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The Russian government sponsored a resolution at the United Nations which passed. The resolution condemned Nazism and Neo-Nazism. The resolution condemned racism and racist ideology. Guess which two countries voted against the resolution?

That would be the United States and Ukraine. Countries that abstained from voting are mostly American allies. This exposes the Biden administration and the Democratic Party as the frauds that they really are. Decent people condemn the pagan, racist, and occultist ideology of Nazism at every opportunity.

Since the Russians sponsored the resolution, the Biden administration refrained from doing so. The Russians have valid reasons for sponsoring the resolution and the Democrats have understandable reasons for opposing it. The Biden administration and its predecessors have been supporting the Ukrainian militias which are filled with Neo-Nazis that glorify Nazi collaborators.

Ukraine’s opposition to the resolution is obvious. The Russians have exposed the hypocrisy of the American Democratic Party which claims to be anti racist while turning down an opportunity to denounce real racism at the United Nations. The Democratic Party has made common cause with Antifa, a radical Marxist organization that considers itself to be anti fascist.

The real anti fascists are in Russia who are fighting the Neo-Nazis militias in Ukraine. The connection of the Democratic Party to fascism goes back to the support that the Clinton administration gave to the pro Nazi Croatian government during the 1990’s. Hillary Clinton compared Vladimir Putin to Hitler but serious people know that Putin has a family that fought and suffered against the Nazis.

The Clintons and Biden have a history of pro fascist activism in the former Yugoslavia and Ukraine. The Russians have successfully exposed them.

The European Union is apparently considering sanctions on Turkey in response to the opening of the town of Varosha in the occupied territories of Cyprus. Such a development would be victory and a major step forward for Greece and Cyprus. Whether the EU is serious on the other hand remains to be seen.

The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said sanctions are being considered. This would be crucial because it would directly impose sanctions on Turkey for its aggressive stances toward the Hellenic world. The EU has previously imposed sanctions on Turkey over the purchase of a Russian defense system. At the insistence of Germany, Europe has refused to sanction Turkey over its aggressive and expansionist claims on Greek and Cypriot territory.

Sanctions over Varosha will be a major victory in Hellenic diplomacy. The question remains whether the EU will actually impose sanctions. Now is the time for Athens to pay close attention to which European states will oppose or support the aforementioned sanctions. Any opposition to sanctioning Turkey on the matter of Varosha collectively by the EU itself or by individual EU members should be viewed as hostile and unfriendly actions by Greece and Cyprus.

Any European elements that do not stand with Greece and Cyprus at this date are not worth consideration as long time allies by either Athens or Nicosia.

The United States withdrew from a twenty year war in Afghanistan that ended in disaster. While it is true that the manner in which the Biden administration withdrew was responsible for the disaster that unfolded, the fact is that Afghanistan was very problematic and unwinnable as can be seen by the recent publication of the “Afghanistan Papers” a book based heavily on documents from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administration. Now the United States wants to provoke tensions with Russia over Ukraine.

Russia should not invade Ukraine. Ukraine is entitled to its sovereignty and independence. At the same time, the Biden administration refuses to accept Russian demands that Ukraine not be admitted into NATO. In fairness to the Biden administration, NATO expansion at the expense of Russian national security began under the Clinton administration and continued under the Bush and Obama administrations. Neocons in the Republican Party remain as vociferous in their anti Russian sentiments as the Democrats.

NATO needs to give assurances that Ukraine will not be accepted as a member. Then the Russians could give assurances they will not invade. Ukraine borders Russia and considering the history of invasions directed at Russia from the Teutonic Knights to Hitler it is easy to see why the Russians will not accept Ukraine as a member of NATO.

The US lost in Afghanistan because it never understood the complex tribal and cultural factors that makes that country ungovernable. Ukraine is not as complex but it does have cultural and religious problems that western secularists and liberals do not understand. The Uniates are Eastern Rite Christians under the Papacy. Byzantine in their liturgy and Roman Catholic in their ecclesiology and dogmas they are a complicating factor in relations between the Orthodox and the Papacy.

Ukraine is the border between Orthodoxy and western Christianity. It is a very delicate situation fraught with tensions and violence. Into the mix is the Church situation into which Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople unwisely ventured at the request of Washington. The political complexities of Ukraine have led to the schism that threatens Orthodox unity.

The Russians should recognize that the Church question will become further complicated by a Russian invasion. The canonical and legitimate Ukrainian Orthodox Church is under the omophorion of Moscow. The Patriarch of Moscow is the legitimate spiritual leader of Ukraine and everything that has transpired in the ecclesiastical affairs of Ukraine over the past three years constitutes an aggression against the Moscow Patriarchate’s rightful authority.

A conflict in Ukraine will aggravate the Church problems and will serve to make a resolution more difficult. A resolution necessitates that the Ukrainian Church is an autonomous and inseparable part of the Russian Church. A Russian intervention will play to the political interests of those Ukrainian politicians that started the Church crisis.

The Biden administration will look particularly bad after the pathetic way in which the Afghanistan war was ended if it ends up in a conflict with Russia. President Biden insisted that Afghanistan was unwinnable. Biden was right about that but wrong in the manner in which he chose to withdraw American forces.

Provoking the Russians will be an even worse decision than the Bush administrations decision to invade Iraq. Both sides need to back down and respect Ukrainian sovereignty. Washington should demand that NATO abandon its desire to grant Ukraine membership and the Russians should renounce any plans to invade Ukraine.

Former Senator (R-Kansas) Robert Dole passed away at the age of ninety six. I voted for him in the 1996 Presidential election. I also wrote two published letters to the now defunct Hellenic Chronicle (Boston) and Greek American (New York) pointing out why Dole would have been good for Greece and Cyprus.

Among the reasons for supporting Dole were the times he sponsored Resolutions in the Senate recognizing the Armenian Genocide. During the Second World War, an Armenian Doctor saved the life of the future Senator. Dole became close to the Armenian community which raised money for his campaign in 1996.

The Dole campaign at the time made a real effort to win over the Greeks on the matters of the Patriarchate and Cyprus. The Greeks voted for the Democrats. This was the year incidentally in which the Clinton administration forced Greece to capitulate when Turkey claimed the Islet of Imia. In August of that year, the Turks murdered four Greek Cypriots within a one month period.

The Clinton administration did nothing. It is possible that if Dole had won the US would have still been pro Turkish. But we did know that after one term in office Clinton had done nothing for Greece and Cyprus.

The thing about Dole that was impressive was the personal connection he had to the Armenians which was described in an article in the Boston Globe. If there had ever been a Presidential Candidate who might have changed policies toward Turkey, it might have been Dole.

Furthermore, Dole had integrity. As we were later to discover the incumbent Democrat had no class or integrity.

Tensions are rising once again between NATO and Russia over Ukraine. Russia is threatening to invade Ukraine. However, Moscow is asking that NATO agree that Ukraine should not join the alliance.

NATO is dismissing the very idea that Ukraine should not become a member. NATO expansionism is a threat to Russia and the war of 2014 would not have occurred had not NATO (America specifically) overthrown the Ukrainian government and replaced it with an anti Russian one. An agreement by NATO not to include Ukraine as a member might go a long way toward establishing peace with Russia.

NATO wants to commit itself to Ukraine. Rather ironic that NATO refuses to support Greece against fellow NATO member Turkey. Turkey has been claiming Greece territory and threatening Greece with war. NATO has refused to intervene in any way.

NATO member Turkey invaded non aligned Cyprus in 1974 and continues to occupy Cypriot territory where Greek Cypriots were ethnically cleansed. NATO is not a defense alliance and its bombing of Serbia in 1999 fully affirms this. NATO is instigating tensions with Russia by seeking to make Ukraine a member.

The Biden administration would do well to improve relations with Russia and to ease tensions. Biden could make the US a leader by working to prevent further NATO expansion at the expense of Russia. With covid still a major problem the people of the world do not need either a cold war or a hot war with Russia.

The top priority for all should be the end of covid and a restoration of normal life, not war and conflict.

Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent war in Syria, the liberal-neocon Crusaders championed the conquest of the Serbs. Twenty years before the outbreak of anti Russian hysteria, there was the anti Serb hysteria of the 1990’s. Atrocities were committed by all sides during the wars of the former Yugoslavia, but it was the Serbs who were singled out by American and European governments and media as the alleged instigators.

In 1999, the Clinton administration and NATO bombed Serbia for over three months until the Serbs were forced to withdraw from Kosovo abandoning territory that had been liberated from the Ottoman Turks in 1912-13. It should be remembered that the Democratic administration in Washington demanded that the Serbs cede Kosovo in three years time or be bombed.

Twenty one years later, the Democrats would attempt to impeach Donald Trump for alleged threats against Ukraine. In truth, Trump did not do anything to compare with the threats the Clinton administration directed against Serbia. Previous to Kosovo, the Clinton administration bombed the Bosnian Serbs and supported the Muslims over the Serbs as they also supported the Neo-Nazi Croats against the Serbs in the region of Krajiina.

Tensions in Bosnia have arisen again. The Serbs are threatening to secede. The Americans and Europeans should not repeat the mistakes of the 1990’s. They should work for a peaceful settlement that takes into consideration the interests of the Serbs.

The big difference between today and the 1990’s is the status of Russia. During the 1990’s, Russia was weak and looked upon the destruction of Serbia helplessly. In the aftermath of Russian successes in Crimea and Syria, the westerners would be making a huge mistake if they attempt to reimpose their will on Serbia as they did during the 1990’s.

The Russians have not forgotten Serbia and they have not accepted the detachment of Kosovo from Serbia. Russia and Serbia are Slavic and Orthodox. They also share a common enemy in the form of the Democratic Party and the Clintons. The Democrats waged war on Serbia and it is the Democrats who instigated the anti Russia hysteria of the past several years for partisan purposes.

Hillary Clinton once compared Vladimir Putin to Hitler. This from a woman whose husband armed and supported the pro Nazi and anti Semitic Croatian regime of Franjo Tudjman. The Democrats under Obama and Biden armed and supported the Neo-Nazi militias in Ukraine that the Russians fought against.

Hopefully, lessons have been learned and the west will not repeat their mistakes in Bosnia. They should listen to all parties in Bosnia and offer to mediate but by no means should they demonize the Serbs as they did three decades ago.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-greece-expand-defense-cooperation-amid-tension-with-turkey-russia-2021-11

The recent defense agreement between Greece and the United States is difficult to assess. On the positive side, the agreement has angered the Turkish government. If the agreement leads to protecting Greece from the Turks it will be a political triumph for Greece unprecedented since the days of Venizelos.

The danger of the agreement can be seen by the concerns of the Russians that the agreement is directed against them. To a certain extent, the Russians are being hypocritical considering the support they have given to the establishment of a nuclear plant in Turkey (with Russian priests blessing it). Overall however it is not in the interests of Greece to engage in or support a conflict with Russia.

In summation, if the United States is prepared to support Greece against Turkey, Athens has done the right thing. The Russians have their interests, and the Greeks have theirs. Greece should desire friendly relations with the Russians and many of us remain pro Russian while being concerned that Moscow did not support the Armenians against Azerbaijan.

The United States military has recently suggested that it needs to modernize the Turkish military. This is a bad sign. Greece needs to realize that Hellenic interests are threatened by Turkey, and no one else. Greece should pursue friendship with both Washington and Moscow and should let them know that relations with Athens will depend on how they react to Greece in the context of Turkish aggression against Greece and Cyprus.

The wise course of action is for Greece to maintain a policy of strict neutrality toward American-Russian rivalries that are playing out. Having made recent defense agreements with Washington, it can only be hoped that these agreements will help Greece in the context of Turkish expansionism.

Sharri Markson is an Australian journalist who has done a remarkable job in her book “What really happened in Wuhan”. I am more than half way through this well researched book and it is infuriating to see the role that the National Institute of Health has played in bringing about Covid. The Institute along with Eco health and others were instrumental in funding gain of function research in China.

Anthony Fauci is not a hero. He is a villain. Fauci comes off as a pathological liar and fanatic. Fauci lied about masks in early 2020. He hid his own involvement with the Wuhan lab from the Trump administration when covid began to spread.

Some facts about the good Doctor,

1) In 2014, the Obama administration banned funding for gain of funding research because it considered it risky. Fauci, the true believer in 2012 had published an article saying a pandemic was worth risking in order to gain the knowledge that gain of function research would provide. This explains why in 2017 Fauci and the NIH resumed funding to the lab in Wuhan WITHOUT CONSULTING THE PRESIDENT OR ANY ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS.

Fauci also did not inform Secretary of Health Alex Azar. Fauci remained silent about his activities when the Trump administration was discussing how to respond to the spread of covid.

2) Fauci opposed stopping travel from China. Fauci has never had the interests of Americans or humanity in his policy formulations.

3) Fauci was outraged when the Trump administration forced Eco Health (another health organization) to stop funding the Wuhan lab.

4) Fauci stated as late as February 2020 that he did not believe the virus would become a pandemic.

This is the man the media and the Democratic Party revere.

There are more outrages involving Fauci’s colleagues and supporters but it would take too long to list them all. What is beyond dispute is that western scientists have been badly compromised by China. To be fair, there are many scientists mentioned in the book who for years were warning against gain of function research and they accurately predicted what would happen. The true believers in the scientific community ignored them.

It should be remembered that for four years Russia has been bashed repeatedly. The Durham report recently proved that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 elections. The media went after the Russians and ignored the China threat. Because Hillary losing the election was a greater tragedy than the pandemic.

The case is made for the Republican Party. The Biden administration resumed funding of the World Health Organization despite the fact that its director general is a Chinese asset. This organization did nothing to stop the spread of covid and its director general praised China repeatedly.

There is debate as to when the leak in Wuhan occurred. Some experts believe October or even August. It did not occur any later than November. The Chinese lied repeatedly and covered up. It was only in late January they admitted that covid could be spread person to person. It was on January 11 that the director general of WHO announced covid could not be spread person to person.

As it is. Five million people worldwide are dead. Covid remains a problem. Every country is divided because people refuse to be vaccinated. The moral failure of those scientists aligned with China is very clear.

There is a political aspect to this. Fauci and others were in effect conducting their own foreign policy by supporting the Wuhan lab. Neither President Trump nor Secretary of State Pompeo were aware of Fauci’s activities. Republicans in Congress might want to consider charging Fauci and others who colluded with China with treason.

Unfortunately, we have a President who is senile so there is no chance justice will be pursued any time soon. The Republicans however have time. They need to make the case against Fauci and the others who assisted the Chinese.

In an ideal world, there would be a Nuremberg style tribunal to put those scientists (Chinese and their western collaborators) on trial for crimes against humanity. We do not live in an ideal world however. Regardless, the Republicans should work to punish Fauci and others.

The Democrats want to defund the Police. The Republicans should demand defunding the NIH and other compromised scientific institutions. The disruption of life needs to be punished any way possible.

Presently reading “What Really Happened in Wuhan” by Australian journalist Sharri Markson. One fourth of the way through so far. Very compelling and infuriating.

The lab leak in Wuhan once rejected as the cause of the pandemic is most likely the reason for the world crisis. The leak may have occurred as early as October 2019 but no later than November 2019. From the very beginning the Chinese government lied and covered it up.

The world learned of the coronavirus in late December 2019 but the Chinese never conceded until late January that the virus could be spread from person to person. The World Health Organization was totally useless under the leadership of Dr. Tawdros, former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ethiopia who has a long time association with China. Dr. Tawdros accepted every claim put forward by the Chinese authorities and could not stop praising Beijing even as the Chinese Communist Party betrayed the entire world.

Anthony Fauci has turned out to be just as destructive. Fauci insisted as late as February 2020 that he did not believe the virus would lead to a pandemic. Fauci fiercely opposed (as did Dr. Tawdros) stopping all flights to and from China.

One of the Trump administrations advisors Peter Navarro (Director of Trade) understood the seriousness of the situation and urged President Trump to shut down travel from China. Unlike Fauci, Navarro provided Trump with good advice. Trump officials pushed the World Health Organization to go to Wuhan to investigate the source of the virus.

Twenty five scientists from different countries travelled to China. But at the last minute, China got Director Tawdros to agree to change plans. Only three scientists (none American) were permitted to visit Wuhan and for only forty eight hours which made it impossible for a real investigation to be conducted. The World Health Organization agreed to China’s demand that scientists should not look into the origins of the virus but should only look for a solution.

It remains a moral outrage that men who are complicit in the pandemic such as Dr. Tawdros and Anthony Fauci (and others) maintain their jobs. The Trump administration having been fully aware that the World Health Organization is an instrument of China’s Communist government stopped the annual American contribution of $400 million.

It makes sense that American taxpayers whose lives were disrupted should not be subsidizing this Communist influenced organization. Joe Biden resumed annual funding for the World Health Organization last January. Biden has also expressed confidence in Anthony Fauci.

Reports from the summer indicate that Fauci approved funding from the National Institute of Health for experiments involving aborted babies. Allegations have been made that the skulls of five month old aborted babies were attached to rats in some sort of experiment. In addition, Fauci is said to have funded experiments carried out in Tunisia on dogs whose heads were put in a cage and were devoured by flies and other insects.

A major problem today is that large numbers of people refuse to get vaccinated. The reality remains that Fauci and his colleagues at the National Institute of Health do not have the trust of many people. The same can be said about the World Health Organization.

The scientific community needs to get its act together. Fauci must go. Everyone associated with his activities must go. The World Health Organization must be purged of its Chinese supporters.

The good news is that Republican Senators such as Rand Paul of Kentucky have been making Fauci miserable. They are investigating the role of Fauci and the National Institute of Health in funding gain of funding research that was done at the notorious lab in Wuhan.

Incidentally, federal prosecutors have proved that the Russian collusion allegations in the 2016 elections were demonstrably false. Michael Sussman who is an ally of Hillary Clinton has been indicted having invented the lie that the Russians stole the elections for Trump.

Forget the Russians, China is the real threat. As is the Democratic Party.

At the present time, it appears the Greek speaking world has abandoned all its interests and is prepared to follow Patriarch Bartholomew to the disaster where he is leading us all. Greece presently faces serious threats from Turkey, as does Cyprus. Which Greek really believes that the most important interest of Hellenism lies with Patriarch Bartholomew and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America?

Since when did Patriarch Bartholomew’s insatiable hunger for power in Orthodoxy become a greater concern than the territorial integrity of both Greece and Cyprus? The situation is that Patriarch Bartholomew needs to retire from the Patriarchate or be deposed. Tragically, the primates of the Greek speaking Churches in Greece and Cyprus support Patriarch Bartholomew’s Ukrainian disaster.

This has put not only those two apostolic Churches in conflict with Russia it has also made relations between them and the rest of the Orthodox Churches very uneasy. The Greek speaking Churches need to dig themselves out of the hole they are in. This necessitates repudiating Patriarch Bartholomew and the Greek Archdiocese of America.

The Church of Greece has a flock of ten million. The Patriarchate’s flock has a few million scattered throughout the world. Most of its flock is in America. It is not right or natural that the Church of Greece should be bullied by either the power hungry Patriarch of Constantinople or the scandal tainted Greek Archdiocese of America.

The Church of Greece is the heart of the Hellenic Orthodox world. It traditionally has maintained communion and warm relations with the Russian and other Orthodox Churches. The Russian Church provided money and aid to Greeks during the economic crisis. It is utterly deplorable that the synod of Athens established communion with the fake clerics of Ukraine in order to curry favor with Patriarch Bartholomew.

The Church of Greece may need to depose Archbishop Ieronymos. He has proven to be weak. The two previous Archbishops of Athens Serapheim and Christodoulos clashed with Patriarch Bartholomew. It is unlikely that under their leadership the Church of Greece would have entered into communion with the fake clerics of Ukraine.

The situation needs to end. The Church of Greece has leverage over the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Most of Constantinople’s flock is long gone. The Church of Greece occasionally sends priests and nuns to watch over the remaining Churches and shrines. Were the theological school of Halki to open, it is from Greece that new priests and bishops would arrive from.The Patriarchate needs the Church of Greece, not the other way around.

If the Church of Greece were to throw its weight around and show the Phanar and the Greek Archdiocese in America which is the real Greek Church, it would be doing Orthodoxy a service. The Church of Greece is the Hellenic Church because it is in the borders of Greece. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is in America and should become a part of the future American Orthodox Church.

There could be a future for the Church of Constantinople only in the event that its synod completely repudiates everything it has done in Ukraine over the past three horrific years. Repentance and apologies to the whole of of Orthodoxy are in order as well and a commitment to stay out of the border of other Churches would help.

Unfortunately, under Patriarch Bartholomew this will not happen. This is why the Bishops of Greece must step up and use their leverage to remove Patriarch Bartholomew. This may sound strange but the fact it that the Church of Greece is not really autocepalous. At best, it is an autonomous part of Constantinople. Ironically, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (the canonical Church) under Moscow has more freedom than the so called “autocephalous” Church of Greece has.

Since Constantinople meddles in Greece, the synod of Athens should turn the tables on Constantinople. The bishops of any local Church can depose their primate. Constantinople rules Greece then the Greek bishops have the right to depose Patriarch Bartholomew. The Synod of Athens could also send a message by challenging Constantinople’s omophorion in Crete, the islands, and Mount Athos.

The Synod of Athens has (and had in the past) options to resist Constantinople. Why they have not exercised these options is a mystery. Athens can do the right thing by using its leverage to stop Patriarch Bartholomew’s unending destruction.

The liberation of the Hellenic Church could begin. The Hellenic Orthodox Church is not the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. The Hellenic Orthodox Church is is the Church within the borders of Greece. The Orthodox Churches in America are the American Orthodox Church.

The first step toward peace and reconciliation in all Orthodoxy is to depose the Ecumenical Patriarch.