by Marcus Godwyn for the Saker blog, (with huge thanks to Gleb Glinker for expert proof reading and wise editing; the introduction to this article has been posted before here)
As western media and politicians relentlessly continue to spew forth warnings to their hapless populations about the ever present and growing “Russian threat”, only today: 12-11-2017 NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg has told Europe to “Prepare for a Russian invasion”. Let us take a moment to analyse just who exactly among the hundred and fifty million odd Russians in the world actually constitute a threat to “the west”, to anywhere else or indeed, to other Russians.
For the rest of this article, I will use the term “the west” to define the rulers, as well as the public faces (politicians, journalists etc) of North America, the rest of the Anglo Saxon world and western and northern Europe i.e. the geopolitical alliance whose leaders have once again declared war on the Russian world.
So who are the most dangerous Russians in the world today? Are they, as the west so desperately needs you to believe, the Russian government and its president Vladimir Putin? A resounding NO is the only possible answer that any sane, rational and even slightly informed conscious individual could give. If I had to think of one word to sum up the behaviour of the Russian government over the last four years it would be: “ZEN”! The west started openly provoking Russia in the early 2000s but since the attempt to attack Damascus by The US in 2013 was thwarted by Russia (and some say China too), Russia has been subjected to endless and very extreme provocations which can only be interpreted as being designed to goad Russia into making the first move towards war with the west. Whether the western rulers actually want a third world war now and nuclear Armageddon (We have all read the stories and seen the photos of what are allegedly the luxury underground “bunkers” that the ruling elites have been preparing for themselves to inhabit while the rest of us burn at their bidding) or, whether they are arrogant and self deluded enough to think that Russia will just capitulate to their will if faced with the threat of all out war or that the population of Russia is actually oppressed and ready to rise up against its leadership for the chance to be “liberated”, or whether they believed that the Russian armed forces remain as inefficient, ill equipped, demoralized and potentially disloyal as they seemed to be, or at least as we in the west were told they were, in the years immediately after the collapse of the USSR and thus war with Russia this time round will be a pushover, I cannot tell but these provocations have been extreme and extraordinarily dangerous on the part of the west.
The violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government by The US and EU in February 2014 could oh so easily, if hotter heads had been in charge in the Kremlin, have led almost immediately to WW3. It is clear that the Russians did not expect such an extreme move from the west and were caught napping. If Putin was the kind of person who allows himself to be eaten by personal pride or whipped into action while smarting from loss of face and even a few of his ministers and advisers were of a similar hue we could all be radioactive dust by now.
The fact is that under Putin’s leadership, Russia has simply absorbed and dissolved every attack the west has thrown at it resorting to physical, military action only when considered absolutely necessary but also, crucially, when the possibility of success without bringing the west into a major, immediate armed conflict seemed virtually assured. The saving of Crimea and its population and the Russian intervention in Syria at the Syrian governments behest being the two most prominent examples. The Russian restraint in retaliating in kind and refusing to be dragged into war has left the west increasingly exposed, at least to the more perceptive among its own population and others around the world, as the aggressive, lying, land grabbing force it actually is and has led to increasing frustration among the west’s rulers culminating in a petulant frenzy of provocations in the dying months of the Obama regime. Ultimately, this outstanding display of disciplined, “Zen” self control from the Russian leadership may not avert the all the out war that the west appears to crave so much but it certainly has done so up until now and will still be talked about in a thousand years time assuming we somehow survive. If ordinary citizens of the west can still go ordinarily about their ordinary business, it is thanks to team Putin in the Kremlin and certainly not their own governments.
So if not the Russian leadership, who then could be the most dangerous Russians in the world today? What about the Russian mafia we used to hear so much about? Well they certainly were dangerous, in Russia and around the world back in the 90s and early 2000s. Have western headline writers forgotten about them? The fact is that Putin, slowly but surely crushed them! I’m not pretending that crime has disappeared from Russia; that would be nonsense, but the grip of organized crime on Russian life has been all but eliminated. Also gone are the gangs of ultra racist, decidedly dangerous skinhead types whom I saw with my own eyes in St Petersburg in the early 2000s. That leads me on to hooligans. Russia, like Britain has a hooligan culture and a culture of street fighting and like Britain, Russia is a country of extremes. Hooligans can still be dangerous late at night in Russian towns and cities but the problem has receded greatly since my time of living there. Something which cannot be said of The UK.
What about crazy Russian drivers? While there has been a slight but definite improvement. It is still true that many Russian drivers, men and women, seem to enter an alternative universe as soon as they get behind the wheel. A universe where the basic laws of science, gravity, mass, velocity, momentum etc suddenly don’t apply to them. You do still take your life in your hands when setting out on the roads of Russia and yes: these irresponsible drivers I would put in second place for this ignominious title but they are not the most dangerous. Not even close.
By far, dear reader! By far the most dangerous Russians in the world today, dangerous for themselves, dangerous for their own country, dangerous for the peace the whole world, and even the survival of human civilization are those who have come to be known as “Russian liberals”! Those Russians who, stubbornly and obstinately and against all the overwhelming evidence that stands against them, still persist in believing that the west remains, (if it ever was), the guiding light on the hill, the pinnacle of justice, freedom, democracy, innovation, quality and the place where people simply have most “fun”.
Thanks be to God this kind of Russian is now in a small minority in their own country but they are still very vociferous and of course always sought out by western journalists for interviews which are then presented to the western public as representative of Russian popular opinion which they are not. For what ever reason by far the largest concentration of Russian “west worshipers” is found in St Petersburg. A fact that is definitely not lost on the western rulers whose private army: NATO is just a hundred and fifty kilometers down the road massing on the Estonian-Russian boarder. The second biggest concentration of them is in Moscow. They are found in all corners of Russia but in provincial towns and cities most people seem to have a much more down to earth grip on reality. Examine and discuss.
From my observations I will break these most dangerous Russians down into various separate but overlapping categories:
No 1 The first is the purely evil. Those who know perfectly well the kind of micro chipped enslavement the western private central bankers are preparing for the rest of humanity and want “IN” to those western ruling elite circles. These are, of course, in a very small minority but by far the most dangerous of the dangerous. I would say that Khordokovsky is one such as are many of his erstwhile colleagues. Such people are knowingly and wantonly collaborating with ultimate evil for power and sometimes, untold riches on this earth now and the western rulers are counting on them to deliver Russia for dismemberment, rape, pillage and oblivion. They have literally sold their souls to the Devil just as in all those old stories. Unlike the Russian liberals further removed from the upper echelons of the west’s ruling elite, they perfectly understand the deep ancestral hatred of Russia largely because Russia became the largest and most powerful Christian i.e. Orthodox country in the world and which resisted, until 1917 all their attempts to gain control of its central bank and money supply, and are more than ready to participate in her ultimate destruction. It is vital to understand here that it is people of this mind set who, a hundred and more years ago were responsible in facilitating for the west the overthrow of The Russian Empire and the ensuing, illegal Bolshevik putsch. Even senior government ministers became spies for the western powers.
No 2 The second are those Russians who pathologically hate everything Russian including its people! For these Russia haters, the Russian people are a primitive mass of zombies who are desperately in need of being educated by THEM. This is an unfortunate tradition that the Lord sent to test Russia that goes centuries back. Lenin and Trotsky were two prime examples of this mentality. Such people are utterly convinced that everything foreign but especially from the west is innately superior to anything home grown from religion, philosophy, art, science, to clothes, food, toothpaste, dust and so it goes on.
No 3 The third are those who do not hate everything Russian. They can and do enjoy many aspects of Russian life and culture from Banya to literature, dacha to classical music, theater or Russian alternative culture but still pathologically hate everything concerned with the Russian state and government which for them is always bad. The Tsars were bad, The Bolsheviks were bad, Yeltsin was bad but just slightly less so as he was pro western but Putin is somehow the worst of the worst. Their only solution to all problems is that Russia should copy the west in every aspect of its governance, submit unconditionally to all the west’s demands on her and until it does so it will remain “backwards and primitive”. Many however have only the vaguest idea, if any, of the realities of modern western governance. Navalny is probably the most well known example here.
A large proportion of the third category mentioned above are elderly people who still seem to regard the west as that kindly old uncle that it genuinely seemed to be back in the 60s, 70s and 80s. The kindly, rich old “Uncle West” who looked after Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Solzhenitsyn to name but a few when they fell foul of the Soviet authorities. Who also provided superior consumer items through relatives who had managed to emigrate. Who provided vinyl disks of “free & exciting” popular music and jeans to go with it, published and translated writers banned in The USSR, who had better clothes, cars, food, restaurants and whose shops were groaning with copious choice of what to buy compared to near empty and dismal Soviet ones. It is undeniable that in the post war world the west outshone the communist east in pretty much every way and seemed, on the surface at least, to have a genuine claim to the moral high ground.
I, like many on both sides of the iron curtain had simply assumed that this was due to the innate superiority of free market economics compared to centrally planned economies. Nothing is so simple. It is only relatively recently that I have learned and then understood that in the “free west” we no longer have any free market economy (There have been times in history, ancient and modern when free market economies have existed.) because our country’s central banks, and hence the control of the amount of money circulating in any given country are controlled by very secretive, publicly unaccountable individuals who can and do create booms and busts to suit their own private agenda which is total global control and domination via their grip on the money supply and loans at interest i.e. usury which is actually forbidden by most of the world’s major religions but….
They control the governments, the media and the education system and have, of course never allowed their all pervasive roll to appear in the history books. They took a huge leap forward when they created, by stealth, The Federal Reverse in the US in 1913 and when their seventy year campaign to bring down The Russian Empire finally came to fruition in 1917. As I have mentioned every Tsar refused and foiled every attempt to gain control of the Russian money supply and Russia’s immense wealth by these private banking families and this was the main reason why the so called Russian Revolution happened. These families now funded the new Bolshevik state for interest and, whether the new terrorist rulers liked it or not, The USSR became a captive market for these western bankers and their western-engineered but built-in The USSR products.
A few years ago the top of my head blew off when I read an interview with Soviet dissident Alexander Zinoviev given in 1999 which filled in perfectly for me one of the missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle I had been striving to find, namely: why living standards in the west began to decline for most people as soon as The USSR was dissolved. Frankly I find some of his assertions verging on the insane, such as: “Stalin should have had me shot when I was seventeen because I was against him and hence a threat to The USSR” but Zinoviev had the real nature of the west perfectly sussed! He understood the existence of the financial control system I have outlined above and that the western nations had been allowed, in the post WW2 period and for the time being, to experience a semblance of real freedom and enterprise in economic, political, artistic and scientific fields by these financial ruling elites so that it would outshine communism over which the bankers had lost some but not all of their control due to the the Soviet victory in WW2 and occupation of many eastern European states but also because The USSR had begun discovering oil and gas in very many places on its territory which, together with the successful testing of the first Soviet atomic bomb, enabled Stalin to show the western manipulators a fairly stiff middle finger.
Now: in 1991, there was no more communism that needed to be “out shone” and westerners’ disposable income was systematically “called in” as if it were a debt owed to the financial elites.
As someone who was living in western Europe at the time I can testify to feeling that as soon as the Soviet flag was lowered over the Kremlin on the evening of 26-12-1991 life in the west began to become ever more expensive and more oppressive and life there,somehow empty! As Zinoviev put it: “The end of communism in The Soviet Union also meant the end of democracy in the western world”.
Our Russian liberals have not the faintest idea about any of this. They still see western Europe and America as having superior everything as it did in reality by the time The USSR “collapsed” and hence believe in the false divide of capitalism vs communism. Most cannot accept the one hundred percent role reversal that has taken place between the west and Russia, just as many people everywhere have great difficulty in accepting the one thing that none of us can avoid: change.
There is also a category who were dissidents in the late Soviet era (to which, ironically, Alexander Zinoviev to some extent belongs) and just can’t stop being anti instead of pro. They were anti-Soviet. The USSR collapsed so they were anti-Yeltsin. He resigned so they became anti-Putin. Now most of them are anti-Russian Orthodox Church. I have the feeling with these people that even if the Lord himself came down to earth and righted all the world’s wrongs in front of their noses they would soon, even overnight, turn into dissidents against God bursting with flatulent reasons for complaint and dissatisfaction.
No 4 The fourth category is the category of ex pats for whom time stands still. These are people who emigrated from the USSR or The Russian federation in the late 80s, early 90s and for whom time stopped at that moment. Yes they live in the west using internet, mobile phones and many other innovations that have come into our lives since their emigration but their relationship to the land they left, whether accurately assessed at the time or not, remains exactly where it was at the moment their plane took of or their train crossed the Russian border. This is a very interesting phenomenon that merits serious psychological research. Even those who regularly return do not see the new Russia in front of their eyes! They see only the country as it was when they left. They represent an extreme example of Man seeing only what he wants to see or that which he has been taught to see as I suspect , ironically some may mistakenly say, that it is the extreme effectiveness of Soviet brainwashing that has rendered these people so incapable of perceiving the reality that is in front of their eyes.
I will give one of the most extreme examples from personal experience. Once upon a time not so long ago in a land not so far away I was invited to a party near Paris by a close Russian friend. About half the guests were Russian ex pats living in or around the French capital most of whom I already knew. There was one forty something lady whom I had never met. Soon enough we fell into conversation. She was from St Petersburg and had been living in France for more than twenty years.
I happened to mention that it seemed to me that living standards in Russia had begun rising again despite western sanctions. She rounded on me like you can’t believe. “What are you talking about? Ninety percent of Russians are living in abject poverty and it’s getting worse” Under some shock at the strength and erroneousness of this reaction I hesitantly retorted: “Well, that’s not my impression having lived in St Petersburg for most of the last thirteen years.” “Oh you westerners never know anything about the real Russia! Where do you live when you’re there?” “Apraksin Lane” I answered. Now: Apraksin Pereulok = Lane is a rather tatty street in the very center of the city which many Peters-bourgeois dislike because of a famous clothes market mainly run and manned by people from the Caucasus and central Asia. Its location in the city suits me perfectly however. “Aha” she replied. “That is in the center. Only rich people live there! I knew it! You can’t learn anything about the real Russia living there!” Now flabbergasted, I attempted to explain to her that I had lived there since 2005 and that I knew many of my neighbours and had seen many come and go, had many a tale to tell and the vast majority were certainly not “rich” although as I repeated, living standards had been rising and all the old, Soviet cars in the courtyard had been replaced by modern ones. When was the last time you were in Russia or St Petersburg I ventured to ask. “Three months ago” came the reply. “Marcus! I’m telling you! Apraksin Lane is only for the super rich and living there you never see the penury that the vast majority of Russians are condemned to endure every day. Of course there are no prizes for guessing on whose shoulders she laid the blame for all this “penury”. Realising it was hopeless and wondering whether this woman could actually be considered sane, I moved on.
Such people are of course, manna from heaven for the western media being on site as it were and can often be seen, heard and read on western media outlets. That lady is the most extreme case I have come across so far.
No 5. The fifth category are the young “west worshipers”; some of them so young they were not even born when The USSR collapsed and are hence, in theory, untouched by the effects of Soviet brainwashing. It is hard for me to understand why they are so fact resistant but I will put forward a few theories.
Firstly; in their childhood and formative years, the nineties, Russia was robbed dry by corrupt oligarchs in league with corrupt financial “advisers” from western governments and “prestigious”western universities which resulted in the standard of living for many falling even lower than it had been in The USSR, mass unemployment and the inevitable spread of mass corruption from the street level to the very top which meant that most continued to see the west as a beacon of hope and this was indeed a period of mass emigration to western countries with highly qualified people having a particularly easy passage as yet again the west profited from the high standards of Russian Empire-Soviet education. It is not hard to imagine the conversations they heard at their parents’ dinner tables and through the thin Soviet walls at night. Meanwhile, Russian media and those of other Soviet republics, now “independent countries”, were taken over by the west and citizens were bombarded with all the worst and the lowest with which the west had already been dumbing down its own citizens for at least a decade or two.
Secondly. Scientists have recently confirmed by physical, empirical experiment what many of us had come to realise anyway: that aspects of memory are actually passed on genetically and this could also be a reason why young people with absolute free access to information on one of the world’s freest Internets choose not to use it. They have inherited their “west is best” leitmotif from their parents. Of course some of them have literally been taught it from early childhood. It can never be underestimated just how deeply the idea of the innate superiority of the west has sunk into the subconscious of so many Soviet citizens but this phenomenon started well before Soviet times in fact as any one who has read Dostoyevsky will know.
Thirdly. In more recent years many young people have been seduced by, what, have been dressed up, especially for them, as new, exciting and fashionable ideas such as for example: being gay. In nineteen eighties Britain I knew people who were trying to be gay when they weren’t just because it had become “a la mode” especially among “left wing” circles and had a flavour of being anti-establishment and above all, anti Thatcher who in reality was herself anti-establishment but let’s stay on track. I was amazed to see exactly the same phenomenon played out among some Moscow and Petersburg friends with great enthusiasm and excitement (like little children discovering their first naughty rhyme and being sure that they are the first to know it) more than thirty years after I had first witnessed this in eighties Britain. I repeat that these people are in a minority everywhere in Russia, even in St Petersburg, but it is true that western “political correctness” is popular among young Russian liberals but far less so among the elder ones. Also I should state that the above mentioned trying to be gay phenomenon was and is far more popular among women than men in Russia whereas in eighties Britain, it was rather more fifty-fifty. This goes hand in hand with young people who have become communist or very left wing in the sense that we in the west have have come to understand since the sixties as opposed to Soviet communism within The USSR which came to represent a kind of “conservatism”. Many of them agree with our Russian liberals on almost everything. Especially their hatred of the current Russian government, media, family values and perhaps above all, the resurgent Russian Orthodox Church.
Some further analysis as to why this phenomenon exists and why it is so dangerous!
Of the categories of “Russian Liberals” I have listed above, the first category are clearly in a class apart. They are the very antipode of naivety. Indeed; faced with them it is the rest of us who are naïve (And I’m not talking only about other “liberals” here), the vast majority of us are usually unable to comprehend, or not strong enough to face the terrifying fact that such pure evil can exist and that it already has control of most of our world. In my own case this was certainly why it took me so long to wake up to the true nature of the west, only doing so when I saw the Ukrainian putsch and the west’s reaction to the reunification of Crimea with Russia. The deep knowledge I had gained from many sources but above all from personal contact over many years, with Ukrainians and Russians of all hues and my years living in Russia left me no psychological escape route whatsoever.
The remaining categories are naïve however although some are consumed by negativity and even hatred and could easily be enticed up to the underworld of the first group. One important thing they all have in common is a refusal to watch mainstream Russian television or listen to Russian radio having convinced themselves that it is full of anti western, pro government propaganda and lies. In other words they are living in the world as it was forty and more years ago. As many have noticed and commented on; the actual world is a one hundred percent reversal of the cold war situation. It is the western TV and media which is full of lies, dis-information, fake news and total reality inversions. Yet this is the only “media” that these “Russian liberals” will pay any attention too.
While some aspects of Russian TV still leave plenty to be desired (especially the prevalence of low quality extremely violent dramas, cop shows etc), Russian news broadcasts are infinitely more objective and informative, in other words, HONEST, both on domestic and international issues than their contemporary western counterparts. More importantly there has been an explosion in the popularity and hence number of political talk shows on Russian TV. These shows invite guests of all sides of all political spectrums and nationalities. Our anti Putin, pro western “Russian liberals” are given free voice on prime-time major TV channels as well as Ukrainian, pro Maidan nationalists, Polish nationalists, Russian speaking Americans who support the US State Department “party” line and other pro western voices. Furthermore within the spectrum of what can be collectively labeled pro Russian government, who are also invited obviously, the range of opinion and stance is extremely wide. Within the ruling United Russia Party itself, the spectrum of opinion is wider than that between supposed opposition parties in many western countries. Even if, as some have commentated, some of these shows are designed for entertainment and confrontation, the fact remains that many outstanding experts on pertinent world issues, cultures, civilizations and history take part in these programmes and any Russian speaker who watches them is getting themselves a pretty broad education and, and hence, your average Russian viewer is infinitely better informed than western viewers as well as those who are the subject of this article who rely only on mainstream western sources.
Why is this so dangerous?
I’ll try to be brief. Russia is once again under existential threat of attack from the western deep-states and their real rulers because Russia is again resurgent and yet again rejuvenating and worse still for the western elites, she is resurgent as the multi confessional, multi-ethnic but predominantly CHRISTIAN country she always was as the Christianity the west thought it had destroyed in 1917 arises phoenix like from the ashes of the twentieth century. Whatever negotiations might be going on on a political level, preparations for attack are continuing! If they were not then the barrage of anti Russian propaganda would be withering by now. It is in fact intensifying.
As I have said above, the the first category of “Russian liberals” are collaborating with the west. The other categories just refuse to believe that the west is any threat to Russia and often claim that this is all invented to make Putin more popular. As Sheik Imran Hussein has said we are entering the great epoch of truth versus lie as opposed to the epoch we are leaving of false, fabricated conflicts where endless nuanced arguments about the reasons and nature of those conflicts seemed to have their place. Today, western mainstream politicians and journalists whenever speaking about Russia, Ukraine, Syria and N. Korea always say the exact, one hundred percent opposite of the truth. “Russian liberals” choose to believe this double speak and accuse their own government, media and people of doing exactly that which the west is doing.
We are living through an unprecedented moment of change that is happening at lightning speed and it seems as if all humanity has been put into a giant shaker which is shaking to dust all the isms & wasms that were invented for us to fight over, leaving only truth and falsehood and those who can see it and those who can’t and again down to those who are prepared to sacrifice and fight for truth and who are prepared to fight for falsehood and ultimate iniquity. Few indeed are those who will openly side with evil but many are those who can be seduced into doing so when evil dons the mantle of good; when evil cloaks itself in the guise of freedom, democracy, human rights, tolerance and other comfy sounding words to an ear influenced by the “comfy western democracy world”. The fact is that it is precisely from the countries that are still known as “western democracies” that this falsehood i.e. evil comes and it now takes very little research to understand that it always did. If Russia loses this struggle then not only Russians but western citizens too will become as expendable for the western ruling elites as Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis and many other African peoples have tragically proved to be. They need you and your backing for the fight that’s coming dear westerner and Russian liberal but the fight once won, you will all be gumming up their works and they will proceed with your conversion into fertilizer to fertilize the few, replacing you with technology! They openly state that they believe the world is over populated and something needs to be done. This is the force that these “Russian liberals” are collaborating with, albeit for the most part out of naivety and this is why they are so dangerous for the continuance of human civilization and culture, world peace and of course Russia as a sovereign nation state and all sovereign nation states.
Lastly these Russian liberals are a danger to themselves (Except the first category of course, although in a much deeper and blacker way they are too but we don’t have time to go into that here). Especially those who become “activists” are quite literally putting their own lives in danger! They themselves would of course say: “Yes. That’s right! Our lives are in danger from the evil dictatorial Russian government and the “Great Dictator” Putin. Aren’t we great? Look at us everybody! We’re putting our lives on the line for your liberty so that you can be governed by freedom loving, democratic Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Gary Kasparov, Anne Applebaum, Alexey Navalny, Goldman Sachs, Monsanto and all the rest of the “progressive” gang! You have to be so grateful to us!” Well I’m sorry dear Russian and other liberals. You are blinded and hoodwinked by your own egos’ vanity!
Many have commented, especially the many who have defected from the “liberal” camp to the infinitely broader camp of those seeking truth, struggling towards the light, that liberalism is fueled by the ego; by a desire to bask in the supposed reflective glory of being a “good, caring” person which is why liberals are in fact so intolerant and so quickly become the dictators they claim to be opposing assuming that their “liberalism” gives them a birth right to dictate to, manage and control those whom they perceive as, but won’t admit it publicly of course; “the lower orders”. The ego cannot tolerate criticism, contradiction or exposure of its whims and fears which is why all who do not resist its beguiling iron grip end up serving evil one way or another.
The brutal fact for you Russian liberals is that, except for some student circles in St Petersburg, (Why is it always students?) all your efforts have come to nothing. Almost no one in Russia believes you and most see right through you. Many even hate you for your expressions of joy when a Russian fighter jet on a combat mission against ISIS was shot down by Turkey in a surprise attack and one of the pilots was machine gunned by “Yankee Jihads” as he parachuted to ground. By your attempts to show the Immortal Regiment as fake government propaganda. By your insistence that Crimea must be “returned” to Ukraine thus negating the right of several million Crimeans, not only to be able to choose to live under a government that represents their past, present and future, but their right not to be baseball batted, Molotov cocktailed, Kalashnikoved out of existence by, foreign to Crimea, ultra nationalist, NATO backed Ukrainian thugs that would have poured into the peninsular if Crimeans hadn’t acted so decisively, to do the west’s bidding to name but three shameful episodes.
Yes! Your lives are in danger. Especially if you become a little high profile, not from anyone in the Russian government or even deep state, but from your own bosses, financiers and the secret services of the western states that are involved in the war on the Russian world. The chilling fact is that for your bosses, you are much more useful dead than alive! Your murder, especially if it can be done in a very public, publicity attracting manner can be used as another major propaganda coup against the Russian government.
Now you see: call me naïve but I do not see anything in Vladimir Putin that makes me think that he assassinates his political opponents. He engages with them unless they are beyond the pale i.e. have actually tried to sabotage the development of Russia or collaborated with her sworn enemies such as Khordokovsky, Navalny, Kasparov, Ponomarev et al, all of whom however, are very much alive. When it comes to the unfortunate Boris Nemtsov, R.I.P: the idea that the Russian government wastes time assassinating people who pose absolutely no threat whatsoever to the stability of the Russian state and its government or, even if taking the most cynical possible view, the grip on power of Russia’s current rulers, is simply mental excrement.
If one looks, as any police detective would do when investigating crimes, for repeating patterns and connections then it quickly becomes clear that the string of appalling, heinous murders of “Putin critics” and others over the last eleven years or so all seem to have been designed to create the maximum publicity, often coinciding with high profile political events and significant dates. Politkovskaya was murdered while Putin was giving a major, highly publicized speech in Germany, one of the first where he stated that Russia would no longer be following the west’s plans for her and it just happened to be his birthday. The downing of, or whatever really happened to, MH17 coincided within an hour with Putin landing in Moscow after a six day tour of Latin America where breakthrough BRICS agreements had been signed as well as coinciding with the black anniversary of the Satanic murder of the Russian Royal Family and their aids on July 17th and so it goes on. It does not take a tactical genius to understand who gains from these murders and the ensuing orchestrated anti Russian propaganda campaigns. Yes: that’s right! The west gains all and Putin, his team and Russia as a whole gain precisely nothing. Only problems and sanctions so neither does it take a tactical genius to understand who is really behind these crimes or at the very least, in some cases, who exploits them very ruthlessly and cynically in ever more desperate attempts to paint Russia as an evil menace which the west will have to “liberate” as it did with Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria etc!
It is the nature of propaganda that it cannot remain silent. If there is any pause then people’s intuition i.e. connection to universal wisdom kicks into action gently but resolutely posing very awkward questions for the propagandists such as: “Surely modern Russia can’t be responsible for all the world’s ills can it? It doesn’t seem to make any sense.” or “ You mean ALL Jews are involved in some sort of plot against the rest of us? Every single one of them? Including my neigbour? That’s gotta be nonsense!” etc This is why totalitarian regimes build ever bigger statues, ever bigger posters and placards covering whole facades of massive buildings, and in today’s age, evermore blanket TV propaganda and often resorting to loudspeakers in streets blaring out whatever they need the public to believe at any given time! Silence is their worst enemy! Much more powerful than opposing propaganda or even the opposing truth!
In today’s world it is the so called western democracies that, while attempting to maintain the facade of actual freedom, are racing full tilt down this path. They started with this particular, final, all out campaign twenty or more years ago and have been steadily picking up momentum ever since. For the underlying forces that are fueling and driving this momentum, their overriding purpose is the final destruction of Russia, the Russian world and traditional i.e. REAL Christianity as well as other genuine religions of which Islam is their second target and, by chance, the second religion of The Russian Federation. “Third time lucky” they are saying to themselves! All the other invasions and destruction of sovereign states listed above, while handing the western rulers some immediate “advantages” in each case, were only another step on the road towards this ultimate goal! In spite of these “victories” all is not going as planned for the west! To quote Sheik Imran Hussein again: “The west makes its plans but Allah-God makes his.” He also stated that which many of us felt. That the reunification of Crimea with Russia is an event of deep spiritual significance, as well as being of crucial military importance and even that it was foretold by the Prophet Mohammed in The Koran. Given what the Russian world was forced to endure in the twentieth century, nearly all of it at the hands of the west actually, the deep destructive consequences of which are still troubling Russia today, it is nothing short of a miracle that Russia has risen to become the leading resistance to the forces of evil which are now so energetically and openly on the march. I find it desperately sad that these “Russian liberals” can’t see or feel this huge moment in history and that they are choosing to aid the forces of darkness!
May the Lord send you light and have mercy on your and all our souls, for naivety can have an appallingly high price! Almost as high as selling your soul to……!
Six thousand, seven hundred and seven words. Oh, hell no.
Yes, I am sorry, I should have posted a disclaimer somewhere that this blog is aimed at literate adults with a strong yearning for knowledge and an attention span well in excess of 30 seconds. Please Try any of the following:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.mtv.com/
http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/
https://www.prowrestling.com/
http://www.disney.com/
Again, my apologies for this oversight and please enjoy the links!
Cheers,
The Saker
LOL !!!!
Hi Saker,
Priceless, thanks! :-) Our short-attention-spanned friend also managed to misspell his name: ‘EdBrat’.
Lol.it seems to me it would take as long to count the words as it would to “read” them. I found the article to be awesome.Made even more so,by being from someone (a westerner) actually living in Russia.And thus able to explain conditions that an outsider would be able to easily understand. Kudos’s for this article.
Software did the counting for him. :)
Now I snort-laughed so I sprayed my keyboard. Thanks!
LOL!!!
This is an excellent exposition in the use of words all quite fascinating to read, digest, and perhaps comment further upon! Thanks ever so much!
The road to hell is paved with The West’s good intentions.
Excellent essay. As to why the very young seem so attracted to the West, how about video games? I’m not joking.
The fading West has pockets of excellence still, and computers, video games, and Internet is one of them. This is changing — the world’s fastest supercomputer was designed in China — but this aspect of Western culture may take a generation to fully decline.
Brilliant work, Mr Godwyn.
Superb style.
I have passed this on to as many as I know, including some very recalcitrant Russian immigrants, who are exactly as you have outlined.
You have truly made my day.
Thanks for the great article. One small suggestion.
From the Declaration of Russian identity, adopted by the 18th World Russian People’s Assembly, the definition of a Russian person:
http://www.pravmir.com/world-russian-peoples-assembly-meet-moscow/
Russian is a person who considers himself/herself to be Russian, has no other ethnic preferences, speaks Russian language, recognizes Orthodox Christianity as a basis of national spiritual culture, and feels solidarity with the fate of all Russian people.
http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/508347.html
Those, who hate and reject Orthodox Christianity, Russian culture and history, and separate themselves from the fate of all other Russian people are not Russians.
«Русский тот, кто Россию любит и ей » Пётр I Великий
“Russian is the one who loves Russia and serves her!”
http://www.gkbarit.ru/vestnik/14/6.htm
«Русский не тот, кто носит русскую фамилию, а тот, кто любит Россию и считает её своим отечеством.»
Антон Иванович Деникин
Russian is not the one who bears the Russian name, but the one who loves Russia and regards it as his fatherland.
https://ru.wikiquote.org/wiki/Антон_Иванович_Деникин
“Счастливую и великую родину любить не велика вещь. Мы её должны любить именно когда она слаба, мала, унижена, наконец глупа, наконец даже порочна. Именно, именно когда наша “мать” пьяна, лжёт и вся запуталась в грехе, – мы и не должны отходить от неё… Но и это ещё не последнее: когда она наконец умрёт, и обглоданная евреями будет являть одни кости – тот будет “русский”, кто будет плакать около этого остова, никому не нужного, и всеми плюнутого. Так да будет…”
Василий Розанов
Excellent essay. Russia and China today represent the hope of the world, just as the violent thrashings of the dying Western Empire stand as the greatest danger to the continuation of the human species.
Excellent article. However, I would like to add a few points. It was a big mistake for NATO to appoint Stoltenberg as Secretary General. Yes, he is a Norwegian citizen, but he is not Norwegian, as we all know what his ethnic background is. His words do not carry weight, especially when he states that Russia is going to “invade” Europe, which is absolute nonsense.
When it comes to that coup d’etat in Kiev in February of 2014, Russia was NOT caught napping, as the author claims. That is absurd. The only way the coup could have been prevented was through a military intervention, and Putin was not foolish enough to do that. NATO grabbed Kiev, but Putin reunited Crimea with Russia, proof that Russia was not caught napping. The reunification was done in a highly professional way. Even those NATO special forces, who were outside Sevastopol, and who were hoping to grab the naval port in a sneak attack, had to withdraw.
The actual coup d’etat in Kiev was a masterpiece of stupidity by the West. They installed puppets, who turned the country into a feudal state, run by oligarchs, the new robber barons. The general population became impoverished in record time, regretting that Yanukovich was overthrown. Worse for the West, ordinary Russian citizens were watching they whole show, which reminded them of what happened in Russia during Yeltsin’s reign, namely plundering of the country. It is for this reason that the liberals in Russia started losing both support and membership. NATO hoped to use Ukraine for the break up of Russia. Now Ukraine is the one facing break up.
The chief curse of Russia has been the division among “Westerners” and “Easterners”, namely those who wanted to copy Western cultural values and those who wanted to maintain Russian. The liberals in Russia belong to the “Westerners”. However, as the author points out, their influence is minimal. And finally, just to point out that people in Russia have computers and use the Internet. They watch the situation in the US and the EU, and they see the financial, economic and political situation. How many are impressed ? I forgot the actual number, but during 2016/2017 more than 120.000 Russians left EU countries and returned to Russia, not happy with what they saw. This ofcourse says something. The elites in the West will continue in their attempt to subvert and break up Russia. They will fail. It’s too late for that.
Well, I didn’t know Stoltenberg’s ethnic background, so I looked him up.
He was born in Oslo to a couple of Norwegian politicians. The family came from Germany in the seventeenth century.
I had assumed “Stoltenberg” was Norwegian for “Quisling”.
“Quisling” is Norwegian for “Quisling”.
I would hardly call these dangerous Russians “liberals”, they are quite the antithesis of true liberals.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/liberal
What a great article. Hopefully these liberals will become more irrelevant in coming years as more people open up their eyes and see the west, for what it really is, pure evil.
There is no need to undermine the influence of Hollywood, Apple Pie and everyday every minute brainwashing fantasy of western propaganda. Even Göbbels found Hollywood film as brilliant propaganda machine manipulating mind of public skillfully. Even Japanese influenced by it. Perhaps shaking down that Hollywood machine is even more vital than Pentagon.
Of course. The first ones to get rid of would be the media moguls and their upper echelon executives. Permanently.
Hollywood is Washington’s propaganda machine. Why do I watch Hollywood movies ? For the political message. Years back I saw that movie, starring Morgan Freeman, where he played an Afro-American President of the United States. The moment I saw that, I knew what would happen, namely that the US would get an Afro-American President. And sure enough, Barack Obama comes along. He was officially “elected”, but the Western elites decided on his appointment as President during one of the Bilderberg meetings (I forgot which one). The dangerous thing about Hollywood is that it is a powerful propaganda machine, with lots of money at its disposal. While not all mature people believe what it portrays, many unfortunately do.
I agree too, but I am still puzzling which Hollywood movie was to prepare us for the planned presidency of Hillary. Maybe the Kate Winslet role in the first ‘Divergent’ movie?
@Serbian Girl:
That beautiful and true citate of Kennedy just reminds me of the sheer contrast with the Pulp Fiction talk of the last USA presidents…
Yes I agree totally!
“For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” (Kennedy)
Unfortunately, this fantastic analysis would not be seen by those idiotic “Russian liberals” or pathetic ex-pats with their congenital hatred of anything Russian. This analysis needs to be posted and printed and broadcast all over the place, in any media that will publish it. It gives you an absolutely clear, in depth picture of today’s REALITY, which many cannot see or simply refuse to see. It is much easier to keep believing what you have been told and taught by western presstitudes and various establishments, all under total control of this evil force which I call the “zhidovski cabal”. This is a Satanic driven entity that has been too long in existence but, fortunately for humanity, in the end, good always defeats evil. God is on our side and Russia is the “David” that will defeat this totally evil, depraved “Goliath” to liberate the enslaved humanity. This has been long predicted.
Marcus, you wrote an excellent article! I hope Saker will publish more of your writing. Your style and slightly different approach might actually succeed in reaching a wider audience and i sincerely hope it will be so. I especially like (and agree with) your spiritual bent underlining the whole text. Subtle yet firm, great way to write. Keep going!
I would like to add a few words (it turns out not to be so few as i intended, alas) to supplement yours. They come from Serbia and our experiences in dealing with the Empire(s) but as we are/were fighting the same enemies as many others it might help others see something they missed at home or are just calling it by a different name and by now we all know the power of words/names we use.
No1 Evil does exist, but believing in Evil you must believe in Good and believing in Good leads down to the path of personal responsibility and it is a big no no in a material world devoid of any spiritual component unless it is not corrupted (for the masses) or pure Evil (for those initiated). Solzenitsyn explained it nicely in his Harvard address which Saker provided us to learn from.
No2 Them we call Autochauvinists. Nasty sickness to be had. Almost impossible to cure but nastier symptoms are easily nullified for they go with the wind. Whichever side prevails they follow in their wake. However they are not to be trusted with any position of power ever if you want a healthy nation. They are contagious in any stage of the sickness. There was a song in the 90’s, rough translation sound something like this.
“Like fecal matter thru sewers, communists swim thru privatisation, ex generals thru democracy…” I hope you get the gist.
Here i would like to add another group which are not liberals in a strict sense but add a considerable amount of inertia to changes and in that sense i mention them. They are predominantly old people but not exclusively. They remember or are being taught about the “better days”. Of course, their experiences are rather subjective for they did not payed the price at all or payed a rather small one compared to the others. You might actually divide them in two distinct groups but for better understanding of the phenomena that give them power in a society let us start by observing them as one. Again, Solzenitsyn mentions them in Gulag and i think Saker touched upon that topic also. I do not know how much weight they carry in Russia now but here they wield considerable influence still. In Russia they might be best represented by those who carried repression for the apparatus willingly and even created such policies, or not so willingly but at least played their part at the level of an accomplice.
Those who did not pay any price for living good were privileged and therefore prominent members of the society. They wield considerable influence among those who payed any price at all but wanted to be a part of such society. Here, those would be members of the communist party or more often members of the security apparatus as they made an easier transition to the new order and were more wanted. You might view them as aristocracy and or managers. They are old if alive but their offspring rule now and are quite influential in Serbia today. Yes, we have our Bushes, Clintons, Kennedy’s and other clans but majority if not all forged their dynasties/clans in the aftermath of WWII.
As influential figures and known surnames they are known and by force of habit are treated with respect (imprinted, not earned) by those who payed some of the price. And woe betides those who say anything bad of times past by and of those who actually benefited most. No mention allowed of those who payed the ultimate price and those exacting that price from them unless you wish all those herds charging straight at you mindlessly. Sins of forefathers… And so we stumble blindly thru our past, present and future, forced by massive inertia for not having a courage to face the truth. Still not free, for to be free we need to shoulder responsibility and it is a heavy burden but one worthy of shouldering.
If those masses are somehow awakened from the thrall of these ex policy makers, torturers, administrators and others, momentum that could be gained could create achievements we can only dream of at this moment in history. I am happy for the Russian people that current government is doing the right steps toward that direction by the way of inclusion rather exclusion. First being far better than the latter for it brings the lost sheep back in to the fold as it should be for otherwise they would be left to the wolves. The latter only bring more divisions and i do not know anyone sane who could wish more of those. Here i would use Zinovievs words to contrast these two solutions “Stalin should have had me shot when I was seventeen because I was against him and hence a threat to The USSR”.
There is one more benefit to that inclusive task that Russian government took upon itself, and this i would address to all who see that task before them in their respective countries. Forgiveness. Whether you approach it from spiritual or just logical standpoint you only stand to gain from it.
When i praised your different approach i was mainly thinking about these words of yours.
“Yes! Your lives are in danger. Especially if you become a little high profile, not from anyone in the Russian government or even deep state, but from your own bosses, financiers and the secret services of the western states that are involved in the war on the Russian world. The chilling fact is that for your bosses, you are much more useful dead than alive! Your murder, especially if it can be done in a very public, publicity attracting manner can be used as another major propaganda coup against the Russian government.”
Today their masters are “martyring” ISIS and tomorrow it will be them. If only they opened their eyes, maybe their minds would follow and ultimately their hearts would blossom open so that they can ask for forgiveness and it could be given to them.
Amen to your prayer.
Well Marcus the sharks are circling like always. This is not something new if you look at the history of the Russian people. I was born in Yugoslavia and came to Canada in 1954 and I am quite aware of the quislings in Belgrade that sold that country out. It takes about 5 years of living in the West to see the west as a Potemkin Village that the media shows to the world. Half of century of living in Canada I have seen the enemy and its us, particularly our friend’s south of the 49th parallel.
We were educated to hate Russia. I took a course at UBC comparative economics, (313) from a Professor Ronemois a Russian immigrant and all you needed to do in his class is say you hated Russia to get an “A”. He threw out every student that challenged him. One day he was lecturing on mechanization in Agriculture in USSR and comparing it to USA. He said that for every truck on an American farm there are two people working, and then he asked the class what was the ratio on the Kolkhoz. I, without putting up my hand yelled from the back of the classroom, “one to steer thirty to push”. Everyone laughed including Ronemois. He must have liked the comment and I did not get kicked out. You know what most of us were smart enough to see through the asshole.
Our society is loaded with stupid people whose life is dominated with simple shit from the boob tube. Most people in America live a vicarious life through Dr. Oz and hundreds of other maniacs like the Clintons, Obama’s and McCain’s.
On another note I have met many workers from the Baltics not Russians but Balts and they know what the West writes about Russia is BS, it’s the local yokel that is stupid because he has not seen anything or been anywhere. I could go on for an hour but my blood pressure won’t let me. I was in USSR in 1980 during the boycott. I refused to cancel a trip with a group of student and the local farmer in a letter called me a communist. I and my wife had a great time, my 15 students had a great experience., and every anniversary of that trip two of the former students come to my home with a bottle of Russian Vodka and reminisce. Putin will rank amongst the greatest Russian leaders going all the way back to Nevsky, Ivan the Great, Peter the Great, Catherine the great and Alexander 1st. He has saved Russia from the pack of Western hyenas.
One may wonder why Koran’s ‘prophecies’ are given pride of place instead of Russian ones. Why an Imran Hossein is credited to have more insight into the Russian destinies than St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. John of Kronstadt and scores of other inspired Russian people?
It is remarkable that in this otherwise excellent blog, frequent allegations are made about the Bolsheviks being terrorists, criminals, genocidal maniacs, and willing tools of the Anglo Zionist Empire. These kinds of allegations have also been made by the right wing and ruling classes of the Western countries over decades and an avalanche of propaganda has been produced by their media, secret services, inltellectuals, etc. Hitler in Mein Kampala condemned the “Jewish doctrine of Marxism”. To dismiss one of the great revolutions of the 20th century as a conspiracy without producing any scholarly evidence (a vast lite
These kinds of allegations have also been made by the right wing and ruling classes of the Western countries over decades and an avalanche of propaganda has been produced by their media, secret services, inltellectuals, etc. Hitler in Mein Kampala condemned the “Jewish doctrine of Marxism”
Okay, so if Western countries and Hitler said something it must be false..
don’t they teach logic in schools anymore?!
also – get your facts first, THEN only have an opinion; read Lenin and Trotsky and then about their decrees in early Bolshevik regime.
The Saker
As evidenced by the statements coming out of the mouths of western politicians, military, etc., etc., – No, logic is not taught in schools and has not been for a long time.
I think ‘logic’ should be replaced with ‘sound reasoning’ or the like.
‘Reasoning’ or ‘proper discussion’ is something that should be teached in schools (at least, I was taught in that).
‘Logic’ is something else. That is one of the most difficult fields in mathematics. To illustrate the point how, for the diehards, read about the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Goedel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
(Or, in a simplified summary: in *any* formal system, from axiomas and logic, a statement can be introduced of which the formal system cannot decide whether it is true or false. And this was proven.
Which is a scientific approach of the classic ‘” ‘All Cretans are liars’, said the Cretan”.)
But, to stay pragmatic, more abovementioned reasoning can be seen as crappy. There are *many* dark and zionist aspects on the Bolsheviks and their deeds. Too many to state in a post, or maybe even an article, without hitting the ‘TL;DR’ treshold. I’ll leave it to any reader to sort that out for him- of herself.
Cheers, Rob
Captain Nemo, in case you hadn’t noticed this blog has been publishing *a lot* of pro-marxist, far left articles. For once, Saker has chosen a contributor who actually understands financial economics and doesn’t glibly parrot the slogan about how socialism is a remedy for every single ill.
Marcus thankfully understands that the widening gap between have and have-nots, is caused by the oligarchic control of money supply that increases asset prices for those who own assets (but devalues the income/ retirement rent/ for those who depend on it on a recurrent /monthly basis). This is the crux of the problem. (Not some vague, bogey-man called “capitalism”). The first step is getting rid of the central banks.
This excellent article gets it right all the way. I hope there will be more to come.
I share this sentiment. My comments to similar effect are hardly ever let through by the mod on here. No calls for sanity on account of the Bolsheviks and the 1917 revolution fly on this blog. The Saker worships Solzhenitsin, the same Solzhenitsin who famously called on the collective west to nuke Russia (the Soviet Union), who pulled his figures for people allegedly repressed by the stalin regime right out of his backside (he himself admitted he never used any archives). Stragely enough, the Saker sees through western media lies and false flags so well, but Solzhenitsin is untouchable! He so was not a CIA asset! Otherwise i love and appreciate the Saker’s blog very much. And the above piece, despite the usual, very ingrained western nonsense about the Bolshevik revolution, is also superb. No way they’re gonna let this comment appear.
Moderator Note: “No way they’re gonna let this comment appear.”
As a child, I was brought up glorifying the western culture & their countries. The west was synonym for the forces of good, paragon of justice and democracy. Soviet Russia was the evil communists. My TV heroes were Grizzly Adams, B.J. (and Bear) and the Lone Ranger … we used to play with miniature plastic toy soldiers where German soldiers were always evil and the US/British soldiers were good (they were still playing a lot of WW2 movies at that time on TV). Quintessentially, the brainwash was as perfect as it could get.
Fast forward the years. Now older and wiser (30-40s), I was reminded of a gentleman named Reason. We had met several years earlier. It was the beginning of an epiphany, the hour of the wolf. Reason taught me what is right, and what is wrong. The brainwash had become undone.
Today, Reason is one of my bests of friend. We discuss a lot of things in life, from world politics to the daily menial grind. If in any event Russia/China devolves and morphs to become their anti-thesis, I’ve no doubt, Reason would be the first one to point out between the rights and wrongs .
To me, the most dangerous person is the one who lacks reason – be it Russian, American or other nationalities. You can retaliate vs evil men (there’re only a handful) however it’s almost impossible to deal with population who lacks even the most basic reasoning skill. The decline in morality and common sense in the western world can perhaps be partly attributed to a decline in reason … if not all it. Food for thought.
P.S. The popularity of Russian TV political talk shows is perhaps an example where the Russian population is mentally trained to evaluate information critically. It promotes reasoning skill. However, this sort of tactic works best with truth, for a lie will backfire (sooner or later).
Very impressive article, Saker.
You expressed your views with insight, morality and with wisdom.
I have noticed over time that one of the ‘evil’ conduct performed by the West is their unadulterated worshiping and idolizing of their ‘celebrities’ which in my view is partly responsible for the decline.
Another topic of interest would be the UN. I consider them to be responsible for a majority of global conflicts. A few articles expressing that view would be highly regarded and welcomed. Till recently any subject to ridicule the UN is strangley not evident.
Would be interesting if some serious investigative journalism is undertaken to investigate the UN, their functions, mandate, Charter and their inability/unwillingness to perform to their mandate.
@John… a search on the Stages of Empire will reveal the West in the Decline Stage of bread and circuses (welfare, sport, entertainment and celebrities who are either sportsmen or actors). Obsession with celebrities (gladiators) shows a civisation in terminal decline.
As for the UN…Executive Outcomes ( a South African mercenary outfit) of only 300 men crushed a rebel force in Sierra Leone (that was in the process of taking over the capital) in only a few weeks – a force that the UN was incapable or unwilling to stop. The founder, Eben Barnard wrote in his book that the UN exists to prolong conflicts as long as possible. Well over a decade of UN presence in Democratic Republic of Congo has not stopped the fighting.
Any writer or serious commenter knows how much work goes into writing words that describe concepts. It’s especially difficult to use words to describe lies, in ways that reveal the then-obvious truth. Marcus Godwin seems to have a talent for putting these things into words. This is immensely useful.
I note his other two essays at Global Research that I plan to read:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/marcus-godwyn
He has explained many things here in this superb essay, things that we all knew somewhat hazily, but that really needed to be clarified and formulated into words, and brought together into frameworks, for better ease of use.
It’s a very readable essay, on a crucial subject. It gives us a way to understand our immediate situation at this moment in history. It’s the best kind of writing, because it gives us tools to think further than the author has brought us, and sets us down sure-footed on the terrain he describes – on the field of battle itself.
Thanks for re-publishing Marcus Godwyn, Saker. I look forward to more.
A thank you letter from the New Zealand team that played in the Confederation Cup recently in Russia/
https://www.rt.com/sport/410209-new-zealand-fan-world-cup-letter-russia/
Excellent! Thank you.
Putin was too kind on lettting Khordokovsky off the hook. This guy ant the pack with him wont rest until they manage to claim “revenge” from Putin.
Zinoviev to Yeltsin in 1990: “The West Applauds You and Gorbachev for Destroying Our Country”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2VF-aIYBfE
Dugin – Mikhail Gorbachev’s betrayal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR3JozlmG4g
What would Putin have done in 1991?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxXIWzi_XLc
“Sobchak has once again expressed her position on the Republic of Crimea and her desire to run for the presidency of the Russian Federation.
The public figure confirmed her opinion during the discussion on a TV program.
“It is necessary to hold another referendum. The inhabitants of the peninsula should put an end to this question. We need to attract outside observers. Let the Crimeans decide the fate of the peninsula. ”
According to Sobchak, Crimean residents should be able to choose from three possible options: Russia / Ukraine / independence.
Sobchak does not give any evidence as to why the original referendum was illegitimate in her view.”
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/12/sobchak-itching-to-give-crimea-back-to.html
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
optimism?
“Almost everyone in the U.S.has met – or knows of – at least one so-called “Russian-American”. Since the fall of the Soviet Union scores of these hyphenated citizens have appeared in both big cities and small towns. What is a lot less known is the phenomenon of the “American-Russian”.
This term refers to a U.S. citizen who has willingly left his or her country to live long-term in Russia. That term applies to the hybrid creature writing this article.
Because of circumstances called “life”, I chose to live and work in Moscow for 25 years and just recently returned home to my country of origin. I am representative of a new breed for sure; one that will grow in number as time goes on.
Disillusioned with their lives in America or simply curious about life in Russia this new breed could play a useful role in bridging the gap between Russia and America during these highly contentious and dangerous times if the parties involved decide to utilize the insights obtained by these hybrid creatures. That’s a big “if”of course.
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Thoroughly socialized in America and then re-socialized in Russia this hybrid citizen has assimilated opposing values that do occasionally overlap and intersect, but which nevertheless come from different states of consciousness. Living long-term in Russia has given us the ability to understand how and why Americans and Russians see things differently. We are able to entertain two opposing thoughts at the same time without going insane… I think.
To quote a hybrid “Canadian-American” we “look at life from both sides now”. It is both a reward and a punishment – a wonderful blessing and a terrible curse.
It is a reward and blessing because our understanding of human behavior has been enhanced by perceiving reality in stereo.In our consciousness you might say”the twain has met.”
It is both a punishment and a curse because we know Russians and Americans will never see eye-to-eye. To borrow terminology from the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict Russians are “Dionysian” for the most part and Americans are primarily “Apollonian”.
We know that the American spirit and Russian soul will never co-exist easily because we ourselves are living a bi-cultural schizoid life filled with inner-contradictions and epistemological tension.
I am sure Russian-Americans share this condition as well.
Perhaps this dialectic of consciousness will produce a synthesis that heralds a higher state of consciousness. Time will tell. But we may be running out of that precious commodity as both the Russian and American governments engage in a Geo-political cat and mouse game that threatens the survival of both the cat and the mouse. ”
http://russia-insider.com/en/americans-living-long-term-russia-new-phenomenon/ri21847
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realism?
http://russia-insider.com/en/how-russia-preparing-war/ri21797
“…………..To put all of this into perspective, Russia is the world’s third largest spender when it comes to its military. According to SIPRI, in 2016, the United States spent $611.12 billion (in 2015 U.S. dollars) on defense, China spent $215.18 billion and the Russian Federation spent $69.25 billion.
While Russia spends roughly one-ninth of what the United States spends on its military, it has the capability to produce materiel that should cause the United States to think twice before escalating tensions to the point of outright hostilities.
As we can see from Mr. Putin’s comments, the Russian Federation is “in it to win it” in the event of an all-out war and is certainly preparing for this eventuality by modernizing its forces and preparing its civilian industries to convert to a war production footing.
On the upside, the military-industrial-intelligence complex in America will be very happy!
……..”
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and delusionalism?
“Europeans Claim to Live in Fear of Invading Russian Hordes, But Their Defense Budgets Say Otherwise
“General Hodges lauded Lithuania for devoting 2.07 percent of GDP on the military, but if that government is nervously awaiting the arrival of Russian tank divisions, then it should double or triple its outlays.”
etc
http://russia-insider.com/en/europeans-claim-live-fear-invading-russian-hordes-their-defense-budgets-say-otherwise/ri21842
extract…………….
“But then, who believes Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgian, Danish, Montenegrin, Luxembourgian, Slovenian, Slovakian and Czech troops will make up a grand expeditionary force to push back jackbooted Putinistas? “………
“The business ombudsman and chairman of the Party of Growth, Boris Titov, has prepared for President Vladimir Putin a plan to bring back businessmen from London – who are hiding there from the Russian justice system.
Mr. Titov said that during a recent trip to London he participated in the Russian-English business forum and communicated with Russian businessmen who are “wanted”.
“They are normal guys, but they are wanted through Interpol, because they are being prosecuted in Russia,” said Titov.
He noted that mostly these businessmen have far-fetched violations, but they decided to leave the country in order not to be detained.
He specified that he wants to begin a dialogue with the authorities about the businessmen who have fled abroad. First his team will analyze the list, after which the appeals to the president will follow.
At the same time, the Ombudsman did not name the names of those for whom he will intercede.
Most known businessmen who ‘disappear’ to Great Britain have criminal cases against them in Russia. These include: former Euroset owner Evgeny Chichvarkin, former head of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin, former president of the Cosmos NGO Andrey Chernyakov, founder of Mezhprombank Sergey Pugachev, CEO of VimpelCom Mikhail Slobodin, former owner of Inkreditbank and STB Bank Herman Gorbuntsov.
Titov agrees that some of these entrepreneurs could indeed have violated the law and it will be necessary to find a solution to how to pay back the damage they caused to the country.
“But many of them, we very much doubt that they really violated laws, they are not criminals” – Titov said.”
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/12/business-ombudsman-suggests-putin.html
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‘Liberals suggest “Putin’s foreign accomplices” should be sanctioned – including Oliver Stone
December 5 , 2017 – Fort Russ News –
Politnavigator – translated by Inessa Sinchougova
The liberals who have gathered in Vilnius for the “Forum of Free Russia” , 1 -4 December 2017, fear that the new anti-Russian sanctions that the US will introduce in February 2018 will not cover all of the “criminals of the Putin regime.”
“Most likely, it will simply be a list of those who are close to the regime and are dangerous for the United States. The inclusion in such a list excludes people from international business, they bear reputational costs.” said Aleksey Navalny’s ally, Nikita Kulachenkov.
In order for the Americans not to forget anyone, the forum compiled a “Putin List”, which included 88 names. The document, as stated by its authors, will be transferred to the Western special services. The liberals hope that then the parliaments of the United States and Europe will impose personal sanctions against the persons involved in the list.
The list is includes the president himself, followed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, key ministers, members of the presidential administration, advisers and Putin’s personal press secretary. Separately, the liberal economist Alexei Kudrin.
“We believe that Kudrin is involved in anti-Russian politics and is Putin’s partner in business matters,” said the leading poet Konstantin Rubakhin.
The list contains only a few surnames deputies of the State Duma, although it is separately stipulated that all those who voted “for the annexation of territories” are worthy of sanctions.
It is noteworthy that in the list of accomplices of the “Putin regime” were Ukrainians. In the section “oligarchs” Dmitry Firtash is mentioned, and blogger Anatoly Shariy, a popular YouTube blogger from Kiev, is also a “Kremlin propagandist”.
The list includes Patriarch Kirill and Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov. Sportswoman Alina Kabaeva is mentioned in the section about family members.
The list includes an impressive amount of foreign accomplices of Putin; Gerhard Schroeder, Silvio Berlusconi, Nino Burjanadze, Pedro Agramunt, Victor Medvedchuk. However, the central figure, of course, became an analyst close to the current US president Henry Kissinger. Another American collaborator was the famous director Oliver Stone……………….”
http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/12/liberals-suggest-putins-foreign.html
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“Russia’s incumbent president has declared his intention to seek re-election for a second consecutive term in the country’s upcoming 2018 election.
“I will be proposing my candidacy for the position of president of the Russian Federation,” Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at a meeting with factory workers. “Russia will move only forward, and no one will ever stop it in its progress.”
After announcing his intention to participate in the election, Putin thanked the factory workers for their contribution to the country’s development.
“Thank you for this reaction, first of all, thank you for your work. Thank you for your attitude toward your work, the enterprise, the city, the country. I am sure that we will succeed,” the Russian president emphasized.
The United Russia party has already voiced its support of Vladimir Putin’s candidacy for the election, a senior party member has said.
The election is expected to take place on March 18. While the list of candidates is not yet set in stone, several have already voiced their intention to challenge Putin in the race for the Kremlin. The dinosaurs of the Russian political scene, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the unwavering leader of the Liberal Democratic Party who will be trying to win the race for the sixth time, and Gennady Zyuganov of the Communist Party, who nearly defeated Boris Yeltsin in the 1996 run-up, are interestingly joined by TV presenter, opposition journalist Ksenia Sobchak who describes herself as “the against-all candidate.” Grigory Yavlinsky from the Democratic Yabloko party has also announced his intention to run. They could be joined by political journalist and singer Ekaterina Gordon, who is set to run as an independent candidate. Businessman Sergei Polonsky, political scientist Andrei Bogdanov, one of the founders of the Nashi movement Boris Yakemenko are among the other candidates.
© SPUTNIK/ MAKSIM BLINOV
A fresh Romir-Gallup poll has shown that Putin would secure an overwhelming victory with 75 percent of votes should the vote happen next Sunday: Zhirinovsky and Zyuganov would get eight and seven percent respectively, leaving Sobchak trailing behind with only two percent.”
https://sputniknews.com/russia/201712061059749948-putin-russia-election-2018/
Thanks mr. Marcus Godwyn, for an excellent article. The length of it just gave me a longer time to enjoy it.
I do hope that you will post here more.
Cheers, Rob
The Saker should really consider hiring an editor. Not just to edit the unnecessarily lengthy articles like this, but more importantly, *to fix the daily grammar and spelling mistakes that plague almost ***every*** article published here.* Just a little friendly advice: hire an editor or ***at least*** a proof reader who speaks English as his ***first*** language.
Dude, this blog is a blog, not an academic publication. We are *not* “respectable” nor do we seek to be. We are about *information* not presentation. As long as the text is unambiguous and understandable, then it is good enough for our purposes.
The Saker
It’s no secret that social media manipulation and information war is the greatest weapon in this Cold War 2.0.
“…………This report from the Russian evening news goes into detail about how the US does not simply label Russia State Media as foreign agents, but they send their own army of internet trolls to wage a subversive campaign against Russia online. (Full Transcript provided at the bottom of the article)
According to the report:
The idea is to actively work in social networks to discredit news from Russian state media, and to highlight the posts of opposition Russian-speaking journalists, those who under the new amendments will amount to foreign agents. They target Facebook, Twitter, and even Odnoklassniki…………Nothing unexpected. Put pressure on RT in the US? Get a tit-for-tat response. There have been multiple warnings. Especially since the US authorities feel free to control other countries’ information agendas.
The Polygraph project is more evidence of it. The State Department, of course, wasn’t eager to unveil it. But they could not hide it either. The idea is to actively work in social networks to discredit news from Russian state media, and to highlight the posts of opposition Russian-speaking journalists, those who under the new amendments will amount to foreign agents. They target Facebook, Twitter, and even Odnoklassniki.
The scale is impressive. It’s about a whole troll factory. Stanislav Bernwald has found out how much they are paid……”
http://russia-insider.com/en/us-prepares-lavishly-funded-anti-russia-propaganda-and-troll-army/ri21805
How do you manage to forget that the head of the moscow patriarchate is, most emphatically, a Russian liberal, at best, a pure product of the intelligentsia, at worst, an officer of the secret services (created by, in your own words: Lenin and Trotsky, prime examples of the n°2 mentality – those Russians who pathologically hate everything Russian !
With his phoney (and very liberal) version of Orthodoxy, he is certainly the most dangerous Russian out there.
“…the Christianity the west thought it had destroyed in 1917 arises phoenix-like from the ashes of the 20th Century.”
“From Russia comes the hope of the World.” – Edgar Cayce
Wow! Superb article; bravo!
So, Lenin built the mighty Soviet Union at the behest of the jewish (or western) bankers? You subscribe to this theory, too? Lenin came to “educate” the zombie Russians and just accidentally had them build a great antiwestern, anticapitalist superpower, as a side product. wow. The rest of the piece is great, couldn’t agree more.
Their not seventy, but many hundred-years long campaign to bring down Russia came to fruition in 1991, not 1917. In 1917, the Bolsheviks saved the country. This seems so plain to me, and yet some people cannot see? But noit even completely came to fruition in 1991. The time for the final solution to the “Russia problem” is nigh, in their view. It is right now, actually. To wit: the “social murder” of Russia that is unfolding on before our eyes.
From reading another of Marcus Godwyn’s articles at Global Research, I just discovered that he’s the man who wrote this excellent piece back in March, 2015:
NATO Through The Looking Glass: A Personal Journey
I remember reading it back then, when we were all so full of Donbass and its struggles. It was a very long piece, and I thought I already knew what he was saying, but I remember I couldn’t stop reading because what he was writing was so much the best description of the struggle itself, and our own awakening to realities that had been hidden from us in the west. Many others praised it at the time also.
So this is his great talent: to explain things in the way of ordinary experience. And to do the hard work of putting things into the right words. In the world of essays, no more priceless talent than this.
Very nice read thank you.
Amusing he mentioned Dostoyevsky. Marcus’ flowing cadence and enthusiastic tone reminded me of “The Dream of a ridiculous man.” Dostoyevsky ‘s last short story.
A short story I highly recommend if you’ve missed it.
I came to see the veil that was painted over my mind by my American upbringing after living in Russia for a couple years in the early 2000’s. We were regularly inundated with lies and 1/2 truths on so many levels about Russia (and most everything else), and it has gotten worse as the years roll by. It seems the more truth that is brought to light the more darkness the Evil Ones tries to cover it with. No matter how much darkness is used, it can never cover the light of even a single candle. When people start understanding that this really is a battle of Good vs. Evil and that evil is headquartered in my country, USA, they can start seeing with their hearts and souls (feel it). The truth is in the results of the two sides.
Excellent insight and commentary! Keep it up.