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Europe’s Battlefronts, by Charles Coulombe – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Charles Coulombe, Crisis Magazine, March 5, 2026

Charles A. Coulombe is a contributing editor at Crisis and the magazine’s European correspondent. He previously served as a columnist for the Catholic Herald of London and a film critic for the National Catholic Register. A celebrated historian, his books include Puritan’s Empire and Star-Spangled Crown. He resides in Vienna, Austria and Los Angeles, California.

Putin, Groypers, Islam, and Christ: What yolk will Europe choose to pull her into the future?

To the most holy emperor Constantine, Equal-to-the-Apostles, to his mother Helena; to the Orthodox emperors Theodosius the Great, Theodosius the Younger, Justinian; to the most pious Grand Duke Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles, to the Grand Duchess Olga, and all other Orthodox emperors and empresses, princes and princesses, eternal memory! —Byzantine Liturgy, Sunday of Orthodoxy (First of Lent)

As Lent of 2026 goes on, Europe, the Mother Continent, is actually at war—not on one but at least four different fronts. There is, of course, the actual shooting war in Ukraine, which has gone on for four years in its current form and almost eleven in terms of guerilla fighting. This pits Russia against Ukraine, the latter supported by the European Union and the United States.

While President Zelenskyy and his cronies are hardly the stuff of heroes, neither is Putin, who declared in his Tucker Carlson interview that he did not see the hand of God in Man’s affairs—so revealing his deep kinship ideologically to the Western leadership he affects to despise. …