Mike Whitney – The Unz Review May 16, 2022
On Sunday, the foreign policy blogs were abuzz with the news that Scott Ritter had done “an about-face in his assessment of the war”. It appears that the ex-Marine had examined recent developments in Ukraine and concluded that it’s going to be much harder for Russia to win than he had originally thought..
Naturally, the news of Ritter’s reversal sent shockwaves across the internet, especially among the people who follow events in Ukraine closely and who greatly admire his even-handed analysis. Some of these people clearly felt betrayed by Ritter’s comments and blasted him as a “concern troll” which refers to a person who feigns sympathy while actually feeling the opposite. This is a terrible way to treat a guy who’s devoted so much of his time to informing people about an issue of which they might know very little without his research. Besides, Ritter is no hypocrite. Quite the contrary.
It’s fair to say, however, that Ritter has probably been the most outspoken proponent of the “Russia is winning” theory, a hypothesis that runs counter to everything we read in the legacy media or see on the cable news channels. Unfortunately, Ritter’s views on the matter have changed dramatically, and that’s due almost entirely to developments on the ground. As Ritter candidly admits, “The military aid the west is providing to Ukraine is changing the dynamic and if Russia doesn’t find a way to address this meaningfully… the conflict will never end.”
That’s quite a turnaround from a statement he made just weeks earlier that, “Russia is winning the war, and winning it decisively.”
So, what changed? What are the so-called developments that led to Ritter’s volte-face?
Here are a few excerpts from the interview that triggered the fracas. Ritter was joined by Ray McGovern and host Garland Nixon on Saturday Morning Live. (The quotes are copied from video. I accept blame for any mistakes.)
Scott Ritter (start at 47:50 minute mark) — “The thing that frustrates me… is that, it was my assessment that it would be very hard for Ukraine to absorb this new equipment and material (Material– the additional lethal weapons that have recently been shipped to Ukraine) but the howitzers are already operating against Russia. (And) They are having an effect in the Kharkov region. Not all 90 of them, but they have several batteries in place that are being used.
How did this happen?
And this is why I have radically changed my overall assessment, because I had been operating on the assumption that Russia would be able to interdict the vast majority of this equipment, but Russia has shown itself unable or unwilling to do this and– as a result– the Ukrainians are having meaningful impact on the battlefield. Not in the areas of main contention, like the Donbass, but on the periphery. This is why Russia has carried out tactical withdrawals north of Kharkov, because in order to match Ukraine’s best capabilities, Russia would have to divert resources from its main effort which Russia has decided not to do. So, they are re-configuring the battlefield. (trading land in different areas)…(“Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube)
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So, while Ritter’s sympathies have not changed in the slightest, it’s clear that his analysis has. At first, he didn’t think that the deluge of lethal weaponry would affect the outcome of the war. Now he’s not so sure. It’s a honest mistake but, still, he needed to ‘come clean’ and explain the factors that contributed to his U-turn. Here’s more from the same interview:
Scott Ritter– This is a transformative moment in the war, because what it means is that demilitarization is not taking place. For all the forces Russia is destroying in the east, Ukraine is rebuilding significant capability (in the west) I liken this to Moscow in December 1941, when the Germans were moving towards Moscow and the Russians just started throwing things at them., sacrificing everything to slow the German offensive. until General Winter and the combination of Siberian divisions gave them the ability to counterattack. The Germans were bled white and they were stopped and turned back. If Russia doesn’t change the calculation, then that is the trajectory we are heading on., because 200,000 troops–however capable they may be, are only capable of doing so much. And the fighting that’s taking place right now –even though it is slaughtering Ukrainians– it isn’t cost free to the Russians. They’re losing equipment, they’re losing men, they’re losing material, and unless Putin mobilizes or transfers forces in, those aren’t being replaced. So, instead of having 200,000 online, Russia might have 180,000 men. And if you don’t think removing 20,000 men doesn’t change the options available to the Russian leadership, then you don’t know anything about war.”
So, I believe Russia is going to win in the east, they are grinding them down as we speak, they are slaughtering them; the amount of death and destruction that is being dealt to the Ukrainians is unimaginable, but I believe the Ukrainians are willing to take these losses in order to buy time to reconstitute a military that will challenge Russia Because unless Russia is willing to jump across the Dnieper River and head into western Ukraine where it can eliminate the strategic depth that the Ukrainians are being gifted by the Russians, then demilitarization of Ukraine is not going to take place. It can’t take place when tens of billions of dollars of equipment is pouring in and Russia is not able to interdict it. The fact that these advanced howitzers are operating on the front lines right now, shows there’s something wrong with the Russian methodology. And–unless they alter that methodology– I think we’re in for a very long summer.” (“Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube)
It’s hard to grasp what Ritter is saying here. Is he actually suggesting that Putin expand the current “special operation” into a full-blown World War? At one point, he casually opines that Russia will have to mobilize 1 and a half million men (Note: Russia currently only has 200,000 in Ukraine) if they want to prevail in Ukraine and then move on to Finland. It’s impossible to tell by Ritter’s tone whether he is simply making an objective observation of ‘what is needed’ to succeed or if he is making an explicit recommendation that he thinks Russia’s High Command should consider. I can’t answer that. Here’s more from the interview:
Scott Ritter(5:20 mark)– “The idea that the Ukrainian military has been eliminated as an effective fighting force is a flawed concept, and unless Russia broadens its special military operation– probably to the point of changing it form a special military operation to a war which includes the totality of Ukrainian battle-space–(then) this is a conflict that is dangerously close to becoming unwinnable by Russia which means that while they can complete their objectives in the east with 200,000 troops, they aren’t able to prevent Ukraine from rearming and reequipping when Ukraine is being provided with tens of billions of dollars of equipment by NATO —Whenever you provide your enemy with “safe space” to rebuild military capability, you’re never going to win. …
Yes, Russia is winning in the east which is what they said their objective was all along. And they are accomplishing that. That is the special Military Operation. But now we’re talking about “war”, and I don’t think Russia has made that transition yet. This is a defacto proxy war between the west and Russia using Ukrainian forces as NATO’s sword. The object of this is to “bleed Russia dry”. And if Russia doesn’t change the dynamic, Russia will be bled dry.” Zelensky has indicated that he’s willing to mobilize a million people, at a time when the west is ready to provide the funding and equipment to turn those million men into a real military threat.
So, I see what has been happening in the last few weeks as being decisive.
The military aid the west is providing is changing the dynamic and if Russia doesn’t find a way to address this meaningfully, and to eliminate it as a military capability… then the conflict will never end.” (“Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube)
There it is from the horse’s mouth. Readers will have to draw their own conclusions.
IMHO, Scott Ritter is gradually adjusting to the idea that the conflict in Ukraine is not a just regional skirmish between two quarrelsome neighbors, nor is it a proxy-war between NATO and Russia. No. Ukraine is the first phase of a broader plan for crushing Russia, collapsing its economy, removing its leaders, seizing its natural resources, splintering its territory, and projecting US power across Central Asia to the Pacific Rim. Ukraine is about hegemony, empire, and pure, unalloyed power. Most important, Ukraine is the first battle in a Third World War, a war that was concocted and launched by Washington to ensure another unchallenged century of American primacy.
I heard Ritter say this, but I think he’s wrong.
Saying it’s going to be harder, is a very flowery way of saying ‘my finger has slipped off the pulse.’
Much of this ‘harder’ statement depends on how many mercenaries MI6 and CIAda can get into UKraine without being taken out.
Ritter says this, just as Russia is about to win in the Dombas, and will then redefine their objectives, which could be all out war in UKraine.
The BBC reports that Putin has taken a bigger role in the SMO, so tactics are likely to change.
Here’s the “deal” Scott:
Putin is holding back and “taking names”… the names of those unequivocably responsible for pouring in the weapons.
Some folk just have to learn thr HARD way… and when the Day Of Reckoning arrives for ZATO it will be swift, harsh & FINAL.
No idea what the Russian leadership is playing at.
Big Picture – look beyond all speculation, learn Russian and move over there.
If you are young, start big families there.
Base your live around Orthodox Christian Community..
I don’t mean close your minds – you are not going to get much better insight than from someone like Les Visible -but that centuries old cohesion provided by the Orthodox Church WORKS on so many levels from strengthening the Family,providing the Rites of Passage marking Birth, adolescence, marriage, death. Creating a genuine Moral fabric in which to produce children who become healthy,
socialised adults, placing God before Idols – Pop any other sort etc –
God pays attention to sincere Collective Worship, even if God is a vast amorphousness from our perspective.
The West is finished, morally and demographically it has wrecked itself. It is not going to be anything more than a technocratic dystopia at best.
Now – SERIOUSLY – can anybody provide a link to RT that actually WORKS?
We all need to grow up and think in terms of centuries.
We say “WW3” a lot , as if it already existed, just waiting to be unpacked and placed on the table of history, to be studied and admired, albeit timorously, but it is not there and can be, at most, a series of verbs put together by the worst people in the world, if you were weak enough to let them. Too close to the problem, Alex Jones caves in and eggs it on, while, on the surface, he is doing the opposite. It takes a genuine control of the will, not all this fake stuff.
Best analysis so far from Scott Ritter.
soon nuke missiles chirping in sky
Must admit that having followed Scott Ritter and others like The Duran , Gonzalo Lira Etc. this does come as a bit of a shock .
The West ( 5 eyes and most of the EU ) is going all out for the kill now and Russia needs help from ” friends ” more than ever . I agree that this is just another stage of WW3 and there is no good outcome for anybody other than the ” Elites ” who are behind this evil doing .
Make no mistake total war is totally evil.
If you follow the telegram channel “Intel Slava Z”, Russia seems to be doing ok in the east. I know it is a very pro Russian channel, but he is reporting on what the Russians are actually doing. They seem to be doing a lot of damage to the Ukrainian side, there is a lot of Russian activity if they are actually suffering all these problems that the MSM wants us to believe. The channel reported yesterday on the surrender at Azovstal, way before any western media reported on it. And the Azovs who surrendered are in Russian hands too. Nothing was arranged by Kiev, they just had to find a way to spin it to make it look that way. So I know it is going slowly, but are the Russians actually doing that badly? Slava Rossiya all the way. By the way, if all those thicko sheeple in the US start realizing that their side is losing, will they start waving Russian flags? They like to be on the winning side. Do any of them actually realise where Ukraine or Russia are on a map of the world? Most can’t even find the USA on an unmarked world map, if you believe certain reports. LOL.
Ritter has simply changed his assessment on the besis of new information. There’s no dishonesty on his part.
Like the Russians themselves, he has only just started to grasp the fact that this is actually the opening stages of WW3. The Wests objective has never been anything other than the death or enslavement of every Russian. They will never stop until this is achieved or they themselves are wiped out.
Putin should go on a Total War footing immediately. Ritter is correct when he says that Putin has gifted the West the one thing that it needed – time.
Russia also did not expect that the Empire would use certain “exotic” weapons , not just advanced ones like Howitzers which are just a cover, to aid Ukraine. So watch for the deployment and use of the S500 ASAT systems. What tangled web we weave!
Nuclear War is coming to The United States.
The Russian are well aware of what they are doing.
Mystic and Yogi
‘to ensure another unchallenged century of American primacy.’
I assume he uses the term ‘American’ somewhat loosely. Mmm-hmmm…and the slow grind of a mind-numbing mediocrity that will accompany it and provide the soundtrack. Think of 9/11, almost 21 years ago…grind…grind…grind, and the Oscar winning mediocrity…grind…grind…grind.
No ‘nukes’, no ‘avatars’, no messiah. No shit.
“The military aid the west is providing is changing the dynamic and if Russia doesn’t find a way to address this meaningfully, and to eliminate it as a military capability… then the conflict will never end.”
If every offensive push and counter maneuver went exactly as planned and if Russia could stop every car, van, truck, train, plane and ship from bringing in weapons, that still would not be enough to bring Ukraine to heel because looming over everything, in the background, are the F-35 and Co., the inevitable ‘no fly zone’ which = calling Putin’s nuclear bluff.
Mr. Ritter doesn’t mention ‘no fly zones’ or nukes though he’s surely aware of both these and no doubt a couple other possible upcoming game-changers. Maybe in future articles.
Expect to hear quite a few prominent pundits and reporters following Mr. Ritter’s cue.
Do any of us really know ? I recently saw a pro Ukranian film which showed men digging in the ones i saw were easily in their 40’s that certainly doesn’t look good for them. It does however appear that things seem to be moving slow but is that detrimental to Russia ? Things here in the West are not going to be good come winter .
History shows you underestimate Russia at your peril.
So.. Ritter the critter (once an alphabet always in the soup) has had a volte-face…
Now would probably be time to assume Russia is ‘winning’… and Langley is worried…
maybe the moles have been rounded up… and Vlad’s going all in with his Donbass conscripts..
Then again just like Ritter (the intel critter)… maybe not..
Russia should tell the Pentagon, the Ministry of Defence and other western military establishments that though they sent their personnel into Ukraine, as it’s an undeclared act of war they cannot ask to represent these captured western commanders and special forces. The west has its own questions to answer, and not through the media, but these prisoners will be held and treated as mercenaries. Nothing to do with you.
They cannot say they’re not at war with Russia then demanded their captured men are treated as prisoners of war.
> the news of Ritter’s reversal sent shockwaves across the internet
Really? He’s just another armchair wannabe. Like one or both of the Jones’ on here. People who haven’t a clue suck up what they say because it’s easier than going and looking and thinking for themself. In that way, they’re as bad as the msm for misleading people. No one but the lunatics in charge know why they’re doing something. All the armchair wannabes can do is see the result. No one cares what I think of course, but if you ask me ww3 began when that war began and it won’t end until russia or the usa are dead, and most likely both as china will jump in at the end and annihilate the winner.
@hp
“…looming over everything, in the background, are the F-35 and Co….”
F-35s???
Are you talking about the SAME F-35s that spend most of their time in the repair-shop… and even AFTER that can barely make it off the ground???
‘Shirley’ you can’t be serious!
😅
I seem to remember a similar turnaround for Ritter during the Iraq War. He’s does some good reporting but he’s a gatekeeper. He attains his credibility by giving valid information, but leaving out essential information. A guy with is government background can never go against his government, even if they are wrong.
You all might add to the mix that “nuclear bombs” do not exist.
See https://heiwaco.tripod.com/bomb.htm.
Feel free to argue with Anders Bjorkman, who knows one helluva lot more than me!
Peter, Shirley you jest. C’mon man, get with it! Most lazy folks don’t even know what 5-th generation aircraft really means, much less 6-th generation which are also flying right now. (mum’s the word) This short is at least 5 years old. Hope it helps.
Oh, ‘and Co.’ = F-22. Shirley you’ve heard of it. The (fill in blank) adversary Shirley has heard of F-22 though they’ll never see the one that gets them. Still, brave men that they are they press on. This I know..
You silly people, this local conflict is about to destroy all of Europe. The Europeans are even helping to destroy themselves. The food/ energy shortages will create at least 20 million starving Africans moving into Europe. Europe will not cope, and will descend into civil war, Putin only has to wait.
Just look at history, mass migration destroys civilizations.
But heads up , Putin will invade Europe to “save” the people from civil war and then America will use chemical weapons to “save” the people from Russia. Too bad Europe will be uninhabitable for the rest of our lifetime.
If you are a white European you need to decide NOW if you want to live or die and where you will go in the southern hemisphere. Australia is full blown nazi, communist so that leaves south america.
@kcb123
I think you are onto something regarding your comment about the Empire using “exotic” weapons.
The notion that the ukies used their primitive Neptune missiles to sink the flagship Moskva is beyond a joke.
The fact that the Americans went out of their way to deny they had anything to do with it also says a lot.
And the russians saying that a mysterious fire sank their ship and nothing else means they probably know what really happened.Bring on the S500!
What’s wrong with Russia, Felix? ☺
apart from Odessa and the link to moldova/transnistra, i think the rest of ukraine is just war attrition.
Its important to take everything east of the river and Dniepro, the centre of chabad lubavitchers financed bu kolomoiski. after that, its time to remove factories in the west/munition production lines. Personally i wud like three us carriers removed plus gibralter/barrow in furness, flyingdales etc.But better aka jimstone…remove davos…lugarno…the swiss centres and cern.Of-course all this shud happen in the same ten minutes….upset yellowstone? and the spanish island…well…food for thought. The sooner we get rid and hang in the streets the jewish british government who do not have the support or even asked the british public…..and put all the BBC traitors in jail.
Bait and switch is an old game play. I don’t trust “ex” military men for telling the truth since they have been severely brain washed from start.
Mr. Ritter, like other serious military analysts, is wrong because he does not see the overall image. Putin, Zelensky, Biden, the Chinese and any governor on this planet is the servant, the lackey of this global power (the book of Revelation, ch. XIII) and (https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354-500-revealed-the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world). And as the plan of this satanic global power is to produce a world government over a robotic and degraded humanity at the zombie stage all these sad actors mentioned above, who do nothing but read some scenarios on television, they will not leave the world in peace until they will not destroy everything. Whoever knows the true history of the world will recognize that Putin plays the same role that another tragic actor has been employed (of the same power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/antony_c._sutton#books), to play it in World War II to destroy Germany and Europe. Now is the turn of Russia and again of Europe to be destroyed again. And as Hitler did everything he could to destroy Germany, so now, Putin will do everything he will be asked by his masters to destroy Russia and with her and the lamentable remains of Christianity that have remained here in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, etc. So Mr. Ritter wondered for nothing that the Russian generals do not do absolutely necessary things to win the war. Just as the last stupid soldier would do. That is, to prevent the supply and rearming of the Ukrainians towards the destruction of both nations and other peoples. And it would be enough only that there are no nuclear bombs (as someone well said here) and no transmitable diseases (https://disk.yandex.com/i/chwi0v3d54ZT1Q
https://samuelecert.net/isolate-truth-fund/
https://paradigmshift.uscreen.io/
https://terrainthefilm.com/) to prove that everyone works for the same master. So get ready for a very long war against humanity on the background of more and more serious plandemics. Apocalypse has begun a long time!
Correction at the previous post. Please forgive me but I misplaced the last links in the message. These are the correct addresses:
https://disk.yandex.com/i/Chwi0v3d54Zt1Q
https://samueleckert.net/isolate-truth-fund/
https://paradigmshift.uscreen.io/
https://terrainthefilm.com/
F::CK YOUR F35s
there is no No fly zone by f…n NAhTOd (neardeath)
but a No Fly zone by russians . russia
has there the fly superiority, nobody else !
@ FELIX
we are ruled by WEF Klaus Schwabs
left-green Young Global Leaders (broken
students without profession) whitch will
absolutely never reach qualifications of
ancient european politicans even when they
were corrupt+pedofil .
Please Mr. Constantin. I read your first link (yandex), skimming most, but enough to get a very good idea of what it is saying. I agree with most of what your document says, but with a couple of very big questions. Your assessment of the world, its evilness, and the evilness of those who control almost everything is spot on, as is most else. But: First, regarding the Bible and the end times things laid out there. Jesus said Himself, that there would be people present at the crucifixion, that would not taste death until all was fulfilled. John was told when he wrote Revelations, that the time was at hand, and not to seal up the words. Revelations was written a few years before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, John was banished to Patmos by Nero. Anyhow, I urge you to find a good Preterist website as there are many, and let them present their view of it all. They present a very good case for all having been fulfilled, it is way too long to even begin here. Because scriptures leave no doubt about when everything written and prophesied would happen, no doubt at all. Now either Jesus lied, couldn’t tell time, or He was correct. You have to chose one of the three. It all happened just as He sai it would, BACK THEN. Even the parousia The end of the world you end times Christians are waiting for happened in AD 70, it is a mistranslation of the end of the age. With all this control and forced vaccines, and extremely corrupt government, and the push for a world government, I can understand how you link it to scriptures, but listen to when Jesus Himself said it would happen. Second. Your assertion that germs and viruses and the like don’t exist and don’t cause disease. Just a really small example to demonstrate the opposite. I cut my finger the other day while building something at home. I didn’t give it much care and a couple of days later it started getting really red and with clear pus coming out. Obviously infected. So I started washing it a few times a day with a betadine (iodine) solution, and it promptly got better. Now, that is pretty clear evidence to me that there is something around us that attacks us if given a chance. Or take rabies. We have vampire bats here where I live in Brazil. The natural habitat was destroyed, so in the cities they occasionally fly through open windows at night and bite people sleeping near them. My brother in law was bitten twice in this apartment before I installed netting on the window. He went and got the treatment. There is pretty good documented evidence, that if a rabid animal bites someone, and if they don’t get the anti rabies treatment, they will get rabies and die. So, what is causing rabies? It may not be what we are told, lies are everywhere, but what? And my finger? I used to get ear infections when I cleaned my ears with cotton tipped swabs, they became a real problem until I started rinsing the ear with betadine. The betadine killed whatever used to cause the infections. Please explain to me, or give me a link so I can read, about what is causing these ailments, obviously caused by an outside agent. There is too much real disinformation and misinformation everywhere, it is like a minefield now, with lies everywhere. We need to help each other discover the real truth, or as close as we can, because satan the advisory (satan is simply adversary in the Bible, nothing supernatural, just adversary), and we all know who the adversary is. It starts with a j and ends with a w.
Gotta agree with “keeping up with the joneses” comment…There is no reason to believe that Scott Ritter on any other self-appointed pundit on military affairs knows what they’re talking about, as it is highly unlikely that Ritter has anymore access to factual information than the rest of us. He may be more qualified than most of us to make educated guesses as to what’s going on in Ukraine, but in the end they are still just guesses. So, I don’t know why his latest “guess” would send shock waves across certain circles. No one, outside of Putin’s inner circle, even knows for sure what Russia’s objectives were going into Ukraine…besides some vague notions of “de-nazification” of eastern Ukraine. It is clear, though, that Russia has a much bigger problem then they would have if Ukraine had had to rely only on its own resources. We can all agree with Scott Ritter, however, that US-NATO appears to be intent on the destruction of Russia…but at what cost?
antivax, they’re not my F-035, they’re the Evil Empire’s TR-3B, errrr I mean F-35.
It’s better to know than not know..
@Q.K. Great comment
5:19 pm commenter: don’t compare me with Carl Jones, and try to write clearly–“the Jones'” is not clear, and you did it before. You are allowed to say “Joneses” if that is what you mean.
The US dollar is the key to ending all this foolery. It’s America’s Achilles Heel. Destroy the dollar and there’ll be no more $40 billion of them being conjured up whenever the need arises. The troops and puppet politicians need to be paid in currency that actually buys something. Since China faces the same threat that Russia does, Russia and China need to spring whatever US dollar dissolving trick they have planned when the time is right and that time is this year.
Sincerely to Mr. @ok
I usually do not launch into polemics on the Internet because I do not master English very well in order to respond in a reasonable period of time. And I need a lot of time for translations from Romanian. With respect I point out that a book cannot be judged by the cover or just by reading the introduction. And that book on the Yandex disk that I quoted must be read with great care because it is very complicated and the argumentation is continuous. From one end to the other. I really needed to read it several times. If you read it you will find that if there are transmissible diseases then there is no God. And there is no alternative to these two positions. The book is written by a hermit here, from Romania. In the Orthodox Christian faith we have great respect for this kind of people who spend their whole life in perfect isolation and strict fulfillment of the divine commandments. But we always check the words of anyone, no matter how much authority, according to evangelical precepts, even if it takes longer. Likewise, not to give you only one opinion I have provided three other links to various sites that present the theories of scientists who could provide some evidence and concrete landmarks for your knowledge of transmissible diseases. And unfortunately, you did not verify them! I have introduced opinions of scientists because you, those who come from Western cultures, have undergone a process of transforming the mentality that has deep roots over time. Western culture, strongly affected by materialism, appeared with the heresy fall of the western part of Europe in 1054 from which the so-called papist church was born. Like the Middle East. The Middle East has fallen into heresy with the appearance of the heresies of Arianism, monophysitism, monothelism, etc. and then of Islam which is nothing more than an extreme heresy of Christianity. With the passage of time the papist heretics have degenerated into Protestantism. It is specific to heresy to give birth to other heresies and finally fall into apostasy. For this reason, the Western world has fallen so much that at this time we witness a complete dissolution of Christian values in the so-called civilized world and there is only Satanism. The Orthodox world did not escape the scourge. The interference of the worldly powers in the church affairs, the western education introduced by them in education and the imposition of communist regimes in the countries with orthodox traditions led to the erosion of both the Christian morality and to the loss of Orthodox teaching in these countries. So now we have official Orthodox churches that are nothing but Vatican annexes and here, very rare, remains of Christian (unofficial) congregations that want to continue with the Orthodox Christian faith as it was from the beginning. Fortunately, we still have the works of the Holy Orthodox Synods and the Holy Fathers of the Church so that we do not lose our way as our existence as Christians is increasingly difficult. From time to time, true teachers also appear among us as the writer of that book. So God has not left us yet.
So I was not surprised at all when you issued the theories issued by various materialists and contemporary heretical theologians.
All this together led to the situation where the world is now. If you had read entirely the book I quoted, you would have found enough rational arguments against those theories. Arguments that can be understood even of a materialistic mind like yours. So please try to know both versions of history and then you will be able to choose the case. I know it is difficult because we have gone through the same path because of the education received in school and society. But the effort deserves to be made because the price we will pay in the end is our life from here and beyond death. Success and God enlighten you! Please try again:
https://disk.yandex.com/i/Chwi0v3d54Zt1Q
https://samueleckert.net/isolate-truth-fund/
https://paradigmshift.uscreen.io/
https://terrainthefilm.com/