WHY IS RUSSIA THE WEST’S PRIMARY TARGET AND NOT CHINA?

Logically China ought to be the West’s primary target as there is scant democracy there. (There are a handful of other parties in China but they tend to have only a consultative role and have relatively few members compared to the communist party.)

Aren’t nations that are totalitarian, or at least authoritarian, certainly non-democratic, the West’s main targets for regime change? China certainly fills the bill. Russia less so, yet Russia is the primary target for western elites and has been for almost two decades now.

What is it about Russia that makes her a juicy target for western elites?

If we follow the logic of the ‘low hanging fruit’ argument I believe we will find some answers.

Russia is a much more attractive prospect than China because the transformation from its current social and political reality would in theory be a much faster one than in China. Russia has weaknesses the West believes it can exploit. It already has some expertise and experience on this front.

There’s a story told concerning the first meeting of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, a meeting by the way that went on for many hours. There was one point Che was very insistent on relating to Fidel concerning the country he had just left. The president there, Jacobo Árbenz, had won a great election victory. Árbenz then began democratizing various functions of government. Che told Fidel how this had allowed the CIA to insert their people within these functions and to eventually bring down Árbenz in a coup. Che told Fidel that this democratization was the one most crucial thing he must not do upon gaining power in Cuba.

Why do I relate this story? Because it relates directly as to why Russia is a much better bet for initiating regime change than China, precisely because so much effort has gone into increasing the level of democracy there.

Look at the recent history of Ukraine. Ukraine was moved into the orbit of the West through the undermining of its democratic system. The U.S. embassy in Kiev played a leading role running training courses for those activists who were to work to bring down the Ukrainian president and government. Of course the CIA playbook in operation is never single pronged, a whole host of methodologies are brought to bear, among them myriad contacts with those who always feature in such scenarios. These include those who have made known their ambitions for greater things, primarily wealth and power, those who see the West as having walkways paved with gold, the artists and intellectuals who feel themselves inhibited and all other dissatisfied, dissident and even criminal elements. The USA will take who they can get in these situations.

And so it is in Russia. Those who find a following are assisted with copious amounts of money. But not only money of course... the power of western media is a great asset to people such as Alexey Navalny. He can be made to look so much more important than he truly is. The same is done wherever regime change is sought. In Hong Kong, in Caracas, Tibet or Xinjiang, anywhere that the CIA, NGOs and a plethora of others can insert acid into the tiniest of democratic fissures they will do so. recently Anonymous uncovered a UK government scheme using both Reuters and the BBC to engineer just this kind of undermining operation against Russia.

The Cold War allowed the West in general and the CIA and MI6 specifically to hone so many skills required in the art of subverting nations. These skills have not been lost. They have been built upon. Now cyber attacks are the norm. In combination with a compliant western mass media, a full treasure chest for donations and intimate contacts with the greedy, ambitious and unscrupulous in nations such as Russia chaos can be injected without too much trouble.

Russia is vulnerable to these attacks. China much less so.

The attacks on Vladimir Putin and Russia regarding “democracy” are duplicitous in the extreme. He and Russia lose both ways. If more democracy is instituted then more openings for destabilizing attacks become possible. If more democracy is not instituted then the propaganda attacks on this basis also work to undermine the chosen targets. These are the kind of multi-pronged attacks that constitute an undeclared war. And you should be well aware by now that the West is very much at war against Russia. Not only Russia of course though it remains the main prize currently. Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua are all being worked on concurrently with Russia, though are not in the headlines to quite the same extent.

What about China you say? China, the nation with least western-style democracy apart from North Korea. China is reserved till last. Not that work to destabilize China is not underway, it is. Numerous dedicated teams are working night and day with NGOs and activists to create as much chaos in China in an effort to undermine its leadership. Recent events in Hong Kong and Xinjiang show that clearly. Make no mistake about it, the $billions of funding and tens of thousands of staff are doing everything possible across the planet against all the regime change targets out there.

But over and above all others outside of the Middle East, Russia is the geopolitical prize that western elites believe they have the best chance of reducing to the kind of chaos they can best take greatest advantage of in terms of the march toward China. They are targeting the soft underbelly before moving to the spine. Russia and others with weaknesses to exploit such as Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are the low hanging fruit the CIA, MI6 along with the intelligence agencies of allied states believe can be most easily picked.

Russia would do well to refrain from any further democratization, freeing up of its media and relinquishing of the primary figure of Vladimir Putin and institutions that are maintaining Russia as a truly sovereign state currently. If these are reduced in effectiveness you can be sure that the many jackals among the oligarchs, Russian mafia, CIA, MI6 and greedily willing agents of the West are ready and waiting to pounce.

These are the many reasons why Russia would be well-advised to keep her guard up and never let it down.

These are the main reasons why semi-democratic Russia is for now the primary target of the West rather than the communist run state of China.