Showing posts with label panorthodoxy. Show all posts
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Serbian Party Wants Unity With Russia

Recently, a new party, My Russia, was formed in Serbia, the Western dissected rump of Yugoslavia. The goal of the Party, first and foremost, is unity with Russia, as attested by its founder Ivan Isakovich. The party, while still minor and in its infancy, has tapped a nerve in Serbia that not only takes in the US led Terror Bombing of Civilians and the creation of Islamic substates in the Balkans but taps into something much deeper and much more of a threat to the Western elites.

In truth, this movement and others like it are nothing new. Panslavicism and PanOrthodoxy were the driving force from the 18th and 19th centuries that threatened not only the Islamic Turkish and Austro-Hungarian rule over Slavs but the whole of the British/Anglo defined world, which was aimed to keep the Slavs disunited and poor.

In truth, Catherine the Great had great hopes of defeating the Turks and driving them out of the Balkans, recreating the Byzantine Empire, thus freeing the Second Rome, as prophesy stated the Third Rome would do, and placing her grandson, Constantine, on the throne. Unfortunately, this did not come to pass, as she died of a heart attack while her armies were busy crushing Fredrick the Great.

In the 1820s, the Greeks fought an insurrection that turned into a revolution against the Ottomans, a war that saw many hundreds of thousands killed. Alexander Ypsilantis, who had started the rebellion tried to unite the other Orthodox Christians of the Balkans and to pull in Russia. However, he had misplayed his politics on one hand and on the other, Russia at the time was ruled by the weak willed Alexander I who would not commit to much of anything for anyone. At the same time the Greeks in the Peloponnese launched their own insurrection in March 1821, that would run to victory. By mid August the Turks had also been defeated in central Greece.

It should be noted that there was absolutely no help, in the early stages, from the Western Christians of any stripe, as they have never had any interest in the freedom of the Eastern Christians from Islamic rule and tyranny. Why ask for competition? There was only one noted exception to this, by Commodore Gawen Hamilton, who moved his fleet into a threatening position (but did not fire) on the Egyptian expedition that had landed in the Peloponnese by Turkish behest and was busy massacring the local population. The move helped save the city of Nafplion.

Austrian foreign minister, Prince Metternich actively worked to undermine the Russian foreign minister Ioannis Capodistrias from moving Alexander I into a more vigorous support of the Greeks. To the immediate pity of the Greeks, Metternich prevailed and Capodistrias resigned.

By 1822, the British started to assist the Greeks, not out of some new found love of the Greek Orthodox Christians or some dislike of the Turks, but out of fear that the flood of Russian volunteers entering the conflict and of Alexander I vacillating towards open war with the Turks, would promote Russian prestige and thus PanOrthodoxy. To that end, George Canning, the new Foreign Minister of the British Empire, in mid 1822, limited ports from where the Turks could buy supplies and concluded two loans to the Greeks, in exchange for the creation of the pro-British party in Greek politics.

Things changed dramatically, when Nicholas I came to the Russian throne, as Russia quickly moved to the Greek side in 1826, demanding from Turkey and evacuation of all Turkish forces from Greek lands. The British quickly moved, in the form of the Duke of Wellington, to cozy up to Russia and through the Petersburg Protocol, demanded mediation of the conflict with Russia and Britain as the mediators. When the Turks rejected the mediators, who had also been joined by France, an inevitability of combat arose. To that end, on 20 October 1827, a combined Russian, British, French fleet completely destroyed a Turkish/Egyptian fleet in the Bay of Navarino. The Islamics lost 75 of their 89 ships to an allied loss of zero ships and 200 dead (the Islamic losses were over 8,000).

While this battle was viewed as a measure to enforce mediation by the British and French, Nicholas I, used it as Caseus Bela and declared war on the Turks. Seeing the declaration of war by Russia, the French hurried an expeditionary force to the Peloponnese, to assist the Greeks in clearing the area of Turkish/Egyptian forces. The Protocols of February 3, 1830 created peace and Greek independence.

Thus in this example, it is obvious that the Western Christians only came to the aid of the Orthodox Greeks in an attempt to halt the spread of Russian and thus PanOrthodox influence in the region. In the immediate term, through to the Bolshevik Revolution, they failed. Only due to the Cold War were they successful and even now their influence slips.

The Russian march against the Turks, on all fronts, from southern Ukraine and Crimea, to the Caucuses to the Balkans continued through the late 1700s and early 1800s, even as nationalism and a drive for independence spread through the Christian lands of the Balkans. Seeing their earlier attempt to capitalize on the anti-Turkish movements prove futile, in the face of PanOrthodoxy and PanSlavicism, the Western powers decided to switch tracks and instead ally themselves with the Islamic Turks. To that end, in support of the Islamic super state of the times, the British and French launched a war in Crimea, the Crimean War of 1854. This was, in the end, pointless and accomplished little, except to 1. keep the Christians of the Balkans as Islamic slaves for another generation and 2. to throw Russian support behind the US Federals and thus loose the war for the Confederacy, a mistake for which the world has paid for the past 150 years.

To that end, the inevitable still happened and must have caused many heart attacks throughout the West: the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878. During the intense fighting, the Turkish Empire in the West was humiliated and crushed. Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia joined already independent Greece.

Thus, in this greater context, a My Russia party in Serbia is the worst of nightmares for the West and one that must be destroyed and suppressed at any cost. The Serbian government is still nominally a vassal of its oppressors, the very ones who less than 11 years ago were happily bombing the Serbs "into the Stone Ages" in support of one Islamic jihad or another.

The problem for the West of Serbia joining the Russian Federation and the eventual Monarchy that will rise up again, is not simply that Russia will grow stronger and will be firmly entrenched, if surrounded, in the Balkans. Indeed it will serve to refute the Western super national organizations such as the EU and the future NAU (North American Union) which seek to destroy nationalism, religion and create a massive peasant/serf class of Europeans and N.Americans to serve their elite masters.

Indeed, such an undertaking would be like pouring kerosene on the sputtering flames of PanOrthodoxy and PanSlavicism, the two biggest fears of the West in Eastern and Southern Europe. They very well know that their vassals, their puppets in power in those nations are barely holding power and holding it with vast empty promises and a farce that is quickly running its course.