russia, China and India. Then it lost its economic war of illegal sanctions and tariffs, against Russia in 2023, China in 2024, and India in 2025. Western Europe is still living in the past of its old empires. The Frankish Empire of Western Europe, built against Eastern Europe (from 882 on), against Southern Europe (from 999 to 1194), against Northern Europe (from 1066 on) and then against the coastlands of West Asia and North Africa (from 1096 on), is over. This millennial empire is why it is four times more difficult for Western Europe to give up its hubris and fantasy than for the USA with its mere 250-years of empire.

At this very moment Western European governments are collapsing in violence. Its European Wars, ‘World War One’ (1914-18) saw the suicide, or rather murder by Zionists, of the German Second Empire (Reich), the Russian Imperial, the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires. ‘World War Two’ (1939-45) saw the suicide, or rather murder, of the German Third Empire (Reich), the British, the French and the Japanese Empires. ‘World War Three’ (2022- ) saw the suicide, or rather murder, of the US Empire and that of its vassals in Western Europe, the Ukraine and Israel. At this very moment, Western European governments are collapsing. And the cause is the same – suicide or murder.

‘It would be a far, far better thing that you do, than you have ever done’ for the West to return to the Pre-West. This is the West of the Age of the Saints. For authentic Christianity is not a Western religion, but came out of Asia for the whole world. And so the West would become again part the rest of the world. This is the future, to rejoin the Concert of the Sovereign Nations, in respect and toleration. US intolerance, like its religion, does not export. US religion was cast out of Europe because of its intolerance, its intimidation and bullying are not Christian. Western intolerance, interference in the affairs of others, is dead, which is why the Western world is the museum and the cemetery of its past.

 

 

 

A Shakespearian Tragedy of our own Times: 1995-2025

“Tis the times’ plague, when madmen lead the blind.”

William Shakespeare, King Lear

There was once a small but international US Corporation, whose CEO was a stern and uncompromising elderly man called V, who was the King Lear of his age. He lived in nostalgia for a disappeared past and did not want to recognise the new world that had emerged. He was so strict that he used to insult one of the frustrated, well-educated, go-getter young executives, who was called M. From that moment on, M began to plot with other younger ones how to get rid of V. V, who had suffered much in life, had difficulty with all this stress from the young and finally became overcome by dementia. At last, the young ones succeeded and M saw that triumph awaited him. All he had to do was to seize his chance.

True, they had to use violence to get rid of V, as he stubbornly refused to die, and at one point one of the young executives even tried to kidnap him. Nevertheless, V was gone at last, M’s personal grudge was satisfied, and all could be reshaped in his own image, as he had patiently been planning during his several years of frustration. Although patient, he could brook no contradiction. Now the other young ones, all rather weak and also disciples of M and whom he could manipulate at will, had their greedy eyes set on an alliance with another much bigger Corporation. They thought that an alliance with a Corporation 100 times bigger, which had long been resisted by V, would bring them all the big time and big money.

From this moment on, M and his team took over altogether. After all, M came from the upper echelons, he was the son of a Government Minister, he had completed higher studies and was very clever. He deserved power. However, M did not want to occupy the throne, rather he wanted to be the power behind the throne so he could pull the strings. The unpleasant task of occupying the throne could be fulfilled by his puppets. So he had L, a lovely, but elderly, poorly-educated, weak and malleable man, made the next CEO and an alliance with the big Corporation was made.

This alliance was supported by the vast majority, who worked for the small Corporation, though not because they sought power and riches like the executives. They were simply fed up with the isolationist antics of the past. Only a few really old or fanatical ones resisted. However, as the elderly L soon died, M replaced him with another puppet, this one, called H, was another lovely, but weak and malleable man. Now although H was scared stiff of M, he unexpectedly stood up to M in certain areas, wherever he could. M got very angry at this. How dare anyone resist him. M always eliminated anyone who resisted his high-handed and unprincipled ways and H had to bury the scandals for M.

Eventually, M got so angry that he began to undermine H, intimidating him and reinforcing his clique of young bloods, promising them even more power and riches. In this way the health of H worsened under pressure from the young bloods, who were led by and used by M. M began to sign all documents by autopen, behind H’s back. From this moment on, H was sidelined. In despair, H fell into dementia. Some days he knew his name, other days he did not, just like V before him. Then his physical health also gave way and he too died. H was replaced by M with another very weak character, N.

Much younger, N too was weak and malleable, just like L before him. In exchange for the flattering title of CEO, N had to take charge of all the scandals that M had been sweeping under the carpet for years. N knew that he was doing wrong, but his conscience was poorly developed and he was too weak to stand up for principles. Elsewhere, all were now waiting for the death of the by now elderly M, not least the big Corporation, with which M had allied himself. The big Corporation had for years been greedily and quite ruthlessly eyeing the valuable real estate of the small Corporation, like a tree with low-hanging fruit. They used to say there, a merger is OK, but ‘mergers have to be completed by acquisitions’, in other words, a single and unified administration, making the unneeded redundant.

They waited very patiently, as the small Corporation began to decay from the inside, as incompetent and greedy executives took over and argued among themselves. Disputes and scandals among the once young, but now ageing executives became ever more common. One scandal followed after another and court cases became frequent. When the rotten fruit fell, the big Corporation would take the lot. Outside the little Corporation, yet other Corporations waited alongside, as the sailors began to jump from the sinking ship of the little Corporation and were rescued and welcomed by them. Given the warm welcome, more and more jumped.

All could see what was going to happen, even M, who, now elderly, finally realised that his karma was coming: all his decades of intrigues had been for nothing. Death was coming and all his work would be swallowed up by the big Corporation. His little empire would be lost. It had all been labour in vain. Here was his Shakespearian tragedy, the tragedy of an old man, repeating the fate of V and becoming a new King Lear.

“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”

Fool, Act 1, Scene 5, King Lear

Then something quite unexpected happened inside the big Corporation….

(To Be Continued)

 

Three World Wars For Nothing?

‘It’s not peace, but a twenty-year long truce’.

Prediction of Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France, about the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919

‘If we aim at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare say, will not limp. Nothing can then delay for very long the forces of Reaction and the despairing convulsions of Revolution, before which the horrors of the later German war will fade into nothing, and which will destroy, whoever is victor, the civilisation and the progress of our generation’.

Prediction in the book The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes, about the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919

Introduction: Lives Destroyed By Futile Wars

I was brought up in a world shaped by the results of two World Wars. The lives of my parents, uncles and aunts (the men fought, several of the women, one was a victim of the London Blitz, were spinsters – there were too few men left to marry) had all been deeply affected by the Second World War, those of my grandparents, great-uncles and great-aunts (soldiers and spinsters) deeply affected by the First World War. They talked of little else, as their once peaceful and settled lives had been disfigured by the Wars. As for me I was born in the year of the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, when the USA planted the last nail into the coffin of the British Empire, and Soviet tanks entered oppressed Budapest. Looking back today, as once more the Western world is at war against Russia, I cannot help seeing the continuity of these wars. However, I also see their futility, as they merely put off the inevitable rise of Russia, even though it repeatedly attempted suicide in its history in movements of spiritual apostasy.

Three ‘World’ Wars To Destroy Russia

We use the term ‘World Wars’ to describe the global disasters that were in fact European Wars, or more precisely Wars for the control of Russia. Thus, the First World War (1914-18) began after the Austrian annexation of Bosnia, the Second World War (1939-1945) began after the German annexation of Poland, and what I here call the Third World War (2022-2025?) began after the Western annexation of the Soviet Ukraine. All these wars were in reality the attempts by the ruling classes of Austro-Hungary and its allies, Germany and its allies, and the USA and its European vassals, respectively, to gain control of the territory (‘Lebensraum’) and natural resources of the Eastern half of Europe (from the Soviet-fixed borders of the Ukraine to the Volga, Stalingrad and Astrakhan). All have essentially been wars directed against the three different Russias, Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation, caused by the desire of the Western world to exploit and plunder its wealthy neighbour, which occupies the Eastern half of Geographical Europe and all Siberia as far as the Pacific.

Moreover, all these wars were underpinned and propagandised by a racist ideology which believes that Western Europeans, the Germanic and Latin, so-called ‘Aryan’, peoples, are racially superior to all others. This infers the racial inferiority of Slavs (Serbs/Poles/Russians etc), Jews, Gypsies etc to Western Europeans and their white descendants in the USA, Australia, Canada and elsewhere. In the Second World War this ideology came to be called ‘Nazism’, though its racist nature was already apparent in the First World War, but not by that name. Nazism conquered or subdued all of Western Europe in the Second War. In the Third World War all the Western countries, once more deployed against Russia, sometimes openly share this same ideology. It is most obvious with the SS-inspired armed forces in what is the Soviet Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, but also in the EU, where many of the main unelected Eurocrats and representatives like von der Leyen, Kallas, Baerbock or Metreweli, the head of the foreign spy service of the UK, are the grandchildren of Nazis.

This myth of racial superiority has been a constant throughout the last millennium of Western European history. The Russians first experienced it in a letter from Pope Hildebrand (Gregory VII) sent to Yaroslav of Russia in 1075, demanding submission. Next came the Russian defeat of the invading Teutonic Knights in 1242. It is precisely this hubristic conviction of superiority which lies behind the continual defeats of the West. These defeats, Napoleon’s, Hitler’s and Trump’s, all come from underestimating Russian realities. Thus, Russia is ‘only a regional power showing weakness’ (Obama, 2014) or ‘a gas station masquerading as a country’ (McCain, 2015). Its losses, according to Western propagandists, are ten times its real losses and ‘it has no more missiles, tanks, bombs, shells or troops’, who are being sent to Ukrainian lines ‘to die in human waves’. These people live in Hollywood and have grown accustomed to believing their own lies. The lies are written by Western PR scriptwriters, exaggerated by the Kiev Ministry of Propaganda, and then believed by stupid politicians.

The First War is called a World War only because it involved British colonial troops mainly from the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean, as well as Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians and then Americans, and French colonial troops mainly from Africa, and also involved skirmishes with German colonial troops in Africa. The Second War is called a World War only because it also involved the same colonial troops as well as American troops and took place in the Anglo-German battle for the control of oil in the Middle East and the war of the USA and the UK against Japan for control of the Pacific. And the Third War can be called a World War only because it indirectly involves BRICS, notably China, India, Iran and North Korea, and its other supporters in ‘the Global South’ of Africa, Asia and Latin America. This is the first War in which the West is isolated and in a tiny and technologically weaker minority, it is the 10% against the 90%. Therefore, it has always been clear who will eventually win and clear that the West was made foolish by hubris to fantasise that it could win.

In other words, all these Wars began in Eastern Europe and involved failed invasions of Russia, which Western Europe wanted to take over and exploit. This had already been rehearsed before them in 1812 under Napoleon with his collective, multinational invasion of Russia by ‘the French and the twelve tribes’. (However, others like the Poles and the Swedes had tried and failed even before him and the Anglo-French had tried again in 1853-56). Thus, it can be said that all three World Wars were ‘Napoleonic’, that is, failed Pan-Western attempts to destroy Russia. Napoleon, Nazi and NATO – those three even begin with the same two letters. All of them had been prepared, for tensions between the European Powers had been brewing for years, especially in the Far East (1904-05) and the Balkans from 1908 on. And Germany had been preparing for war under Hitler since 1933. As regards today’s war, it began with the overthrow in Kiev in 2014, followed by covid (a US bio-war virus, backfired on it and its allies) and the threatened genocide by the Kiev puppet regime of Eastern Ukraine.

This full-scale physical and cultural genocide of Eastern Ukrainians, already prepared on a low level (nearly 15,000 men, women and children murdered in the Donbass, as well as in Kiev and Odessa) between 2014 and early 2022, had been programmed by NATO, of which the separatist Kiev regime was already a de facto member, for March 2022. This threat provoked the initially small-scale Russian intervention in February 2022 there, in what until 1922, exactly a century before, had been part of Russia. Once the Western Powers forbade their puppet-regime in Kiev to sue for peace with Russia in March-April 2022 under its envoy Johnson, this developed into a full-scale war against Russia by the Kiev regime proxies, Western-trained, Western-supplied, Western-informed, Western-armed, Western-biolabbed, and Western-financed. It is this Russian war to deSovietise the Soviet-established Ukraine which continues today, three and a half years later, with Russia and the BRICS world victorious. Western leaders officially deny it because on admission they would have to resign.

After The Three World Wars

Our question is what would have happened if the three interdependent World Wars, in fact Anti-Russian Wars I, II and III (like the preparatory Anglo-American-financed anti-Russian War, launched by their Japanese proxy in 1904) had not taken place. Would the situation of the world be any different today from it would have been without those Wars? Of course, no definitive answer can be given to this question – we shall never know, because the three World Wars did take place, with their fifty million and more dead in Europe alone. However, we can make some striking observations.

Inside Europe, in 1914 Germany dominated Western Europe economically, technologically and militarily, not only because of its heavy industry with iron and steel, but also through its advanced engineering, chemical, electrical and automotive industries. But this was exactly the situation at least until 2022. Then began the deindustrialisation of Germany, enforced by the US cutting off its energy supplies from Russia, and the end of a Germany which had been the engine of the EU, the heart of the EU economy.

In 1914 France played a secondary role in Western Europe, albeit a jealous, petulant and resentful role, as a result of its defeat at German hands in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. This is the role it still plays in Western Europe today. In 1914 the Imperialist British ruling class looked to its role overseas, outside Europe, especially to the USA and India. This is the role it still plays today, though today the roles have been reversed. The UK, its snobbish and arrogant, fantasy-driven ruling class, stuck in the past, paradoxically still not de-Imperialised, is in fact dependent on its former colonies, rather than they being dependent on the UK.

In 1914 Russia dominated Eurasia (Northern Asia, the vast area from Eastern Europe to China), as Tsar Nicholas had opened the Russian ‘Window on Asia’ by insisting on the completion of and inaugurating the Trans-Siberian railway. He considered that Siberia would be to European Russia what North America had been to Western Europe. In 1913 it was estimated by Edmond Thery, the French economist, that by 1950 Russia would ‘dominate Europe politically, economically and financially’. However, in 1914 there was the German-led War against the Russian Empire, a British-orchestrated Revolution through Russian traitors, Western invasions after 1917, a German-led invasion in 1941, murdering 27 million, and for several years after 1991 the plunder of the Russian Federation by the Western world, as a result of which millions died prematurely in mafia crime, starvation, suicide and alcoholism borne of despair.

Despite the present tragic, post-Soviet conflict, one of whose aims is to deSovietise the Soviet Ukraine and restore the real, historic Ukraine (Malorossija), the three generations wasted by Marxism meant that the Russian economy became the largest in Europe only in 2024, 74 years after the predicted 1950. And 74 years was exactly the period during which Russia was taken over by the idiotic Western ideology of Marxism (1917-1991), sent by Germany in the form of Lenin to contaminate the Russian Western-educated class, who also designed the absurd borders of the Soviet Ukraine. Nevertheless, by 2024 the Russian economy had at last become the largest economy in Europe, indeed the fourth largest in the world, just as it had already been in pre-Soviet, Imperial 1914. Thus, the Three World Wars had only delayed the inevitable and the development of the future deWesternised, but once more Imperial (but not Imperialist, as it is deWesternised) Russia.

Outside Europe, in 1914 the USA was trying to dominate Latin America (starting with its land-grab from Mexico in 1846), Hawaii (1893), the Caribbean (Cuba (1898)), the Philippines (1902), and the Pacific in general, in rivalry with Japan (1941-45). Nothing has changed, though its imperialist delusions of today, now embodied in the egomaniac Trump’s ‘Make Israel Great Again’ government, run by the fanatical Zionist Lindsey Graham, are ‘globalist’. This is the dream of planetary rule by infantile tantrum and protection racket bullying, salesman’s ultimatum and deadline. He is a man who deploys nuclear submarines because his social media comment was contradicted by a Russian politician! As for China and India, their role in 1914 was negligible, as they were then controlled by Western colonialism.  However, today they have returned to what they were before any Western colonisation, 300 years ago, becoming the greatest industrial powers in the world, China at No 1 and India at No 3, even according to distorted official Western PPP figures.

Conclusion: The New World Order

As a whole, the world is returning to the situation of before 1914, though only in the sense that the world then was multipolar, that is, it was being led by a concert of Great Powers, and not One Power. All that has changed is the names of the Great Powers. But perhaps they would have changed anyway, without all the bloodshed of Three ‘World’ Wars, of attacks to destroy Russia, which is what the EU foreign representative Kallas so ardently and publicly proclaims as her aim? (But then Kallas comes from a Nazi family). In so many respects these Wars form one continuous War, interrupted by long, but temporary ceasefires. Then the Great Powers were the now collapsed empires of Western Europe, together with Russia and the USA. Today there are the Four Great Powers of China, Russia, the USA and India, as well as countries from Latin America (Brazil), Africa (South Africa and Ethiopia) and the Muslim world (Indonesia and Iran). This is the New World Order which has already begun.