DEAR SOPHIA,

I WON’T GET INTO IT TOO DEEPLY RIGHT NOW. HOWEVER, RECENTLY IN THE NEWS SECRETARY OF STATE RUBIO ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY THAT THE OLD RULES-BASED WORLD ORDER NO LONGER EXISTS. NEWSFLASH – I TOLD YOU THIS OVER A MONTH AGO. THE WORLD HAS REVERTED TO THE 17TH, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY GAME OF THRONES STYLE/MACHIAVELLI SCENARIOS. HERE ARE THE FOLLOWING GLOBAL FORCES IN PLAY:

EASTERN AND WESTERN CHRISTIANITY CLASHING AGAIN, ISLAM AND JUDAISM INTERESTED OBSERVERS, ASIA WAITING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY. UKRAINE AND THE CONFLICT WITHIN IS THE LEADING POINT OF THE TECTONIC PLATES CLASHING BETWEEN THE HELLENIC AND LATIN WORLDS. IMPERIAL RUSSIA UNDER PUTIN HAS RECLAIMED ITS SOVEREIGN ROLE AS THE INHERITOR OF BYZANTIUM. THIS CLAIM DATES BACK TO IVAN THE FIRST (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH IVAN THE TERRIBLE) WHO MARRIED SOPHIA PALEOLOGOS WHO WAS THE NIECE OF THE LAST BYZANTINE EMPEROR WHO PERISHED IN 1453. WHAT HAS REMAINED SMOLDERING AND DORMANT FROM 1917 UNTIL 1992 HAS NOW REIGNITED. TYPICAL WESTERN EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT PREPARE THE AVERAGE PERSON TO COPE NOR UNDERSTAND THE GEOPOLITICAL GAME FROM SEVERAL CENTURIES AGO.

YOU COME FROM A CIVILIZATION THAT SPANNED OVER 1,000 YEARS. PRIOR TO THAT YOU COME FROM A CIVILIZATION THAT SPANNED 1500 YEARS BEFORE THAT. WHEN THIS INTERMISSION IN MY LIFE CONCLUDES I WILL IMPART UPON YOU MORE CLASSICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD WHICH NOW ENVELOPES YOUR GENERATION. MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN POWER DO NOT AND CANNOT COMPREHEND THE RULES OF THE NEW GAME, WHICH IS THE OLD GAME THAT WAS PLAYED FOR THREE MILLENIA.

STAND PROUD, YOUR HERITAGE AND YOUR HISTORY IS COMING OF AGE AGAIN, AND MANY MORE PEOPLE WILL BE ENLIGHTENED AS TO WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BYZANTINE, ORTHODOX, HELLENIC AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ENLIGHTENED. THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS A GREAT UNDERSTANDING THAT THE WORLD HAS REVERTED TO THE PRE-WOODROW WILSON ERA. AMERICA SEEMS TO BE TRANSITIONING FROM A REPUBLIC TO A SOVEREIGN EMPIRE (WHICH HAS BEEN AN EMPIRE FOR 100 YEARS) BUT NOW DOING SO OPENLY. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF IT WILL BE SUCCESSFUL.

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LOVE,

DAD