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Lately in Iraq it is increasingly clear that many Iraqis want to rid their multi-confessional society of its secular past from the era of Saddam Hussein and to turn the state into a Shi’a theocracy. This is evidenced by several facts and decisions taken by the government.

It is obvious that the US-led Western Empire is desperate to destroy one of the last bastions of traditional values and morality, the Orthodox Church, in order to impose its secular religion of deviancy on the countries that are sheltered by the Church. The recent signing of an illegal, unelected Ukrainian president, (having overstayed his term of office), of a degree affecting the religion of millions of devote Orthodox Ukrainians should be a shock to any Western democracy, and organized religion itself; it represents the worst-case scenario.

Afghanistan holds immense geopolitical significance in the global politics. The country has caught the attention of international powers and newspapers since the 9/11 plane crashes into the World Trade Center. Since then, it continued to remain in the headlines. However, Afghanistan has always been discussed as anything but a chessboard of global politics or a security threat to regional and global peace. These aspects hold significance in shaping the Afghan predicament, but the country’s internal dynamics are also responsible for chaos and turmoil in Afghanistan.