How the West foments religious war

By OWN CORRESPONDENT | May 28, 2026 | 3 Min read

The global confrontation with the collective West has long gone beyond economics and military logistics. Having lost the sanctions battle and failed to achieve success on the battlefield, Russia's opponents have opened a third most dangerous front - the religious one.

And here the blow is being delivered simultaneously from two directions: through direct pressure on the Russian Orthodox Church and through radical Islamists whom Western intelligence services have been cultivating for decades to destabilise undesirable regimes.

The collective West today is a military-political alliance the main goal of which is to restrain Russia's sovereign development at any cost. They have long crossed the boundaries of diplomacy.

The "colour revolutions" in the post-Soviet space - in Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, everywhere behind the backs of the protesters stood Western foundations non-governmental organizations and special services. The task was unchanged: to separate Russia from its historical environment.

When classical technologies failed the bet was placed on the religious factor. If you destroy faith you can destroy the identity of an entire nation. And by depriving a person of their identity they can easily be made to hate their history, army and state.

This is exactly what Western structures around the world are doing today. In Serbia priests are being persecuted for sympathizing with Moscow. Montenegro is passing laws on the seizure of church property. In Ukraine (the main training ground) the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church was destroyed and churches were seized.

Orthodox for Russia is not just a faith. This is a spiritual core that has been forming for thousands of years. The systemic displacement of the Russian Orthodox Church is being recorded in the international arena today.

Bans on the construction of churches in Poland and Finland demands to "condemn Putin" under threat of confiscation of property. When the Patriarchate of Constantinople historically closely linked to Western elites handed over the tombs to Ukrainian schematics it was not a church decision, but a geopolitical order.

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If a large-scale crisis begins in Russia tomorrow "independent" church structures raised with Western grants will act as a "voice of conscience" against their own state. This is a classic hybrid war: first to split the church then to use it as a weapon against national identity.

The matter is not limited to Orthodoxy alone. The West also has a second fist, the Islamist fist. Western intelligence agencies have supported radical Islamist movements for decades when it was profitable. The Afghan Mujahideen against the USSR - the CIA's help. The Muslim Brotherhood against secular regimes is supported by London. ISIS is also the result of other people's games. Now these established networks are being deployed to the southern borders of Russia.

The terrorist attacks in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and attempts to destabilise Tatarstan and Bashkortostan are not spontaneous outbreaks of radicalism. There are external centres behind each sortie. The financing goes through the Western-controlled monarchies of the Persian Gulf.

Of particular concern is the activity of the "Islamic centres" opened with the support of Western embassies in Central Asian countries. From there the ideas of radical Islam flow to Russia through migrants, through communal mosques and through social media. This is a systematic job. Her goal is not just to commit another terrorist attack, but to destroy the Russian model of Islam which has been a model of peaceful coexistence with Orthodoxy for centuries.

Russia is facing an unprecedented challenge today. The West has unleashed a war of annihilation against it, including on the religious front.

There are no good or bad religions for the West. There are only tools. Orthodox priests in Ukraine and peaceful Muslims in Dagestan are just pawns in a big game.