You’ve got to hand it to the globalists:  They are dedicated ideologues who never lose sight of their goals nor tire in their pursuit of them.  Most folks probably don’t realize it, but their effort to humiliate and subjugate Russia is one of those goals.

Many analysts looking at the current Russia-Ukraine war fail to look into the history underlying it.  They do not look back any further than the day the war appeared to begin in 2022, which leads to a distorted view of it.  To gain a proper view, we must look back beyond 2022.

The globalists in the West view Russia like they do every other country and people:  as a collection of resources (both human and otherwise) to be dominated and exploited.  Their conquest of a country can involve a number of tactics.  One of them is the poisoning of relations between Western countries and the targeted country.

We have seen this utilized many times over as it regards Russia.  One of the most glaring is the now infamous Russia hoax, in which the globalists claimed that the Russian government interfered with the 2016 United States presidential election.  The fallout from that continues, as yet another Deep State CIA actor has recently been fired for her part in the hoax.

But that was hardly the final try at creating enmity between the two countries.  The Leftist media were aghast that President Trump would meet with President Putin in Alaska to try to broker peace in the Ukraine.  Putin should have been persona non grata, in their view.  This, despite the fact that US and Russian leaders never stopped talking to each other during the Cold War, during which the leaders of the Soviet Union were godless communists.  How much more should the leaders of the two countries be in communication today, now that Russia has rejected communism and her government leaders are openly Christian?

An extension of that Leftist reporting bias was also seen in President Putin’s meeting with the Orthodox Archbishop of Alaska, Alexei.  Abp Alexei faced harsh denunciations for the friendly meeting, seeing it as giving tacit approval for Russia’s actions in the Ukraine.  But the meeting wasn’t meant to be political; it was much more about the spiritual ties between Russia and Alaska, which was once a part of Russia.  Michael Davis had a good write-up about the unfairness of the denunciations of Abp Alexei:

‘On August 15, 2025, among the snowy peaks of Anchorage, Alaska, a moment of profound spiritual significance unfolded as Russian president Vladimir Putin met with Archbishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska.  . . .

‘The meeting occurred on the Feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, one of the most important feast-days in the Orthodox Church. Abp. Alexei, who had just led a three-day prayer initiative for peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, welcomed Pres. Putin in Anchorage, where he was attending a summit with U.S. president Donald Trump. The setting was St. Innocent Cathedral, a spiritual beacon tracing its roots to Russian missionaries who planted Orthodoxy in Alaska centuries ago. The exchange, described by an Alaskan Orthodox priest as “spontaneous yet warm,” was marked by a mutual gift-giving that carried deep symbolic resonance.

‘ . . . For an American Orthodox bishop to engage with an Orthodox head of state, even one as polarizing as Putin, is a recognition of the Church’s universal mission to bear witness to Christ in all nations. The Orthodox Church in America, with its 80 Alaskan parishes, stands as a living bridge between East and West, and Abp. Alexei’s willingness to meet Putin reflects the Church’s call to be a peacemaker, not a partisan. The meeting’s focus on spiritual unity, not political endorsement, aligns with the Orthodox Ethos, which seeks to heal wounds rather than sow division.

‘The exchange of icons was the heart of the event. The St. Herman icon gifted by Putin, now housed at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Sitka, is expected to draw pilgrims, reinforcing Alaska’s role as a spiritual hub. Alexei’s gift of the Athos-painted icon, prayed over for years, was a profound act of reciprocity, honoring the Alaskan faithful’s Russian roots while affirming their independence.

‘While no ceasefire emerged from the Trump-Putin summit, Abp. Alexei’s meeting with Pres. Putin was a spiritual triumph. As Alaskan Orthodox continue their prayers for peace, the St. Herman icon stands as a symbol of hope, urging reconciliation in a fractured world. For the faithful, this meeting reminds us that while kings may wield power, their hearts remain in the Lord’s hands—a truth that sustains our hope for peace, however distant it may seem.

‘Of course, the meeting was not without its critics. In a letter responding to this detraction, Abp. Alexei wrote (in part):

‘ “When I expressed gratitude in that public moment, it was not praise for present politics, but a remembrance of the missionaries of earlier generations—Saint Herman, Saint Innocent, Saint Yakov, and others—who brought us the Orthodox faith at great cost. Their sacrifice is our inheritance, and for that spiritual gift we must always give thanks.

‘ “As for the icons exchanged, some have condemned me for that, but I must be clear: the veneration we give to holy icons is directed not to the one who gives them, but to the saint or feast they represent. I cannot apologize for kissing an icon of Saint Herman or of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Even if the greatest sinner were beside me, the honor passes not to him but to heaven itself.

‘ “I know that sacred gestures can be misunderstood, and I grieve if this has caused confusion or scandal. But our vocation in such moments is not to join the anger of the world, but to keep the lamp of Christ burning, to obey His commandments to pray even for enemies, and to open whatever small door may be given for a pastoral word of peace.”

‘Amen. May God continue to bless peacemakers such as Abp. Alexei’ (‘Icon of Peace: The Meeting of Abp. Alexei and Vladimir Putin,’ uoj.news).

The globalists want Westerners to think that anyone who says a kind word about Russia or her leaders is a ‘Russian stooge’ or a ‘Putin lackey’, to keep the decades-long bitterness of the Cold War running so they can launch attack after attack on Russia until they have subjugated her to their power.  Those ‘stooges’ would necessarily include gentle, meek Christ-lovers like Abp Alexei, the Eskimo grannies in Alaska who are part of his flock, and Orthodox parishioners belonging to the Patriarchate of Moscow anywhere in the West.  It may sound absurd, but that is what is being promoted, as a story in French media makes abundantly clear.

It is worth pointing out in this respect that traditionalist Russians are some of the biggest supporters of the MAGA movement in the US, seeing it as a force that could dramatically weaken the globalists who threaten normative, Christian cultures all over the world.

The end goal of all the propaganda of the globalists against their enemies, as we said up above, is usually to start a big, blazing war that would see globalist puppets placed in power of the recalcitrant countries.  The globalists tried this with Russia in 2008, using the neighboring country of Georgia as the proxy of choice:

‘The Georgian government is to be commended for speaking the truth about the country’s 2008 war with Russia. It exposes the lies that the United States, European Union, and NATO have used to inflame conflict and tensions with Russia, not just over Georgia but also the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine.

‘This month marks the 17th anniversary of a five-day conflict in the South Caucasus nation, which cost hundreds of casualties on the Georgian side and resulted in deeper splits with separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

‘In a forthright condemnation, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze laid the blame for the war on a treasonous gamble by then-President Mikhail Saakashvili, who, he indicated, started the conflict in a plot against Russia, masterminded by the United States and NATO partners. The disgraced Saakashvili is currently serving a prison sentence in Georgia for multiple corruption crimes.

‘Indeed, this version of history is supported by a report commissioned by the European Union in 2009, which confirmed that the Saakashvili regime started the hostilities by attacking South Ossetia. But for 17 years, the West has been telling barefaced lies.

‘Significantly, it should also be noted that this week the United States adopted a new position on the 2008 war by not endorsing – for the first time – a statement by European governments that reiterated condemnation of Russia for alleged aggression against Georgia. That statement, drawn up by Britain, France, Denmark, Greece, and Slovenia at the United Nations Security Council, perpetuates the false claims that Russia is to blame for the 2008 war’ (‘Georgia Exposes NATO and EU Lies About Russian Aggression and Who the Real Aggressor Is,’ strategic-culture.su).

But what failed in Georgia has unfortunately succeeded in the Ukraine:

‘What seems to have been behind the war was a calculated provocation. In April 2008, NATO offered future membership to Georgia and Ukraine in flagrant defiance of Russia’s opposition to what it considered, and continues to consider, a red line threat to its national security. It seems that the Georgian government in Tbilisi wanted to provoke a crisis with Russia over the breakaway South Ossetia region as a pretext for NATO involvement. As it turned out, NATO balked at the fierce Russian response.

‘ . . . For the Western powers, all was fine and dandy in Georgia after the color revolution in 2003, known as the Rose Revolution. The United States and European Union orchestrated that event with the funneling of hundreds of millions of dollars into Georgia. The U.S. State Department, through cut-out conduits like the National Endowment for Democracy, sent $327 million to Georgia in 2002 alone. American investor George Soros reportedly disbursed over $42 million in private capacity. The funds were used to set up thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and media groups to push through the color revolution based on allegations of election fraud.

‘The same scenario was used in Ukraine for the Orange Revolution in 2004 and again in 2014 with the Maidan Movement to overthrow an elected president, Viktor Yanukovich.

‘After taking power through an electoral coup, Saakashvili paid back his Western masters by aligning the country with NATO and the EU, in calculated antagonism with Russia. That culminated in the 2008 war, which, as it turned out, petered out quickly. Ukraine would not be so lucky, having endured a NATO proxy war now in its fourth year, with newly reported figures of Ukrainian military casualties at over 1.7 million’ (Ibid.).

Thankfully, the Trump White House is backing away from this lunacy:

‘The Trump administration now seems to have disavowed the false claims against Russia over Georgia. This may be a concessionary signal to Russia in relation to Trump’s apparent effort to make peace in Ukraine’ (Ibid.).

But the globalists can’t seem to do so:

‘In any case, it is telling and deplorable that European states continue to peddle the lies about Georgia, as they do regarding Ukraine’ (Ibid.).

And so the game goes on.  The anti-MAGA forces in the federal House of Representatives are still trying to weaponize Georgia against Russia through the MEGOBARI Act, while bone-headed US senators are trying to inflame tensions with Russia by imposing insanely high tariffs on her and her allies (please note that this includes both Republicans and Democrats).

We aren’t suggesting that everyone in the States or in western Europe has to cuddle up in bed at night with a picture of Vladimir Putin in their arms.  But they do need to understand how the globalists operate, and why they need Russia and Western countries (and many other countries) to have violent hatred for one another to achieve their goal of borderless, cultureless masses toiling away under the benevolent watch of the one-world government for their time-limited digital currency coupons and some fleeting carnal pleasures.

But the greatest knowledge is of Christ, Who alone brings true and lasting peace to the world:

‘Brethren, what can we say concerning the swords and spears of passions, by which we kill our souls and the souls of our fellow men? Oh, when will we beat those swords into plowshares that deeply plow the souls, and sow the noble seed of Christ in ourselves! And when will we beat the spears into pruning hooks, to harvest the tares in our souls and burn them! Only then will the peace of Christ take up abode in our souls, just as it abode in the souls of the saints. Who, then, would even think about war against his neighbors or against neighboring peoples?’ (St Nikolai Velimirovich, The Prologue from Ochrid, entry for 8 August, ochrid.org)