Russia’s main adversaries may have at their very heart, as the powers that be in ultimate control, occult secret societies whose members seem to have made a Faustian bargain in exchange for the baubles of the world. America’s endless wars seem to have been predominantly directed by members of Yale’s Skull & Bones fraternity. Practices of child abuse amongst the highest levels of the British establishment are now coming to light, suggesting, if they are ritualized, some kind of Satanic religious devotion. We contend not against flesh and blood indeed.

At the very heart of the Russian Weltanschauung, then, steering its soul, is the Russian Orthodox Church. And the worldview that the Church seeks to inculcate in its flock is a profound awareness of the spiritual nature of things, both in the personal life of the individual as well as in the world around him. Russians, both in the common man as well as in the highest levels of leadership, appear aware of the ultimately spiritual nature of the confrontation they are facing on the global scene. And it goes without saying that their main adversaries, the hidden powers that be in the West, are equally aware of the spiritual nature of the confrontation, even as their own populations, complacent in their secular humanism, remain oblivious.