Cultral and Economic
REVOLUTION
Then the great Empire of the Antichrist will begin
where once was Attila's
empire and the new Xerxes will
descend
with great and countless numbers, so
that the coming of the Holy
Ghost, proceeding from the 48th degree, will
make a transmigration, chasing out the abomination of the Christian Church, and whose reign
will be for a time (Millenium Kingdom) and to the end
of time.(Eternity Ages)
The
law of More will be seen to decline(
free Marked or Capitalism?)
After another
much more seductive:
Dnieper first will come to give way:("Dnieper river,ancient Borysthenes Ukraine
Russia)
Through gifts and tongue another more attractive. see
comments in warfare
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gifts and tongue another more attractive. ( The Man whit a Plan) who can make a peace deal ?)(Can it be, the
first shadow of him?)Daniel
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שַׁלְוָה
shalvâh
shal-vaw'
From H7951; security (genuine or false): - abundance, peace (-ably),
prosperity, quietness.
Total KJV occurrences: 8
Long awaited he will never return (one time event)
In Europe, he will appear in Asia: One of the league issued from the great GreekHermes, (roman mercury) 
And he will grow over all the Kings of the East. (The third great one of Asia and Africa) In Europe
One who the infernal gods of Hannibal (North Africa Tunisia)
Will cause to be reborn, terror of mankind
Never more horror nor worse of days
In the past than will come to the Romans through Babel. Iraq the Assyrian.?
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Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died,
Russian prison authorities said on Friday, February 16.
Russian prison authorities:
Alexei
Navalny has died
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny
has died, according to Russian prison authorities.
Published: 16.02.2024 at 12:40
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The
information was reproduced on Friday by the Reuters news agency as well as Russian
media. Prison authorities in the Jamal-Nenets region, where Navalny has been
imprisoned, announce his death.
Navalny was the most high-profile critic of Vladimir
Putin when he was poisoned in August 2020. He returned to Russia after
treatment in Germany and was arrested.
He has
until now been imprisoned in a penal colony in Jamal-Nenets, located in north-central
Russia. He has served several different sentences totaling over 30 years.
Last
month, Navalny attended a court hearing via video link after being moved to the
penal colony from another prison.
More Palestinian terror groups invited to Moscow
14 Palestinian factions, several of them defined
as terrorist groups by Western countries, have been invited to talks with the
Russian authorities in Moscow.
Published: 19.02.2024 at 15:01
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According to the Palestinian Authority's (PA)
"Prime Minister" Mohammad Shtayyeh, several Palestinian
"factions" have been invited to talks with Russian authorities in
Moscow, the Jerusalem
Post reported.
The
"factions" mentioned are Fatah and its rivals in Hamas, as well as Palestinian
Islamic Jihad.
According
to Russian state news agency TASS, the meetings will take place in Moscow
between February 29 and March 2.
This is
the latest Russian advance in the wake of the Hamas massacre in southern Israel
on October 7 last year. A Hamas delegation visited Moscow later in the same
month. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani also attended the
meetings.
In the
wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the distance between Russia and the West
is growing. Putin is therefore strengthening Russia's relations with countries
such as China, Iran and Turkey – both militarily and related to trade.
Iran
supplies Russia with war materials in its war against Ukraine and is also a
supporter of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Iran is also the main sponsor
of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which now constantly fires rockets at
Israel's northern areas. Russia has deployed significant military forces in
Syria, Israel's neighbors, and Iran is supporting anti-Israel groups in Syria.
Both Russia and Iran supported the Assad regime during the protracted Syrian
civil war.
According
to the Jerusalem Post, the PA is increasingly open to working with Hamas to
bring about a solution to the situation in the Gaza Strip. Israel is determined
to crush Hamas and depose it from power. It is highly unclear what will happen
in the Gaza Strip after Israel completes its military operations.
According to TASS, as many as 14 Palestinian
"factions" will participate in the upcoming meetings in Moscow,
including the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization), of which several of
the Palestinian "factions" (several of them defined as pure terrorist
groups by Western countries) are members, Barrons
reported.
The PLO
claims it is working for a two-state solution. But the organization was
established in 1964, when neighboring Arab countries occupied and controlled
the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. From 1964
to 1967, the PLO did not seek the establishment of a Palestinian state in these
areas, but only to annihilate Israel.
The
Fatah movement, which in practice constitutes the Palestinian Authority, is the
largest faction in the PLO. Hamas is not a member of the PLO because it wants a
more explicit militant line against Israel.
Whit
this Putin has has likely signed his one
death certificate.
Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld
Steinfeld:
Navalny is more dangerous to Putin regime as dead than alive
Several experts VG has spoken to believe Alexei Navalny
will be a martyr for the Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin. But they dare not predict
what might happen.
·
- Navalny becomes a martyr, like the murdered politician Boris Nemtsov
and the journalist Anna Politkovskaya. From the Soviet era, we have experience
that prisoners of conscience also have the same effect.
"It's part of the Russian mentality," said Steinfeld, who has
lived in Russia for 20 years of his life.
"In a society where there are not so many ideals of a positive
sense, the martyrs become important.
"This does not control Putin.
"How
important?
"I can't say anything about that until it happens! But Putin
remembers the mass demonstrations in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square in 2011 after
the election fraud. It is not this tradition that Navalny has a political
effect. And Putin doesn't control this.
Steinfeld
continues:
"Navalny becomes more dangerous
to the Putin regime as dead than alive.
On both Friday night and Saturday, there were
reports from a number of Russian cities that police were obstructing people who wanted to lay flowers in
Navalny's memory. At least 270 people have been arrested, according to
OVD-info.
People in Moscow have nevertheless flocked to a rock from the Solovki
Islands, also on Saturday.
Was it Putin who killed Navalny?
"It is undoubtedly the regime that is responsible for his death. It
is a strict regime, and Navalny was in a harsh penal colony. But if you ask
whether Putin had a motive for killing Navalny, that speaks against it. But
we'll have to wait for the autopsy," Steinfeld said.
"Putin also knows that martyrs are more dangerously dead than alive,"
continues Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld, who is now publishing a new book, "The
Slavic Tragedy," which describes Russia's domination, oppression and
negative presence in the lives of the various Slavic peoples in Eastern Europe.
The
police break in: "Shame! Shame! Shame!
0:45
Professor emeritus at Lund University, Kristian Gerner,
agrees with Steinfeld:
"Navalny will be a martyr for democratic Russia," he told VG.
"He came back to Russia after the poisoning, he knew what he was doing,
but in Russian tradition he sacrificed himself to show power that they are not
omnipotent. He was willing to pay the highest price, his own death.
–Why?
"Because Navalny was concerned about the future of Russia. He
sacrificed his life, as Alexander Radishchev did in the early 1800s when he
fell out of favor with Catherine the Great and he was sentenced to death. The
sentence was later overturned and he was banished to Siberia, the history
professor said.
Like
Steinfeld, Gerner does not believe that Navalny's death was
"planned."
"All indications are that. They had no ready-made comments. They
just said they were trying to keep him alive. Putin's regime is responsible for
his death anyway, but it may have happened because of poor treatment in prison,
for example.
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at Putin
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In China, Sergei Lavrov Announces a Fairer World Order
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday announced the start
of "a fairer world order" in cooperation with China.
Lavrov is in China to attend two
multinational meetings on Afghanistan, along with representatives from
Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and he is referring to
a future "multipolar" world order.
French newspaper Le Figaro cites the Russian foreign minister's visit to
China, the first visit since Russia invaded Ukraine. And while many Western
media and commentators envision a Russia that in every way emerges from the war
in Ukraine, Sergey Lavrov's statements to the Chinese foreign minister, Wang
Yi, may indicate that the Russians themselves envision a winning future.
A multipolar future
Le Figaro echoes Lavrov's words:
"We are living a very serious stage in the history of international
relations," the head of Kremlin diplomacy said at the start of a bilateral
meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi. "I am convinced that at the
end of this phase, the international situation will be much clearer and that
together with you and our supporters we will move towards a multipolar, fair,
democratic world order," he told the Chinese minister.
The multipolar world order he mentions corresponds with the inspiration
Putin draws from Alexandr
Dugin, as we discussed in the case of Putin's
holy war against Western values.( Norwegian use translator) Dugin is guided by the principle
that "the nation is everything, the individual is nothing" in the
Eurasian order, and he champions a new empire in what he refers to as a
multipolar world. Furthermore, in the same case we discussed how the us
withdrawal from Afghanistan can make the Eurasia states motivated to interact
as a common multipolar actor:
One does not have to go to Putin's inspirators to be afraid in the
situation the world and the West face today. The French philosopher and author Bernard-Henri
Lévy is a household name in his home country, where he is briefly referred to
as the BHL. In his book The Empire and the Five Kings – America's Abdication
and the Fate of the World, he shows how the United States and the West are
losing world domination, and he specifically points to how us isolationism has
created a "huge vacuum" that can stimulate aggressive political
ambitions in five powers "that are keen to redrudge; to its advantage, the global map of authority
and power."
He writes that Russia, China, Turkey, Iran and radical Sunni Islam are
"starting to boil over again, setting themselves in motion, and given that
the world recently witnessed the American withdrawal... will resume the attack
on history.
Thus, it is extra interesting to see which countries meet in China to
discuss Afghanistan. There are Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan, all neighboring countries to Afghanistan. And it is also
interesting that the unspoken framework of the meeting is that the countries
have not condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Unlike many Western
nations, China has refused to condemn the invasion and has also lagged behind
many other countries in providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
"Boundless friendship"
Le Figaro writes that the Chinese foreign minister has been clear that
China has a "borderless friendship" with Russia
Beijing, which shares its hostility to the United States with Moscow,
has since February 24 refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, preferring
to condemn Western sanctions against Russia. In early March, Wang Yi even
hailed a "rock solid" friendship with Moscow, defending Russia's
"reasonable" security concerns. A few weeks before the war in
Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin had been warmly received by his
Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing. The two countries then celebrated a
"boundless" friendship and condemned the "expansion" of
NATO.
The newspaper also writes that the Taliban leader in power in Kabul,
Amir Khan Muttaqi, is also expected to attend the meeting.
According to a U.S. State Department spokesman, Washington's Special
Representative for Afghanistan, Tom West, will attend the meeting. These
meetings come a week after a visit to Kabul by the Chinese foreign minister,
for the first time since the Islamist fundamentalists came to power last
August. China shares a small border of 76 kilometers at a very large height
with Afghanistan. Beijing has long feared that its neighboring country will
become a reserve base for separatists and Islamists from the Uighur ethnic
group, the majority in the vast region of Xinjiang (northwest), Le Figaro
writes.
The "boundless friends" of course have a common interest in
the region; economy, and subsequent power. It is no secret that there is great
interest in Afghanistan's mineral riches, according to Al Jazeera estimated to
be worth $1 trillion.
Eurasian alliance building
Al Jazeera writes that these mineral deposits, which no one has been
able to develop during continuous conflict and violence, are seen as the key to
a prosperous future.
Now several countries, including Iran, Russia and Turkey are looking to
invest, filling the vacuum left by last year's chaotic U.S. withdrawal that led
to the departure of international aid groups, the freezing of Afghan assets and
the virtual collapse of the economy.
At this week's gatherings, China will try to position itself as the
leading advocate for humanitarian aid and economic development projects in
Afghanistan and will openly urge the United States to release the Afghan
government's assets and accounts, said Columbia University political scientist
Alexander Cooley, an expert on Central Asia.
"China quietly asserts itself as the leading external power in the
region," Cooley told the Associated Press news agency. "In doing so,
it will position itself both as a critic of US regional policy and as an
alternative leader of a humanitarian coalition made up of Afghanistan's
neighbors," Al Jazeera reports.
With yet another look back at our article Putin's holy war with Western
values, it may be worth adjusting the focus on the religious aspect of alliance
building taking place eastwards.
Nevertheless, the countries have strong commonalities – autocratic
governance – and here one cannot help but notice that autocracy and religion go
hand in hand in terms of bringing the people together. Perhaps it becomes
particularly evident when comparing these countries that Islam is political in
its form, with its rigid sharia coinciding with the rising autocratic political
guidelines laid down in both China and Russia.
The spiritual aspect is certainly present in all the aforementioned
countries, and what they can gather together about is the threat picture the West
poses to moral decay. Nothing seems as unifying as a common external enemy.
Here it must be shot that "external enemies" act unifyingly on
groups at different levels and are a well-known phenomenon from social
psychology research. The phenomenon may appear seemingly negative, but for the
groups gathered it will be positive and strengthening, we wrote.
The religious aspect is definitely important, but at the same time the
prospect of strengthened economy and future welfare is an even stronger power
factor than religion. The alliance building eastwards may show that many of the
world's autocratic-governed states don't care about Western faith in the
universality of human rights. If anything, the warfare against Ukraine should
remind the West of this very thing; we constitute different civilizations,
where faith in the excellence of Western liberty is not shared by anyone but
ourselves.
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About Putin's holy war
When Russia invaded
Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin called it a war against a West in
spiritual and cultural decline. Putin's holy war was immediately applauded by
the powerful Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church. The dream of
bringing Russia back to its former greatness characterizes Putin's speeches,
and he constantly plays on religious sentiments. But how could one of the
world's largest denominations allow themselves to be led by this rhetoric? How
can the Russian Orthodox Church bless a bloody war of aggression? In Putin's
Holy War, Helge Simonnes explains how Putin has managed to ingratiate himself
with the Russian Orthodox Church. The religious proposal is reminiscent of the
tactics of Donald Trump, Viktor Orban and several other politicians on the
extreme right around the world. In the Russian context, however, the
interaction between tsar and patriarch goes back centuries. Putin and Kirill
have renewed this tradition. They experience having a God-given mission to
bring the world back to God.
Putin's
holy war on Western values
Orthodox religion can be an important puzzle piece in
understanding Putin's reasons for the war against Ukraine, and in the Orthodox
lies not only Christianity, but also Islam. Putin's attraction to Iran and
Pakistan is part of this picture, and the Kremlin has long had ambitions to
develop partnerships with the Muslim world on the basis of equality and
reciprocity.
Published: 19 PM
Updated:
What is interpreted from
a Western point of view as defeat in Ukraine does not necessarily look that way
in the despot's head.
Decay process
Disgust with the West and
Western values as self-proclaimed universally applicable moral gold standards
for humanity have grown in tandem with the growth of Western decadence and
disarmament of defence. While we ourselves claim to own a truth that will apply
to all the peoples of the world, will conduct dialogue in every conflict, will
equate a third sex with the biological sexes, and will spend billions on a
green shift, we appear to much of the world as if we are in a process of decay.
It is still the case that the majority of the world's people prefer social
structures based on family values, where men are men, women are women, and the
community has some form of spiritual, religious structure.
According to a Pew Research Center study released in 2012,
more than 1.1 billion people—roughly one in six (16%) people worldwide at the
time considered themselves "not religiously affiliated." This
suggests that five out of six people on the planet are religiously affiliated,
and our willingness to snort indulgently at believers undeniably has an element
of condescension.
In the same survey, it is
stated that in Norway today, only 11 per cent state that they profess religious
belief, while the other 89 per cent do not.
Nevertheless, it is worth
seeing the proportion of active believers in light of the prevailing culture.
Because if you look at figures for Russia, China and Iran, for example, you see
something striking. While Russia and China score low on religiosity, Iran
scores sky-high. The countries nevertheless have strong common features –
autocratic forms of government – and here one cannot help but notice that
autocracy and religion go hand in hand in terms of uniting the people. It
becomes particularly clear when comparing these countries that Islam is
political in its form, with its rigid Sharia that coincides with the
increasingly autocratic political guidelines that are being imposed in both
China and Russia.
The spiritual aspect is
certainly present in all the countries mentioned, and what they can
collectively agree on is the threat the West poses to moral decay. Nothing
seems as unifying as a common external enemy.
Here it must be
interjected that "external enemies" have a unifying effect on groups
at different levels and are a well-known phenomenon from social psychological
research. The phenomenon may appear seemingly negative, but for the groups
gathered it will be perceived as positive and empowering.
A red religious thread
There is a historical line
from Putin's shocking televised address on Wednesday, in which he stated that
Russia was always able to distinguish the "true patriots from scum and
traitors" back in time, all the way to the early years of Putin's
presidency. In 2003, Russia – under Putin – was granted observer status in the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Putin thus drew Russia closer to the
OIC – probably impressive enough for his close allies, but also the Russian
Muslims, and Putin's own orthodox mindset can be said to have come to light
even then. The crude, apparently also hateful statement against his own people
Putin made Wednesday, when he alleged that "scum and traitors" should
be "spat out like an insect that happened to fly into their mouths,"
carries with it elements of religious absolute thoughts of good and evil.
Putin's understanding of
Islam has also been noticed by Russian scholar Karina Fayzullina. She wrote in 2014 about how to
interpret Russian foreign policy and Islam:
The image of Russia in
the world is rarely associated with Islam and Islamic identity in general.
While Orthodox Christianity is the country's dominant denomination, not many
people know that Russia is home to as many as 14 million Muslims of different
ethnic backgrounds. However, there is no recent census to confirm this figure.
Historically, Islam has
not been consciously instituted in Russia as a conceptual part of national
identity until the dissolution of the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.
Strong secularism by the former Soviets prevented any religion from developing,
both within and outside the official political framework. Thus, the role of
traditional beliefs among the different ethnicities and peoples of the former
Soviet Union remained underestimated for decades. It is only recently that
Islam in Russia has found itself less "shackled" by the restrictions
that had previously shackled it for centuries, before and during the founding of
the former Soviet Union.
This government policy
trend has proven to be truly encouraging. Russian leaders and politicians
repeatedly emphasize the importance of Islam as an integral part of the
political structure of the state, historically and in the contemporary period.
For example, President
Putin generally does not shy away from expressing religious feelings and
support in general, and is fair in his respect for Islam. He states the following:
«... Islam is rightly
claimed to be an inalienable part of today's religious, social and cultural
life in Russia. Its traditions are based on eternal values of goodness, mercy
and justice..."
The policies of the
2000s, along with government policies to improve Russia's image in the Muslim
world, seem to have yielded encouraging results in terms of Russia's overall
status. In terms of mass consciousness, Russia seeks to present itself as a
friendly country for Islam and Muslims. That is, Russia is cultivating the
image of an alternative to the warrior of the American neoconservative voices
('Neocons'), who constantly oppose the Muslim world with strenuous but
fruitless attempts to spread Western political values by promoting democracy. Russia
does not have a similar policy, and does not follow in the footsteps of the
former Soviet Union in terms of seeking to spread communism.
Karina Fayzullina's
analysis is now eight years old, but it has a lot going for it if one is to
understand Putin's implications.
Holy war
In a verb interesting
article in the culture pages of Swedish Exspressen last weekend, Joel Halldorf also writes that This
is a holy
war for Vladimir Putin. He believes that it is absolutely necessary to put
the religious puzzle piece in place to get an understanding of what Putin is
doing, as long as "the material and realpolitik puzzle does not go
up."
While Europe united under
the slogans freedom, equality, fraternity, Russian state ideology was summed up
in the words Orthodoxy, Autocracy, People. The country was considered in need
of a strong leader led by an intact and vital orthodox spirituality.
One of Putin's main
sources of inspiration is the philosopher Ivan Ilyin, who fled Russia after the
revolution in 1917. Ilyin saw atheistic communism as a parenthesis in Russian
history. At its core, Russia was Christian, and it was spirituality that united
the people.
This pattern recurs in
Putin's own life. He was born in the atheistic Soviet Union, but was secretly baptized
by his pious mother. He always wears the baptismal cross – it can be seen in
the pictures when he is out riding in a bare torso. As president he has forged
closer ties with the church and in the war against ISIS he presented himself as
a defender of the faith.
Through the war in
Ukraine, Putin is taking another step on a path he has long walked. Russia is
seen as threatened by Europe, and the threat becomes acute as Ukraine slides
away from the empire and toward the democratic and decadent West. This is not
just about NATO membership and economics, but about Europe's cultural and
spiritual influence over Ukraine.
But Orthodox Christianity
and Islam are not the same thing, many would argue – rightly so – but here we
come to another great inspiration for Putin; Alexandr Dugin.
Extreme thinking
Aleksandr Dugin is the
foreground figure for Russia's far-right wing. He is educated in social
sciences and philosophy and belongs to the Old Thinking school of Orthodox
Christianity, which is closely linked to the official Russian Orthodox Church.
Dugin is also mentioned in Johannes Due
Enstad's "Glory to Breivik!": The Russian Far Right and the 2011
Norway Attacks.
In Due's research article,
he looks at how Anders Behring Breivik's terrorist attack was received on the
Russian far right, with a comparative look to Western Europe. He puts forward
three hypotheses in the article:
A weaker social stigma
attached to right-wing extremism reduces the cost of publicly embracing
right-wing terrorists.
Higher levels of violence
in Russian society increase desensitization and acceptance of violence.
Breivik's embrace fits
into a living tradition of iconizing right-wing militants on the Russian far
right.
This knowledge is useful
backdrop for understanding Russian researcher Karina Fayzullina's claim that
Russia under Putin is actively working to improve Russia's image in the Muslim
world. As we have repeatedly advocated, organized Islam in totalitarian mosques
and movements is tyrannical, violent, patriarchal and Jew-hating – which is
precisely why it is far-right.
The alliance between
Russia and Muslim countries and Putin's flirtation with Islam is by no means
accidental, on the contrary, right-wing extremism and Islam have the same
ideological sound, and the differences are easily erased in unity against the
West as a common enemy.
Looking at where Putin
draws his forces from, one might get a better idea of who has converging
interests in the fight against the West, of which Ukraine is a symbol.
The moral superiority of
the West
Already in September
2020, Russia announced military cooperation with Iran because it knew that the
UN arms embargo against Iran expired in October of that year, and Putin has
become increasingly close to the Iranian regime.
Then, in August 2021,
Russia signed a
military cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. In addition to various
Muslim cooperation agreements, news of Russia's military cooperation with China
also came at the same time.
According to Kristian
Åtland at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), NATO's relations
with Russia have undergone a noticeable deterioration in the years that have
passed since Russia's intervention in Ukraine in 2014. China has to a large
extent been a bigger security problem for the United States than for the rest
of the alliance, and the Asian superpower has only ended up high on NATO's
radar in recent years.
– There is little doubt
that China in recent years has come higher on NATO's agenda, and the fact that
Russia and China cooperate is a potential challenge for NATO, Åtland told
ABC News.
At a security conference,
Putin backed plans to allow volunteers on the Russian side to join the fighting
in Ukraine, Reuters reported last Friday.
"There are around 16,000
troops from the Middle East ready to join us in our efforts to liberate the DNR
and LNR," Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. Many of the volunteers had
previously volunteered to fight with Russia against ISIS.
Dagbladet
reported Tuesday that as many as 40,000 Syrian fighters are said to have
enlisted to serve for the Russian military.
It seems navel-gazing
naïve to think that it is impossible for Russia to find solutions to the West's
economic sanctions with these states behind it. These are all states with a
vested interest in putting the West's moral superiority in place.
Then, of course, one can
simultaneously wonder why the invasion of Ukraine is apparently far more
difficult for Putin than he might have thought beforehand, but the reason may
lie in the fact that the country has not yet become as Western as Putin
assumed, but rather owns the willingness of newfound democracies to fight
militarily to preserve freedom. Something similar is difficult to point to in
an otherwise dialogue- and inclusion-Europe, which seems to have forgotten that
the prerequisite for peace is the will to go to war for what one believes in.
Dugin's Dream
Dugin is guided by the
principle that "the nation is everything, the individual is nothing"
in the Eurasian order, and he is the champion of a new empire in what he refers
to as a multipolar world. Dr. Polit. Jørn Holm Hansen describes Dugin as
follows in Store norske leksikon:
Dugin has used terms such
as National Bolshevism, Neo-Eurasianism and the Fourth Political Theory to
describe his political ideas. Central is the rejection of liberal democracy.
Although Dugin's own ideas are closest to traditionalism, fascism and the
European New Right, he argues that his own 'fourth political theory' is
something new after liberalism, fascism and communism have outlived their
roles. Dugin wants a "conservative revolution" in which the state is
strengthened at the expense of individual rights. He sees potential in
cooperation between anti-liberal currents with starting points other than his
own, among them anti-globalists, Islamists and extremist conservationists
(emphasis mine).
As Putin's adviser,
Dugin's ideas are able to interpret the war in Ukraine as a "necessary
evil," a parenthesis in the big picture. Here's what Dugin
himself says about the war:
This is not a war with
Ukraine. This is a confrontation with globalism as a whole planetary
phenomenon. Confrontation at all levels – geopolitical and ideological. Russia
rejects everything in globalism – monopolarity, Atlanticism, on the one hand,
and liberalism, anti-tradition, technocracy, the Great Reset in one word, with
another. It is clear that all European leaders are part of the Atlantic liberal
elite. And we went to war with them. Therefore, their normal reaction is:
Russia is now being excluded from the globalist networks.
Dugin's conviction of victory
for the Russians persists, and he
refers to the break with the West as "salvation."
What does Russia's break
with the West mean? This is salvation. The modern West, where the triumphs of
the Rothschilds, Soros, Swabians, Bill Gates and Zuckerbergs, is the most
disgusting phenomenon in world history. This is no longer west of Greco-Roman
Mediterranean culture, not the Christian Middle Ages, and not even the violent
and controversial 1900th century.
It is a graveyard for the
toxic waste of civilization, it is anti-civilization. And the sooner and more
fully Russia is cut off from it, the sooner it will return to its roots. For
what? To Christian, Greco-Roman, Mediterranean... – to European... That is, to
roots common with the real West. These roots are their own! "The modern
West has cut off. But they stayed in Russia. Only now is Eurasia raising its head.
Only now is liberalism in Russia itself completely losing ground beneath its
feet.
Russia is not Western
Europe. Russia followed the Greeks, Byzantium and Eastern Christianity. And
still we go down that path. Yes, with zigzags and deviations. Sometimes we get
stuck. But it goes. Russia stood up to defend the values of tradition against
the modern world. This is the "rebellion against the modern world"
itself. Didn't you know?
And Europe must break
with the West, and even the United States must follow those who reject
globalism. And then everyone will understand what is the meaning of the modern
war in Ukraine. Many people in Ukraine understood this before. But the terribly
frenetic liberal-Nazi propaganda left no stone unturned in the minds of Ukrainians.
They will come to their senses and will fight with us for the Kingdom of Light,
for tradition and true Christian European identity. Ukrainians are our
brothers. Was, is and will be.
A break with the West is not
a break with Europe. There is a break with death, degeneration and suicide.
This is the key to recovery. And Europe itself – the peoples of Europe – should
follow our example: overthrow the anti-people globalist junta. And to build a
real European house, a European palace, a European cathedral.
If Putin is in the
process of building his "real European cathedral" and following
Dugin's model of a united Eurasia we are bad, then the war will last for a long
time, and with a total change of power structures on the planbook, no one
should doubt the Russian will to purge either his own country or Ukraine of
"scum and traitors". Dugin coined the recipe as early as 1997, in his
six-hundred-page neo-fascist program for the final rule of ethnic Russians over
the countries stretching "from Dublin to Vladisvostok," the
Foundation of Geopolitics.
The Five Kings
One need not go to
Putin's inspirers to be afraid of the situation the world and the West are in
today. The French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy is a household name
in his home country, where he is simply referred to as BHL. In his book The
Empire and the Five Kings – America's Abdication and the Fate of the World,
he shows how the United States and the West are losing world domination, and he
specifically points out how US isolationism has created a "great
vacuum" that can stimulate aggressive political ambitions in five powers
"who are keen to redraw, to its advantage, the global map of authority and
power".
Russia, China, Turkey,
Iran and radical Sunni Islam, he writes, are beginning "to boil again, set
in motion, and given that the world recently witnessed the American
withdrawal... will resume the assault on history."
It turns out that the
West itself cannot effectively oppose Russia because the West must bow to the
other four "kings". "What had long been known as 'the truth,'"
Lévy writes, "is really a shifting shadow." He admires both the
Persian and Arab civilizations and the great literature of Russia, but he
condemns the five empires for their attraction to Nazism, anti-Semitism,
fascism and totalitarianism.
He also points out that
when Persia changed its name to Iran in 1935 – "which in Farsi means 'land
of the Aryans'" – they did so as a gesture of adaptation to Hitlerism.
Of course, one can
continue to argue that the war is about a humiliated man's megalomania or solely
about hatred of Western values, but the religious consensus on autocratic power
is at the same time enormously sinister, given that the West has completely
stopped understanding religion and only snorts at believers, as if they are a
little goofier than us. Furthermore, one should like to highlight Nazi groups
in Ukraine, but compared to who they are facing, the Russians should rather
look in the mirror when they give this characterization.
It comes across as
madness, but unfortunately there is a logic behind the actions. However, it is
not only economical or material, but it requires several puzzle pieces to get
the image together. For Putin, this is a holy war, motivated by a mythological
and metaphysical logic, Joel Halldorf concludes in his op-ed. Kronikk (Argumentative or
enlightening text)
I'm afraid he's right.
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