Friends, through my study of Anatoliy Golitsyn and the Perestroika Deception, I sincerely believe that the collapse of the Soviet Union was no collapse at all; but merely a false democratization.  A "pokazuka."

Mark Riebling wrote in his book, Wedge: The Secret War Between the FBI and CIA, that of Golitsyn’s 194 predictions, by 1994, 139 had come to fruition, with 46 being “not soon falsifiable.”  He has had the highest successful prediction rate of any defector and was promptly ignored by our intelligence services.  Most likely by design.

I want to posit a theory.

Pope Francis is on a mission to create a Synodal Church.  A synod is a little council, and the Russian word for council is soviet.  Literally, he is working toward a soviet church.

I have a feeling that this consecration will inevitably lead to world war 3.  (the most obvious statement here)
There is a recent interest of the Pope to go to Moscow.  That after the 25th, it will lead to the pope going to Moscow to 'heal' the schism. An 'ecuмenical' reunion of East and West into the new framework of a synodal church; with the pope merely relegated to the 'bishop of Rome'.
The communist in the West embraces the communist in the East.

Garabandal lore supposedly states that when a pope returns from Moscow, Mahometans rise up in a cινιℓ ωαr all over Europe and shortly after Russia sweeps over Europe in 3 days.  [insert red flag flying over St. Peter's and Alois Irlmaier, etc].

A false union of East and West like this would ultimately serve the greater glory of God and used to mend the schism of East and West after the chastisement of WW3.  Yet, the world's novus ordo church will hail this false communist union it as a great miracle and step toward peace.  The words of St. Paul come to mind.

"For when they shall say, peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape."

[1 Thessalonians 5:3]

Has anyone else thought this a plausible outcome?
Note for the Beneplenists, BXVI will reportedly be present at the consecration--that is supposing that the prayer of consecration actually uses the language of a consecration.

-onetallorder

Maybe. All I know is that if only worldly fruits come from it, it'll be an instrument of Satan.

Maybe. All I know is that if only worldly fruits come from it, it'll be an instrument of Satan.

Absolutely.  It was very surreal to hear "the holy father, pope Francis, will consecrate Russia in union with the bishops of the world" from the pulpit this past Sunday.
Is this a "Nixon moment"?  ("""only Nixon could go to China""", as if that was not a pre-scripted event)

I doubt it.  It is interesting though; considering who has lined up in support in Ukraine.  All the bad actors signed on the dotted line.
It reminds me of Gorres' Athanasius:

...One may argue backwards and forwards over principles with an equal share of light and adverse winds and with an equal degree of sincerity.  But when all the lies and evil passions crowd round one banner like vultures round a carcass which has fallen by the wayside, then this is certainly not the standard under which a good fight will be fought.  For evil has its instincts and these do not lead it astray along its way. ...

Francis' leftist crony bishops are more inclined to participate in the consecration because of his political leaning.  He will likely achieve more bishops consecrating in union with him than a JP2 or Benedict would. Of course, this is supposing that he is actually pope and not Benedict.

On the other hand, the apparent bad actors lining up in support of Ukraine has the "right" in the West looking to muh conservative Putin.  Like the spook Archbishop Vigano, who recently went on a bizarre tirade about Moscow is the Third Rome and the last stand against the satanic Western nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr.  Straight out of Aleksandr Dugin's rhetoric.  Whether or not he is an intentional bad actor or not, this is a very bizarre thing for a Catholic (Archbishop no less) to say.

Those who are Putinites are not aware that they are carrying water for the system that was planned all along, a multipolar, neo-soviet, Eurasian, and technocratic world communist system.  Be wary of anyone who promotes Russia [in its current state as a crypto-communist system] as the savior of the West; it's the soviet liberation script for the 21st century.

Any word on whether Bp. Williamson and other non-sede trad bishops will participate?

No idea.  The letter circulating from the Apostolic Nunciature invites "each Bishop, or equivalent in law, together with his priests".  For what it's worth

I am not aware of anyone here who "promotes Russia as the savior of the West".

That's good.  I am not familiar with the personalities in this community, but have dropped in from time to time over the last ten years.

I tend to agree with others here who have said that Russia will be the tool of our chastisement which will be followed by the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Absolutely.

Have you listened to the clip of Father Malachi Martin back in the 1980s (who had read the secret) talking about Kiev and Russia?

Yes!  Very interesting, even though I am eternally suspicious of Fr. Martin.  If I remember correctly, he thought that JP2 would be the one to have something to do with Kiev and Moscow.  Where ever we are in the timeline, it certainly seems we are on the precipice of something big.

I'm sure after the consecration we'll see a lot of scoffers because nothing significant happened, and when total war breaks out they will again be shouting where is the era of peace?
Unfortunately the era of peace likely requires folks like that be removed from the earth.

I too agree that +Vigano was absolutely correct in everything that he wrote.  He did not praise Putin without qualification but only in the context of this particular conflict.

So far as I am aware, neither Bishop Williamson, nor any of the Resistance bishops, have any legal standing in the Church, and for these purposes, would be regarded in the same way schismatic bishops are.

The three SSPX bishops, you could argue either way, but if they will be participating in the consecration anyway, the point is moot.

No you can't.  If the Resistance bishops has no legal standing in the Church, neither to the SSPX ones.  Nor did Our Lady request that the consecration be done by all the "bishops with jurisdiction in the world" but all the bishops of the world.  To assert "legal standing" would be to read that into it (rightly or wrongly).

I'm sure after the consecration we'll see a lot of scoffers because nothing significant happened, and when total war breaks out they will again be shouting where is the era of peace?
Unfortunately the era of peace likely requires folks like that be removed from the earth.

This right here is the absolute truth. It's not as though God is going to override the free wills of many and force them to convert. Rather, he's going to wipe out a significant portion of the just and unjust alike (like the Deluge) to get this age of Catholic peace. Better that than to let us go on sinning.