THE U.S. GLOBAL PROJECT AND HOW IT ALL WENT SO HORRIBLY WRONG

On paper the plan was seen as foolproof. It was imperative that they succeed. With no Plan B or reverse gear, & despite every failure, the global project HAD to be taken to its ultimate conclusion...

The way they looked at it there were only two major powers they had to take down. After these two were taken care of the rest could be mopped up with ease. In the typically simplistic style of the most extreme geopolitical planners it seemed eminently doable. After all, the USA was the greatest power the world had ever known and had a sizable number of allies that could hardly say no to its project. Others, who were more unaligned would surely be made to fall into line if the situation was made so extreme that they had little other choice.

The plan was quite simple in the case of the first of the two major targets. Step up the pressure until it broke and reacted in such a fashion that it could be easily demonized as the biggest bad guy since, well, you name it. This process had been well under way before the final weights of procedural torment and pressure creation were applied in late 2021. Everything went to plan to that point. Target One did the dirty required of it and steered toward it for almost a decade beforehand. Now all the was necessary was to spread the hate and loathing campaign far and wide. The allies would be onside, no question of that. But what of the others, the non-aligned?

India, the most powerful of the non-aligned would surely see what an utterly dastardly deed had been perpetrated by Target One. She would come onside. The geoplanners were extremely confident this would be the case. Their own broadside on the target alongside that of Europe and the UK would surely be added to by India. What a surprise then when India proved to be unsure whether this would be good for them economically. How dare they think of themselves when the unconscionable horror of what had been done by Target One should overcome all such selfish thoughts? A crime against humanity was underway. Couldn’t they see that? All these blandishments however, were all to no avail.

Not only did India refuse to fire its own broadsides into Target One along with the USA and its allies it actually began trading in ever greater measure with it. There can be no doubt that the geoplanners in Washington were utterly shocked, amazed and immensely angered by this unexpected turn of events. Germany and others in Europe had gone along with the plan. The UK with enthusiasm. Poland and the Baltic States were all gung-ho and Let’s go! about it. India was not to be the only naysayer however, another “dependable” friend went rogue, Saudi Arabia. What the hell was happening here the geoplanners back in the States no doubt yelled. This wasn’t how things were meant to go. It was all meant to go easy and entirely to plan.

As time went on it became clear to see that Target One was becoming stronger, not weaker. More than that almost every one of the co-planners in Europe were becoming weaker. Alongside these eventualities the U.S. debt mountain was reaching Everest proportions heading toward $35,000,000,000,000. Flowing money toward the Trap Nation that Target One was driven to invade was reaching ridiculous levels and would top $175,000,000,000 before soaring on to money pit stratosphere. Doubling and trebling down wasn’t working; however, things were only getting worse. None of this was meant to happen. The forever war geoplanners must surely be reeling at this point. So, what to do? Quadruple down of course.

IS THE WORLD STRUCK DUMB AS WORLD WAR THREE APPROACHES?

We are in a 'Phony War', that period when war is being waged but its effects have not yet hit home. Our politicians appear intent on bringing those effects to us. Yet silence largely prevails. Why?

There was a time not so very long ago when the threat of nuclear war motivated a great many people to get out onto the streets and tell their governments in no uncertain terms that they should act to prevent it.

Now… **crickets**.

The current situation of virtual international silence persists while the juggernaut toward war seems only ever to be provided with engine upgrades rather than brakes by our politicians. Every indication is that they perceive some great benefit to themselves in the pursuit of war rather than engaging in actions that might bring peace. Do they have a death wish that recklessly encompasses the rest of us?

You may have noticed that diplomacy these days is notable by its absence. It has been converted to a means to engage in trickery rather than evidence sincerity, simply another way to wage war and burn bridges rather than looking to find peace by building them. Yet few of us seem to be concerned by any of this. It’s just a case of business as usual, or rather perhaps simply doing the usual mundane day to day without looking up from the virtually endless toil of surviving modern life.

We will surely look up when the bombs start to come down. Far too late then of course. 

Are we so disgusted with politicians of all sides that we have sunk into fatalistic apathy on this point. Do we have a permanent Que Sera, Sera attitude to just about everything outside our own limited sphere of influence now?

Perhaps take a look at that foreign land they call the past sometime where minds were not as dulled or as lazy, where there was a communal desire to survive and determination to get together in solidarity to protest the insanity being demonstrated by our leaders? Discover what has been largely lost in the western world, the desire to act together in unity when we are in mortal danger from the stupidity and recklessness of our leaders.

Have we all been sold on the selfishness and self-interest of competing rather than cooperating? Have the last few decades of rampant, materialist consumerism made us all self-isolating to the degree that we trust no one but our direct family any more. Is that it?

Whatever lies behind the apparent slothful unwillingness to stand up and be counted and take a stand for everyone against the oncoming war the resemblance to lemmings heading blindly to the cliff edge is striking. 

What good will all our shiny assets of car, home and all else do for us when the mushroom clouds rise balefully on the horizon and the deadly wind from their almighty blasts comes soon after? No God above will help us then. There will be no helpline waiting on our call for rescue. We will be wiped from this earth along with all we love and hold dear. You and your neighbours that you never got to know. All gone in a matter of seconds.

Might it not be a good idea to protest this oncoming reality? Perhaps give up the balm of the mindless drivel on your television set for a while and get to work with others to raise some noise? Or is life too short to worry about mass death and destruction of all we know and risk being distracted from those things you consider to be so much more important?

It’s up to us. Wait for the oncoming war, hoping for the best. Or get up from our cocoon-like TV nests and do something about stopping it? 

THERE WILL BE A NEW BEGINNING FOR UKRAINE

Vladimir Putin has, in the last few hours, apparently once again reiterated he is ready to authorise talks with the aim of arriving at a settlement with Ukraine that once more brings peace.

Putin, in my opinion, is doing something eminently sensible.

I believe he knows that new elections will be held in Ukraine once a peace settlement is agreed and that these will lead ultimately to renewed peace. Those elections, he knows, will bring to power Ukrainian politicians seeking permanent peace with Russia and with it, permanent neutrality. The Ukrainian people, heartily sick of the war, will certainly wish an end to the possibility of future war. They will thus vote in political representatives who also hold this view.

Russia is already renewing the infrastructure in the lands that have become part of the Russian Federation since February 24th 2022, and is bringing to the people there all the many social, financial and health benefits that all citizens of the Russian Federation enjoy. The people in the new regions will prosper and Ukrainians seeking work will migrate there and it is inevitable too that trade between Ukraine and Russian will recommence in even greater measure than before.

The situation between Russia and Ukraine will gradually inevitably normalise. There will eventually be no significant antagonism between the two as the years roll by as brother and sister nations of Ukraine and Russia recommit to peace. I believe Putin knows all this and that is why he has said again that under the right circumstances he is ready to have negotiations begin that can lead to a settlement. 

Some may say he should keep fighting to take all the territory up to eastern bank of the Dnieper River. This would have the benefit of creating a buffer between western Ukraine and what would be territory of the Russian Federation. Yet in fact no such zone would exist due to the fact that the territory east of the Dnieper would naturally also be part of Russia and in the years to come, if the war was continued, would inevitably be attacked. So where is the gain? Where is peace to be permanently established in this scenario?

Others will say he should urge the Russian army to take the entirety of Ukraine. This would obviate the problem in the case above where Russian territory continues to be attacked. Yet the problem of ruling a nation of ethnic Ukrainians who bitterly resent their Russian occupiers should be obvious. Russia would be in no end of trouble with the resistance which would follow and would be made to expend continuing and possibly unsustainable amounts of money to maintain its control.

So where to stop? It seems to me that, with the view that things would normalise eventually wherever you stop (as described above) it may well be an arbitrary place on the map. So why not stop now? Of course the greatest risk is that the Ukrainian regime will refuse entirely to countenance Russia remaining in control of all the territory it has now. This would very definitely be the sticking point. For this reason it is unlikely that Putin’s current proposal to have a negotiated peace settlement will bear any fruit. As long as Zelensky remains in power it appears that the war will continue, determined as he insists he is, that Russia must give up all its newly won territories. 

The crucial factor ultimately will be the western powers insisting to Zelelensky that he MUST start talks because they are no longer willing to supply the finance and weapons to support his war effort. Currently there are few signs that the West is willing to take this step. But what a new administration in the USA and potentially in the UK would do on seeing the futility of supplying these into the indefinite future is hard to predict. Though I see it as inevitable that at a future, unidentifiable date after upcoming elections, that the awareness of futility in going down the same road and only losing ever more in terms of finance, weaponry and territory within Ukraine will hit home hard. And then we will quickly see negotiations followed by a permanent peace finally arrive.

Then, as I see it, the prospects of a new beginning for Ukraine cannot help but also arrive.

WHAT ARE THE FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR RUSSIA… AND HER ADVERSARIES?

 

Only those of fixed mindsets can avoid recognizing the trends regarding Russia now occurring. Russia has evaded all attempts to hold her down, weaken & destroy her & will now rise far beyond their reach.

Russia is not without problems going forward. She lacks manpower for the great many tasks ahead. This is why her president has been encouraging a higher birth rate among the Russian population for some time now. This will mean inviting a movement of labor and specialist personnel from areas outside the boundaries of the Russian Federation for some time to come. Fortunately the economic success that has been engendered despite all the barriers the western powers have set in its path, has been increasing and shows no sign of ending any time soon.

Vladimir Putin has sworn to bring the modernity of Russia’s great cities to the people who live in the outlying territories, the villages and towns across the vast landmass of Russia. This goal will take many years to accomplish and will require the dedication of the willpower to consistently supply the huge energies, massive funds and logistical expertise required. Fortunately again, Russia has expanded the number of close and powerful friends she has in recent years, once again despite the efforts of her adversaries to reduce them.

The military campaign in Ukraine could easily have brought disaster to Russia. The plans of the West were laid long before February 24th 2022 when Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border. The powers there believed they knew Russia in all its aspects, social, financial, political, economic, military and all else. Was the data they held current? Or was it perhaps ossified in databases accumulated decades before which now provided far less than adequate prognoses of how to bring the Russian state to its knees? In any case Russia proved eminently resilient against virtually every attack by sanctions or financial restrictions against it.

With Russia winning in Ukraine, as we can easily see now is the case, what could easily have been a disaster for Russia will instead result in many benefits to her. The respect with which nations view Russia (whether admitted publicly or not by them) cannot help but be increased. We already see this outcome across several nations in Africa where both France and the USA are being asked to remove their presence in preference to Russia. In the Middle East too we have seen geopolitical changes that would previously have been deemed extremely unlikely if not entirely impossible. The case of Saudi Arabia ending its long term alliance with the West (primarily with the USA and UK) while drawing closer to Russia by joining the BRICS group.

BRICS sees ever more nations queuing up to be allowed membership. Iran is now a member along with Saudi Arabia. Who would have thought a few short years ago that these erstwhile enemies would potentially sit side by side at BRICS conferences? Around forty nations have expressed their interest in joining. Another founding member of BRICS, India has drawn ever closer to Russia and trade between the two is constantly increasing in volume. Nations are increasingly drawing closer to Russia seeking good relations and increasingly too rejecting western narratives and demands by the West to obey its commands. Does this sound like the isolation the western powers wanted for Russia?

Russia’s relationship with China is now arguably the strongest it has ever been. Trade between the two is booming and the protection they can give each other now in relation to both the conflict in Ukraine and the hotspot of Taiwan is iron-clad. A long-planned pipeline, ‘The Power of Siberia Two’ to carry natural gas from Russia’s Western Siberia Altai region to North-Eastern China is now being constructed, This will further enhance and deepen a relationship that once again, the western alliance has tried recently to disrupt but which it has actually assisted in deepening over these past few years where its aggression against both has been all too obvious.

Russia then, as we have seen, is gathering friends while the western nations who tried to bring her down, remove her president and cut her into pieces, have been losing them. Deep in a fast rising debt crisis the United States sees its infrastructure crumble amid increasing social turmoil, drug deaths and rising crime while at the same time pouring hundreds of billions into a failing plan to defeat Russia. Its allies too are suffering through joining this quest. Germany is de-industrializing, Britain is locked into a vicious cycle of economic decline and the boomerang effect of the loss of inexpensive Russian energy is hitting everyone hard. Prices have risen for all western nations creating massive discontent in nations used to constantly positive economic indicators. This is bound to bring enormous political changes in due course.

In the USA there is a rising tide of opposition to the profligate spending of North America’s dwindling resource base, both in terms of money and military assets. Throwing billions into the Ukrainian money pit is becoming a central issue as the emotionally potent, phony idealism button of Ukraine no longer has the same power to motivate such reckless generosity. The facts concerning the illegitimacy of the Ukrainian regime, its non-democratic behavior, its neo-Nazi links and its constant lies are gaining ever greater traction in the USA as in Europe. The recent election of Robert Fico’s party to power in Slovakia is evidence of this as is the long term resistance of Hungary under Viktor Orban. Both refuse to support the fueling of endless war in Ukraine with the supply of weapons and munitions.

Russia, as discussed above, is making new friends and allies as well as discovering more trading partners interested in dealing with her. To a great extent Russia no longer needs the economic links she previously had with the West. And, within Russia the niche fields of commerce that western companies vacated at the insistence of western political elites have, in the great majority of cases, been successfully filled by Russian entrepreneurs and enterprises. The profits from these establishments now stay in Russia and no longer exit the country to bolster her enemies. Once again the western nations shot themselves in a foot now presumably resembling a rather raggedly-looking Swiss cheese.

Things could hardly have gone better for Russia. Free of the western NGO’s that acted as a constantly subversive force, the agents of western intelligence agencies, Russia now has a much cleaner sheet where the small proportion of west-seeking liberals within Russia can be ever more effectively marginalized. This process will further enhance the determination of Russia to remain a country fully dedicated to its traditions and no longer subject to the vagaries of a woke culture that is currently poisoning traditional ways of life in the West. Each trend within Russia, almost without exception, is now working to enhance Russia’s prospects for the future just as the trends concerning her relations with those around her in Eurasia, Asia, the Middle and Far East are likewise trending positively.

Russia will achieve all the goals she set herself in Ukraine. One way or another the danger to Russia from Ukraine and its western sponsors will be neutralized and, in effect, quarantined. Russia will demand and get a new security architecture in Europe that includes herself. The remnants of Ukraine will, as protectorates, be seen to have a new, pro-peace president and government and, slowly but surely cultural relations and exchange, political interchange and trade between Russia and rump Ukraine will recommence. The new regions of the Russian Federation that we now know as the Donbass will be given every assistance in infrastructure renewal and job opportunities as well as the rise of all standards to Russian Federation levels in terms of pay, healthcare, pensions and all aspects of Russian employment benefits, conditions and the Russian social care network.

Russia has all to play for as she approaches an open door to friendships across the most populous, prosperous, incentivized and energy-powerful nations of the world. As the disgruntled West licks its wounds and suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (brought upon it by its own hand) Russia will prosper and the prosperity seen, as with China increasingly, will be impossible to conceal, celebrated as it is sure to be worldwide. One of the most important of all Russia’s successes, in 2025 we will see the resurrection of what used to be a generally recognized and accepted fact of a debt the world owes to Russia, that of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, the Great Patriotic War. By defeating the Nazi resurrectionists in Ukraine it will be seen that Russia has won yet one more world war for all humanity.

The western states who instigated the disaster of the last few years in Ukraine will be shamed, their political leadership replaced and will find their power and influence significantly diminished. Ever more nations will abandon their ties to the West in favor of far more trustworthy allies close by. The economic state of western nations will give rise to even greater levels of social and political chaos where seemingly intractable problems beleaguer every attempt to solve them. Russia, having fully reclaimed her place among the great powers and now assured of national security in perpetuity, will move determinedly along with her allies toward the world of peace and international agreement multipolarity then offers us all.

The malignant era of western domination, of threat, subversion using overt and covert manipulation and the ever-present insistence on worldwide interference and potential for military attack… will be over for good. Russia, that stood at first virtually alone in opposing the criminal nature of the USA and its proxies, will stand totally vindicated in all aspects of her struggle. Vladimir Putin, of course, will be lionized globally outside the West for his incredible achievement, and for all time.

WESTERN POLITICIANS WITH BLOOD-DRIPPING FROM THEIR HANDS WILL NOT FACE JUSTICE OVER UKRAINE

 

As seen in the aftermath to Iraq & Afghanistan where respectively no WMD were found nor solutions to increasing resistance to US military domination, humiliation does not necessarily lead to justice being served.

No western politician will pay even the smallest price under the law for the needless and pitiable slaughter that has gone on in Ukraine for well over two years now. No judges within the jurisdiction of international or national courts will find the guilty men and women behind that slaughter before them. They will be free to promote future, similar conflict situations, across the world with impunity. All this because they consider this planet their fiefdom to rule as they see fit as judge, jury and executioner.

Pushing NATO inexorably toward Russia’s borders caused one important, high-ranking commentator after another to protest. From William Burns, now CIA director to George Kennan, the man ascribed with developing the West’s containment policy for the Soviet Union, have spoken out against that folly. To no avail. Relentlessly successive western powers have urged the process forward totally ignoring Russia’s protestations. All the warnings given by the most knowledgeable and experienced commentators urging a halt to this process were totally ignored.

The warhawks within successive western governments, seeking world domination (no hyperbole this) are determined to destroy all nations taking an independent line from the demands of the West. No amount of death, destruction and increased chaos makes them hesitate for a moment. They fervently desire full control of our world and no amount of chaos within and fragmentation of national sovereignty of targeted nations will make them draw back from this endlessly destabilising and massively destructive goal. These zealots have been in charge of western foreign policy since 9/11 and have remorselessly used Ukraine as their latest tool.

The leaders of the western world who have run with the concepts promoted by the neocon zealots in their midst are fully culpable for the needless slaughter we see occurring in Ukraine. Fully culpable along with those zealots in the wings who have been urging them on remorselessly to do their bidding. The front men, Biden, Sunak, Scholz and others act as their puppets immune to the unfolding reality of total defeat in Ukraine. This mass insanity is assisted by the western mass media who relentlessly concocted fantasies where the Ukrainian regime is winning and the Russians are suffering terrible defeats. Nothing could be further from the truth. 

Russia will win because Russia always HAD to win, its national survival as a state depended upon it. The ultimate plan of the neocon zealots and their puppets was to break Russia into easier to manage pieces. The process of building enough pressure to do this began at least as early as 2007 with Vladimir Putin’s Munich speech where he made it clear that Russia would remain an independent-minded state following its own path, never commanded by others. This was the starting gun for the neocons that initiated the policy we have seen again Putin and Russia ever since. The policy that has led us directly to the continuing slaughter we see in Ukraine now.

But no will pay except the Ukrainians and the Russians who have lost their lives and the families who grieve for them. No western politician or NATO official will lose very much. Only their reputations if the full truth of what they have done is revealed. The people of Europe, UK and the USA will pay in part, with prices making their life chances fewer and economies crippled by the actions of their leaders in support of the neocon goal described above. The elites who own the so-called ‘Defence Industries’ of the West, those within the Military Industrial Complex have gained and will continue to gain massively as the blood continues to flow. They will reward the politicians handsomely while they continue to feed and fuel the war in Ukraine. 

Those who benefit are truly the most cynical of all players in this deadly game of world domination. For them this time is theirs. Endless profits, endless investment and endless opportunities to sell their weapons of destruction to fear-filled buyers across an increasingly destabilised world. This is the world we now occupy as helpless bystanders, a world run by a western criminal elite posing as regular do-gooder politicians defending our freedom, democracy and human rights. By their acts you will know them. And by the blood dripping from their hands.  

 

ADVOCATING TRUE FREEDOM INSIDE THE MENTAL ASYLUM OF WESTERN NORMALITY

 

How free are we? How free from conditioning by legacy media or subtle indoctrination by political/media talking heads? Or, even from self-imposed limits of everyday life where blissful banality rules?

They come across as honest brokers don’t they? They are given utmost respect by interviewers on your TV. They are well-dressed and equally well-rehearsed. They wouldn’t hurt a fly, would they? After all, these are the defenders of free speech, human rights, democracy and all the western values we all enjoy. These are virtual saints are they not, the good guys and gals, those with the ‘right stuff’ to guard us all and keep us safe from those foreign savages ‘over there’.

You are used to them and their ways, their sometimes rumbustious politics, their silly arguments, the to and fro of normal politics. It’s all just harmless normality, crude, sometimes contemptuous… but not dangerous. Not dangerous. Mostly harmless…

Yet take a deeper look into the effects of such men and women away from the ‘Yah boo sucks!’ Punch and Judy show of everyday politics. Look at them in the milieu of the larger theater of their geopolitical ambitions, their global maneuvering and their ultra-serious determination to retain their power to manipulate, dominate, interfere in, undermine, bring war and chaos to and exploit nations far from their borders. That is where you will see these harmless “saints” for the criminal, and often totally murderous cabals that they truly are.

In respect of a global theater of operations these elite westerners, these designer-suited, well-coiffured and apparently highly urban, liberal-minded innocents, take on the value-systems and degree of integrity found in confidence tricksters, psychopaths and mass murderers.

You will find these people directing assassinations, engaging in plots to bring down presidents and prime ministers through manufactured scandals, you will find in this political cesspool, men and women creating non-governmental organizations to train activists in the art of bringing down governments, you will find them arranging black sites where torture can take place away from the scrutiny of human rights organization. In short you will find these western “saints” indulging in the most heinous and unconscionable acts of criminality imaginable.

In spite of all the above and it being reported time and time again by those not in the pay or sway of these political chameleons most of you will be mesmerized by the large, black, rectangular frame through which the facade of their respectability is incessantly delivered right to your brain. The very normality of this process will corrupt and condition most of you to one extent or another.

Your mind will revolt against the idea that these decent-appearing, normally-talking men and women can be anything other than what they appear to be. Nothing out of the ordinary will arrive through legacy media to disabuse you of this deeply conditioned belief. At least not while you are not motivated to, too tired or too uninterested to look deeper than what that thin screen tells you.

Looking deeper can be an uncomfortable and in fact highly discomforting experience. The apparently normal and relatively cozy world where few questions are asked except for those most banal and commonplace, the usual fare, no challenge to the intellect in terms of any challenge to the accepted and acceptable norms of the average western life.

Moving from that shallow but predictable, and highly reassuring life of the banal everyday, has risks that the average subconscious may well warn you against. What’s in it for you? Only more grief perhaps? Extra anxieties you hardly need when you have more than enough already in terms of your work or relationships? Perhaps it’s best to stay comfortably numb, plumbed securely in the land of blissful ignorance and avid consumption that the average western life consists of.

Yet, slowly but surely the western way of life is unraveling. The headlines concerning social unrest, societal decay, violence, increasing chaos, anarchy, drug-taking and both physical and mental diseases are having their effect, disturbing your vicarious enjoyment of mind-numbing normality. Slowly but surely the decay outside is entering inside. Disputes within the home are becoming more frequent and solutions to family disorders of one kind or another are rising.

Money is growing short, rents, mortgages and prices in general are rising. It’s getting ever harder to make ends meet. And all the while you feel sicker and sicker in both mind and body. Are your politicians taking care of you? Truly? Is the system of blissful ignorance still working for you?

While you continue to suffer as one of the classes well below the level the political and media elites who manipulate you, these latter are in their element. Democracy has been transformed from something that once had some power of choice behind it for the elector is now a sham, a duopoly fix where your very limited intellect is guided and coaxed to choose between two extremely similar possibilities.

You are being taken for a ride on a merry-go-round that is no longer merry at all but has become a fixed circular loop with no exit. Except to venture out of the mainstream mental institution where blissful ignorance has you in a strait-jacket.

Until the day dawns as in the film ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ when the inmates get free (for a while) the criminals who run things in the West will keep giving you your daily dosage of reassuring banality and comfy distortion. The tranquilizers that have worked to mollify and sedate you until the day you broke free will now have no effect. On that day you will be TRULY free, not kept captive within the semantic mindtrap of what western politicians and media call freedom. You will be among the truly awoken and will never again be mesmerized in any way by the insistence that you be liberal, woke or a supporter of western wars. You will be free and on the outside.

There, in a totally new mindspace you will see with crystal clarity that those you believed were ‘normal’, the very usual, smiling, semi-convincing political class who run the western asylum are just as manipulative, just as cold-hearted and just as criminal and desirous of seeking your perpetual imprisonment as Nurse Ratched in Ken Kesey’s book and Miloš Forman’s film starring Jack Nicholson, ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’.

You may not be instantly happy at that point… but at the very least you will at last be truly free.

IN BEIJING AT THIS MOMENT A NEW WORLD IS DRAWING CLOSER

The hellish, West-dominated world of exploitation, criminal domination & never-ending war is ending. The forces that will sweep away the old world & bring in the new are building right now in Beijing.

We all know the world we have now. It is a sickening disgrace, especially so that region known as the western world. The level of degradation, poverty, violent crime, drug use and perpetual war of one kind or another make us constantly ashamed. The political class of the West have never been as unpopular as they are today, hopeless, hapless, incompetent and unable. All they seem good at is starting new wars or pandemics to distract us all from how awful they are. But a new world is coming. One the warmongering westerners are fighting with all their might.

The political and media elites of the West are desperately trying to hold onto the power they have abused for centuries. Those whose forebears committed genocide against the Native Americans, who enslaved millions of Africans and who pillaged every corner of the world during the era of colonialism are desperately attempting to cling on to their misbegotten and manipulative power.

For those whose perpetual instinct is to grow and grab, to exploit and eliminate the clock is now running down to their extinction. The ruthless and manipulatively ambitious will soon find they are being replaced by honest brokers who have the wisdom to know that exploitation can never be sustainable over the long run. The era of the West dominating all others for its own gain is ending. Starting wars at the drop of a hat when their “national interests” are at stake, pushing those far from their borders into penury and worse for the sake of their greed-driven dreams of infinite wealth and influence… those days of cynical devastation are over. 

The West has had its day and the weapons it became so used to using are being scrapped one by one. The use of sanctions for one has only succeeded in driving nations to seek shelter from the West in the arms of others. Creating ever more wars and using almost every device under the sun to undermine other nations has turned the majority of the world firmly against the West. More and more nations are lining up to join the BRICS group, so disgusted are they with the stranglehold over them that the western powers have used to abuse them for so long now.

There is a new way forward now, an escape route from which the ever-aggressive and super-arrogant West can be escaped from, no longer to be threatened by its economic, financial or military weaponry. Having lost all trust by their past abuses the western elites are now seeking to hammer the last nails into their own coffin through a final war against those now rejecting their continued abuse. Apparently completely blind to the effect of their actions these elites double down at every downturn, creating ever more loathing of them, mistrust of them and desire to escape their domination in the quickest and most effective way possible.

Nations are steadily gravitating east, leaving behind a West weltering in its own woke miasma of degradation. The still traditionally oriented nations of Eurasia, Central Asia, the Far East as well as across the Global South want little to nothing more to do with the obviously fast corroding and terminally descending West. Their spirits, clean as they are from a steadfast reliance on traditional ways of life, now have the chance to secure their cultures from the welter of western diseases of mind, body and spirit they see occurring. And now there will be no turning back. 

By abandoning the West to its fate, its elites completely sunk in mindless and unwarranted self-belief predicated upon who knows what, the rest of the world can shuck off the greatest weapon the western powers have used against them, the dollar, the petrodollar. Once gone and progressively it IS going, the dollar can no longer be used as a threat, as blackmail in the criminal self-interest of the West. Once gone the last vestiges of western power will disappear leaving its elites devoid of the most powerful weapon with which to whip others into line. Weak and quarantined, the West will finally have to acknowledge it is only one interlinked part of the world community and thankfully, at last, no longer its eternally self-interested master.

ALL-PERVADING BIAS CAUSED THE HATE-FUELLED ATTACK ON ROBERT FICO

When you are repeatedly told a one-sided story where a person, in this case Putin, is constantly demonized, then all those who fail to accept this framing can easily be seen as people to hate also.

We see today the ultimate result of consistently spreading a one-sided, hate-fuelled narrative about Russia and those who choose peace over war. The assassination attempt on Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia is the direct result of the hatred spread against him by media and opposition politicians alike.

The U.S. embassy in Bratislava without any doubt has its hands deep in this particularly ugly trough. As have figures such as George Soros who think they ought to form governments or bring them down rather than by anything approaching a truly democratic process.

No one who forms an opinion contrary to the demanded narrative of the elite western political consensus can feel safe to voice their views. Not in an environment where the general population of all western countries are fed a diet of anti-Russian hatred and 100% skewed narratives which paint those who wish to attain a balanced view as traitors.

Robert Fico has been subjected to a campaign of virulent hatred for many years now, a hatred which has massively intensified since he and his party were elected to govern Slovakia and a colleague was then elected to be Slovakia’s president. Massive demonstrations have been held on an almost daily basis flagrantly ignoring that both were elected democratically by the will of the Slovak people. 

Wishing to see a renewed peace in Ukraine rather than a continued war was Robert Fico’s crime. This along with his willingness to look at both sides of the story in relation to the long running disputes between Russia and the Ukrainian authorities. In an environment where it is almost a crime to look deeply into the facts seeking to discern the true genesis of events in Ukraine’s Donbass region and Russia’s concerns over NATO expansion into Ukraine made Fico a marked man.

To hold the view that there are always two sides to every story means you may well risk your career and perhaps even your life itself. Western governments and their compliant media stenographers demand you accept and parrot their fixed, unquestionably views. If you do not submit you become a target. If you are a public figure then you risk character assassination if not a very real assassination attempt as Robert Fico has suffered today.

Is this the region of the world of free speech? Is the USA any more the land of the free? When you are forced to behave in a certain way, watch what you say and submit to those who are supposed to be YOUR public servants then we have surely moved far away from those noble concepts of freedom of speech and democracy that our leaders (now rulers) preach about.

Hopefully Robert Fico will survive his grievous injuries. After five hours and more surgeons continue to try to save his life. But free speech and anything approaching democracy is also on life support. And unlike Mr Fico it appears they are no longer capable of being saved in this sanctimoniously puritan western world of an increasingly dictatorial “democracy”.

 

KHARKOV IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE KIEV REGIME

 

There will be no stopping Russia now. Front after front will open up against a faltering Ukrainian army delivering blow after blow to the terrorist regime that has so betrayed the Ukrainian people.

The Kharkov front will have been extremely well planned so the chances of its being anything but a total success for Russia are negligible.

Complete success is more or less assured due to many factors connected to the weakness of the Kiev regime's forces. These are in regard to a lack of both manpower and fire power. Another factor to take into account is that Ukrainian forces in the region have a high percentage of those who were forced into the Ukrainian army. They will, to a high degree, not wish to be there or to fight and will be inclined to either run away or attempt to surrender.

Russia may well open yet another front or two. One in the Sumy region is more or less certain. Another directed toward Odessa is on the cards. Meanwhile a surge forward in the areas left vulnerable through Ukrainian military assets being transferred to the Kharkov region can be expected.

Expect a massive thrust forward by Russia on multiple fronts including several new strategic areas. Russia has had up to 100,000 new troops in training for some 9 to 12 months now and these will be ready to perform diverse duties as required, whether on active duty, security support, logistical support or policing.

The breakthrough in the north now occurring will be much enhanced by the forward movement expected by Russian troops in the Sumy direction. Currently the softening up process of Ukrainian defences there is ongoing and once completed it appears inevitable that we will see a speedy Russian advance to take villages and towns in a similar manner to the Kharkov front.

It is to be expected that after the present Russian force attains certain goals in terms of taking particular towns then a second wave of Russian troops and logistical support will come forward to secure the areas taken. Then the Russian military will move further still taking ever more towns as they go. At later stages a third and fourth wave will enter.

Meanwhile Tony Blinken, Rishi Sunak and others such as Scholz of Germany are acting their parts attempting to put a brave and determined face on things. As their protestations of eternal support for Ukraine become ever more commonly heard from their lips you can be assured that they are voiced in a vain attempt to cover the awful reality on the battlefield. Sooner or later that semantic fig leaf will be blown away leaving them completely naked. Total humiliation and eating crow will be their lot with no semantic escape left open to them.

Russia is clearly winning hands down and there appear to be no possible future eventualities to seriously mitigate against this continuing. All the game changer weapons the West has sent the Ukrainian regime have quite clearly failed to change the course of the war. The western policy of hoping to increase the Kiev regime's chances at the inevitable negotiations table has completely failed. Just like the sanctions regime against Russia failed, just as the "game changer" weapons failed and all else the West tried, the western powers are now headed for a failure that is complete and terminal and from which there will be no recovery.

We are seeing the end result of much thought on the best way to break the Ukrainian army and the regime forcing the Ukrainian people into a fight with Russia they never wanted. Zelensky was overwhelmingly elected to make peace with Russia not further expand the war his predecessors began in the east in 2014.

NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg has recently issued a statement saying the West will not help a defeated Ukraine. This shows the contempt with which the western leaders hold the Ukrainians. His words are clearly meant as a threat to blackmail every Ukrainian to lay down their lives in a lost cause, to urge them to die fighting or be left to rot in a ruined Ukraine where all the words of eternal support for Ukraine from the West are shown to be barefaced lies.

With Ukraine's economy in ruins and no help coming from the West there will be a steady migration east to the prospering Russian lands of Novorossiya. This will be the final and lasting humiliation for the leaders of the collective West who have so badly abused the Ukrainian people for their own self-interested geopolitical ends.

In Kharkov and soon in Sumy and elsewhere the West will be delivered a blow from which it will never fully recover. All the propaganda, misinformation, fake news and wishful thinking, all the tame “experts” prattling about a Ukrainian victory and Russian defeat won’t help them then. They will stare into the eyes of defeat and be rendered helpless, humiliated and appropriate candidates for loathing they most certainly deserve. There has arguably never before been such a vile spectacle of monumental evil and despicable recklessness than that displayed by the western political and media elites over Russia and Ukraine.

Russia’s victory will be a decisive victory. The despicable Ukrainian regime that now squats in Kiev will be defeated absolutely and made to leave power in disgrace, opening the way for all the changes Russia has demanded. These will of course include Ukraine’s neutrality in perpetuity, its demilitarization and denazification and a guarantee of perpetual security for the Russian language and the Russian-speaking population of both rump Ukraine and the newly formed Russian region of Novorossiya to the east.

THE WESTERN RAM IS BATTERING ITS DEMENTED HEAD AGAINST A RUSSIAN WALL

As Russia survived the West's sanctions coming out smiling the western elites should have conceded failure. Instead they plowed on to certain defeat, upping a reckless ante, always doubling down. Why?

What is it with the British political elite and Ukraine? Is it some futile effort to recall the UK’s glory days when it was a great power? Are we merely seeing the lingering death throes of an empire long gone and now completely irrelevant? How many more Ukrainians must lose their lives for the sake of this gruesome activity by the Brits?

Hugely disliked in Britain Richie Sunak and his government may also be hoping for a much needed uptick in popularity by using their present breast-beating, war-mongering tactic in Ukraine to ultra-cynically bring it about. An earlier prime minister, Margaret Thatcher achieved just such a surge in popularity by going to war against Argentina over the Falkland Islands when her poll ratings were falling to dangerous levels. Thatcher succeeded where Sunak appears to be failing abysmally to achieve the same cynical maneuver.

Or is something else at work here? Do the western powers see their long-held ability to manipulate events globally fast slipping away? Could this be the true reason for their reckless strategy of endlessly supporting the Ukrainian regime despite every indicator that it is doomed to be utterly defeated by Russia? Might this be the most fundamental of all reasons for the hopeless endeavour to defeat a Russia that sees an existential threat in NATO’s ambition to put missiles on its border in Ukraine. This task was hopeless from the start as Russia simply cannot have such a circumstance and no amount of weaponry from the West will change this fact.

The political and media elites are clearly aligned as tight as can be in a unified war to maintain the status and power they have become so very used to till now. The thought of losing all the many perks that come with such a power brings them to a state of such utter agitation that we can expect almost any reckless action from them now. Even the prospect of nuclear war does not seem to faze the most zealot amongst them. It appears that no world at all is preferable to such convinced neocons than a world they can no longer control.

The British in their “wisdom” have told the Kiev regime that they are quite at liberty to fire the UK-supplied missiles at targets in Russia. The Russian high command has responded by saying that if this takes place they will then be at liberty to attack UK bases in Ukraine… and beyond. Yet even this statement does not appear to give the British pause, they continue their belligerent rhetoric, upping the ante even more. Now we hear that British special forces are at work in Ukraine. Another sign that sooner or later Russia will be bound to cause British blood to run in Ukraine, and quite possibly elsewhere.

What variety of madness has the western powers in its grip? Ukraine is of no special strategic interest to them? Yet they are clearly willing to see millions die to defend it in a struggle that was lost as soon as Russia survived all the West’s sanctions and came out the other side with the strongest economy in Europe. The madness involved breed mutually assured destruction and the deaths of millions. Does this prospect deter those in the West from their futile actions that has seen half a million Ukrainians die or be grievously wounded? Not a bit it seems. The juggernaut of western irresponsible warmongering goes on regardless. 

Like the ram in the popular song of the late Fifties, ‘High Hopes’, but without its success, battering its head against an immovable dam, the bone-headed political and media elites of the West appear unable to halt their compulsively disastrous acts of sheer, reckless folly.

Wikipedia: The song describes two scenarios where animals do seemingly impossible acts. First, an ant moves a rubber tree plant all by himself, then a ram single-handedly puts a hole in a "billion-kilowatt dam." The desires of these animals are described by the chorus as "high, apple pie in the sky, hopes.”

EGREGIOUS BLUNDERS BY THE WEST HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT UKRAINE’S DESTRUCTION AS A VIABLE STATE

Though western politicians and media have long sought to present a positive spin on events in Ukraine they are now confronted with an unavoidable reality. The Kiev regime they sponsored has lost and lost big.

As Russia mounts a second front in the Kharkov region and potentially a third in the Sumy region we can see the end game unfolding for the Ukraine Project of the western powers.

A concatenation of errors arguably beginning in 2008 when George W. Bush forced through a statement against the objection of several important powers that Ukraine would join NATO at some future date. As the present head of the CIA, William Burns said at the time in a memo, this was the reddest of red lines for Russia.

Since 2008 the list of egregious errors by the successive leaders of the West has grown ever longer. Pushing NATO towards Russia’s borders through ever more ex-Warsaw Pact nations joining after a verbal agreement with Gorbachev that this would not happen was overwhelmingly provocative. What was the Russian leadership to think that this organisation created as the West’s primary weapon against the Soviet Union aimed to squat on the Russian border with Ukraine?

From 2008 to the present day NATO heads have made no serious case for being a merely defensive organisation. The people of Serbia and libya can vouch for the fact that NATO is quite obviously an extremely deadly offensive organisation. Why would Russia tolerate such a presence on its borders? Would the USA, UK or European nations tolerate the equivalent Russian military assets on their borders?

Russian offers to the West that security guarantees based on diplomacy resolve all outstanding problematic areas between them fell on deaf ears. Russia attending the Minsk Accord discussions for the best part of a decade to find a peaceful, diplomatic path was treated in bad faith by the western powers. They were never committed to finding that path but instead concentrated their efforts in building Ukraine’s military power to NATO standards. Russia offered to discuss the building of a new security architecture for Europe guaranteeing the continued sovereignty of all borders was rejected.

In Turkey early in 2022 an agreement that would see Ukraine remain a neutral nation outside of NATO was all but worked out when the western powers intervened and ensured that the military conflict between Russia and the Ukrainian regime would continue. Since this agreement almost within reach in Istanbul the West has escalated time and time again, constantly pushing Russia to respond. Since Istanbul half a million Ukrainians have died or suffered terrible injuries. Meanwhile, Russia’s escalatory dominance has only increased. At least one thousand volunteers join the Russian army each day. The Russian military industrial complex has been expanded, made more efficient and developed where new weapons are brought on stream across the Ukrainian battleground.

Despite all independent expert opinion stating that there was no path to victory for Ukraine and that Russia’s resources were overwhelmingly superior the western leadership has continued blindly to double down. Everything the West could do wrong it has. Now we arrive at the final outcome in Ukraine that was in fact predictable from the day western sanctions failed to bring the Russian economy down. Doubling down hoping for a miracle is all the West has had since that time, depending on sending money and weaponry hoping that the Russian need for security could be weakened. There was NEVER any possibility that the existential threat Russia had identified against it would allow its leadership to ignore that threat. To believe so is arguably the most grievous error made by the West over this entire debacle fomented at each stage by its leaders.

Russia is winning hands down and will ultimately be totally victorious. The security of the Russian people depends upon it. No amount of resistance by the West was ever going to change this outcome. All that its errors have done is to massively increase the number of deaths and injuries that occur before this always inevitable result. In the next few weeks and months the entire world will see the extent to which those errors bring total humiliation to those who so blindly, ignorantly and recklessly committed them.

And Ukraine will lie totally destroyed as a viable nation due to their mindless idiocy.

 

WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WESTERN ELITE KINDERGARTEN?

There is much stamping of feet occurring in western elite circles. Minds are reeling in shock and dismay. Petulant faces grimace in a grotesque mimicry of tiny tots who have seen their toys thrown over the garden fence. What the hell is going on in the western elite kindergarten?

The toddler politicians of the western elite kindergarten are continuing to wet their already sodden diapers. Rattles are being thrown out of prams constantly. Hysterical tantrums have reached fever pitch with cheeks red as stop signs. Are they fit to burst? It appears so. The resulting projectile vomit may well go nuclear.

The classroom project to erase certain nations from the map in the geography class has gone horribly wrong. Instead of being erased the colours have only been made to shine brighter and reflect a deeper level of permanency. Teachers are in dismay clamouring for answers to this totally unacceptable outcome. The reputation of the entire school is at stake!

In the USA an adult who has long since entered his second childhood appears to believe he is some kind of anti-Santa, destined to bring the darkest variety of toys to the world. As he rants we can see the gleam of the wannabe thug in his, for the moment, unglazed eyes. Out of the unfathomable stupor he is usually in he has suddenly envisioned his “enemies” of the east. “Show me someone who wants to be Xi Jinping!” he rails, forgetting everything else (including where he is).

In Europe a Nazi Reichmaiden after her time, Ursula Von der Leyen squeals that China is de-industrialising Europe and adds her clumpen feet to the foot-stamping heard in every western capital these days. Meanwhile, ‘Jungle Josep’ Borrell bemoans the fact that the schools pet animal, Vloddy Zelensky is looking sickly and weak. In a rambling geriatric monologue he mutters that some of the other “teachers” support those feeding the poor thing out of date rabbit food.

In the UK, another of the loosely tied together bevy of hapless mental dwarfs who are hardly distinguishable from their charges has come under fire. Rishi Sunak, the unelected headmaster of the British branch of the western elite kindergarten cabal is looking decidedly shaky. More toy guns for all who support Vloddy is his answer to the critics hounding him. Unknown to Retarded Rishi this is the very issue upon which his tormentors are determined to decapitate him.

Things are looking decidedly shaky within the western elite kindergarten. Everyone is casting around looking for a solution to a crisis that is increasingly set to completely engulf them. There’s talk of using the nuclear option. And of sending a host of “teachers” off to create merry hell for Vloddy with a view to gaining greater public recognition. Sadly the general public has a rather fixed view on the now rapidly failing rep of the place. That it’s far overdue for being demolished and replaced, it’s sell-by date being incredibly out of date, being early April 2014.

It was in April 2014 that every branch of the western elite kindergarten blotted their copybook. By giving their collective approval to bringing in a new member to the club by the name of Pedo Poroshenko. Pedo was going to be the agent of chaos that come February 24th 2022, through the agency of his successor, Vloddy Zelensky the whole school would be brought to ruin. Ironically enough they proved impossible to school but continued in their support for Pedo and Vloddy right to the extremely bitter end. Foreclosure.

THE INESCAPABLE REALITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN BATTLEFIELD

What can be said about the situation in Ukraine free of the biases of western political narratives & their mirror image in western mass media? This is my attempt to present the facts on the ground.

The Russian military is pushing relentlessly forward, liberating strategic villages and positioning itself to take small towns all across the Donbass region and in particular within the territory west of Donetsk City. The Ukrainian forces are putting up some resistance but holes in the Ukrainian defence line are leaving areas without the support needed due to the increasing problems of lack of additional manpower and of replacement of weaponry and ammunition. Over the last year and more Russia has vastly increased its military manpower with an estimated 1,400 volunteers per day entering the Russian military and going on to receive extensive training.

While Russia’s manpower resources have steadily increased, those of the regime have decreased and at an unsustainable level. In the last many months the attrition rate of Ukrainian troops being taken off the battlefield dead or wounded has run at a level of approximately 1,000 per day. The Kiev regime has, at the same time, struggled to recruit and train additional troops. Ukrainian men are hiding in their apartments, sometimes venturing out disguised as women or are fleeing to the Romanian border in an attempt to escape mobilisation. All know that to be dragooned off the streets and sent to the front with minimal training is a death sentence at this stage.

More and more of those Ukrainians who have been frogmarched to the front, often elderly men who should not be there (the average of a Ukrainian trooper is reported to be 43) cannot possibly stand for long against the highly trained and constantly refreshed Russian troops who are given regular downtime away from the front lines. The Russian troops are, in addition, highly trained, armed with the latest kit and equipment and have a constant supply of all the various resources to sustain life at the front. In addition, the Russian military has at least a six to one advantage, and sometimes as high as a ten to one advantage in firepower with its artillery and ammunition supplies. Add to this the Russian military complex now in high gear producing more and better weaponry all the time. With hypersonic and supersonic missiles on stream and a Ukrainian air force all but decimated allowing Russia to rule the skies what chance does Ukraine have?

The Ukrainian offensive last year was conclusively defeated by Russia with the Ukrainian military not even reaching Russia’s defensive lines. At the cost of many tens of thousands of lives the regime managed to take limited territory, most of which has now been taken back by Russia. The western powers talk of the possibility of Ukraine mounting another offensive in 2025 but with Russia now on the march and Ukraine struggling in almost every area the chances of this occurring are decreasing rapidly by the day.

It must be evident to any serious observer by now that the experts on war outcomes are correct when they say that Russia will prevail simply on the basis of a far greater ratio of resources compared to that available to the Ukrainian regime. This despite the pouring of weaponry into Ukraine by the western powers, the level of which is set to diminish despite the latest tranche and threats from both NATO and the EU to boost this.

When it became clear that Russia had withstood the onslaught of western financial and economic sanctions and even began to prosper economically while the West suffered it was clear Russia would prevail. It would have been sensible and pragmatic for the western powers to convince Zelensky to halt his useless resistance when this became clear. It seems clear to me that the West was relying on a double whammy of a weakened Russia through sanctions along with the expenditure of much blood and treasure to effect a victory by the Ukrainian regime in combination with the West. Now, after the almost complete failure if not indeed the COMPLETE failure of this policy I don't see anything stopping Russia. 

Rump Ukraine, west of the Dnieper will most likely be reformed into several protectorates governed by EU nations until new elections are organised and run. These elections will with absolute certainty see peace candidates, Russia-neutral and Russia-positive candidates win across the board. That will signify the complete end of Zelensky and all who cleaved close to him. 

The end will be humiliating for the USA and particularly for the EU. Brussels will have to eat crow and cough up billions from EU taxpayers to put rump Ukraine back into some kind of shape that comes half way toward economic viability. Russia will reinforce its governance in all its new territories, bringing all the benefits of Russian pensions, health care, education, salaries, infrastructure such as airports, rail lines, motorways etc. etc. 

Ten years from now the entire location will be transformed and any historian looking back will surely remark at the incredible and disastrous folly of western geopolitical entities of the West and shake their heads in utter disbelief that such arrant stupidity with such catastrophic and tragic outcomes could ever have been allowed to take place.

RUSSOPHOBIA

The following is partially based upon the book 'Creating Russophobia - From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria' by Guy Mettan.

Western political elites and the totality of western legacy media sees Russia in almost 100% negative terms. When you read of the last few centuries’ compilation of anti-Russian literature you rapidly come to understand that this is no new phenomenon. Russophobia is centuries old, as is the seeming constant inability of western elites to see beyond the stereotypes involved.

In centuries past the various tactical alliances involved within the sphere of great power politics, colonialism and imperialism meant that conflict was all but inevitable. Alliances created groupings of temporary ‘friends’ against a common enemy or common enemies at one moment in time, then at a later date an enemy would became friends with one or more protagonists they had formerly been at war with. Russia was deeply involved in this ‘game’ and indeed in ‘The Great Game’ where the British conceived themselves to be competing with Russia to maintain its empire.

In the case of the British, or better said, the English, the animosity in which Russia was held appears to have been founded only on the convenience of Russia as a political football where one political party could assert that the other did not hold an aggressive enough policy or stance on Russia. This of course became a contest of who could talk most tough on Russia with always a view to the general public for electoral approval. Much as it was in the USA in recent history.

Through all this talking about her Russia remains an enigma to most political elites in the West. Churchill put this common bafflement of western elites best when he said: “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” This ignorance of Russia however, never stopped all and sundry from roundly criticising her at every possible opportunity.

From the time when Russia adopted the Eastern Orthodox form of Christianity she was seen as suspect and more Asiatic than western. This added to all her other perceived failures by western elites who considered European culture to be the absolute and unassailable centre of civilisation and they to essentially be the proper masters of the world, put Russia in the worst possible light. She was always expected to bow down and be taught how to be civilised. Or else threatened with attack if she determines to carry on as she is and develop herself as she, not others, see fit.

One can imagine many of today's western political elites, at least those in Europe, having been steeped in the kind of anti-Russian literature that Guy Mettan meticulously lists in his book. Those who had, to some degree, an academic predisposition toward geopolitics/foreign affairs. Russia, apparently something of an obsession for European and the English political elites, extremely rarely escapes the stereotypes long pinned to it.

Within the literature there appears to have been two main viewpoints, that Russia was irredeemably flawed and dangerous or, marginally more positive, that it could be made tolerable by accepting to become civilised in all the ways shown at their best within western cultures.

The near perfectly encapsulated (in western elite eyes) archetype of Russia as hopelessly autocratic, barbaric, backward and slavish to authority as well as being too Asiatic and having a strange form of Christianity appears to have been inescapable for pretty much 100% of the western political class. Not surprising then that we have what we have now.

As the Soviet Union fell there was the phase of reconstituting Russia to as a nation with western liberal values, to be made civilised in effect, taking pity on the poor uncultured beast and teaching it how to be like the West, liberal and economically viable. Then with Putin coming along and rejecting 'all that' the other half of the Russophobic coin comes into its own with the same kind of criticisms seen down the centuries.

The tragedy is that Russia appears to remain terra incognita regarding anything approaching a detailed understanding of her. These extremely old stereotypes that generate both anger, fear and increased misunderstanding prevail constantly within western political elites and media with seemingly no incentive being perceived to look beyond them.

So it is that despite all the reforms that have transformed Russia since the days of Yeltsin, when the whole country appeared doomed to permanent chaos, poverty and constant decline, there is in essence no change to the two viewpoints held within the minds of western elites. Russia is expected to bow to the pressure applied to her to become a mirror image of all the West insists is the proper way to be. And if not then Russia will find herself attacked and every cliche from the long history of Russophobia relentlessly applied to her.