Our Twisted Sister

It’s no secret that Ukraine is experiencing a militarized resurgence of Nazism, forming a neo-Nazi militia called Azov Battalion which was subsequently incorporated into the national guard, making it an official part of the Ukrainian military.

They wear uniforms adorned with SS symbols, swastikas, and patches celebrating Nazism. Their stated  intent is to “lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival.”  (As long as it doesn’t include Russia.  Guess they haven’t figured out they’re from the same gene pool.)  

Azov Battalion has not only been legitimized by the Ukrainian government but has received support and training from both Canada and the United States. “  https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/11/the-resurgence-of-nazism-in-ukraine/

But that wasn’t enough.  The Azov Battalion insisted on an independent church that was theologically legitimate and Bartholomew of the Church of Constantinople, came up with a makeshift solution to solve their problem. 

It wasn’t ecclesiastically legitimate, but Bartholomew didn’t care.   He gave them the damn church they wanted.  To be more accurate, he gave them the Russian Orthodox Church; its parishes, monasteries, and property.  They just took it with his blessing. 

He didn’t care that his actions would pit the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the largest number of Orthodox Christians, against the Neo-Nazis in Ukraine who were looking for an opportunity to take on Russia on behalf of the West.  In fact, there can be no dispute that this was the intention all along which makes it hard to understand why he’d say the following:

We express our full sympathy to our brother, the Primate of the Church of Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanios of Kyiv, and our unwavering support to all the seriously suffering Ukrainian people, who have a deep faith in God and chose to live freely and to determine their own lives, as every nation deserves. Although, unfortunately, some have come, these days, to the point of questioning even their historical and national existence.

In the middle of the war (and make no mistake, this war was in the making since at least 2014), he makes an unordained bishop a “primate” and neglects to even mention the long-suffering Metropolitan Onufriy.   

On Oct. 11, 2018, Bartholomew uncanonically (and unilaterally) revoked the 1686 decision to grant Moscow jurisdiction over the eparchy of Kiev, and on Dec. 15, recognized Ukraine’s two schismatic “churches” as legitimate, without the support and acceptance from the vast majority of bishops from the Orthodox Church, causing the largest schism in the Church since 1054.

On Jan. 5, at a ceremony in Istanbul, the Patriarch of Constantinople gave the new “Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine,” Epiphanius I, the Tomos of autocephaly – a church document proclaiming the church’s “independence from Moscow.”  https://theconversation.com/why-a-centuries-old-religious-dispute-over-ukraines-orthodox-church-matters-today-109768

Formally, all of Ukraine was under the Russian Orthodox Church.  Bartholomew split the Church down the middle.  Following the split, tensions between the two churches escalated to the point where we are now.

This was intentional.  This was planned.

If Ukraine and its allies are successful in pushing back Russia, the Ecumenical Patriarch will have been responsible for helping the Nazis wipe out the legitimate Orthodox Church in Ukraine.  The OCU is already calling itself the “canonical” Church because they were cobbled together by Constantinople.    

The war in Ukraine wasn’t started by Russia.  This war had its beginnings at the hands of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople who, without the Church’s approval, created a quasi-religious structure for the United States to conduct its ‘well-intentioned’ political influence, which has brought suffering to thousands of faithful Ukrainians.  (Vladimir Legoida, head of the Russian Church’s Synodal Department for Relations Between the Church, Society, and the Media)  https://t.me/vladimirlegoyda/4193

In an article entitled, “Pyatt, Pompeo, and Orthodoxy,” Greek journalist and filmmaker Lamprini Thoma expressed the same view.

“It is one thing to be a captive, to be degraded in the hands of the Turks for centuries, and it is another to surrender happily to the hands of the United States, whose obvious goal is to dismantle the unity of Orthodoxy and use it as a weapon against Moscow,” she writes.

“If some had doubts about the fact that the U.S. is hiding behind the recent crisis between the Churches, they will probably now be convinced, precisely because of this characteristic uniqueness of Pompeo, who views Orthodoxy as another weapon of U.S. imperialist games,” she continues.

She also recalls that Geoffrey Pyatt, the current U.S. Ambassador to Greece, who regularly meets with Orthodox authorities, formerly served in Ukraine, during the Maidan crisis which he helped to instigate.

“It is time that we insist … that the unity of Orthodoxy, its survival in the new century, cannot pass through the imperial machine,” in which the U.S. creates a “war of civilizations” between the Western-leaning Greece, as the U.S. sees it, and the enemy Russia.

It’s fascinating to me how so many in the West believe Russia is at fault for wanting to protect itself from a brutal Nazi regime that routinely targets the Russian-speaking separatists who just want to get out of harm’s way.  What is Russia supposed to do with the Azov Battalion breathing down their necks, 30 some biolabs, and the $3.7 billion in military aid from the U.S.?

And who is Russia at war with?  It’s not Ukraine.  Not now.  Ukraine has long since exhausted its resources and Russia has suddenly found itself at war with the United States.

In March, Biden announce another $800 million assistance package to Ukraine which includes:

• 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
• 2,000 Javelin, 1,000 light anti-armor weapons, and 6,000 AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• 100 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
• 100 grenade launchers, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, and 400 shotguns;
• Over 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenade launcher and mortar rounds;
• 25,000 sets of body armor; and
• 25,000 helmets.

In addition to the weapons listed above, previous United States assistance committed to Ukraine includes:

• Over 600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
• Approximately 2,600 Javelin anti-armor systems;
• Five Mi-17 helicopters;
• Three patrol boats;
• Four counter-artillery and counter-unmanned aerial system tracking radars;
• Four counter-mortar radar systems;
• 200 grenade launchers and ammunition;
• 200 shotguns and 200 machine guns;
• Nearly 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition and over 1 million grenade, mortar, and artillery rounds;
• 70 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) and other vehicles;
• Secure communications, electronic warfare detection systems, body armor, helmets, and other tactical gear;
• Military medical equipment to support treatment and combat evacuation;
• Explosive ordnance disposal and demining equipment; and
• Satellite imagery and analysis capability.

The U.S. has also produced short-range air defense systems the Ukrainians have been using to great effect and is helping the Ukrainians acquire additional, longer-range systems on which Ukraine’s forces are already trained, as well as additional munitions for those systems.  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/16/fact-sheet-on-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Who unleashed this monster in Ukraine sending 5 million refugees fleeing for their lives?  Who ignited the tensions between the Russian Orthodox Church and the faux Nazi church in Ukraine?

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew from Constantinople.  When he calls for, “an end to the fratricidal war” he is lying through his teeth.  He was the one who lit the match and blew a hole in the Orthodox Church in the process.     

Ukraine is the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s most recent casualty, however, the rancid relationship between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and U.S. policies is a matter of record.  The connection is well documented, and the Society for Orthodox Christian History in the Americas has published several articles that offer a first look at the evidence.

See their articles, “Secret 1950 State Dept Memo on Ecumenical Patriarch,” “Athenagoras: The Apostle of America to Orthodoxy,” “Patriarch Athenagoras’ Declarations of Loyalty to America,” “Ousting the Ecumenical Patriarch: the removal of Maximos V according to CIA records,” and “Greek Archbishop to proto-CIA: “Your directions will be executed faithfully.”  https://orthochristian.com/134333.html

WE HAVE GOT TO GET RID OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE.  They are terrorists who use the Church to ignite wars between nations.  This particular war advances the possibility of WWIII. 

What does one have to do to rectify this situation?  Please explain it to me because the Orthodox Church’s inability to act is not something I think Christ would be proud of.  We have been weak and ineffectual at dealing with this monumental problem of having a hierarch who thinks he can meddle in the affairs of other nations, creating ecclesiastical nightmares in the process.  Am I the only one who thinks this must be stopped?    

Mrs. M