Dmitry Orlov – via Lew Rockwell.com Dec 7, 2021
An ultimately very healthy but in the meantime very unpleasant realization is gradually dawning in West—an insight that is simply shocking, that fundamentally alters their picture of the world: that the stronger becomes the hurricane of woke transformations that is raging there, the more attractive Russia becomes for hundreds of millions of Europeans and Americans. What is Russia’s most powerful weapon? Is it nuclear? Is it hypersonic (or “hydrosonic,” as per Trump)? Cybermagic, perhaps? No, Russia’s most powerful weapon is its values. And it grows stronger and more dangerous every day, in direct proportion to the intensifying fire of multiculturalism and political correctness that is raging in Europe and in America.
A recent article in The National Interest summarized various American authors who claim that the Kremlin is gradually developing its strategy of soft power and using it to successfully fight the West, splitting it and undermining it from within. What is the cause of their paranoid hysteria? Could it be that they have accidentally discovered who their true enemy is, and that it is… they themselves?
The simplest and most effective way to knock a geopolitical adversary out of the game is to impose on it a system of values that will split its society and lead the most active part of its population to occupy public buildings, to erect barricades and to support a pretender to the throne that is immediately given support and recognition by the country’s enemies. This is how all color revolutions of the late 20th and the early 21st centuries have been done: broadcast some propaganda, recruit some activists, help them to organize, provide some clandestine financial support, and then at some point this human mass, confident in their strength and their righteousness, surges through the police barriers and goes on to create history by overthrowing some faux-democrat petty tyrant, clearing the path for the next faux-democrat petty tyrant to be installed, with the country growing weaker, poorer and more disordered with each iteration. The process starts with the conversion of some significant part of the target population to “universal human values” with secular proselytizing of the “one true democratic faith.”
To the extent that this could be called a game, the West had a huge head start in it. The tools for fighting the “evil empire” have been honed for half a century. In the course of fighting the Cold War, radio stations, foundations, newspapers and magazines, parties and communities, publishing houses and TV channels have been created. Virtually all of them were then repurposed from fighting against the USSR to fighting against Russia. Collapse of the USSR, it was foolishly thought, was but a first step toward destroying Russia and absconding with its crude oil, natural gas, metal ores, fertile farmland and other natural treasures. And then, just in time, new, internet-based forms of influence appeared, completely controlled from America. For a time, the combination of a huge head start and the newly weaponized internet technologies seemed overwhelming.
But then something miraculous took place.
For a long time the USSR struggled mightily to propagandize socialist ideas in the United States and in Western Europe—to no avail. In the US, from its inception as a quintessential pirate colony, centuries of being conditioned to think that good persons are good by virtue of having goodly quantities of bounty and loot in their coffers has rendered people immune to socialist values. Meanwhile, Europe—its western half after the defeat of Nazism and in its eastern after the demise of Soviet communism—have been reduced to American satrapies where American propaganda reigns supreme and ceaselessly paints Russia as backward, corrupt, despotic and generally evil. No amount of broadcasting by Russia Today and no amount of toil by Russian internet trolls would ever be able to reprogram the consciousness of a Western person. But then suddenly Russia was awarded the supreme prize, giving it attractiveness, charm and influence no one could have dreamed of.
What has suddenly transformed the situation was mass insanity into which the West has been plunged. This group madness has destroyed much of what is infinitely dear to a very significant, if not overwhelming, part of Western civilization. Those conditional “conservatives”—normal people who do not want to be forced to be ashamed of their skin color, heterosexuality, respect for religion, generally accepted morality, and so on, are now humiliated, discriminated against and persecuted by the newest crop of toxic lefties.
Here is a lovely quote from an article in the Daily Beast: “…The Kremlin intends to attract Western converts with… bigotry—turning Russia into the land of ultimate political incorrectness, the world’s anti-woke capital.” Never mind the spurious claim of Kremlin’s intent to make Russia attractive; that is akin to blaming a beauty pageant contestant for being beautiful. Never mind the spurious claim of bigotry when it comes to opposing the West’s gender dysphoria and other psychiatric symptoms; there is a perfectly valid counterclaim of a society-wide psychiatric disorder that has plenty of biological science to back it up. What’s important is that the world has flipped to its mirror image: no longer is the United States “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Russia now is, in the eyes of the Americans themselves! No longer is it Ivan sighing enviously while dreaming of American blue jeans, Coca-Cola and rock-and-roll; it is John who is wildly jealous of the absence of black-on-white racism, dumbed-down high school curricula, laughable yet lethal accusations of sexual harassment and a rainbow of public toilets.
Russia itself could never have achieved such a high level of attractiveness merely by using its propaganda machinery (all one and a half TV channels of it). It arose by itself when traditional (i.e., white heterosexual Christian) Europeans and Americans began to compare the surrounding Bedlam with Russia’s naturalness and orderliness. And then there spontaneously arose in them a very simple feeling: to hell with past grievances; it is the future which we must make livable for ourselves and our children. In the past, Russia was an adversary, but that past ended thirty years ago, and in the present Russia is safe, secure and happier than ever while we are burning in Hell and have no idea what to do about it. But at least we have Russia to hold up as a positive example.
It must also be understood that there are no other candidates for this role. There is no LGBT insanity, sexual harassment mania or violent reverse racism in North Korea, or Iran, or Saudi Arabia, or China, but these examples are all far too exotic and come with toxic baggage of their own. What the persecuted white Western Christian conservative heterosexual male needs is a normal European country, full of white people, comfortable for living in, but without any of the things he hates. What other options are there? It is not a competition if there is just one contestant.
And thus we have come to the point where Russia—in all seriousness and without any irony or puffery whatsoever, really—has become the light of the world, a shining city set upon a hill, a beacon of hope, a bastion of righteousness and free spirit and the symbol of a truly free world. This is an almost magical transformation: it was able to win this exalted status outright without even playing the game. It did the barest minimum in standing its ground and in preventing a smallish faction of foreign-controlled traitors and fools from destroying their country. Theirs has remained a wholesome world of brave, masculine men, of attractive, feminine women and of their above-average, non-gender-confused children. In their world, rewards and privileges are based on merit, corrupt politicians and businessmen spend years in jail, and respect for traditional ethics and religious faith is mandatory. In their world, all of history is permanently theirs: none of it will ever be forgotten, falsified or erased—all thousand-plus years of it, including life under the Golden Horde, the serfdom, great victories of the Russian Empire, the revolutionary terror, collectivization, Stalin’s purges, the defeat of Nazism, the destruction of Western colonialism throughout Africa and Asia, the conquest of space, the national humiliation of Gorbachev’s and Yeltsin’s puppet regimes and Russia’s rebirth under Putin.
It is a world to which more and more people in the West want to escape to, leaving behind a landscape blighted by leftist vandalism and enforced repentance for the crime of being of a certain race or of daring to exhale carbon dioxide. They do not wish to subject themselves to the unholy inquisition which doles out punishments to those who remain unenthusiastic about and unsupportive of sexual perversity, gender dysphoria, the destruction of traditional families and the brainwashing of youth. Even if they cannot escape, they can take comfort in knowing that a more normal and less damaged alternative reality exists, and they can secretly sympathize with it.
What makes this transformation particularly remarkable is that ten years ago Russia’s soft power barely existed. At that time, a small but vocal opposition demonstrated in the center of Moscow, chanting “We need a different Russia.” But now hundreds of millions of French, Germans, Americans and others in the West are chanting what amounts to “We need a different West.” To the abject horror of their political elites they look to Russia—the country of extreme political incorrectness—with longing, delight and hope. These people are self-organizing into parties, uniting like-minded people in much greater numbers than the Communist International had ever been able to gather. In many countries they already exert a very significant influence on the political agenda. The more the pandemic of woke madness rages, the greater their influence will become. When this conflagration of mass insanity finally burns itself out, it is Russia that will have the civilizational seed stock with which to re-fertilize the devastated cultural landscape of the West.
In the meantime, this is already shaping up to be a Russian century. This level of soft power is something beyond anyone’s wildest dreams; it is is Putin’s judo mastery taken to the nth level. In judo, one directs one’s opponent’s own force against him; here, the opponent is directing his own power against himself while the judo master merely stands back and watches, nodding in approval. In every country that the liberals attempt to reformat to their liking, Russia automatically gains millions of fans, forcing any possible geopolitical confrontation with Russia to fade into the background before the neutralizing force of a great commonality of traditional values. Remaining passive and risking nothing, Russia has gained a myriad ways to turn the geopolitical situation to its advantage.
For a very long time the West had monopolized the dominant discourse, but now Russia has gained control of it. Needless to say, this does not go down well with those who have been accustomed to uncontested dominance. They react hysterically: by throwing around groundless accusations and insults, staging provocations, imposing toothless yet self-defeating sanctions… They will try anything that they think might help to defer the moment when they will be forced to admit the horrible truth: that they have checked themselves into an insane asylum in Hell and they can’t check out. Meanwhile, all Russia has to do is to wait patiently for the fires of Hell to consume them and to burn themselves out; because they always do. Their desperate thrashing about and threatening Armageddon is for Russia to ignore.
[Based loosely on a text by Aftershock’s SKonst published as «Страна крайней политической некорректности»: как Россия обрела «мягкую силу» во всём мире]
Originally posted at https://cluborlov.wordpress.com/
All very nice l’m sure and l must confess that l myself have considered the idea of moving to Russia’s Black Sea coast.
That said, all of the alleged virtues that the writer says Russia is now endowed with existed in Europe under “evil” “naziism”. The Third Reich espoused all of the virtues of a decent society – that is why WW2 was engineered to destroy it. But if Russia today can do the same and survive WW3 then l say good on them.
Talk about very old ideas. Sure, this is relevant, but I think it was 2012 when Russia introduced laws to protect children from GLBT propaganda. The BBC said it was anti-gay. This wasn’t true. Russia took a serious stand on protecting children and family values. Since then, the gulf between Russia and the West has widened. Russia holds all the strong cards & the moral high ground. We have 60s/70s hippy presstitutes throwing their arms in the air over the woke thickos. Do you know why they are woke, because real history isn’t taught in schools? This is why slavery is misunderstood. No one is crying about the slaves building world cup stadia & dying doing it. Work from home… slavery is alive and well.
Countries like Russia, Iran, China, India, North Korea & even Indonesia have very strong counter cultures to the degenerate West.
I used to believe that about Russia until a few months ago. Russia has gone into a coronafrenzy. Putin advocates the jab very frequently and recently awarded Alexander Ginsberg, whose Gamala Lab developed the Sputnik V jab, a medal of honour in the Kremlin.
Another problem for western elites is that as westerners begin to appreciate Russian values they must also see it’s the west who’s the aggressor not Russia. Thereafter their anti-Russia propaganda no longer works on someone who realises we’d all be better off if our leaders held the same values as Russia’s.
“The West” never made its mind up about whether to worship the Hippie Jew with the big nails and planks or the Frankfurt Jew with the coin collecting and genocidal tendencies, and never even thought of a third way involving logic or sanity, so it has not been on firm ground in the slightest. Nor has Russia or any other place. Logic and sanity might try to get a word in but they are shouted down.
The East of Russia becomes subtropical after the poleshift, the Great Vladimir Putin knows this and has made preparations for his government and population. 90% of Europe, including the UK, are lowlands. Russia will never allow hundreds of millons Europeans into their country who don’t speak russian, are sympathetic to homo,s, don’t care about pedo’s, are addicted to western democrazy and comfort or worship Hitler. Russia don’t need them, they need Russia.
Some good points made here about the subversion and degeneracy of the West at the hands of “toxic lefties”, deranged “progressives”, and the pox of political correctness. For political correctness is a malignant cancer; political correctness is the enemy of truth and the enemy of freedom. But let’s be honest about what force is really behind promoting all the degeneracy, depravity, and subversion, and that force is organized Jewry. There can be no debate that Jews have a stranglehold on the mainstream media narratives, and the themes of the relentless conditioning bombarding every Johnny and Jane Dumbfuck out there who have their idiot boxes shoveling shit into their impressionable minds would not get one minute of airtime without the approval of the Jew media controllers. Russia’s fatal flaw is they too have a very serious Jew problem, a Jew problem they completely failed to properly extinguish after maniacal Jews destroyed the country and murdered tens of millions of Russians the last time around. Yet, Jews still get very special treatment and protection in Russia, which blows my mind considering the history of Jews murdering and pillaging there, and the Russian “central bank” is controlled by the same parasitic criminal Jew scum that controls that scam everywhere else. So it’s really just all pantomime theatre.
In Russia acc. Tass in the coming two to three years, the landscape of medicine will be changing significantly towards personalized medicine given the large volume of data we have on patients now,” Murashko stressed.
So, they are just following DSM5, just like the US nazies…
Excellent appraisal.
I have always said that if communism ever found God, it would give capitalism a run for the money – Russia IS, and in God we trust!
New days dawn, over-nite, not with the flick of a switch.
“It arose by itself when traditional (i.e., white heterosexual Christian) Europeans and Americans began to compare the surrounding Bedlam with Russia’s naturalness and orderliness.”
Unfortunately, despite the efforts for moral conservativism and family values fostered by the Kremlin, actually for the very survival of the Russian people, and for that nation which has resisted Western onslaughts to conquer it for over 200 years, it is not a place of refuge for non-Russians. It is not really open to us except if we were to flee in that we know we would have to spend the rest of our lives with the ass of the Russian bear sitting on our heads, much like the only partially liberated Snowden tailor. We would have to totally tailor our remarks to meddle in Western politics and not any local ones which went against the official party line.
Unlike the West, where the Few who run things create one enemy after another out there in media land, in there in our heads, and everywhere you turn, all in order to divide and concentrate more and more power and might into their control, the Russian establishment cannot afford such luxuries both on account of its relatively small size and because it does have a real enemy, economically and geopolitically speaking, and that enemy is the West.
For the sake and survival of Russia, its controls over its own people in a time of increased Western aggression on all fronts is more understandable and acceptable. Their measures are mainly defensive, and no doubt the underlying hopes of its leaders are that the West will collapse in its own vices, hypocrisy, deceptions, corruption, and contradictions.
The problem for the West and in each of our nations is that we no longer have a center. Any fool who though that freedom was the basis of our civilization, or that a Constitution, Bill of Rights, or some kind of Charter was their centre, must in these days be totally disillusioned. All these things were not just based on the word ‘God’ you find in these documents but on a specific religious adherence and a conformity to the living and supreme God in the lives of the people. Despite the enduring opposition of the Few to have anything above themselves mentioned in any of our basic documents and laws, it has always in deference to the beliefs of the people allowed the insertion of that word here and there, as long as they could ensure that any reference to it did not interfere with the exercise of their own wills.
Our real problems in the West largely come down to our confusion over the meaning and understanding of God and his will, but also in that respect our understanding of the term ‘freedom’. It seems that the more we cast God out of things, the more relativistic things become, and yet at the same time the more totalitarian become our rulers. The more pagan and relativistic the people of a nation the more deceptive and oppressive become its rulers or else it dissolves in it own corruption. We have lost sight of the fact that the freedom we still enjoy is based on a trust in ourselves and in others not just based on the external force of the law with a gun to our heads, as clearly seen in the irrational Covid mandates rapidly dissolving our basic rights freedoms into a tyranny, but a trust were we know that most people have a law in their hearts to respect the rights and integrity of others. The pagan Few running things no doubt about 100 years ago thought that they could brainwash anything into the minds of the masses to bring about the new order they were designing. The old God was too hard for them to control and the notions the people had about him conflicted with their own designs. First they had to cast him out, as they did in the old USSR and every other communist or socialist regime they fostered, and then replace him with something more down to earth and in conformity to human proclivities and the desires of the Few. Perhaps a leadership cult would do around a personage such as a Lenin or a Mao. That is what they designed for Russia and China.
Now that they have subverted the religious beliefs of the masses in the West, and have cast God out of everything official, all they need to do for complete control is to unify us without God, and no doubt some august leader is coming forth.
“Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Just more disinfo from the Zionist Cryptocrats to maintain the facade that Russia isn’t governed by the same Jewish central banking cartel that controls the USA/UK/EU/China etc..
i only see a chance of future for the
slavic russians when their next
president + vice is no jew and
military +FSB is not headed by jews !
To Fred B–“gOD AND hIS Will! 9not repairing that). The Almighty can’t get that last bit where we do what he wants after that little job of knocking off a few billion galaxies? Why not get real and see the dynamism and conflict in TWO Creators?
Were I younger, I would take up Putin’s offer of free land in Siberia. The better class of young people should get out of the West while it is still possible to do so.
“Better” does not mean “Perfect”.
A recently-arrived Russian immigrant truck driver where I work told me “back in the day” they knew people had more fun in London and New York, Toronto and Sydney. But they were not stupid enough to think those places were the Emerald City.
He says it’s strategic and I agree. Every time you get furious with your bureaucrats or the cops or the Antifa nuts, just wisecrack. Say, “Man it’ll sure be fine when my application for asylum in Russia kicks in and I can go for the freedom and prosperity of V. Putin’s wonderful land.”
It irritates the hell out of politicians — European, American, Canadian, etc. They like to think they are still what they were when the Beatles just got started — the oasis of freedom in a dark world. Everyone knows this is no longer true.
Everyone knows the old western nations are getting far more totalitarian about the rainbow flag, the vaxxing and all that. Russia is not perfect but they are more sane — which is what WE used to be.
Keep snarking your politicians and professors and so on. Let them know you really ADMIRE V. Putin’s great freedoms. It annoys them and they might just sober up a bit. If nothing else it will make them feel deeply inferior.
Edgar Caycee said Russia would become the Light of the World during the dark times.
Edgar Cayce “From Russia comes the hope of the world. Not now but in the future.” Cayce said this during a reading sometime in the 30s. The author of this article use the same phrase. Wonder if he was familiar with Cayce. I remember when I first read it sometime in the 70s and thought Cayce is certainly wrong this time. Lots of jewtube video of Russian cities taken by ordinary people. No graffiti, no tents on sidewalks, 99% white people, very few fatties, nobody takes a dump on the street, joggers forget it. See for yourself. Fairly decent climate in Sochi seems like a nice place to live. If times were “normal” and I was younger I would definitely check it out with the possibility/consideration of a move. The degeneracy in the west is getting hard to take.
Excellent article.
What the Africans has endured at the hands of our colonial master is beyond comprehension. Depopulated Africa and Killed hundreds of million of our people. Drench the Atlantic and you will see all the dry bones(wet).
You can only controlled perverted people and the West is perverted
Mystic and Yogi