A war goes all over the world: in Africa, Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia, Europe. Russian forces with the goal of genocide of Ukrainians fighting in Ukraine, while their agents finance pro-Russian parties parties all over the world, assasinates people on European and American soil, organizes human trafficking and modern iteration of slave trade with authoritarian states for stocking their manpower in Ukraine. Multiple countries are fighting in Ukraine: it is strongly implied North Korea already sent or will send in the closest time 2-4 engineer battalions to fight in Ukraine. Already North Korean forces provide training for Russian soldiers to free up other Russian forces. Drones that kill people in Ukraine are produced by Iran. Rockets by North Korea. Conscript sent from Nicaragua, Syria, Cuba. Russian special services and police are stationed, completing training missions or pursue other forms of cooperation in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Sudan.
It is just a few examples that make Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (apart from constant threats to sovereignty of European states, invasion of Georgia, Chechnya, war against Syrian people, cooperation with Taliban etc) international. What we experience is practically a new “Cold War” (Hot war is even better description). However, the mindset of Cold War also persist: the West relliance on compromise, cooperation with the enemy, ideological weakness and lack of clear committment to anything and lack of actions to defend peoples’ freedom.
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In that context, I post a fragment, a list of thesis, from Ukrainian journal “Mech and Volya“ (Sword and Freedom), published in 1951.
Russia rellies strongly on propaganda, conservative imagery, disdain for US-centric world, far-right ideas, white supremacy and USSR nostalgia. It uses these via strong networks of bots, paid politicians, useful idiots, pro-Russian parties and pariah states. The answer of the West is not a new progressive image of the world to fight for. But the lack of the image. It is fight between Russian concept of the World order and no concept. And it weakens us, democrats all over the world, opposing imperialism, genocide and authoritarianism, significantly.
“Swedes, Poles and Napoleon did not defeat feudal Russia only because their socio-political ideas did not attract the masses of the peasantry enslaved by the Russian feudal lords to their side, even though THEY hated those feudal lords. In other words, no way has been found to separate the people from the regime. Hitler conquered the whole of Europe with military and material advantage, but his gloomy political concept of a "new Europe" accompanied by a race, Herren-Folk, ended in Nuremberg.
All the more so, this question is relevant today, in the age of social wars. Bolshevism ushered in a completely new era of world history, forcing the entire world to wage total war. Today, not only armies are fighting on the Fronts, but literally entire nations.
The political morality of not only armies, but also entire nations plays a major role. Bolshevism achieved all its conquests to date with the following main factors:
1) aggressive-offensive, not peaceful-defensive policy;
2) the attractiveness of his new political and social concept;
3) skillfully playing on the base instincts of the masses;
4) the political breakdown of each nation from its own interior;
5) sabotage and partisan action of the 5th Russian columns. Communist parties on foreign territory;
6) regular armed forces of Russia and its satellites;
7) reckless and mass terror of the totalitarian police power against its political opponents, as political enemies of humanity;
8) autarkized system of uncontrolled super-capitalism.
World democracy, as we have seen so far, plans to defend itself based on the following factors:
1) not aggressive-offensive, but peaceful-defensive policy;
2) not by a new, clearly concretized political concept, but by lack of a concept at all;
3) not with a political idea as the newest weapon, but with old methods of struggle with bare material and military potential;
4) not by the political structure of the USSR and its satellites from within, but by complete non-interference in Russia's internal affairs";
5) not by the offensive of the new economic and social program, but only by the defense of the old system;
6) not by methods of rapid progressive revolution, but exclusively by evolutionary processes;
7) not placing the main bet on a living person, but an exaggerated hope, including on a dead material and technical potential;
8) Complete negation of the ideals and political aspirations of the liberation-revolutionary movements of all those nations that have already been enslaved by Bolshevik Russia”
