One year on from Russia’s 9/11, when would-be genocidists came to get Russian-speakers with Russian passports. In the name of the neoconservatives’ godless and rootless pseudo-West of stupefaction, promiscuity and usury, they were determined to exterminate the Slavic (and thus pre-eminently Russian) front line of the True West that is the Biblical-Classical synthesis in Christ and His Church.

 

Such is the neocons’ hatred of those who hold to the True West, that they actively support “militant Islam” (there is no other kind) against us everywhere from Bosnia, to Chechnya, to Kosovo, to Iraq, to Nagorno-Karabakh, to any number of other places, including the whole of Western Europe in the form of mass immigration from the Islamic world. No wonder that the Kuwaitis, the Emiratis and the Twin Towers-bombing Saudis are so generous with their cash.

 

Russia’s victory over a President “elected” with ninety-seven per cent of the vote will go down as the point at which the global fightback really began, accelerating when Barack Obama beat first Hillary Clinton and then John McCain (who had wanted as his National Security Adviser a man who in the Georgian interest had committed treason against the United States). Alas, there are still a few outposts. Georgia is one, though we may trust not for much longer. And Britain is another, with no electoral hope of improvement.

 

Russia won, be in no doubt about that. It is inconceivable that either Abkhazia or South Ossetia could ever again be run from Tbilisi, as they have only ever been during the Soviet period. It is obscene that anyone should suggest such a thing; that sanctity should attach to lunatic borders imposed by Stalin, of all people. For that matter, it is scarcely more credible that Ossetia will not be reunited soon enough, within the Russian Federation. (There is no comparison with the ethnically Russian populations in the Baltic States, although they are certainly badly treated, and that urgently needs to be addressed.)

 

That Abkhazian or South Ossetian independence is recognised “only” by Russia is like saying that it is recognised “only” by America, or “only” by China. As long as you have any one of those three, then anyone else is nice, but not necessary. Likewise, without at least one of those three, you might as well be recognised by nowhere at all.

 

Yes, ethnic Georgians were displaced, and that is more than regrettable. They know whom to blame, though. And there were eighteen thousand of them. The number of displaced Ossetians was thirty-eight thousand, who were lucky that displacement was all that happened to them, since the idea had been to wipe them out.

 

But they were not wiped out.

 

And nor will the rest of us be wiped out, either.