Add to this list the 'little Russians', the Serbs, that the West has decided are also on the shit list. So it is legit to take their lands in Kosovo and create a military colony for NATO bases, for Croatia to join the EU without accepting the 250K Serb refugees it ethnically cleansed back into its lands, and on and on..
The Hapsburgs had a saying in WWI, " Serbien muss sterbien" - Serbs must die’.. i.e. be killed/slaughtered. They didn't hide the racism. Just like modern day Israelis openly express their hatred of all things Palestinian, they felt that their hatred of all things Serb was not only justified but morally correct.
Fuck these people is what I say.
If I were the ruler of Russia, not only would I have already taken out that fucking little zionazi Smellensky, but I also would have taken out that pedo Macron, the zio-asswipe Starmer and that aristocunt Wonder Lying..
But that is precisely what I am not the ruler of Russia or any other nation.. I am a hot head who would cut off heads first and then think about the consequences..
Excellent essay. What you are eluding to towards the end of the essay by saying that Europe needs to do some deep introspective work I agree with, and I think that one of the things they need to work with is what some call 'Post-Colonial Anxiety' (paralysis caused by unprocessed historical guilt).
I have - partially unsuccessful I must add - been trying to understand Europea apparent moral deficit and I think it may stem from three interlocking drivers: Technocratic Substitution (replacing ethical judgment with administrative procedure), Post-Colonial Anxiety (paralysis caused by unprocessed historical guilt), and Fragmented Identity (the inability to form a cohesive "We").
Technocratic Substitution: Ethics as Administration
The first driver of the European deficit is the Technocratic Substitution. In the US, the "Servile Education" produces consumers. In Europe, it produces administrators. The European project has attempted to solve moral problems through regulation, directives, and committees. This creates a dangerous illusion: that if we have a rulebook, we have morality.
The Illusion of Neutrality: European technocrats often believe that by removing "passion" and "ideology" from governance, they achieve objectivity. But the concept of the Village Worthies (the "Thieves of Virtue") serves as a profound warning: virtue cannot be proceduralized. When a moral dilemma arises (e.g., migration, war, economic inequality), the European response is often to form a committee, draft a report, and issue a statement.
Post-Colonial Moral Anxiety: The Paralysis of Guilt
The second driver is Post-Colonial Moral Anxiety. Unlike the United States, which often operates under a myth of "innocent exceptionalism," Europe carries the heavy, unprocessed baggage of its imperial history.
The Refusal to Name Power: European elites are often terrified of being accused of "neo-colonialism." Consequently, they refuse to name power dynamics clearly. When European nations intervene in Africa or the Middle East, the discourse is rarely about "interest" or "strategy"; it is framed as "development," "stability," or "humanitarian aid." This linguistic evasion prevents the "Test of Universalizability." If you cannot admit that your actions serve your own interests, you cannot hold yourself to a higher standard. You are trapped in a defensive posture where every action must be justified as altruistic, making genuine self-scrutiny impossible.
The Export of Guilt: This anxiety leads to a peculiar form of moral displacement. Europe often directs its moral concern outward—toward distant conflicts, refugee crises, or climate change—while neglecting the erosion of solidarity within its own borders. The "Higher Standard" requires looking inward first. But for Europe, looking inward feels like reopening old wounds of guilt. So, the gaze is turned outward, creating a "performative morality" that looks impressive in Brussels but fails to address the rotting social fabric of cities like Marseille, Athens, or Berlin.
The "Savior" Trap: This anxiety fuels the Positive Golden Rule. Because Europe fears being seen as "bad" (colonialist), it over-compensates by trying to "save" everyone. This creates a Paternalistic Overreach where the EU imposes its values on others, not because it respects them, but because it is desperate to absolve its own historical guilt.
Fragmented Collectivism: The Weak "We"
The third driver is Fragmented Collectivism. Europe is not a single nation; it is a collection of nations with deep, often conflicting histories. The "European Identity" is thin, a legal construct rather than a cultural reality.
The North-South Divide: The moral solidarity between Germany and Greece is fragile, fractured by economic resentment.
The East-West Divide: The moral consensus between Poland and France is strained by differing views on sovereignty, rule of law, and history.
The Result: There is no single "European" circle of moral concern. When a crisis hits, the "We" fractures into "Us vs. Them." This fragmentation makes the "Higher Standard" impossible to apply collectively. A German leader cannot easily hold Germany to a higher standard if the Polish leader is accusing them of imperialism, and vice versa.
The Consequence: This fragmentation forces the EU to rely on Technocratic Substitution to hold itself together. Since there is no shared "We," the only glue left is the "Rulebook." The bureaucracy becomes the substitute for community.
True. Not to mention Vatican protected the Nazis after WW2 and helped them escape from justice.
Remember Venetian families perfected financing both sides and divide and conquer in the 16th Century. Mastered by the Anglo-American Establishment since.
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It isn't a coincidence that WW1 started shortly after the creation of the FED. It isn't a coincidence that WW1 and WW2 were used to move gold from Europe to America, then from American to the Central Banks. It isn't a coincidence that items stolen from people by the NAZIs, ended up primarily in Swiss Banks.
It isn't a coincidence that Rothschild Bank and BIS are both headquartered in Switzerland.
Worth mentioning that the Vatican exists since 1929 and the Papal States ended in the 1860s. The Papacy did some admirable things, e.g., preventing wars between Christian kingdoms, coordinating Christian resistance to Ottoman expansion, etc.
They sometimes, rarely, prevented wars between christian kingdoms precisely to sic them into other wars against "unbelievers", not just expansionist Ottomans.
They don't deserve medals for powerpolitics and following their interests.
And they promoted war between christian kingdoms whenever it suited them.
What about "preventing wars between Catholic kingdoms", instead?
Assuming that you are German(ic), you had the Alps protecting you from the Moors, the Barbary Pirates and the Ottomans. Many Catholics had no such luxuries.
Amusingly, in the brutal persecution of the Templars, the Papacy allowed the Templar capital to concentrate sufficiently to fund the first voyages of the European maritime expansion in the 15th century.
".....The "Savior" Trap: This anxiety fuels the Positive Golden Rule. Because Europe fears being seen as "bad" (colonialist), it over-compensates by trying to "save" everyone. This creates a Paternalistic Overreach where the EU imposes its values on others, not because it respects them, but because it is desperate to absolve its own historical guilt....."
Absolutely not.
Europe as a whole is not trying to "save" any other countries. On the contrary, Europe is also a clear imperialst trying to swallow the resources of other countries unfairly. It happends to be inept and weaker at the moment, but the impulse is clear.
European support for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel is NOT borne out of "guilt", no matter what the claims that are made there. That support is drive by the Euroclonial crusader impulse, which the israeli regime is seen as a vital implementer of (ref: German Chancellor Merz gleefully pointing out that "Israel is doing the dirty work for us").
These are not links of guilt or saving anyone - its pure nasty fascism dressed up in a suit with 21st century trappings of gentility.
I agree they don’t help, that is why I called it a trap. To me it stems from the Kindness Problem of the Biblical (Positive) Golden Rule. The Trap: "I am doing to you what I would want (to be civilized/converted/democratized)." It’s very easy to weaponise The Result: Exploitation is rebranded as benevolence.
Thanks for your brief introduction to the Kremlin propaganda apparatus's narrative on the recently hyped buzzword 'Russophobia'.
I suggest we break down the problem a little bit, unless we are happy with a conceptual framework engineered with a very specific goal in mind (namely, the justification of Russian conquest and the tightening of the screws by the authoritarian regime at home). This is not Russia. Not yet. Not where I live, at least. Here, critical thinking and intellectual discipline are highly valued.
However, feel free to skip the section below if Moscow's food for thought satisfies your hunger for knowledge. Prof. Glenn Diesen, Sergey Kiriyenko, Vladimir Soloviov, milbloggers, Z-Telegram channels, and Vladimir Putin himself enrich our infosphere on a daily basis – in person or through dedicated departments and cells. Thank God for X, Truth, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms where 10,000s of AI-controlled actors channels discuss, comment on, and interpret the world for us).
In response to Western criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the term ‘Russophobia’ has been reinstated in Russian political language. This term has a long history, and has deep roots in nineteenth-century imperial discourse. From the beginning, this discourse has been politically ambiguous: on the one hand, it described the zone of the Russian Empire’s domination, while on the other it encompassed the vision of a distinct ‘Russian world’ constructed in opposition to the consumerist, ‘decaying’ West.
The postulate of a struggle against Russophobia, which is being invoked increasingly often in the Russian media space, today represents the declaration of another stage of Russia’s communications war with the Kremlin’s opponents, both foreign and domestic. Today’s strategists in the Kremlin equate Russophobia with anti-Semitism; they give it a universal dimension, and treat it as one argument in a neo-imperial discourse of identity. The Russophobe, who is a kind of classic ‘enemy’ of Russia, well suits the image of the ideological enemy; this approach makes it possible to devise categorical, extremely emotional and stimulating opinions.
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* The historically deep-rooted term ‘Russophobia’, which was first disseminated in the mid-nineteenth century, was intended to support the Russian imperial and civilisational discourse of the time. Even then, the Russian Empire was presented as being in opposition to a ‘degenerate’ Europe and as the heir to the traditional values of a ‘decaying world’. From the start it was a politically ambiguous discourse: on one hand, it encompassed the zone of the Russian Empire’s domination of Central and Southern Europe (Pan-Slavism), while on the other it promoted a vision of a different world (‘the Empire of the East’), representing the Orthodox-imperial tradition of Byzantium and the legacy of Genghis Khan, i.e. a different hierarchy of values. This discourse was unable to neutralise the West’s criticism of the tsarist regime’s policy of expansion, which led Russia to adopt an attitude of haughty isolationism.
* Throughout history, the fight against Russophobia has been used to implement various policy objectives both within and beyond the Russian state: to discipline the rebellious peoples of the Russian Empire; to combat ‘global Zionism’; to consolidate society; and also as an argument against the enlargement of NATO and the EU, etc. However, the strategic objective was always clear above and beyond these tactical goals: Russophobia invariably symbolised the rivalry of two cultural and civilisational models, as well as the conflict between two systems of values, those of the East and those of the West. The fight against Russophobia justified this schematic division of the world; and, by stigmatising those individuals and states which were deemed ‘ideologically alien’, it mobilised Russian society in the face of these alleged threats.
* The Russian authorities of today attach great importance to the development of political technologies and those which are derivative of them: namely, information technologies. These serve to legitimise and realise the state’s domestic and foreign policy objectives. In recent years, their importance has grown and their nature has changed, from defensive to offensive. Moderating these messages – which portray an image of Russia and the world around it which is desirable from the authorities’ point of view – is regarded as an effective and perspective way of shaping collective consciousness.
* That which is called ‘state propaganda’ is actually a form of planned and long-term special operation, which employs techniques of manipulating information and elements of ‘manually controlling’ the general public. Set in a deterministic context of rivalry with the Western world, such propaganda requires the constant recreation or updating of the previous image of the ‘enemy’. The ‘Russophobe’ well suits the image of the ideological enemy; this approach makes it possible to devise categorical, extremely emotional and stimulating opinions.
* This new strategy of the fight against Russophobia brings dangerous trends with it. First of all, it treats Russophobia as a form of intolerance towards ethnic Russians, the Russian-speaking ethnic group and the Russian state which is equivalent to anti-Semitism, and treats the struggle against this phenomenon as an instrument which can be universally applied. The concept of ‘domestic Russophobia’ has expanded to cover Ukraine and Belarus, equating the Belarusian and Ukrainian national questions with a ‘civilisational’ question (Ukrainians and Belarusians are not considered separate nations, but are actually part of the ‘Russian world’). As developed on a strictly domestic Russian basis, this approach is directed against supporters of the democratisation and liberalisation of Russia. This means that the state considers critics of the regime as enemies, and works to publicly stigmatise and isolate them. On the other hand, attacking Russophobes serves as a way of immunising Russian society against doubts about the Kremlin’s policy.
* Building up an image of Russophobic countries is also instrumental in shaping a neo-imperial political identity among the citizens of the Russian Federation, mobilising them in the face of real or alleged threats, and also serves as a form of restoring psychological comfort to them in the face of the failure of the Kremlin’s actions (as in Ukraine, for example). The mythologised stereotype of Russophobic countries also remains a crowning argument and a simple explanation for the ongoing tensions in relations between Russia and the West.
* The fight against Russophobia, which today is growing into a universal phenomenon, is a manifestation of the negative programme of Russian policy throughout history. Until today, a positive programme (attractive, ideologically inspiring) has never been formulated by Russia. As a result, it has turned towards its imperial past and the traditional arguments of force.
* Informational activities based on the Russophobic stereotype are a breeding ground for Russian chauvinism, which in a multi-ethnic country can have opposite consequences to those intended. Externally – when seen as a way of communication between Russia and individual countries, forcing them to adjust their critical stance towards the Kremlin’s policy, and based on attributing hostile intentions, negative traits and values to their opponents – such actions represent a negation of dialogue by their very nature. They foreshadow an increase in the level of aggressiveness in Russian political rhetoric, the further self-isolation of Russia and – as in the days of the tsarist regime and the Soviet Union – the demonstration of an attitude of haughty isolationism.
What? According to this text Russophobia is „ on the one hand, it described the zone of the Russian Empire’s domination, while on the other it encompassed the vision of a distinct ‘Russian world’ constructed in opposition to the consumerist, ‘decaying’ West.“ But this is NOT what we are talking about when we use the term. This is not what I was talking about. Russophobia refers obviously to either a fear of Russia or a hate of Russia… not to some form of stylized opposition to a westernized world… this essay you are pitching talks about anything but Russophobia. You can‘t oppose a discourse by just claiming it‘s about something else and then not give any proof. Show me an essay that actually tries to argue that there is no Russophobia in the way I described it in my essay or that it is usually discussed, for instance by Glenn Diesen in his book or by Guy Mettan.
Hold on a sec! I'm sensing rabid Polonophobia here! According to OP's logic, I'm a victim of racism. And you, my dear Polonophobe, are on par with Alfred Rosenberg, a KKK Grand Wizard, or Pol Pot. The only difference is that you haven't committed ethnic cleansing or genocide yet (have you?).
It's all nonsense, of course. Poles, contrary to Russian people, do not constitute a separate race. We haven't been blessed with a unique gene configuration, which is exactly why we were lucky to live in peace for the last 200 years. On the scale of victimhood, we're just like everyone else, you know. There were no documented pogroms of Poles, no mass murders of Polish women and children, no ethnic cleansings, no expulsions and deportations of Polish people to desolate areas in cattle wagons. Russian people, on the other hand...
And here's a detailed polemics with the OP's clumsy essay. His lack of intellectual discipline is embarassing, that's why he deserves much more than just a good laugh.
In my opinion the recent phobic sentiment against Russia and more properly against Russia as emanation of one man, Mr. Putin, comes from the fact that the current Russian political class didn't allow the split of Russian Federation in "many small republics fighting each against the others" as desired by one of the most stupid politician in the history, Ms. Kaja Kallas: I'm strongly convinced that if another Eltsin was now governing Russian Federation allowing West and specially USA to implement again the "shock therapy", we would be good friend of that kind of Russia. And in general anyone closing the country to the fake western finance economy not allowing to dollar printers to control the country is an "enemy of the democracy", a dictatorship and all the rest of the Western stupid propaganda. At the end it is another way to keep alive a dying system like Western economy based on a fake economy of papers and speculations that must consume anything around the World for avoiding to recognize that after Berlin Wall fall, financial elite class lead us to a collective suicide: de-industrializing was a good tool to hit middle class and its conquers during '60s, destroying public school and culture promoting ignorance and stupidity was another tool for controlling internal public opinions and in the same time a good way for feeding finance speculations producing goods in emerging countries without respect of workers and environment and selling in richer Western economies increasing profit. But long-term strategy is now presenting the bill: we have no anymore industries, competencies and workers for sustaining any form of competition - we are loosing economical and technological competition with China and war with Russia and Iran - and in the same time the ignorance and cultural decadence open the doors to new form of fascism in our societies and promoting fascism in other countries like Ukraine exposes us to the so called "boomerang effect" described by Aimé Cesaire: it's impossible to feed extreme nationalism in Ukraine without being infected by extreme right parties and ideas and this is exactly what is happening in Europe and in USA right now. Good luck for the future, I don't see anything good at horizon and I'm very sorry to say that our global Western social model deserves only to be cancelled from the History !
May ask who financed your trip to Pskov, and your stay in Pskov? Have you received compensation in any form for this article, and if so from whom?
This is a worthless essay written by someone who either works directly for the Kremlin that you have copy and pasted, or it is a piece of
There is no Russophobia no matter how much you and the people and institutions who finance your lifestyle wants the general public to believe so. There is however NATO-phobia of the calculated kind in the Kremlin which has been used by the Kremlin's propaganda arm to There is a concern for s regime of self-radicalized people who are literally willing to send any number of Russians to slaughter and to flagrantly violate any treaty, bilateral or multilateral agreement and any norm considered a baseline in civilized societies such as the use of torture and rape, destroying water resources, blowing up residential homes, cultural institutions, theft of artifacts, burning of books and many, many other genocidal crimes - in order to in some sense restore a Russian Empire.
If you are not a Bot then your name 'Mats Bengtsson' describes exactly the kind of North Sea rubbish and PR that comes out of the various low IQ / uber-corrupted northern politicians.
What Pascal says is what literally ALL Greeks think and take for granted. Go on YT and check out the Greek discussions posted there. According to you that means Greeks and Greece is brainwashed....when the truth is we are militarily occupied by the US and Israel and our media is 100% censored by those countries. (Obviously unsuccessfully.) For your own mental health it is advisable to keep away from Greece!
By the way, the Greek POV is shared by Bulgaria, Serbia, Cyprus etc etc. It is the North of Europe, with which we have NOTHING in common, that is the problem.
Is any of your immature insults relevant to Russophobia?
What the opinion is of lefty Greek people I couldn't care less about, and it isn't because I think less of Greek people. It is because the war is about Ukrainians and the Ukrainian people's right to live in peace on their own territory and to elect their own leaders.
Would you want Putin to decide who represent you in the Hellenic parliament, who your prime minister is and the domestic and foreign policy Greece pursues? If your answer is "Yes" then you do not deserve to call yourself Greek. You are a traitor and should emigrate to the Principality of Muscovia. But I suspect you live there already and only pretend to be Greek.
I do have colleagues and friends from Greece. That way I know there are some that isn't as deranged ad you seem to be.
Could you please stop being vulgar and using words like deranged, traitor. Having Greek friends means nothing if you post comments like this. Stop attacking people for different views. When was the last time you left your country, your county, your street to travel the world and
see with your own eyes? And ask your "Greek friends" what's the real name for the Greek parliament? "Hellenic",🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am living in a far away land at present. I haven't been in my native country for more than a year. You shouldn't make assumptions about people you don't know. It makes you look stupid when your assumptions turn out to be wrong.
I am not attacking people. I am questioning their opinions and beliefs. Hardly a foreign concept for a Greek.
How is the mass suicide of an entire generation of Ukrainians ,imposed through a US-installed, (Neo-)Nazi dominated dictatorship, "about Ukrainians"? You have no idea of the Greeks' feelings and traditions re Russia. They remember how they were robbed of independence by the Hapsburg alliance that forced a foreign, still detested monarchy against resistance by Russia that had been the only serious help in winning independence. Though not particularly religious any longer even if they were at any time, they remember their close cultural and religious ties within Orthodoxy, very sorely tested -- especially in these last few years of ruthless persecution of the majority Church in the Ukraine by the Galician-Wolhynian neoNzis. From 2014 to 2022 they have assisted, unable to aid, to the massacre, by Americans and their local Nazillards, of over ten thousand Russian civilian inhabitants of the Ukraine, many of whom are also Greeks with continuing ties to both countries. The transatlantic "European" dictatorship has the Greeks hands and feet tied now, stripped of every pretence of independence under political EU dictatorship and American military occupation -- ask your "colleagues and friends from Greece" which side their bread is buttered on. I'd be very surprised if it was any different from yours.
Your claim is the the Ukrainians lack agency? If so you simply have no clue about anything related to Ukraine. You are spewing one or more of the fairy tales coming out of the Kremlin.
Please provide a coherent explanation for why the Muscovite military committed so many atrocities in Bucha? Torturing and murdering part of the population and terrorizing the rest is an age old technique that Muscovy has used since the days of the Golden Horde.
Here you can follow a description of the origins of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine that saw the creation of several myths of who was responsible, and that I can see you are repeating as the useful idiot you are.
The facts are known and there are plenty of them. But as we know from many previous acts of state terror planned, financed and executed by the Kremlin, being caught in flagrante delicti only means the denials will be more insistent.
This isn't just about Bucha. There are more than likely plenty of mass graves where the bodies of raped, tortured and murdered victims will be found. The mobile cremation units did not have enough capacity to burn every victim. Bucha and Lyman are just the tip of the ice berg. But I am certain you will be paid just as much for being an apologist for a terrorist state. I hope your parents are proud of you, assuming they have any idea of who and what it is that you are defending.
It's obvious that you don't have any self control, it's not that just your words in your comments are showing this but looking at your profile with that face also shows self control is missing. Self control is important to stop a person from over eating.
Such a strange comment which reveal nothing pleasant about you, and nothing about me. It reminds me of a certain ridiculous orange haired malignant narcissist with a mental age of a six year old. Is that you Donald?
What constitutes "real information" according to you? Does it need to carry Putin's stamp of approval for you to believe it, or are you capable of independent thought?
Really? Who were the parties, and how come Putin claimed time and again Russia was not involved although as we now know he supplied both troops, equipment and ammunition?
Girkin was then and still is an employee of the very Russian FSB. On the day MH17 was downed by a Russian BUK he triumphantly posted on his FB account that a Ukrainian troop transport had been downed by the "separatists" he recruited, paid and led.
MH17 was a Western (so called) intelligence psy-op. The Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, was one of the most blatant instances of war propaganda being used against Russia and the then nascent Donbass resistance to the Kiev regime in February 2014.
Two Nazi parties, namely Right Sector and Svoboda. were endorsed and sustained by a U.S. sponsored Coup d’Etat which hijacked the nation of Ukraine that same year.
This analysis is a detailed account of the sequence of events that led to the tragedy (used for propaganda purposes), or, more precisely, the intentional murder of nearly 300 people for geopolitical gain.
This is usual garbage that people like you say, "Who financed your trip, who financed you"?. Can anyone (except yourself) see the other side differently than the Western propaganda whants their citizens to see? In my opinion it's not just the Western world's unaccepted guilt about colonialism but the list of its colonial natural resources the West lost. What does England have, even coal mines were closed by Margaret Touche? What does France have (except for wine and cheese), France that since a year or so ago was hiring 12 year olds to dig uranium for 2 Euros for 12 hours daily in West Africa? German as an industrial machine of the EU was powered by the cheap Russian gas for decades, wasn't it? And who has the most natural resources on this planet? Russia of course, more than 75 trillion $ worth of gas and crude oil, uranium, gold, diamants, iron ore, rear earth minerals and much more. If the Western former imperial powers have now been thrown out of Africa for good and before that from Asia and South America, to where do they are pushing now for their necessities to stay in as a developed world? Russia of course, the largest country spreading on two continents with the enormous natural resources wealth. Can't they just make best deals with the Russians to buy instead of taking over by splitting Russia according to the suggestions of deranged Kaja Kallas? Of course not, it will be too expensive for those Western failing powers and small countries like Estonia.The same goes for the US, instead of going to Venezuela and making a deal and lifting sanctions we went and kidnapped Maduro and his wife to get our hands on their crude oil and other natural resources although we are the second wealthyest nation in national resources on this planet Earth, with 45 trillion $ worth of it. And why? If we can why not as it is the regular explanation for the baboons here.
If Putin is such a great leader, how come he has not been able to move the industry in Russia beyond resource extraction? Yes, there is some manufacturing, but it is dwarfed by the industries which extract coal, oil and gas for near instant export. During 26 years Putin has focused on one thing, restoring the Russian Empire, sending his agents around the planet to murder dissidents and do what you are doing now. It is astonishing mismanagement. Russia could have been a very successful country with far greater economic activity it has now. But it isn't. Why not? Because it is a kleptocracy. There is no law and no order, and only useful idiots like you are unable to see it.
I think the fact that the USA purposefully destroyed the USSR so that bankers and oligarchs could feed off its carcass might be some relevant context to what you're saying
A low oil price, stagnating productivity, an unaffordable war in Afghanistan, the Chornobyl accident, increasing costs to stay relevant in the Cold War and all the other stresses built into a command economy system which had no natural outlet through free, open and fair elections, is what brought down the USSR.
If you think Putin is trying to restore the USSR, I think you are wrong. He is trying to go back further, to imperial Russia, while trying to restore the geopolitical zone of influence the USSR had. This is why the war in Ukraine is nothing other than a war to re-colonize Ukraine and re-enslave the population, after murdering everyone who resist the occupation, which is evident if you examine the atrocities committed by the Russian military in Bucha.
It is almost always only old commies and fascists who harbour any sympathy for yesterday's USSR, and present day Russia. In which camp do you belong?
I don't think putin is trying to restore the USSR no, I don't know where you picked that up from from what I said.
I don't know why you think I'm a fascist for bringing up how the USA purposefully destroyed the USSR and created the conditions for the hyper-capitalist gangster oligarchy that Putin came to power from. Maybe stop looking for enemies on social media and grow up?
I don't comprehend why you think it isn't every democratic state's duty to work against a totalitarian state like the USSR. As an empire Russia tried and succeeded to a large degree to colonize more territory and enslave more peoples. After collapsing and emerging as the USSR they still tried to expand and dominate ever more territories and people. At the end of WW2, which it helped get started together with Nazi Germany by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact a short time before German troops attacked Poland and a couple of weeks later Soviet troops attacked from the east, it got control over most of eastern Europe.
Are you as critical of the USSR for being in cahoots with Nazi Germany to carve up eastern Europe, or do you reserve all criticism only for the US?
None of what you are diverting on has anything to do with a needless and deliberate proxy war financed by the US and Europe since 2014. Waste of lives in some sort of sick chess game,
I have no idea what you are talking about. You had better find the episode you are referencing, because I am not doing your job for you.
The strategy of the Kremlin is to mainstream the term "Russophobia" in the same way "Antisemitism" is mainstreamed and to use it in much the same way to kill any discussion about the legality and morality of committing daylight genocide on a population you want to get rid of or enslave. So if you are a committed racist, please go ahead and continue to support a regime who are chummies with terrorist organizations and who use terrorism as a policy to murder and suppress regime critics.
I'm not particularly proficient in history but a superficial look at what I remember from reading the publications of the time indicates that Russophobia looks mainly like an uninterrupted, methodical shoveling of propaganda and warmongering by the English since the early 19th century. One doesn't see so much of it on the French side following the Napoleonic defeat of 1812. It seems to build up to boiling point, also involving France, up to the Crimean war, after which it remains as a cardinal pillar of English/British culture throughout the Revolution and the Civil War, still perceivable in what you can read in the newspapers during WWII, then erupts again, amplified infinitely by the US after the War. It then seems to go latent in the few years of pillage and destruction of Russia by the "West", then experiences a brutal exacerbation less than a year after the end of the Yeltsin government. Even during the Cold War and following the fall of Yeltsin, though, I remember having often observed that the English mainstream was noticeably nastier, more hostile than the Americans. No idea if this personal impression corresponds to the reality, though.
It is the Western, "white" European racism (maybe there is a better and milder word, which I can't think of), I think. Even though not articulated, one living outside Western Europe has the permanent feeling that anyone can be sacrificed for the sake of the well-being and prosperity of the populations of a few countries:)
Everyone else is savage, no matter how civilized they are. That feeling was particularly strong during the blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan and the start of the famine there. The oil, the gas for the comfort of the "white" was more important than an entire population of Armenians (who cares what and who they were thousands of years ago! civilization is now the comfort of the populations of those few states). The same is true with the Palestinians now. The same is true with the Ukrainians and Russians - let them kill each other, and so on.
It's fascism. Well articulated by Franz Fanon a century ago. It is materialized as colonialism abroad, but it ends up back domestically as naked fascism. And that is where European domestic conditions are clearly heading. Already they have empowered and enriched a vanguard of European fascism in Ukraine. More to come.
Being "white" is an anglo-american and (I believe also: a protestant) obsession, the irony being that they describe their "white" status as "Caucasian"- when none of the Caucasus countries qualify as "white" in their eyes - go figure! However and in fact the citizens of the Caucasus ARE "white". As are the Greeks, Bulgarians, Russians, Lebanese, Palestinians etc etc.
This is a special kind of colour blindness going back to the Schism. Not to mention the arab conquest :-)))
"White"status in fact only applies to Protestant european countries, ie the northern fringe of Europe...that coincidentally were the nazi collaborators and financial sponsors (along with USA).
Within the EU the protestant northern fringe is taken seriously, the Catholics are looked down on, and the Orthodox countries - as with Russia - are seen as sub-human expendable trash.
You are not alone Armenia, we Greeks were deeply shocked by Nagorno-Karabakh and are shocked by Pashinyan / TRIPP. But it doesn't show because we are militarily occupied by USA and since 2015 by Israel, and take orders daily from Germany. The government that is. The Greek people are NOT represented by our government.
>>>The Greek people are NOT represented by our government.>>>
Just as Armenians are not represented by the government that captured power and holds it in Armenia:)
Back in 2021, when they were legitimized by the elections that the Armenian people did not choose as a way out, my main nightmare to come was that the Armenians would be "foreign" in their own country.
Narine it is frightening as small countries to feel today that we are actually in danger of being wiped out after so many millennia of our stubbornly adhered to deep cultures and luminous presence in history. Handed over by traitors from our own side to boorish uneducated clowns who are incapable of recognising our value - or much worse do recognise it and exactly because of that glory in destroying it and erasing it.
TRIPP: Why on earth would Pashinyan agree to cut Armenia in two for the convenience of two of your historic enemies, with the middle strip run by - supposedly - US corporations (a disguise for US military / proxies?). Cutting you off from Iran... I have even heard that he agreed to deny the Armenian Genocide in making this arrangement, true or not I do not know.
It is freakish to hear that your Archbishop and other clerics were jailed for telling the obvious truth. It is freakish to hear the USA/Israel/CIA/Mossad actually boast about their destruction of ancient cultures, regime changes, genocides, assassinations and land and resource thefts...and we are supposed to somehow admire this? and submit and kowtow? Meanwhile the British are at least "clever"enough to keep quiet about their - IMHO - instigating role.
Modern histories of Greece written in English normally preface their books by explaining our 'backwardness' on our refusing the Enlightenment. It never occurs to them that we immediatley recognised it as an Endarkenment, the culmination of which never so obvious as today in their reckless, hopefully last gasp triumphalism.
Certainly nothing good has ever come to Greece (Hellas!) from the West. The same for Armenia?
I very much appreciate Pascal but as a Swiss, a country anchored in the Protestant/Catholic West, how much does he know or understand about the eastern Orthodox countries? It is creepy and absurd to hear Hellas swept into the barrel of "Europe" - a label which only boils down to London-Paris-Berlin, all 3 having attacked and repeatedly robbed my country, previously and now today. Most of the countries in EU, for example, never had empires, only the protestant fringe is Russophobic (out of greed and outrage) and certainly the south and east have never been racist since our millenia of history has been tied into the south and east.
All kinds of self identification by concept or ideological allegiance seem to presuppose a crippling of the innate integrity of the living organism, so that possibly any form of verbalised claim of belonging exclusively to some group is symptomatic of a socialisation trauma inflicted for manipulative purposes by hierarchical interest groups. When the Christian constructed Jesus pointed to the example of children he was referring obviously to those recent studies which show the existence in most children of an innate and indiscriminate sense of solidarity with other organisms, a salutary moral promiscuity which later gets socialised out by one or other group that inevitably regards itself as divinely chosen...what we are before a so called " second birth" captures and chains us seems so much healthier than any of the stories the current version of the Dutch east India company can confabulate as to the magnificence of sagging old white Trumps and slavering Tesla stolen Musks in exile from post apartheid south africa that has tragically lost its sense of his divine selection as administrator of governmental responsibility to his insane and vapid cupidity...
The fall of apartheid south africa is being irrevocably followed by the fall of the apartheid West led by America and the insane cult of the Israelites, which is happening even as the Chinese communist party leads the world into the waking nightmares of the Epstein class and its dreams of secure paedophile islands.
There is no actual Russophobia. There is however a concern that the Kremlin is responsible to no one because when Russians are asked in the street what their opinion is about the war in Ukraine, nearly everyone claims they know nothing and they are not into politics at all. The rest who are usually the older generation say they don't understand why it is taking so long, and they want a speedy end to the war. What almost everyone agrees on is that NATO is a threat, so I think your essay would have been at least a little relevant if it had discussed the origins of and the Kremlin's continued use of NATO-phobia as a cudgel, since the days of the USSR.
Does the West have a reason to be concerned about the policies the Kremlin is pursuing and the propaganda it disseminates to achieve the objectives? Well, let's have a listen what is shown and said on national Kremlin-controlled broadcast television practically every day since the start of the illegal and unjustified attack on Ukraine in 2014, and at an even higher volume since the all out attack in 2022.
Please have a look at the other videos on this YouTube channel, which regularly post videos translated from Russian. It is enlightening to anyone who wonders who is driving the war in Ukraine and who occupies territory not only in Ukraine but in Georgia and Moldova too.
There is no threat of nukes against anyone or anywhere in the West. It only comes from one place, from Moscow. In fact, it isn't just Solovyov. While Putin generally do not pronounce direct threats, only veiled and indirect ones, his propagandists and party allies who are not so shy, do not mince words. Just Google using terms such as "Kremlin" or "Duma" or "Russia", and "nuclear attack", and I think you will find many articles and video clips where propagandists or spokespersons for Putin make threats involving the use of nukes against Ukraine and against the West.
So I ask you honestly, who is it that is suffering from phobia, and why are you taking their money to produce the above piece of crap as a diversion?
Your comment suggests that you suffer from chronic intellectual constipation, and should seek the relief of a strong laxative. You also seem to share in the common malady of dislocation from a given sense of human identity, which drives you to try and seek refuge in some indeterminate extreme position which depends upon the Whitehouse succeeding in its primary function of spreading utter stupidity. Which do you prefer, cad, swords or pistols?
I am afraid we're wasting our time here, my friend. The original article including, this page is just one level above the usual information noise generated on X by tousands of Kremlin bots and "independent", "investigative", "alternative" media personalities and fringe academics amplifying Russian crap 24/7.
Pascal has gotten some legitimization thanks to his association with respected publishing powerhouses like Oxford and Ruthledge. But his media activity is a different beast.
It all starts making sense makes sense when you run his name through deep LLM search. Furstly, the Ru-Ukr conflict becomes a core subject of interest in February 2022. All of a sudden he has published numerous articles pushing highly biased, manipulative narratives. The name of his platform, Neutrality Studies, sounds like a bad joke when you start analyzing neutrality level in the narratives and their proponents who are given priority. "Proxy war", "denazification", denying Ukr agenda, pushing for meeting Putin's ridiculous demands, "Crimea is Russia", "the globalists", :"the deep state", "sanctions don't work", all the Kremlin usual informational pollution.
Among people he quotes, refers to, interviews or shares editorial board with are the usuals like Sachs, Sakwas and Maersheimer. But the further you dig, the more embarassing it looks. Plenty of experienced conspiracy theorists, self proclaimed "experts" on geopolitics and other high or low profile lousy infowar operatives on Kremlin payroll: Stanislav Krapivnik, Clare Daly, David Pyne, Matthias Desmet, Ray McGovern, Finian Cunningham, Alexander Mercouris, Scott Ritter, Douglas Macgregor, Chas Freeman, Radhika Desai, Lena Petrova, Lena Petrova.
As for the Pascal's media network and guest activities, this looks : RT, heavy linking with Sputnik, Dialogue Works, Strategic Culture, The Duran, Geopolitical Economy Report, Schweizer Monat et al.
We're dealing with a classic example of academic laundering: a man with a degree who's exchanged academic rigour to primitive propaganda. All in all, we've got a strong Vatnik Soup contender and rather disgusting persona.
I doubt that you have the cognitive capacity to break your programming but just in case: "The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain ..." by John Howes Gleason.
No one should ever click on unlabelled and untitled tracking limks.
And certainly not from anyone pouring out propaganda so naked that countries with a hundred million people are reduced to "Putin".
For the record, Russia does not have a doctrine of first use of nuclear weapons. It is the US and NATO that do, and worse yet their doctrine is explicitly to utilize Europe as a sacrificial ground in a nuclear war - and that has been documented and underlined on the neutrality studies channel right here by the whistleblower who worked at NATO, Rainer Rupp.
If anything about Moscow's doctrine about the use of nuclear weapons is true, why did Putin say that a world without Russia was not a world that should exist, and why do Putin's propagandists continue to threaten the use of nuclear weapons on a weekly basis?
As to the claim that Russia has a doctrine of first use. This is false as you can hear from the the lips of the evil little gnome himself. So you are poorly informed, and what is worse, you are guilty of spreading misinformation. The only ones committed to no first use of nuclear weapons is the West. No go and bury yourself together with your lies.
"....is on the one hand weak and ridiculous: lazy, drunk, stinking, stupid, and complicit in his (and often also her) own enslavement by the despotic state, ..."
Gosh Pacal, for a moment I thought you must be referring to the average American citizen!!
Que triste y que mediocre el "ciudadano" europeo, más que ciudadano, consumidor, le llamaría, sólo consume, productos y narrativa. Cuando leo a los grandes filósofos comprendo que Europa, siempre fue igual y que es una falacia haber pensado que en otros tiempos fue superior. No lo fue, hoy se la ve mucho más expuesta, y no tiene vergüenza de mostrar su tremenda ignorancia, se han silenciado a los grandes pensadores en los cual ella se mimetizaba y parecía libre pensadora y liberal hoy Europa muestra su desnudez, su falta de talentos y su servilismo absoluto al gran amo EEUU. Rusia siempre será Rusia y como todo país tiene sus contradicciones, pero no envidia a nadie sencillamente porque como China están abocados a construir puertas adentro y lazos de respeto al derecho internacional. La operación especial de Rusia contra Ucrania fue provocada absolutamente por occidente, que jamás ha respetado ningún pacto. Conozco al pueblo ruso y me duele mucho la estigmatización que se hace de él. Una gran nota Pascal . Gracias
One very interesting aspect of this is the way German efforts at genocide of Russians during the second world war are swept under the rug by both sides. Russians don't believe they were subjected to an attempted genocide. Germans don't want to remember. But it happened and it had a name in Nazi Germany: The Hunger Plan.
Interestingly, the directives involved were not even translated into Russian until the end of the Cold War.
Russoviècide: (nom masculin, de Russe, Soviet et homicide) Parfois également appelé une poutuerie est une volonté délibérée de vouloir tuer le à tout prix président russe Poutine ou plus largement des Russes ; cette obsession caractérisée se trouve particulièrement en Perfide Albion. Les chefs d’Etats européens en ont fait un trouble compulsif obsessionnel spécifique repris dans les médias européens à l’envie. On parle là de psittacauserie qui se répète en boucle par des phrases comme « c’est les Russes », « la faute à Poutine » ou « y’a des puces de machines à laver dans nos lits ». Ce terme s’est perdu peu après le Grand Brisement Ukrainien (le GBU) qui a vu le démantèlement de l’Ukraine en 15 provinces indépendantes et la victoire des Russes.
Good article, with a truly great graphic. But it assumes that the European elite trying to sell the "imbecile savage" caricature of Russia actually believe their own hype. That may be true of some, but for the most part I think it's a simple money-and-power grab the real target of which is the general population of Europe. Pascal probably dismisses this out-of-hand because he, like any normal person, simply can't believe that anyone would risk a nuclear war for mere money and power, but there you have it: The European elite genuinely are "imbecile savages"!
Russophobia is real, even if the Russophobes among us will deny it even exists. However comparing Russians to colonized nations is all kinds of wrong in terms objective: Russia is just another imperialist European power in terms historical and the only true reason that they're attacked is that they are the largest and most powerful of non-Anglo European (or neo-European) powers.
Britain (and by extension now the USA) had that kind of geopolitics since they got a proper navy and could finally defend their island vs continental adventurers: to keep European powers fighting each other (not very difficult admittedly) and especially against whoever could become hegemon, preventing dangerous European (continental) unity. First it was vs the Habsburgs ("Spain"), then vs France, then vs Russia (which was quite powerful in the 19th century, even if backwards), then Germany (which was much like modern China: an industrial superpower) and then vs Russia again (modernized and consolidated by the USSR, whose socialist politics were a threat to the Anglo-Capitalist world order on its own right).
The way you put it, sounds rather to Orwellian "we've always been at war with Eurasia", which is not really the case... unless you move the label "Eurasia" from here to there. The real thing is that "we [the Anglosaxon Empire] have always been at war with whoever may challenge our imperial project... and we have always rallied second and third tier powers to our side to fight those slightly dangerous wannabes".
Russia is the great European unifier - Europe unites against it, when nothing else needs fighting; and with it, when a common enemy emerges. The dilemma with "Europe": it only ever used to exist in the incestuous gene pool of its ruling blood dynasties. There was a very short glimmer of a European identity, solidarity, mentality; but vdL's father was the beginning of its end: its first civil servant. Now we have an empire of civil servants, unelected, recruiting fresh blood and canon fooder and the currency is Russiophobia.
Add to this list the 'little Russians', the Serbs, that the West has decided are also on the shit list. So it is legit to take their lands in Kosovo and create a military colony for NATO bases, for Croatia to join the EU without accepting the 250K Serb refugees it ethnically cleansed back into its lands, and on and on..
The Hapsburgs had a saying in WWI, " Serbien muss sterbien" - Serbs must die’.. i.e. be killed/slaughtered. They didn't hide the racism. Just like modern day Israelis openly express their hatred of all things Palestinian, they felt that their hatred of all things Serb was not only justified but morally correct.
Fuck these people is what I say.
If I were the ruler of Russia, not only would I have already taken out that fucking little zionazi Smellensky, but I also would have taken out that pedo Macron, the zio-asswipe Starmer and that aristocunt Wonder Lying..
But that is precisely what I am not the ruler of Russia or any other nation.. I am a hot head who would cut off heads first and then think about the consequences..
Shit eating grin over here ! 👍
Excellent essay. What you are eluding to towards the end of the essay by saying that Europe needs to do some deep introspective work I agree with, and I think that one of the things they need to work with is what some call 'Post-Colonial Anxiety' (paralysis caused by unprocessed historical guilt).
I have - partially unsuccessful I must add - been trying to understand Europea apparent moral deficit and I think it may stem from three interlocking drivers: Technocratic Substitution (replacing ethical judgment with administrative procedure), Post-Colonial Anxiety (paralysis caused by unprocessed historical guilt), and Fragmented Identity (the inability to form a cohesive "We").
Technocratic Substitution: Ethics as Administration
The first driver of the European deficit is the Technocratic Substitution. In the US, the "Servile Education" produces consumers. In Europe, it produces administrators. The European project has attempted to solve moral problems through regulation, directives, and committees. This creates a dangerous illusion: that if we have a rulebook, we have morality.
The Illusion of Neutrality: European technocrats often believe that by removing "passion" and "ideology" from governance, they achieve objectivity. But the concept of the Village Worthies (the "Thieves of Virtue") serves as a profound warning: virtue cannot be proceduralized. When a moral dilemma arises (e.g., migration, war, economic inequality), the European response is often to form a committee, draft a report, and issue a statement.
Post-Colonial Moral Anxiety: The Paralysis of Guilt
The second driver is Post-Colonial Moral Anxiety. Unlike the United States, which often operates under a myth of "innocent exceptionalism," Europe carries the heavy, unprocessed baggage of its imperial history.
The Refusal to Name Power: European elites are often terrified of being accused of "neo-colonialism." Consequently, they refuse to name power dynamics clearly. When European nations intervene in Africa or the Middle East, the discourse is rarely about "interest" or "strategy"; it is framed as "development," "stability," or "humanitarian aid." This linguistic evasion prevents the "Test of Universalizability." If you cannot admit that your actions serve your own interests, you cannot hold yourself to a higher standard. You are trapped in a defensive posture where every action must be justified as altruistic, making genuine self-scrutiny impossible.
The Export of Guilt: This anxiety leads to a peculiar form of moral displacement. Europe often directs its moral concern outward—toward distant conflicts, refugee crises, or climate change—while neglecting the erosion of solidarity within its own borders. The "Higher Standard" requires looking inward first. But for Europe, looking inward feels like reopening old wounds of guilt. So, the gaze is turned outward, creating a "performative morality" that looks impressive in Brussels but fails to address the rotting social fabric of cities like Marseille, Athens, or Berlin.
The "Savior" Trap: This anxiety fuels the Positive Golden Rule. Because Europe fears being seen as "bad" (colonialist), it over-compensates by trying to "save" everyone. This creates a Paternalistic Overreach where the EU imposes its values on others, not because it respects them, but because it is desperate to absolve its own historical guilt.
Fragmented Collectivism: The Weak "We"
The third driver is Fragmented Collectivism. Europe is not a single nation; it is a collection of nations with deep, often conflicting histories. The "European Identity" is thin, a legal construct rather than a cultural reality.
The North-South Divide: The moral solidarity between Germany and Greece is fragile, fractured by economic resentment.
The East-West Divide: The moral consensus between Poland and France is strained by differing views on sovereignty, rule of law, and history.
The Result: There is no single "European" circle of moral concern. When a crisis hits, the "We" fractures into "Us vs. Them." This fragmentation makes the "Higher Standard" impossible to apply collectively. A German leader cannot easily hold Germany to a higher standard if the Polish leader is accusing them of imperialism, and vice versa.
The Consequence: This fragmentation forces the EU to rely on Technocratic Substitution to hold itself together. Since there is no shared "We," the only glue left is the "Rulebook." The bureaucracy becomes the substitute for community.
Dehumanization has always been the basic prerequisite for colonization, slavery and genocide.
The "Conquistadors" treated the American Indians like animals, claiming they have no "soul". The same way slavers treated the black people.
And this is exactly how Colonialism inspired Nazism/Fascism.
Similarly, the Brits and Western Europeans still consider the Slavs to be "Untermensch", tho they would never openly admit it.
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Old habits die hard..:
youtube.com/shorts/XxGETL5QFmg
And the Catholic Church protected the Amerindians, too, mostly via the Jesuits. It wasn't just Conquistadors.
True. Not to mention Vatican protected the Nazis after WW2 and helped them escape from justice.
Remember Venetian families perfected financing both sides and divide and conquer in the 16th Century. Mastered by the Anglo-American Establishment since.
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It isn't a coincidence that WW1 started shortly after the creation of the FED. It isn't a coincidence that WW1 and WW2 were used to move gold from Europe to America, then from American to the Central Banks. It isn't a coincidence that items stolen from people by the NAZIs, ended up primarily in Swiss Banks.
It isn't a coincidence that Rothschild Bank and BIS are both headquartered in Switzerland.
Worth mentioning that the Vatican exists since 1929 and the Papal States ended in the 1860s. The Papacy did some admirable things, e.g., preventing wars between Christian kingdoms, coordinating Christian resistance to Ottoman expansion, etc.
They sometimes, rarely, prevented wars between christian kingdoms precisely to sic them into other wars against "unbelievers", not just expansionist Ottomans.
They don't deserve medals for powerpolitics and following their interests.
And they promoted war between christian kingdoms whenever it suited them.
What about "preventing wars between Catholic kingdoms", instead?
Assuming that you are German(ic), you had the Alps protecting you from the Moors, the Barbary Pirates and the Ottomans. Many Catholics had no such luxuries.
Amusingly, in the brutal persecution of the Templars, the Papacy allowed the Templar capital to concentrate sufficiently to fund the first voyages of the European maritime expansion in the 15th century.
".....The "Savior" Trap: This anxiety fuels the Positive Golden Rule. Because Europe fears being seen as "bad" (colonialist), it over-compensates by trying to "save" everyone. This creates a Paternalistic Overreach where the EU imposes its values on others, not because it respects them, but because it is desperate to absolve its own historical guilt....."
Absolutely not.
Europe as a whole is not trying to "save" any other countries. On the contrary, Europe is also a clear imperialst trying to swallow the resources of other countries unfairly. It happends to be inept and weaker at the moment, but the impulse is clear.
European support for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel is NOT borne out of "guilt", no matter what the claims that are made there. That support is drive by the Euroclonial crusader impulse, which the israeli regime is seen as a vital implementer of (ref: German Chancellor Merz gleefully pointing out that "Israel is doing the dirty work for us").
These are not links of guilt or saving anyone - its pure nasty fascism dressed up in a suit with 21st century trappings of gentility.
I agree they don’t help, that is why I called it a trap. To me it stems from the Kindness Problem of the Biblical (Positive) Golden Rule. The Trap: "I am doing to you what I would want (to be civilized/converted/democratized)." It’s very easy to weaponise The Result: Exploitation is rebranded as benevolence.
Ukraine is also doing dirty work. Once Ukraine and Israel runs out of workers they create another work force.
America is a good candidate. As it has a mobile workforce on big grey ships.
Canned like sardines.
Thanks for your brief introduction to the Kremlin propaganda apparatus's narrative on the recently hyped buzzword 'Russophobia'.
I suggest we break down the problem a little bit, unless we are happy with a conceptual framework engineered with a very specific goal in mind (namely, the justification of Russian conquest and the tightening of the screws by the authoritarian regime at home). This is not Russia. Not yet. Not where I live, at least. Here, critical thinking and intellectual discipline are highly valued.
However, feel free to skip the section below if Moscow's food for thought satisfies your hunger for knowledge. Prof. Glenn Diesen, Sergey Kiriyenko, Vladimir Soloviov, milbloggers, Z-Telegram channels, and Vladimir Putin himself enrich our infosphere on a daily basis – in person or through dedicated departments and cells. Thank God for X, Truth, Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms where 10,000s of AI-controlled actors channels discuss, comment on, and interpret the world for us).
Enjoy.
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Jolanta Darczewska, Piotr Żochowski
Russophobia in the Kremlin’s strategy
A weapon of mass destruction
full text: https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/point-view/2015-11-02/russophobia-kremlins-strategy-a-weapon-mass-destruction
INTRODUCTION
In response to Western criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the term ‘Russophobia’ has been reinstated in Russian political language. This term has a long history, and has deep roots in nineteenth-century imperial discourse. From the beginning, this discourse has been politically ambiguous: on the one hand, it described the zone of the Russian Empire’s domination, while on the other it encompassed the vision of a distinct ‘Russian world’ constructed in opposition to the consumerist, ‘decaying’ West.
The postulate of a struggle against Russophobia, which is being invoked increasingly often in the Russian media space, today represents the declaration of another stage of Russia’s communications war with the Kremlin’s opponents, both foreign and domestic. Today’s strategists in the Kremlin equate Russophobia with anti-Semitism; they give it a universal dimension, and treat it as one argument in a neo-imperial discourse of identity. The Russophobe, who is a kind of classic ‘enemy’ of Russia, well suits the image of the ideological enemy; this approach makes it possible to devise categorical, extremely emotional and stimulating opinions.
THESES
* The historically deep-rooted term ‘Russophobia’, which was first disseminated in the mid-nineteenth century, was intended to support the Russian imperial and civilisational discourse of the time. Even then, the Russian Empire was presented as being in opposition to a ‘degenerate’ Europe and as the heir to the traditional values of a ‘decaying world’. From the start it was a politically ambiguous discourse: on one hand, it encompassed the zone of the Russian Empire’s domination of Central and Southern Europe (Pan-Slavism), while on the other it promoted a vision of a different world (‘the Empire of the East’), representing the Orthodox-imperial tradition of Byzantium and the legacy of Genghis Khan, i.e. a different hierarchy of values. This discourse was unable to neutralise the West’s criticism of the tsarist regime’s policy of expansion, which led Russia to adopt an attitude of haughty isolationism.
* Throughout history, the fight against Russophobia has been used to implement various policy objectives both within and beyond the Russian state: to discipline the rebellious peoples of the Russian Empire; to combat ‘global Zionism’; to consolidate society; and also as an argument against the enlargement of NATO and the EU, etc. However, the strategic objective was always clear above and beyond these tactical goals: Russophobia invariably symbolised the rivalry of two cultural and civilisational models, as well as the conflict between two systems of values, those of the East and those of the West. The fight against Russophobia justified this schematic division of the world; and, by stigmatising those individuals and states which were deemed ‘ideologically alien’, it mobilised Russian society in the face of these alleged threats.
* The Russian authorities of today attach great importance to the development of political technologies and those which are derivative of them: namely, information technologies. These serve to legitimise and realise the state’s domestic and foreign policy objectives. In recent years, their importance has grown and their nature has changed, from defensive to offensive. Moderating these messages – which portray an image of Russia and the world around it which is desirable from the authorities’ point of view – is regarded as an effective and perspective way of shaping collective consciousness.
* That which is called ‘state propaganda’ is actually a form of planned and long-term special operation, which employs techniques of manipulating information and elements of ‘manually controlling’ the general public. Set in a deterministic context of rivalry with the Western world, such propaganda requires the constant recreation or updating of the previous image of the ‘enemy’. The ‘Russophobe’ well suits the image of the ideological enemy; this approach makes it possible to devise categorical, extremely emotional and stimulating opinions.
* This new strategy of the fight against Russophobia brings dangerous trends with it. First of all, it treats Russophobia as a form of intolerance towards ethnic Russians, the Russian-speaking ethnic group and the Russian state which is equivalent to anti-Semitism, and treats the struggle against this phenomenon as an instrument which can be universally applied. The concept of ‘domestic Russophobia’ has expanded to cover Ukraine and Belarus, equating the Belarusian and Ukrainian national questions with a ‘civilisational’ question (Ukrainians and Belarusians are not considered separate nations, but are actually part of the ‘Russian world’). As developed on a strictly domestic Russian basis, this approach is directed against supporters of the democratisation and liberalisation of Russia. This means that the state considers critics of the regime as enemies, and works to publicly stigmatise and isolate them. On the other hand, attacking Russophobes serves as a way of immunising Russian society against doubts about the Kremlin’s policy.
* Building up an image of Russophobic countries is also instrumental in shaping a neo-imperial political identity among the citizens of the Russian Federation, mobilising them in the face of real or alleged threats, and also serves as a form of restoring psychological comfort to them in the face of the failure of the Kremlin’s actions (as in Ukraine, for example). The mythologised stereotype of Russophobic countries also remains a crowning argument and a simple explanation for the ongoing tensions in relations between Russia and the West.
* The fight against Russophobia, which today is growing into a universal phenomenon, is a manifestation of the negative programme of Russian policy throughout history. Until today, a positive programme (attractive, ideologically inspiring) has never been formulated by Russia. As a result, it has turned towards its imperial past and the traditional arguments of force.
* Informational activities based on the Russophobic stereotype are a breeding ground for Russian chauvinism, which in a multi-ethnic country can have opposite consequences to those intended. Externally – when seen as a way of communication between Russia and individual countries, forcing them to adjust their critical stance towards the Kremlin’s policy, and based on attributing hostile intentions, negative traits and values to their opponents – such actions represent a negation of dialogue by their very nature. They foreshadow an increase in the level of aggressiveness in Russian political rhetoric, the further self-isolation of Russia and – as in the days of the tsarist regime and the Soviet Union – the demonstration of an attitude of haughty isolationism.
What? According to this text Russophobia is „ on the one hand, it described the zone of the Russian Empire’s domination, while on the other it encompassed the vision of a distinct ‘Russian world’ constructed in opposition to the consumerist, ‘decaying’ West.“ But this is NOT what we are talking about when we use the term. This is not what I was talking about. Russophobia refers obviously to either a fear of Russia or a hate of Russia… not to some form of stylized opposition to a westernized world… this essay you are pitching talks about anything but Russophobia. You can‘t oppose a discourse by just claiming it‘s about something else and then not give any proof. Show me an essay that actually tries to argue that there is no Russophobia in the way I described it in my essay or that it is usually discussed, for instance by Glenn Diesen in his book or by Guy Mettan.
You are wasting your time Pascal, just look at his profile, typical NPC ...
Hold on a sec! I'm sensing rabid Polonophobia here! According to OP's logic, I'm a victim of racism. And you, my dear Polonophobe, are on par with Alfred Rosenberg, a KKK Grand Wizard, or Pol Pot. The only difference is that you haven't committed ethnic cleansing or genocide yet (have you?).
It's all nonsense, of course. Poles, contrary to Russian people, do not constitute a separate race. We haven't been blessed with a unique gene configuration, which is exactly why we were lucky to live in peace for the last 200 years. On the scale of victimhood, we're just like everyone else, you know. There were no documented pogroms of Poles, no mass murders of Polish women and children, no ethnic cleansings, no expulsions and deportations of Polish people to desolate areas in cattle wagons. Russian people, on the other hand...
And here's a detailed polemics with the OP's clumsy essay. His lack of intellectual discipline is embarassing, that's why he deserves much more than just a good laugh.
https://share.gemini.google/IklryMlDCDTy
In my opinion the recent phobic sentiment against Russia and more properly against Russia as emanation of one man, Mr. Putin, comes from the fact that the current Russian political class didn't allow the split of Russian Federation in "many small republics fighting each against the others" as desired by one of the most stupid politician in the history, Ms. Kaja Kallas: I'm strongly convinced that if another Eltsin was now governing Russian Federation allowing West and specially USA to implement again the "shock therapy", we would be good friend of that kind of Russia. And in general anyone closing the country to the fake western finance economy not allowing to dollar printers to control the country is an "enemy of the democracy", a dictatorship and all the rest of the Western stupid propaganda. At the end it is another way to keep alive a dying system like Western economy based on a fake economy of papers and speculations that must consume anything around the World for avoiding to recognize that after Berlin Wall fall, financial elite class lead us to a collective suicide: de-industrializing was a good tool to hit middle class and its conquers during '60s, destroying public school and culture promoting ignorance and stupidity was another tool for controlling internal public opinions and in the same time a good way for feeding finance speculations producing goods in emerging countries without respect of workers and environment and selling in richer Western economies increasing profit. But long-term strategy is now presenting the bill: we have no anymore industries, competencies and workers for sustaining any form of competition - we are loosing economical and technological competition with China and war with Russia and Iran - and in the same time the ignorance and cultural decadence open the doors to new form of fascism in our societies and promoting fascism in other countries like Ukraine exposes us to the so called "boomerang effect" described by Aimé Cesaire: it's impossible to feed extreme nationalism in Ukraine without being infected by extreme right parties and ideas and this is exactly what is happening in Europe and in USA right now. Good luck for the future, I don't see anything good at horizon and I'm very sorry to say that our global Western social model deserves only to be cancelled from the History !
Goyim! You will fight other goyim ! Lord Rothschilds decreed so
May ask who financed your trip to Pskov, and your stay in Pskov? Have you received compensation in any form for this article, and if so from whom?
This is a worthless essay written by someone who either works directly for the Kremlin that you have copy and pasted, or it is a piece of
There is no Russophobia no matter how much you and the people and institutions who finance your lifestyle wants the general public to believe so. There is however NATO-phobia of the calculated kind in the Kremlin which has been used by the Kremlin's propaganda arm to There is a concern for s regime of self-radicalized people who are literally willing to send any number of Russians to slaughter and to flagrantly violate any treaty, bilateral or multilateral agreement and any norm considered a baseline in civilized societies such as the use of torture and rape, destroying water resources, blowing up residential homes, cultural institutions, theft of artifacts, burning of books and many, many other genocidal crimes - in order to in some sense restore a Russian Empire.
If you are not a Bot then your name 'Mats Bengtsson' describes exactly the kind of North Sea rubbish and PR that comes out of the various low IQ / uber-corrupted northern politicians.
What Pascal says is what literally ALL Greeks think and take for granted. Go on YT and check out the Greek discussions posted there. According to you that means Greeks and Greece is brainwashed....when the truth is we are militarily occupied by the US and Israel and our media is 100% censored by those countries. (Obviously unsuccessfully.) For your own mental health it is advisable to keep away from Greece!
By the way, the Greek POV is shared by Bulgaria, Serbia, Cyprus etc etc. It is the North of Europe, with which we have NOTHING in common, that is the problem.
Is any of your immature insults relevant to Russophobia?
What the opinion is of lefty Greek people I couldn't care less about, and it isn't because I think less of Greek people. It is because the war is about Ukrainians and the Ukrainian people's right to live in peace on their own territory and to elect their own leaders.
Would you want Putin to decide who represent you in the Hellenic parliament, who your prime minister is and the domestic and foreign policy Greece pursues? If your answer is "Yes" then you do not deserve to call yourself Greek. You are a traitor and should emigrate to the Principality of Muscovia. But I suspect you live there already and only pretend to be Greek.
I do have colleagues and friends from Greece. That way I know there are some that isn't as deranged ad you seem to be.
Could you please stop being vulgar and using words like deranged, traitor. Having Greek friends means nothing if you post comments like this. Stop attacking people for different views. When was the last time you left your country, your county, your street to travel the world and
see with your own eyes? And ask your "Greek friends" what's the real name for the Greek parliament? "Hellenic",🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am living in a far away land at present. I haven't been in my native country for more than a year. You shouldn't make assumptions about people you don't know. It makes you look stupid when your assumptions turn out to be wrong.
I am not attacking people. I am questioning their opinions and beliefs. Hardly a foreign concept for a Greek.
https://www.hellenicparliament.gr/en/
How is the mass suicide of an entire generation of Ukrainians ,imposed through a US-installed, (Neo-)Nazi dominated dictatorship, "about Ukrainians"? You have no idea of the Greeks' feelings and traditions re Russia. They remember how they were robbed of independence by the Hapsburg alliance that forced a foreign, still detested monarchy against resistance by Russia that had been the only serious help in winning independence. Though not particularly religious any longer even if they were at any time, they remember their close cultural and religious ties within Orthodoxy, very sorely tested -- especially in these last few years of ruthless persecution of the majority Church in the Ukraine by the Galician-Wolhynian neoNzis. From 2014 to 2022 they have assisted, unable to aid, to the massacre, by Americans and their local Nazillards, of over ten thousand Russian civilian inhabitants of the Ukraine, many of whom are also Greeks with continuing ties to both countries. The transatlantic "European" dictatorship has the Greeks hands and feet tied now, stripped of every pretence of independence under political EU dictatorship and American military occupation -- ask your "colleagues and friends from Greece" which side their bread is buttered on. I'd be very surprised if it was any different from yours.
Your claim is the the Ukrainians lack agency? If so you simply have no clue about anything related to Ukraine. You are spewing one or more of the fairy tales coming out of the Kremlin.
Please provide a coherent explanation for why the Muscovite military committed so many atrocities in Bucha? Torturing and murdering part of the population and terrorizing the rest is an age old technique that Muscovy has used since the days of the Golden Horde.
Here you can follow a description of the origins of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine that saw the creation of several myths of who was responsible, and that I can see you are repeating as the useful idiot you are.
https://youtu.be/T1gRRpWS3PY?t=335&si=Bl4xgD5ecNP9q7Cv
Only the ascertained facts, Ma'am. Speaking of Bucha, we're still waiting for thr independent inquiry.
You are calling the UN biased?
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/12/un-report-details-summary-executions-civilians-russian-troops-northern
You are calling the Human Rights Watch biased?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/21/ukraine-russian-forces-trail-death-bucha
The facts are known and there are plenty of them. But as we know from many previous acts of state terror planned, financed and executed by the Kremlin, being caught in flagrante delicti only means the denials will be more insistent.
This isn't just about Bucha. There are more than likely plenty of mass graves where the bodies of raped, tortured and murdered victims will be found. The mobile cremation units did not have enough capacity to burn every victim. Bucha and Lyman are just the tip of the ice berg. But I am certain you will be paid just as much for being an apologist for a terrorist state. I hope your parents are proud of you, assuming they have any idea of who and what it is that you are defending.
It's obvious that you don't have any self control, it's not that just your words in your comments are showing this but looking at your profile with that face also shows self control is missing. Self control is important to stop a person from over eating.
Such a strange comment which reveal nothing pleasant about you, and nothing about me. It reminds me of a certain ridiculous orange haired malignant narcissist with a mental age of a six year old. Is that you Donald?
Unfortunately this appears to be the case. Some very obvious disinformation bot action going on here, trying to disrupt the flow of real information.
What constitutes "real information" according to you? Does it need to carry Putin's stamp of approval for you to believe it, or are you capable of independent thought?
"Putin" is cartoon drawing, not actual assement. Cannot take you seriously.
Minsk Agreements constitutes "real information"
Really? Who were the parties, and how come Putin claimed time and again Russia was not involved although as we now know he supplied both troops, equipment and ammunition?
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598
Girkin was then and still is an employee of the very Russian FSB. On the day MH17 was downed by a Russian BUK he triumphantly posted on his FB account that a Ukrainian troop transport had been downed by the "separatists" he recruited, paid and led.
More home work here
https://www.globalresearch.ca/?s=MH17&x=0&y=0
MH17 was a Western (so called) intelligence psy-op. The Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17, 2014, was one of the most blatant instances of war propaganda being used against Russia and the then nascent Donbass resistance to the Kiev regime in February 2014.
Two Nazi parties, namely Right Sector and Svoboda. were endorsed and sustained by a U.S. sponsored Coup d’Etat which hijacked the nation of Ukraine that same year.
This analysis is a detailed account of the sequence of events that led to the tragedy (used for propaganda purposes), or, more precisely, the intentional murder of nearly 300 people for geopolitical gain.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/german-pilot-speaks-out-shocking-analysis-of-the-shooting-down-of-malaysian-mh17/5394111
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-downing-of-malaysian-airlines-mh17-the-quest-for-truth-and-justice/5684127
Your ignorance and one sided rhetoric in support of neo-nazism is beneath contempt.
The edit function is there for a reason; I suggest that you make use of it, as your comment as it stands makes very little sense.
Perhaps also take the opportunity to unsubscribe.
Fuck off Nazi😤
This is usual garbage that people like you say, "Who financed your trip, who financed you"?. Can anyone (except yourself) see the other side differently than the Western propaganda whants their citizens to see? In my opinion it's not just the Western world's unaccepted guilt about colonialism but the list of its colonial natural resources the West lost. What does England have, even coal mines were closed by Margaret Touche? What does France have (except for wine and cheese), France that since a year or so ago was hiring 12 year olds to dig uranium for 2 Euros for 12 hours daily in West Africa? German as an industrial machine of the EU was powered by the cheap Russian gas for decades, wasn't it? And who has the most natural resources on this planet? Russia of course, more than 75 trillion $ worth of gas and crude oil, uranium, gold, diamants, iron ore, rear earth minerals and much more. If the Western former imperial powers have now been thrown out of Africa for good and before that from Asia and South America, to where do they are pushing now for their necessities to stay in as a developed world? Russia of course, the largest country spreading on two continents with the enormous natural resources wealth. Can't they just make best deals with the Russians to buy instead of taking over by splitting Russia according to the suggestions of deranged Kaja Kallas? Of course not, it will be too expensive for those Western failing powers and small countries like Estonia.The same goes for the US, instead of going to Venezuela and making a deal and lifting sanctions we went and kidnapped Maduro and his wife to get our hands on their crude oil and other natural resources although we are the second wealthyest nation in national resources on this planet Earth, with 45 trillion $ worth of it. And why? If we can why not as it is the regular explanation for the baboons here.
If Putin is such a great leader, how come he has not been able to move the industry in Russia beyond resource extraction? Yes, there is some manufacturing, but it is dwarfed by the industries which extract coal, oil and gas for near instant export. During 26 years Putin has focused on one thing, restoring the Russian Empire, sending his agents around the planet to murder dissidents and do what you are doing now. It is astonishing mismanagement. Russia could have been a very successful country with far greater economic activity it has now. But it isn't. Why not? Because it is a kleptocracy. There is no law and no order, and only useful idiots like you are unable to see it.
https://youtu.be/OeY3SbhgxlQ?si=ymN9yP8rjdfLKq8p
I think the fact that the USA purposefully destroyed the USSR so that bankers and oligarchs could feed off its carcass might be some relevant context to what you're saying
A low oil price, stagnating productivity, an unaffordable war in Afghanistan, the Chornobyl accident, increasing costs to stay relevant in the Cold War and all the other stresses built into a command economy system which had no natural outlet through free, open and fair elections, is what brought down the USSR.
If you think Putin is trying to restore the USSR, I think you are wrong. He is trying to go back further, to imperial Russia, while trying to restore the geopolitical zone of influence the USSR had. This is why the war in Ukraine is nothing other than a war to re-colonize Ukraine and re-enslave the population, after murdering everyone who resist the occupation, which is evident if you examine the atrocities committed by the Russian military in Bucha.
It is almost always only old commies and fascists who harbour any sympathy for yesterday's USSR, and present day Russia. In which camp do you belong?
I don't think putin is trying to restore the USSR no, I don't know where you picked that up from from what I said.
I don't know why you think I'm a fascist for bringing up how the USA purposefully destroyed the USSR and created the conditions for the hyper-capitalist gangster oligarchy that Putin came to power from. Maybe stop looking for enemies on social media and grow up?
I don't comprehend why you think it isn't every democratic state's duty to work against a totalitarian state like the USSR. As an empire Russia tried and succeeded to a large degree to colonize more territory and enslave more peoples. After collapsing and emerging as the USSR they still tried to expand and dominate ever more territories and people. At the end of WW2, which it helped get started together with Nazi Germany by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact a short time before German troops attacked Poland and a couple of weeks later Soviet troops attacked from the east, it got control over most of eastern Europe.
Are you as critical of the USSR for being in cahoots with Nazi Germany to carve up eastern Europe, or do you reserve all criticism only for the US?
None of what you are diverting on has anything to do with a needless and deliberate proxy war financed by the US and Europe since 2014. Waste of lives in some sort of sick chess game,
Oh my god fuck off lol
What an eloquent comment, if it had been written by a chimpanzee.
It's the only appropriate response to such smug drivel.
Such a waste.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Yes you are an idiot
If I am an idiot I am at least not a useful one to Moscow.
Oh shut up, American officials were publically stating racial stereotypes on CNN ...
I have no idea what you are talking about. You had better find the episode you are referencing, because I am not doing your job for you.
The strategy of the Kremlin is to mainstream the term "Russophobia" in the same way "Antisemitism" is mainstreamed and to use it in much the same way to kill any discussion about the legality and morality of committing daylight genocide on a population you want to get rid of or enslave. So if you are a committed racist, please go ahead and continue to support a regime who are chummies with terrorist organizations and who use terrorism as a policy to murder and suppress regime critics.
I'm not particularly proficient in history but a superficial look at what I remember from reading the publications of the time indicates that Russophobia looks mainly like an uninterrupted, methodical shoveling of propaganda and warmongering by the English since the early 19th century. One doesn't see so much of it on the French side following the Napoleonic defeat of 1812. It seems to build up to boiling point, also involving France, up to the Crimean war, after which it remains as a cardinal pillar of English/British culture throughout the Revolution and the Civil War, still perceivable in what you can read in the newspapers during WWII, then erupts again, amplified infinitely by the US after the War. It then seems to go latent in the few years of pillage and destruction of Russia by the "West", then experiences a brutal exacerbation less than a year after the end of the Yeltsin government. Even during the Cold War and following the fall of Yeltsin, though, I remember having often observed that the English mainstream was noticeably nastier, more hostile than the Americans. No idea if this personal impression corresponds to the reality, though.
It is the Western, "white" European racism (maybe there is a better and milder word, which I can't think of), I think. Even though not articulated, one living outside Western Europe has the permanent feeling that anyone can be sacrificed for the sake of the well-being and prosperity of the populations of a few countries:)
Everyone else is savage, no matter how civilized they are. That feeling was particularly strong during the blockade of Artsakh by Azerbaijan and the start of the famine there. The oil, the gas for the comfort of the "white" was more important than an entire population of Armenians (who cares what and who they were thousands of years ago! civilization is now the comfort of the populations of those few states). The same is true with the Palestinians now. The same is true with the Ukrainians and Russians - let them kill each other, and so on.
It's fascism. Well articulated by Franz Fanon a century ago. It is materialized as colonialism abroad, but it ends up back domestically as naked fascism. And that is where European domestic conditions are clearly heading. Already they have empowered and enriched a vanguard of European fascism in Ukraine. More to come.
Zelensky's stated desire is to make Ukraine into the new Israel, led by Chabad , Blackrock and Vanguard.
Being "white" is an anglo-american and (I believe also: a protestant) obsession, the irony being that they describe their "white" status as "Caucasian"- when none of the Caucasus countries qualify as "white" in their eyes - go figure! However and in fact the citizens of the Caucasus ARE "white". As are the Greeks, Bulgarians, Russians, Lebanese, Palestinians etc etc.
This is a special kind of colour blindness going back to the Schism. Not to mention the arab conquest :-)))
"White"status in fact only applies to Protestant european countries, ie the northern fringe of Europe...that coincidentally were the nazi collaborators and financial sponsors (along with USA).
Within the EU the protestant northern fringe is taken seriously, the Catholics are looked down on, and the Orthodox countries - as with Russia - are seen as sub-human expendable trash.
You are not alone Armenia, we Greeks were deeply shocked by Nagorno-Karabakh and are shocked by Pashinyan / TRIPP. But it doesn't show because we are militarily occupied by USA and since 2015 by Israel, and take orders daily from Germany. The government that is. The Greek people are NOT represented by our government.
>>>The Greek people are NOT represented by our government.>>>
Just as Armenians are not represented by the government that captured power and holds it in Armenia:)
Back in 2021, when they were legitimized by the elections that the Armenian people did not choose as a way out, my main nightmare to come was that the Armenians would be "foreign" in their own country.
There we are now.
Narine it is frightening as small countries to feel today that we are actually in danger of being wiped out after so many millennia of our stubbornly adhered to deep cultures and luminous presence in history. Handed over by traitors from our own side to boorish uneducated clowns who are incapable of recognising our value - or much worse do recognise it and exactly because of that glory in destroying it and erasing it.
TRIPP: Why on earth would Pashinyan agree to cut Armenia in two for the convenience of two of your historic enemies, with the middle strip run by - supposedly - US corporations (a disguise for US military / proxies?). Cutting you off from Iran... I have even heard that he agreed to deny the Armenian Genocide in making this arrangement, true or not I do not know.
It is freakish to hear that your Archbishop and other clerics were jailed for telling the obvious truth. It is freakish to hear the USA/Israel/CIA/Mossad actually boast about their destruction of ancient cultures, regime changes, genocides, assassinations and land and resource thefts...and we are supposed to somehow admire this? and submit and kowtow? Meanwhile the British are at least "clever"enough to keep quiet about their - IMHO - instigating role.
Modern histories of Greece written in English normally preface their books by explaining our 'backwardness' on our refusing the Enlightenment. It never occurs to them that we immediatley recognised it as an Endarkenment, the culmination of which never so obvious as today in their reckless, hopefully last gasp triumphalism.
Certainly nothing good has ever come to Greece (Hellas!) from the West. The same for Armenia?
I very much appreciate Pascal but as a Swiss, a country anchored in the Protestant/Catholic West, how much does he know or understand about the eastern Orthodox countries? It is creepy and absurd to hear Hellas swept into the barrel of "Europe" - a label which only boils down to London-Paris-Berlin, all 3 having attacked and repeatedly robbed my country, previously and now today. Most of the countries in EU, for example, never had empires, only the protestant fringe is Russophobic (out of greed and outrage) and certainly the south and east have never been racist since our millenia of history has been tied into the south and east.
All kinds of self identification by concept or ideological allegiance seem to presuppose a crippling of the innate integrity of the living organism, so that possibly any form of verbalised claim of belonging exclusively to some group is symptomatic of a socialisation trauma inflicted for manipulative purposes by hierarchical interest groups. When the Christian constructed Jesus pointed to the example of children he was referring obviously to those recent studies which show the existence in most children of an innate and indiscriminate sense of solidarity with other organisms, a salutary moral promiscuity which later gets socialised out by one or other group that inevitably regards itself as divinely chosen...what we are before a so called " second birth" captures and chains us seems so much healthier than any of the stories the current version of the Dutch east India company can confabulate as to the magnificence of sagging old white Trumps and slavering Tesla stolen Musks in exile from post apartheid south africa that has tragically lost its sense of his divine selection as administrator of governmental responsibility to his insane and vapid cupidity...
The fall of apartheid south africa is being irrevocably followed by the fall of the apartheid West led by America and the insane cult of the Israelites, which is happening even as the Chinese communist party leads the world into the waking nightmares of the Epstein class and its dreams of secure paedophile islands.
And btw, it's about the elites, not the people of the European countries:)
There is no actual Russophobia. There is however a concern that the Kremlin is responsible to no one because when Russians are asked in the street what their opinion is about the war in Ukraine, nearly everyone claims they know nothing and they are not into politics at all. The rest who are usually the older generation say they don't understand why it is taking so long, and they want a speedy end to the war. What almost everyone agrees on is that NATO is a threat, so I think your essay would have been at least a little relevant if it had discussed the origins of and the Kremlin's continued use of NATO-phobia as a cudgel, since the days of the USSR.
Does the West have a reason to be concerned about the policies the Kremlin is pursuing and the propaganda it disseminates to achieve the objectives? Well, let's have a listen what is shown and said on national Kremlin-controlled broadcast television practically every day since the start of the illegal and unjustified attack on Ukraine in 2014, and at an even higher volume since the all out attack in 2022.
https://youtu.be/F6tPxEPlMqw?si=1LGCxHZtesIrOm6f
Please have a look at the other videos on this YouTube channel, which regularly post videos translated from Russian. It is enlightening to anyone who wonders who is driving the war in Ukraine and who occupies territory not only in Ukraine but in Georgia and Moldova too.
There is no threat of nukes against anyone or anywhere in the West. It only comes from one place, from Moscow. In fact, it isn't just Solovyov. While Putin generally do not pronounce direct threats, only veiled and indirect ones, his propagandists and party allies who are not so shy, do not mince words. Just Google using terms such as "Kremlin" or "Duma" or "Russia", and "nuclear attack", and I think you will find many articles and video clips where propagandists or spokespersons for Putin make threats involving the use of nukes against Ukraine and against the West.
So I ask you honestly, who is it that is suffering from phobia, and why are you taking their money to produce the above piece of crap as a diversion?
Your comment suggests that you
1) know nothing about actual history, diplomacy, war, geopolitics, or
2) cannot reason objectively due to cognitive or psychiatric limitations, or
3) are an utterly shameless crook.
Go back to Geopolitical Kindergarten, snob.
Your comment suggests that you suffer from chronic intellectual constipation, and should seek the relief of a strong laxative. You also seem to share in the common malady of dislocation from a given sense of human identity, which drives you to try and seek refuge in some indeterminate extreme position which depends upon the Whitehouse succeeding in its primary function of spreading utter stupidity. Which do you prefer, cad, swords or pistols?
Your comment suggests you are using two different accounts to talk to yourself. Who is paying you?
You are replying to the wrong comment
I am afraid we're wasting our time here, my friend. The original article including, this page is just one level above the usual information noise generated on X by tousands of Kremlin bots and "independent", "investigative", "alternative" media personalities and fringe academics amplifying Russian crap 24/7.
Pascal has gotten some legitimization thanks to his association with respected publishing powerhouses like Oxford and Ruthledge. But his media activity is a different beast.
It all starts making sense makes sense when you run his name through deep LLM search. Furstly, the Ru-Ukr conflict becomes a core subject of interest in February 2022. All of a sudden he has published numerous articles pushing highly biased, manipulative narratives. The name of his platform, Neutrality Studies, sounds like a bad joke when you start analyzing neutrality level in the narratives and their proponents who are given priority. "Proxy war", "denazification", denying Ukr agenda, pushing for meeting Putin's ridiculous demands, "Crimea is Russia", "the globalists", :"the deep state", "sanctions don't work", all the Kremlin usual informational pollution.
Among people he quotes, refers to, interviews or shares editorial board with are the usuals like Sachs, Sakwas and Maersheimer. But the further you dig, the more embarassing it looks. Plenty of experienced conspiracy theorists, self proclaimed "experts" on geopolitics and other high or low profile lousy infowar operatives on Kremlin payroll: Stanislav Krapivnik, Clare Daly, David Pyne, Matthias Desmet, Ray McGovern, Finian Cunningham, Alexander Mercouris, Scott Ritter, Douglas Macgregor, Chas Freeman, Radhika Desai, Lena Petrova, Lena Petrova.
As for the Pascal's media network and guest activities, this looks : RT, heavy linking with Sputnik, Dialogue Works, Strategic Culture, The Duran, Geopolitical Economy Report, Schweizer Monat et al.
We're dealing with a classic example of academic laundering: a man with a degree who's exchanged academic rigour to primitive propaganda. All in all, we've got a strong Vatnik Soup contender and rather disgusting persona.
Oh no, anyone that disagrees is a Kremlin bot say the brain-dead NPC.
Not necessarily, but in KGB speak he or she is certainly a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Oh no, another label straight from the CNN.
Your comments must be among the most infantile and pointless I have ever come across. Here, learn something you will deny ever hearing about.
https://youtu.be/QZ9BP8qaMkM?si=mLstHSTvVTHox7h3
No wonder you are an NPC ...
I doubt that you have the cognitive capacity to break your programming but just in case: "The Genesis of Russophobia in Great Britain ..." by John Howes Gleason.
Ah. A third pen name.
No one should ever click on unlabelled and untitled tracking limks.
And certainly not from anyone pouring out propaganda so naked that countries with a hundred million people are reduced to "Putin".
For the record, Russia does not have a doctrine of first use of nuclear weapons. It is the US and NATO that do, and worse yet their doctrine is explicitly to utilize Europe as a sacrificial ground in a nuclear war - and that has been documented and underlined on the neutrality studies channel right here by the whistleblower who worked at NATO, Rainer Rupp.
If anything about Moscow's doctrine about the use of nuclear weapons is true, why did Putin say that a world without Russia was not a world that should exist, and why do Putin's propagandists continue to threaten the use of nuclear weapons on a weekly basis?
As to the claim that Russia has a doctrine of first use. This is false as you can hear from the the lips of the evil little gnome himself. So you are poorly informed, and what is worse, you are guilty of spreading misinformation. The only ones committed to no first use of nuclear weapons is the West. No go and bury yourself together with your lies.
https://share.google/fiwVfY35sRxw1cNtm
"....is on the one hand weak and ridiculous: lazy, drunk, stinking, stupid, and complicit in his (and often also her) own enslavement by the despotic state, ..."
Gosh Pacal, for a moment I thought you must be referring to the average American citizen!!
Que triste y que mediocre el "ciudadano" europeo, más que ciudadano, consumidor, le llamaría, sólo consume, productos y narrativa. Cuando leo a los grandes filósofos comprendo que Europa, siempre fue igual y que es una falacia haber pensado que en otros tiempos fue superior. No lo fue, hoy se la ve mucho más expuesta, y no tiene vergüenza de mostrar su tremenda ignorancia, se han silenciado a los grandes pensadores en los cual ella se mimetizaba y parecía libre pensadora y liberal hoy Europa muestra su desnudez, su falta de talentos y su servilismo absoluto al gran amo EEUU. Rusia siempre será Rusia y como todo país tiene sus contradicciones, pero no envidia a nadie sencillamente porque como China están abocados a construir puertas adentro y lazos de respeto al derecho internacional. La operación especial de Rusia contra Ucrania fue provocada absolutamente por occidente, que jamás ha respetado ningún pacto. Conozco al pueblo ruso y me duele mucho la estigmatización que se hace de él. Una gran nota Pascal . Gracias
One very interesting aspect of this is the way German efforts at genocide of Russians during the second world war are swept under the rug by both sides. Russians don't believe they were subjected to an attempted genocide. Germans don't want to remember. But it happened and it had a name in Nazi Germany: The Hunger Plan.
Interestingly, the directives involved were not even translated into Russian until the end of the Cold War.
Russoviècide: (nom masculin, de Russe, Soviet et homicide) Parfois également appelé une poutuerie est une volonté délibérée de vouloir tuer le à tout prix président russe Poutine ou plus largement des Russes ; cette obsession caractérisée se trouve particulièrement en Perfide Albion. Les chefs d’Etats européens en ont fait un trouble compulsif obsessionnel spécifique repris dans les médias européens à l’envie. On parle là de psittacauserie qui se répète en boucle par des phrases comme « c’est les Russes », « la faute à Poutine » ou « y’a des puces de machines à laver dans nos lits ». Ce terme s’est perdu peu après le Grand Brisement Ukrainien (le GBU) qui a vu le démantèlement de l’Ukraine en 15 provinces indépendantes et la victoire des Russes.
Good article, with a truly great graphic. But it assumes that the European elite trying to sell the "imbecile savage" caricature of Russia actually believe their own hype. That may be true of some, but for the most part I think it's a simple money-and-power grab the real target of which is the general population of Europe. Pascal probably dismisses this out-of-hand because he, like any normal person, simply can't believe that anyone would risk a nuclear war for mere money and power, but there you have it: The European elite genuinely are "imbecile savages"!
Russophobia is real, even if the Russophobes among us will deny it even exists. However comparing Russians to colonized nations is all kinds of wrong in terms objective: Russia is just another imperialist European power in terms historical and the only true reason that they're attacked is that they are the largest and most powerful of non-Anglo European (or neo-European) powers.
Britain (and by extension now the USA) had that kind of geopolitics since they got a proper navy and could finally defend their island vs continental adventurers: to keep European powers fighting each other (not very difficult admittedly) and especially against whoever could become hegemon, preventing dangerous European (continental) unity. First it was vs the Habsburgs ("Spain"), then vs France, then vs Russia (which was quite powerful in the 19th century, even if backwards), then Germany (which was much like modern China: an industrial superpower) and then vs Russia again (modernized and consolidated by the USSR, whose socialist politics were a threat to the Anglo-Capitalist world order on its own right).
The way you put it, sounds rather to Orwellian "we've always been at war with Eurasia", which is not really the case... unless you move the label "Eurasia" from here to there. The real thing is that "we [the Anglosaxon Empire] have always been at war with whoever may challenge our imperial project... and we have always rallied second and third tier powers to our side to fight those slightly dangerous wannabes".
Russia is the great European unifier - Europe unites against it, when nothing else needs fighting; and with it, when a common enemy emerges. The dilemma with "Europe": it only ever used to exist in the incestuous gene pool of its ruling blood dynasties. There was a very short glimmer of a European identity, solidarity, mentality; but vdL's father was the beginning of its end: its first civil servant. Now we have an empire of civil servants, unelected, recruiting fresh blood and canon fooder and the currency is Russiophobia.