World War Now
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We are living in the Third World War. This is not an object of debate but simply an observable fact. As of Friday September 30th, with Putin’s signature regarding Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporozhye, the Russian Federation has expanded its territory more than almost any nation since the second world war, incorporating over six million new citizens into its borders. The accompanying speech was perhaps even more consequential with Putin effectively announcing a cultural world war with the west as the source and foundation of global, satanic degeneracy. The number of hot zones and “fronts” in this ever expanding, multipolar, war is constantly growing as ethnic border disputes erupt across Eurasia and economic/financial terror grips western Europe and the US. While War in Ukraine rapidly escalates, with the US now engaging in infrastructure terrorism in Europe, the idea that this conflict will be one of many that flare up and die down has gone out the window. I ask those reading who are, perhaps, skeptical of this dramatic diagnosis: Was anyone calling it WWII when Hitler began the Anschluss? Welcome to World War Now, a blog and podcast dedicated to observing and analyzing the events of our day through the lens of Christian prophecy, symbolism, post-modernity, and the hopes of a revitalized ancien regime as secular globalism collapses. Please check out my popular twitter thread (archived here) that inspired this project, it is, in many ways, the details that this article contextualizes. I hope you subscribe and stick around as we truly are living in the most interesting of times.
Every single nation, down to the most peripheral African microstate and tiniest South Pacific island chain have been dragged into the political/economic reckoning that is global anti-Russian sanctions. The crisis in the Taiwan strait is at a new level of volatility, Turkey and Greece are on the brink of war, and more and more superpowers are allying against the hegemonic world order of the Atlanticist West led by the United States and NATO. As the geopolitical order faces its greatest reckoning since 1911, the spiritual and religious world is facing an equally dramatic upheaval. Modernism is dead and the new atheist movement is in free fall as “spiritual but not religious” and other forms of extant spirituality fill the void left by the hollowed-out congregations of western, mainline Protestantism. Orthodox Russia, National Socialist (and increasingly spiritual) Han China, and Theocratic Shia Iran have built military/sociocultural civilizations that stand athwart the global financial system that spreads its tentacles via neoliberal cultural imperialism. As these powers storm into our multipolar reality (no longer the future but the present), a new, post-modern epistemology has arisen as well. No longer are the scientific/economic “experts” of the judeo-anglosphere exalted as the final pillars of truth. Ethnic and religious identity have re-emerged as the foundational basis for understanding reality, as they come with an all-encompassing weltanschauung (worldview) that can, unlike rank materialism, provide an objective justification for the existence of ethics, knowledge, and metaphysics. The destruction of the Nordstream 1 & 2 pipelines is a perfect example of this. It does not matter that the experts in the west will say that Russia blew up her own pipelines. No one is buying it. The story of American imperialism and the experience of all westerner’s these past eight months has infinitely more epistemic weight today than the words of a European Commissioner.
As modernity and unipolarity collapse, those who have clung to their traditions are beginning to see the fulfillment of long foretold prophecies, and words of depraved civilizational evil come to pass. Orthodox Christianity has been at the center of the current Third World War since its outbreak, with Russia and Ukraine being ancient Orthodox nations, historically inseparable. Kievan Rus was where Russian Orthodoxy was born and the word Ukraine itself means “borderlands”, of course meaning that the historically common moniker “the Ukraine” referenced the southwestern Euro-facing borders of the Russian Empire. Turkey has also clashed with Russia in the area for centuries over domination of the Black Sea and currently is engaged in a geopolitical standoff with the Orthodox nation of Greece. Adding the war in Syria and the conflicts in the caucuses between Armenia and Azerbaijan it is safe to say that the area around the black sea and eastern Mediterranean is the most relevant current window of hot fighting. Fortunately for us wanderers of these forsaken and dangerous times, the Saints have left us their Holy and Prophetic words.
Metropolitan Neophytos of Morphou is a Bishop in the Orthodox Church of Cyprus. A lawyer and monk, he is the spiritual son of three of the greatest Saints Orthodoxy has recently produced: St. Paisios, St. Porphyrios, and St. Iakovos. These Saints prophesied many things that occurred throughout the Metropolitan’s life and today he himself carries on the tradition of his mentors. “Make Preparations!” he has warned these past months. Before the global lockdowns shocked the world in 2020 His Eminence told the world “You’re living in the last normal week of the world” and went on to stand athwart the government and their attempts to mask and vaccinate the parishioners under his care. “We are living in the second year of the third world war,” he proclaimed in June 2022, “But they simply are not saying this to us.”
Another Saint who had much to say regarding our current times was St. Lawrence of Chernigov who spoke so clearly about exactly what we are experiencing today it is almost uncanny. Born in 1868 and reposing in 1950, St. Lawrence was born in Chernigov, Russian Empire (modern day Ukraine). He prophesied explicitly about a period known as “the little peace” between the fall of the USSR and war between Russia and Ukraine (as a proxy war between the West and Russia). He predicted that schism and division would come from within the Church in Ukraine and that came to pass exactly, as the Orthodox Church is currently experiencing a tragic schism within the Church due to Ukraine. This is but a small sampling of the prophetic words that the Saints and modern elders of Holy Orthodoxy have gifted to us for comfort in these times. As you tune in every week you will learn more about what St. Lawrence and Met. Neophytos have said (and are saying), as well as others like St. Paisios, St. Gabriel of Georgia, Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, Elder Justin Parvu, and a host of humble saints and holy men. These words are not meant to inspire fear or political animosity but rather to bring us to repentance. As violence grows around the world the Christian must grow equally in love and purity lest he spiral downward with society.
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