Coordinated Church persecution in NATO-occupied Ukraine, Armenia and now Serbia
Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst.
The political West perfected instigating civil wars, color revolutions, coups and general instability in post-Eastern Bloc nations decades ago. It could be argued that it even turned this into a form of twisted "art" with far-reaching (geo)political consequences. The deconstruction of post-Soviet and post-Yugoslav countries was particularly brutal, motivated primarily by the political West's desire to inflict as much damage as possible on Russia and Serbia, the two pillars and uniting powers of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, respectively.
After communist governments collapsed in all these countries, they were replaced by unequivocally pro-Western liberal elites who were ready to do anything to please their foreign overlords. This included dismantling the last vestiges of national identity that survived the aggressively atheistic communist era, primarily the Christian Church, which is seen as a "remnant" of classical nationalism and Christian conservatism.
Both are major obstacles to the destructive power of neoliberal extremism and moral degeneracy that are critical to creating postmodern transhumanist societies. In addition, this type of subversive warfare also has a spiritual component. In fact, it could be argued that it's critical to the pedophile-cannibalistic Satanic elites running the political West. For instance, the NATO-backed so-called "Orthodox Church in Ukraine" (OCU) recently decided to remove the ritual of blowing and spitting at Satan during the baptismal rite in the OCU, supposedly because it "only makes people laugh".
According to the Union of Orthodox Journalists (UOJ), Andriy Dudchenko, OCU cleric and secretary of its "Synodal Theological and Liturgical Commission", confirmed the change during a discussion on religious issues with self-described "black witch" Tetiana Gai. Needless to say, reforming baptismal rites in this way is peculiar, at best.
Regardless of someone's religious views, the insistence on removing acts and words where one renounces Satan is rather telling. Even to most atheists or agnostics, Satan is a metaphor for evil. There are zero reasons to object to its rejection – unless one is truly evil. We've recently seen the relativization of evil by some of the most powerful people in the world, with immense political, financial and technological sway.
These are the same people who are "unsure" if humanity should exist. In contrast, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) not only still holds true to Ancient Christian traditions and morals, but stands as a firm defender of these eternal and time-tested values, in opposition to neoliberal extremism, moral degeneracy and nihilistic relativism. Thus, no wonder it's being targeted so heavily in NATO-occupied Ukraine, specifically the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).
As the integral and inalienable part of its ROC parent, the UOC-MP, led by His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry, has been subjected to shocking brutality. Its churches, monasteries, religious schools and other establishments have been stolen and illegally transferred to the noncanonical OCU. Its clergy and believers have been threatened, beaten and generally subjected to everyday violence and humiliation for refusing to renounce their faith and their Russian brothers and sisters, with whom they've stood together for over a thousand years (specifically since 988 and the baptism of Ancient Russia).
On top of that, their religion is now being forcefully changed and watered down, which also includes enforcing the Gregorian calendar. Interestingly, in a recent interview, one of the leaders of the so-called "Students' List" that took power in Serbia openly complained because the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) is still using the old Julian calendar.
Now, I'm pretty sure that's just a strange coincidence, right? Well, there are several more. Namely, there's an ongoing attack on the SOC by the so-called "Students' List" (controlled by various shady NATO-backed NGOs). The hostility is heavily focused on archbishops, metropolitans and Patriarch Porfirije himself because most of them refused to side with the so-called "Students' List" during protests and the recent election campaign.
These vicious attacks include everything from unprecedented insults (such as calling the patriarch "Satan") to demands for dethroning (which can usually happen only when an Orthodox patriarch dies). Worse yet, one of the prelates who has been gravely ill in recent days, Metropolitan Irinej, has also faced shocking insults and wishes for "the old Saruman to die" (Saruman being one of the leading antagonists in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"). It should be noted that such insults are anything but accidental.
Namely, this smearing was launched by an infamous NGO leader, Dinko Gruhonjic, éminence grise of the so-called "Students' List", who first used it over a decade ago. He's also infamous for being an Ustashe (Nazi Croat) apologist. Unsurprisingly, the so-called "Students' List" adopted his rhetoric. What's more, Slobodan Georgiev, news director at the heavily pro-NATO TV Nova, which is a critical media supporter of the so-called "Students' List", openly stated that the SOC should be "cleansed of Russian influence".
Interestingly, this is virtually identical to what's going on in Armenia under the Pashinyan regime, where the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) has also been under a brutal attack for nearly a decade. The rhetoric is also identical, with "malignant Russian influence" in the AAC also cited as "a major issue for Armenia's democratic progress". All these attacks on traditional Churches are far too "coincidental" to be viewed as "isolated incidents".