By Dmitry Orlov for the Saker Blog
It is generally a good idea to avoid ascribing nefarious intent to actions explained by mere stupidity. But this is a case where mere stupidity cannot possibly explain the long, steady procession of foreign policy errors spanning three decades, all of them specifically aimed at strengthening Russia. It is not possible to argue that a surplus of hubris, ignorance, greed and political opportunism and a deficit of competent foreign policy analysts can produce such a result, for that would be essentially the same as arguing that some monkeys armed with drills, mills and lathes can produce a Swiss watch. But the only alternative would be to claim that there is a network of Kremlin’s agents ensconced deep within the bowels of the American Deep State and that they are all working in concert to advance Russia’s interests while meticulously maintaining plausible deniability all the while and at all levels of the operation.
Ostensibly, the plan was to weaken and destroy Russia; but then, following the Soviet collapse, Russia was weakening and destroying itself very well all by itself, no intervention needed. What’s more, every US effort to weaken and destroy Russia has made it stronger; had there existed even a most rudimentary feedback mechanism, so vast a discrepancy between policy goals and policy results would have been detected and adjustments would have been made. Superficially, this may be explained by the nature of America’s sham-democracy, where each administration can blame its failures on mistakes made by the previous administration, but the Deep State remains in power throughout, and it would simply be forced to admit to itself that there is a problem with the plan to weaken and destroy Russia after a few cycles of this unfolding fiasco. The fact that it hasn’t detected any such problem brings us full circle, back to the suspicion that there are Putin’s agents toiling tirelessly deep within the Deep State.
But that’s pure conspiracy theory and we shouldn’t want to go anywhere near that. Suffice to say, there is at present no adequate explanation for what happened. After the Soviet collapse, very little was needed to speed along the collapse of Russia itself. But none of these steps have been taken, and the steps that were taken (with the ostensible goal of weakening and destroying Russia) have done the exact opposite. Why? Below are listed 10 of the most successful initiatives of what appear to be a US Deep State MRGA campaign. If you have an alternative explanation, I’d like to hear it.
1. If Russia were immediately accepted into the World Trade Organization (which it wanted to join) it would have been swamped with cheap imports, destroying all of Russian industry and agriculture. Russia would simply sell oil, gas, timber, diamonds and its other resources and buy whatever is needed. Instead, the US and other WTO members spent 18 years negotiating Russia’s entry into the organization. By the time it joined, in 2006, very little time remained before the financial collapse of 2008, after which time the WTO hasn’t been too much of a factor.
2. If Russia were immediately granted visa-free travel to the West (as it wanted) most working-age Russians would have readily diffused out of Russia, leaving behind a population of orphans and the elderly, much as has happened with contemporary Ukraine. After losing much of its productive population, Russia would not have posed any sort of economic or military threat. Instead, Russia was never granted visa-free travel and instead faced restrictions that have only increased over time. By now most Russians have internalized the idea that they are simply not wanted in the West and that they should seek their fortune back home.
3. After the Soviet collapse, Russia itself collapsed into a loose mosaic of regional centers. Many of them (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Urals Republic, Chechnya) entertained notions of secession. Left untouched, Russia would have devolved into a loose confederation with no ability to formulate joint foreign policy. Instead, resources and mercenaries were pumped into Chechnya, turning it into an existential threat to Moscow’s authority and forcing it to become militarily assertive. The fact that Chechen volunteers are now fighting on the Russian side in the Ukraine underscores the failure of America’s Chechnya policy.
4. If, following the Soviet collapse, NATO simply recognized that the threat it was intended to counter no longer existed and either dissolved or simply became quiescent, Russia would never have thought it necessary to rearm itself. Indeed, Russia was happily cutting up its ships and missiles for scrap metal. Instead, NATO saw it fit to bomb Yugoslavia (for a made-up humanitarian reason) and then to relentlessly expand eastward. These actions have communicated most adequately the message that it wasn’t the USSR, and Communism, that the West opposed but Russia itself. And while, by the time the 1990s rolled around, not too many Russians were eager to fight and die for the greater glory of communism, rising to the defense of Motherland is an entirely different story.
5. If Russia’s near-abroad were simply left alone, Russia would never have considered venturing outside of its already vast and underpopulated territory. But then came a provocation: acting with US sanction, Georgian forces attacked Russian peacekeepers in South Osettia during the Beijing Olympics of 2008, forcing Russia to react. The fact that Russia could demilitarize Georgia in just a few days was a major confidence boost and taught it that NATO and NATO-trained forces are soft and squishy and not much of a problem. Russian territory expanded to include South Ossetia, with Abkhazia thrown in as an added bonus, paving the way for further territorial expansion (Crimea, Donbass, Kherson… Nikolaev, Odessa…).
6. If the US left alone Syria, a close Russian ally for close to a century, Russia would not have expanded into the Mediterranean region. As it is, Syrian government invited Russia to help it turn the tide in its war against US-supported ISIS and Russia destroyed ISIS with the help of a rather small contingent of air-and-space forces at just one airbase. The action in Syria has showcased modern Russian weapons systems and has led to a 20-year backlog in weapons orders from around the world. What’s more, Russia’s allies around the world know that if the US/NATO, or their mercenaries, give them any trouble, all they have to do is whistle and Moscow will rush in with their precision bombs and neatly stack the corpses.
7. After the 2014 Kiev putsch and the re-accession of Crimea, US/Western sanctions were immensely helpful in helping jump-start a large-scale program of import replacement, rejuvenating both Russian industry and agriculture. Russia is now largely self-sufficient in food and a major food exporter. Its position as the world’s main breadbasket will be further improved by the addition of Eastern and Southern Ukrainian “black earth” regions of uniquely fertile land. The sanctions were accompanied by speculative attacks on the ruble which drove its value down from 30 to the dollar to 60 (where it stands today) making Russian products much more competitive internationally and stimulating foreign trade.
8. The endless hollow threats to block Russia from using the SWIFT interbank messaging system have prompted Russia to create its own payment system, which is now integrated with China’s. The arrest of the $300 billion Russian sovereign wealth fund that was held on deposit in Western banks, along with freezing the funds of Russian oligarchs, have taught Russians not to trust Western banks and to avoid keeping their money abroad. All of these hostile actions in the finance space have paved the way for a rather measured response that has instantly made the ruble the most valuable and stable currency on the planet, leaving the dollar and the euro vulnerable to hyperinflation.
9. The eight-year war waged by the Ukrainian army, with unquestioning US/NATO support, against the Russian civilian population in the Donbass, has produced a very specific understanding throughout Russia’s population: that the West wants to exterminate it. When the Ukrainians then declared that they want to build nuclear bombs, and when it was discovered that Pentagons bioweapons labs in the Ukraine were working on creating pathogens specifically targeting Russians, and when, finally, it became clear that it was not just the Ukrainians but all of NATO was behind it, that the Ukrainians-plus-NATO were poised to launch an all-out attack, Russia pre-empted it by launching its own Special Operation. Cynical as this may seem, the previous eight-year shelling of buildings full of old people, women and children, shown live on Russia’s nightly news but steadfastly ignored in the West, was instrumental in producing approval ratings for the Special Operation that has reached 76%, with similar ratings for Putin, his government and even many of the regional governments. Now that, Western arms shipments notwithstanding, the Ukrainian military is being whittled away at a rate that will finish it off in approximately 20 days (the calculated “Day Z”), Russia is poised to emerge as an outright victor in World War III which, just like the Cold War, which it had lost, was barely even fought. This will restore Russia’s military’s mystique of being perpetually victorious.
10. Finally, Russia should be grateful for the lavish funds provided over the years by the US and the collective West in support of free speech and freedom of the press in Russia, by which is meant pro-Western propaganda. First, it did help liberate Russia’s media space, to a point that now Russia is much more open to freedom of self-expression than any of the European countries or the US, with barely a hint of corporate censorship or cancel culture that are rampant in the West. Second, so ham-handed and overbearingly dumb was the Western propaganda onslaught that the Russians, after processing it for some years, now openly laugh at the pro-Western narrative, and opinion research agencies report Russian support for pro-Western policies only in trace amounts. The process was helped by the sheer ludicrousness of various developments in the West: cancel culture, MeToo, LGBT, child sex change operations, promotion of pedophilia and all the rest, which produced a wave of revulsion. This 180º reversal, from overwhelmingly pro-Western opinions of the early 1990s to the current situation, are a crowning achievement of the entire three-decade-long Deep State campaign to Make Russia Great Again (MRGA).
I do not wish to argue that the existence of MRGA within the US Deep State is demonstrably, provably true. But I urge you to follow Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous dictum that “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth” and let me know what you come up with.
Who has controlled the issuance of american fiat money since 1913? “They” are following their agenda and the take down of the west was obviously part of that agenda.
Bahaha! Yeah, you’re right, mostly, only sheer, bovine stupidity would explain their actions or lack there of.
I do have to take exception with number 9, however. The arming of Ukraine and the constant provocations of Russia, were definitely done on purpose, with the goal of drawing the Russian attack.
Trump was just the latest in a long line of Russian puppets.
We owe Hilary Clinton a collective apology.
You nailed it! I keep wondering if the EU has realized what a fantastic opportunity it missed by not extending EU membership to Russia. Of course it is a wishful thinking, since the EU is a colony of the USA, that would never happen.
The Deep State? Plenty in the West and especially America believe it is real.
But if you look at the actual model being used, Big Government in line with Big business to the point where big business actually promotes and implements Govt policy, it would appear to be the Nazi model.
What happened?
+1 :) A credible hypothesis that grows stronger every passing day. We are approaching near certainty.
One word for why the wheels did not come off Russia … Putin … God’s gift to Russia. In the future he will be known as Vladimir the Great. This is not to belittle the other great Russians that coalesced around his leadership.
Dmitry great analysis thanks for all details! When White Collective West don’t want you or want you under his rule the best thing is to develop your autonomy, self-sufficiency, self-government, self-determination, self-defense, your own power! They made a lot of favours for Russia and Russian People excluding them for this sick system. As a Black Nationalist, integrationism and all this fake BS white liberal agenda was developed to destroy all that Black Comunity and Black People build for and to themselves. And If you have a native-american winning model is from Chiapas, Mexico: Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
Russia has the power to define her destine. With her China, Iran, India, Venezuela, Cuba, BRICS and many others can lead a free world against the White Western Supremacy System. Destroy his hegemony and world dictatorship!
Taliban = Vietcong/Mullah Omar = Uncle Ho Chi Minh
Russian SMO is a Revolutionary Act of Self-Defense and Freedom against World Tyranny!
RUS were fortunate to not demolish their Nuclear Arsenal.
That Arsenal, Supersonic/Cruise Missiles, Submarine Fleet, and Long Range Bombers kept Murica and GBRittania At Bay.
Now we’re able to see how the Hegemony conducted Themselves upon Every Other Nation-State.
Thanks to Vladimir V. Putin at the Helm, RUS were able to manage Situations at Home and Abroad. Another Yeltsin would have Failed-Stated RUS.
The “secret” behind the plan is simply a function of the thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectic. Whether Platonic or Hegelian, or even Newtonian, the dialectic demands that historical forces never operate in a vacuum but are inevitably opposed by counter-forces. Humanity’s development is simply the vector sum of the active forces in play.
That the 20th century has brought humanity to a fork in its developmental road seems axiomatic. An existential Either/Or is staring it in the face. We can’t go on doing what we’re doing, but we can’t go back either.
That the prevailing axis of world power (in aggregate: Davos Man) sought to steer it onto the fork most advantageous to it was inevitable. That a competing axis (in aggregate: the Global South) is seeking to steer it onto the alternative is likewise all but inevitable.
The former wish to steer humanity away from its biogenetic origins and into an in/anti-human techno-dystopia which they believe will forever keep humanity away from reaching this fork again, while the latter wish to maintain its biogenetic origins and find ways of moving beyond the conflicts that have plagued humanity on that account.
The only real (rather happy) surprise is that the latter have accumulated sufficient world power to give the former a run for their money. At this point, in fact, it appears that the world will split and venture onto two mutually unrecognizable civilizational paths, with the lion’s share of the world joining the Global South faction on its chosen fork.
Bad news for Davos Man, but it was a lack of planning rather than any done in “secret” that brought humanity to this point. Assisted suicide is central to Davos Man’s civilizational agenda. That is fundamental to “the plan”. The Global South believes that forced/induced cooperation will allow humanity to move beyond the Either/Or while leaving the most its worst baggage behind. They are, in a sense, co-dependent. Neither could succeed without using the other as a foil.
Eloquent points! You should have named the article in NYT’s fashion: “The 10 points you need to know about Russia’s recent greatness”.
I don’t agree that there’s an actual MRGA inside Western Deep State, just apply Hanlon’s razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
When you allow dual citizens to run your foreign policy for close to 40 years it all makes perfect sense. The Neocon and Neoliberal bureaucrats dragging the United States into a suicidal whirlpool don’t have an allegiance to the United States. But, they do have an allegiance to a Middle Eastern State where Muslims and Christians are treated as second-class citizens. They also have an ancient animosity toward Russia which was born from stories of pogroms and its own destructive revolutionary zeal. The Soviet experience is over and gone. Russia has returned to its Orthodox Christian roots and for many of these bureaucrats, Russia has returned to a Czarist entity. V. Putin is the new Czar and he is hated as much as Nicholas the 2nd!
Interesting analysis.
So if the collective west had really sought peace after the Cold War, it would have brought on Russia’s demise?
Russia would have turned into just another EU state, flooded by migrants, multiracial in the western sense, with an obese population, split into many smaller statelets, drowning in debt?
Yuri Bezmenov told them how they were being subverted. They simply ignored. That’s the way those arrogant narcisist people are. They don’t give a sh*t if their population collapses by suicide, AIDS, overdose, mass shootings, starvation, etc.. Those who are part of their ‘Elite’ are PROFITING from THIS kind of hell on Earth. Raytheon, Northrup, Boeing, Moderna, Pfizer, J&J et alii are having the best time. This Empire will continue by other name while people will pay with their lives as always has been the case. This ULTRA rich billionaires are ‘SCAVENGERS OF HUMAN SORROW’.
Dam!
I have been waiting keenly for a D Orlov article & as usual, it didn’t disappoint. Was only thinking about MRGA the other day myself.
It appears the smallpox/shingles/monkeypox Media drill now running live is set to be revealed as a ‘vaccine resistant’ bio-pathogen – calling on novel ‘treatments’.
Will the Russian revelation of criminal Ukraine biolab GoF push such a story?
(Nothing in Russian establishment appears to challenge the flu/cold/covid switcheroo of biotech investments and social engineering).
Does the pharming or phraming of the human mind under weaponised lies use anything and everything to retain, retrain and reset its program?
A hollow self parody of weaponised lies set the conditions for Job to release the self-imaged to a direct relationship or recognition of the Nature of Existence. In this sense truth is not IN the world, but can bless the world we made from a sense of lack and fear given power.
I read the article with interest because I see both the fear-script and the awakening script – and the fear-script is running to such insanity of reversals – not even cunningly concealed, such as to disturb, stir and awaken from a ‘new place’.
Dear Dmitry, an excellent question. Have been wondering about it as well.
Here is my hypothesis. The deep state would have been happy if Russia were opened up to looting, with a kickback to the corrupt elites. After all, that is what the US had perfected in Central and South America, and took worldwide. It looked that way, then Putin came into power, and nixed it. So plan B was put into operation. America (deep state) is always looking for “devils” to start a war with. There is an endless list of them. And the pattern is… first you build him up, make him strong, then unleash some sort of a propaganda blitz and move in with the warmachine.
America built up Hitler (along with other allies). America built up Saddam. America built up the Taliban. America trained Bin Ladin. America helped Al Qaeda along. Along with many tinpot dictators around the globe. Then turned them into an enemy and went to war… the happy war that makes so much money for everybody connected with deep state.
A weak, poor and pathetic Russia would not make a good enemy. A strong and sassy Russia will do admirably.
The campaign of hate against Russia was unleashed what? Maybe 9 years ago? And last winter, the Biden people were begging every week, please Putin, go to war next Wednesday already! Eventually, he obliged. Is the deep state happy? You bet. They got the war they wanted. I hope Putin has a surprise in store for them.
There is, of course, a possible Plan C as some here mentioned. And that is the hypothesis that the KGB knew they’d have to change the game, the writing was on the wall, and so they turned chameleon and infiltrated every institution in the west. And so these minions would have an interest in strenghtening Russia, naturally, and in the defeat of the west. I tend to think this is less likely, but the actual infiltration of communist ideas and the role this infiltration plays in the decay of the west, esp. among the younger idealistic crowd, seems to jive with this hypothesis, so I have been reluctant to throw it out.
I realize the pattern is too pat, and gives too little credit to those who plainly act stupidly. Still though…. I am noticing that despite the rhetoric, the destruction of western Europe proceeds apace (directed by the deep state). It makes little sense, destroying one’s allies. Maybe they ceased to be allies long time ago, and the real game is to crush them and extract what value there still is, leaving a husk.
Dmitry, here is my hypothesis D. This weird war with endless layers of deception… Let’s look at just the results, so far. All the various advantages for Russia you list. And Europe shooting themselves in the foot in a collective seppuku.
Perhaps? Perhaps the destruction of Russia is not the real goal of this war. Not yet, anyway. Perhaps the destruction of western Europe is the real goal. If so, it’s proceeding apace. Success after success.
I am reminded of the time, when the US and the Brits and a few other countries woke up to the fact that — despite the support Hitler had all over the place, incl. certain large US conglomerates, and the Brit royal family (and other royals) and half of the Brit nobility and even among the bankers — they woke up to the fact that Hitler was just too effing insane. And everything pivoted in a different way.
Could it be that some part of the deep state and other elite movers and shakers have seen that EU together with the looney band at Davos are nobody’s friend? That they are completely wacked and a danger to everybody incl. the elites and their progeny? That the world the WEFers are planning is not the world they themselves want to live in? Sounds to me like they sent the venerable Kissinger to give a big hint.
I am thinking that the move to stop Germany linking to Nord Stream II can be seen not necessarily as a move by the deep state to harm Russia and sell liquid gas (though it was sold that way), but rather a move to force Germany to reckon with the reality on the ground. Their build up of solar and wind in a cloudy and largely windless country. Their shutting down of nuke plants. Their cheating and lying, burning brown coal and forests while nobody’s looking. Without cheap Russian gas, their scheme bites the dust and reality peeks through the green fog.
Could be? Or, maybe all three games are being played simultaneously. But Russia is playing tit for tat now, and tit for tat always wins.
A great article littered with beautiful ironies, basically calling out Western incompetence in all its ideological idiocy …
Russia did not destroy itself in the 90s but at the hands of a Wall Street hit team: the so called reform team led by the saintly Al Gore (Condolezza Rice was a team member), and of course the traitor Yeltsin and his minions. The central bank ran a loan rent of over 100%.. this is simply mass murder.
It’s very simple Mr. Orlov: Outlaw US Empire planners are Neoliberal Parasites and look no farther ahead than the end of the next quarter–they don’t do long term planning or play the Long Game. Plus they’re parasites–financial parasites to be accurate–and are thus more concerned with draining their most immediate hosts–EU/NATO/USA/Japan/Australia–that they failed to continue their feast on the former USSR once they became initially engorged. And since they’re incapable of planning for the Long Game, they also can’t accurately predict the outcome of their hysterical policy moves that blewback in their faces.
Fascists have never been good planners because they think themselves invincible despite massive contrary evidence. Couple that with Neoliberalism and you have a great recipe for policy failure.
Somewhat tongue in cheek, but difficult to find serious weaknesses with his arguments. People who hold sound conservative principles (social, moral, economic, cultural) applaud Russia for it’s self-sufficiency, moderation and largeness of spirit.
Very good I agree . The center of the plot is based on a real antitethycal paradox . When the potential difference between two poles reaches a critical level, an electric discharge occurs. A lightning. It often happens between heaven and earth … Evidently the men of the deep state try to continuously charge one of the two poles … On the other pole, they try to modulate energy release, using this energy constructively to their advantage. Avoiding too critical levels … We are certainly not out of danger, but at the moment, this energetic mechanism seems to be working. Brilliant!
Brilliant!! Superb!! SOO witty, in suggesting that because NOBODY can be as stupid as U.S. policymakers, that the Deep State must be in control.
I’ve lived long enough to have seen the stupidity begin, but it was mostly moral weakness, and had its own internal logic.
We came out of WW2 astride the world, with a slightly indulgent gov’t.
Eisenhower’s attempt to bolster the dollar wrought the 1957,8 recession that wiped out, separately, my two elder brothers and nearly wiped me out. Ike, frightened, resumed the printing. Prior to Ike’s attempt his era was the most prosperous of my life, despite his top income tax rate of 92%.
JFK’s attempt to save the dollar wrought the stock market collapse of May 28, 1962, forcing him to backtrack.
By Nixon’s era the dollar was becoming internationally suspect. The French chose to cash in theirs for gold at the promised rate of $35 per troy ounce, but Nixon defaulted. He forced the retention of the new, fiat dollar as the world’s reserve currency by getting the Saudis to sell their oil only for dollars.
Carter, a conscientious President, made the last serious attempt to save the dollar by arranging for Paul Volcker to lead the Federal Reserve. The latter’s raising of the Fed rate caused the prime rate to rise to 19% and construction loans to 21.5% which wiped out residential construction companies including most of my previous cohorts. The resultant suffering made Carter a single-termer.
Reagan, a “conservative” who had spent wildly as California’s governor, grasped the non-restraints of a fiat currency. He resumed the spending spree
Each administration since then has been increasingly reckless. The fake dollar gave rise to financialization; the hollowing out of the economy. Banks and investment companies became criminal operations. The entirely fraudulent Collateralized Debt Obligations and Credit Default Swaps transferred $billions from innocents into the hands of charlatans, and when CDOs and CDSs collapsed to zero, the U.S. gov’t, at our expense, reimbursed the victimized losers, e.g., pension funds, all over the world while ALSO giving $billions to the perpetrators instead of prosecuting them.
Today, we are in the last days, the gotterdammerung, of the dollar and of the American Experiment. Both are being destroyed; spent for purposes destructive of the American people. Our Federal gov’t is insane. Based upon blatant lies, it engages in criminal, unwinnable wars; making us a pariah nation.
The purpose of the above is to provide anecdotal confirmation of Orlov’s brilliant observations, and to provide context that shows a rather innocent stupidity in operation rather than a Deep State – at least until recent years.
The Russian improvement is the result of strategic thinking and decisive acting by Putin, who kicked out NGO’s and many other western corrosive and plundering infiltrations. The American losses are a result of ill informed thinking and ill planned acting by types like Kagan and Nuland. Which, for some reason, are still firmly in high positions despite decades’ worth of clusterfucks, and still seem to enjoy credibility. Which says a lot about their corrupted moronic entourage. “The fish rots from the head down” (Gerald Celente quote).
Here’s the explanation that the author asks for:
I wrote an article in 2016 titled, “The US Armed the Soviet Union During the Cold War” [at https://www.pdrboston.org/u-s-armed-the-soviet-union-in-cold- ], in which I provide an explanation for why the US did that, and I submit that the same explanation applies to the post-Soviet Union Russia: oppressors need a bogeyman enemy and if necessary they invent one or strengthen a weak one to make it a credibly frightening bogeyman enemy.
Dmitry Orlov always writes interesting clear and incisive articles
There is perhaps another simple explanation and that is Charles Darwin’s theory on natural selection. Each time deep state or whatever poses a threat, Russia reiterates itself into a new life form to counter the danger
What does surprise me is that Russia has made no attempt to enter the informational war that is being waged by the western mainstream media and it may well be that in the end truth will prevail. However, I think with in comparison very little money the Russian government could easily by overt and covert means counter the flood of mis dis and mal information put out by the BBC and other discredited news organisations.
Take an article like this or even The Saker itself for the Russia government to set up a website and pay contributors a decent amount for inclusion
Perhaps the rea; problem is that the US government NATO and the deep state have been taken in by their own propaganda and fail to see actual reality
What does surprise me is that since the sinking of the Moskva by Norwegian missiles backed by a Norwegian technical crew that a state of war or direct confrontation now exists between NATO and Russia and that Poland if it persists in these games and posturing might well end up facing a very angry Russia and with very little support apart from words from the other NATO members
Victoria Nuland, Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, and their neo-con backers clearly seek the destruction of the United States….surely, no one could be that incompetent??
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“If you have an alternative explanation, I’d like to hear it.”
Hi, I’m not an expert in geopolitics, I found three alternative possibilities, I just write them down to be taken into consideration by the author, to be explored or discarded as inapplicable.
I write them from the most probable to the least (in my mind), without excluding an intersection of these scenarios.
1) there has been progressively less of a real opposition between blocks, in the past decades, with explicit display of mistrust and hostility, and implicit deep coordination. (this scenario does not exclude real temporary fights to set the power hierarchy in the technocratic-mafia table.. just similar to what happens with organized crime fights); actually.. this is an hypothesis very close to Orlov’s..
2) West needs an enemy to rule western people (Orwell style).. and maybe Russia too..
3) Just as powerful european families abandoned Europe as the center of their activities, to settle in the new unexploited territories of America… maybe a new migration is about to take place.. this is just a fleeting thought.. and I admit this is the most ludicrous of the three..
I don’t know if this is called sarcasm,reverse psychology but this all seems so true…Its IS like the west wants to MRGA.
La Russie (et les Russes) se sont toujours senti rejetés, isolés. On les méprisait, on les ignorait, etc… Mais cela était-il une réalité, ou un fruit de leur imagination ? Un sentiment collectif intelligemment entretenu par l pouvoir pour maintenir une sujétion, une victimisation d’un peuple plus facile à manipuler s’il n’a pas une autre vision que l’officielle ? Au temps des tsars, avant l’URSS et l’esprit communiste, la Russie était bien plus ouverte, et cela sans perdre son identité. Maintenant, c’est la force brutale qui s’impose.
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Russia (and Russians) have always felt rejected, isolated. They were despised, ignored, etc… But was this a reality, or a figment of their imagination? A collective feeling intelligently maintained by the authorities to maintain a subjection, a victimization of a people easier to manipulate if it does not have another vision than the official one? In the time of the tsars, before the USSR and the communist spirit, Russia was much more open, and that without losing its identity. Now, it is the brutal force which is imposed.