You in the West, you think you are playing chess with us, but you are never going to win because we are not following any rules.
Russian mobster to his lawyer
Catherine Belton, Putin’s People
Introducution
Forty years ago, a serious long-term problem confronting Moscow was the USSR’s fast-growing Muslim population. It was then speculated that the Soviet Union’s high Muslim birthrate would turn the USSR into a majority Muslim country by the middle of the twenty-first century. It is a strange joke, and more than a curious twist of fate, that NATO faces this same prospect today.
The Russian armed forces officially moved into Syria on 30 September 2015. Already a massive Muslim “refugee” invasion of Europe was underway, stretching through the spring and summer of that year. This migrant flood occurred without a dramatic change in the Syrian crisis. According to a report by investigative journalist Witold Gadowski, published in mid-September 2015, the people then pouring into the heart of Europe included more than refugees, and possibly included ISIS terrorist infiltrators.[i]
Gadowski was a well-known war reporter, documentary film director, and winner of several journalism prizes in Poland and abroad. He went to Syria in 2015 and discovered that in the territory controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS), there was no chance for anyone to leave ISIS-controlled territory without permission. As he explained, the punishment for attempting to escape was crucifixion.[ii]
In Gadowski’s opinion, the flood of refugees had been triggered by decisions made in Moscow, and perhaps in Tehran. In fact, the mass killing of Syrian civilians was an ongoing project of the Russian-backed Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad – whose troops were killing seven times more civilians than ISIS.[iii] Once the Russian bombers arrived, even more civilians were targeted.[iv]
Of special interest, and contrary to public declarations, Russian and Chinese technicians were busy helping ISIS to maintain its captured oil rigs and refineries, while Russian trained Iraqi military officers (formerly in Saddam Hussein’s army), were leading ISIS forces against the Baghdad government (which set up a joint intelligence headquarters in league with Iran and Russia).[v] From this and other evidence it appears that Russia has been playing a double game in the Middle East.
Using the Iraqi oil infrastructure, relying on clandestine Russian technical support, ISIS earned $800 million in annual revenues by “selling more than 60,000 barrels of oil per day.” But this was not the Islamic State’s only source of income. According to Gadowski:
…the Islamic State trades artworks and archeological artifacts. It is not true that the monuments of antique culture are destroyed. They are sold and bring a large income. In 90 percent of the cases, this is happening through the Russian mafia. The Islamic State and the wave of refugees bring profits to the Russian, Turkish and Albanian mafias.[vi]
In this matter the Russian mafia is not simply the Russian mafia, and the same can be said of mafia organizations which have appeared throughout the “former” communist world. As noted by Brian Whitmore of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, “Organized crime is now a major element of Russian statecraft.”[vii] According to Gadowski, Russia’s game is to “checkmate Europe, and to a lesser extent the United States.” Outwardly Russia pretends to fight ISIS. In reality, Russia helps ISIS. Essential to the plan, the Syrians were generating refugees by terrorizing civilians in Syria. As stated above, Gadowski believed that a secret Islamic State Terrorist Unit (AMNI) was placing fanatical killers among the refugees. In this way a vast network of suicide bombers and murderers entered Europe.[viii]
After arriving in Syria, Russian air units launched bombing raids against Syrian civilians, adding to the refugee flow in late summer. Of course, the refugee crisis was well under way before the Russians arrived. It had peaked earlier. What the bombing showed, however, was Russia’s strategic intention. The Syrians and the Russians were following a pre-defined path. The bombers were the icing on a cake already baked. Long before the Russian bombers arrived other means of pressure had been employed by Syria – including the use of chemical weapons. Refugees (and terrorists) had long since flooded into neighboring Turkey. Through the spring and summer of 2015, the numbers were getting larger and larger. A significant proportion of these masses moved into Europe. This paper will present evidence and arguments that Russia and her allies (Syria and Iran) set this process in motion as part of a larger strategic design. The authors believe that Moscow does not act haphazardly. Rather, its moves are carefully thought-out in advance. The strategy being applied is complex, its objectives masked by disinformation and subterfuge, extortion and blackmail, organized crime and false flag terrorist operations.
The Arab spring
When rebellions began to break out in the Middle East several years ago, the former chief of Romanian intelligence, Ion Mihai Pacepa, wondered why the first rebellions in the series took place “only in Islamic countries that are pro-American.” He asked why the rebels were burning American flags. He thought it suspicious that the United States had no advanced warning of the mass demonstrations that swept the Arab world from Morocco to the Persian Gulf. Pacepa noted that “on the first day of the Cairo uprising” the demonstrators “were carrying flags displaying the hammer and sickle.” He called this “a mistake caused by overzealousness….”[ix]
The rebellion that began on 17 December 2010 in Tunisia, and spread across the Arab world, was an attempt to sweep away “moderate” Arab regimes. It was not a revolution for freedom or democracy. As Richard Miniter wrote in a 2011 Forbes article, “Virtually every element of the media narrative [on the Arab Spring] … is wrong or misleading.” The rebellion was not a spontaneous reaction to local dictatorships. According to Miniter, Egypt’s chief of intelligence warned Gen. David Petraeus in 2010 that Iran – a close ally and client state of Moscow – was preparing to “bring down [Egypt’s] Mubarak regime.”[x]
Miniter was told by intelligence officials that “Iran’s agents are behind the street demonstrations and violent attacks on government buildings.”[xi] Iran’s revolutionary activity throughout the region, however, was not merely Iranian. This activity was connected to Russia, and to Russia’s past support for the communist cause. According to an Iranian specialist, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, was educated in Moscow and may be a Russian intelligence asset. Worse yet, other top leaders in Iran were also educated in Russia, with ongoing ties to Moscow.[xii]
In a recently published article by the Katehon Institute[xiii] in Russia, B. Ozerov explained that the Soviet government in 1918 “was guided by understanding Islam as a close ideology to the communist doctrine.” After all, Islam favored ideals of equality, social justice, and the redistribution of wealth. According to Ozerov, Moscow’s initial plan in the region was “to transform Islam into an Eastern edition of Communism….”[xiv]
In a 4 July 1925 interview with the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was asked if he believed revolutionary turmoil in China, India, Persia and Egypt was bound to sweep away the Western powers. “Yes, I do,” said the communist leader, who added that the West would be “attacked on two sides – in the rear as well as in front.”
Related insights of V. Kalashnikov and A. Illarionov
In June 2013 J.R. Nyquist interviewed a disaffected KGB officer in Russia named Viktor Kalashnikov. In reference to Syria, the former KGB lieutenant colonel said, “It’s all about struggle against the United States. All allies are measured in terms of their anti-Americanism. If they are anti-American, they are our friends.” Kalashnikov then referred to the deployment of “terrorist armies.” Armies composed of terrorists, said Kalashnikov, were better than old-fashioned Soviet tank armies. They were more flexible, and cheaper than tanks. “The head of the Russian state has publicly warned the West that … arms deliveries to the opposition in Syria might result in terrorist attacks against Europe. That’s a clear causus belli – a real terrorist threat,” said Kalashnikov.[xv]
When Nyquist advanced the idea that the Cold War was over, Kalashnikov scoffed. This is yet another topic, he said. “But we have to ask what happened to the Soviet Union in 1991. It was dismantled for the sake of reorganization and for the sake of Russian power.” The Soviet generals were not happy with the strategic situation. The large tank armies of the Soviet Union were, in Kalashnikov’s words, “a wasting asset, especially after 1983.”[xvi]
The core strategy, he explained, “was splitting Europe from America.” In the 1980s this was attempted with the threat of war. But now, under present circumstances, a different method would have to be devised. “What happened on 9/11 was just an omen of things to come,” he explained.
In Part 1 of the interview, headlined “Russia’s Islamist Alliance, Plans to Destroy NATO,” the former KGB lieutenant colonel, who had been trained as a strategist, attempted to draw the interviewer’s attention to Russia’s support for the anti-immigrant parties in Europe. Here Kalashnikov referred to Islam as a Russian weapon in the destruction of NATO. Realizing the interviewer was perplexed, Kalashnikov said, “Let me talk about [the neo-fascists] in Hungary. They are pro-Putin. They are nationalists, and of course, they are absolutely anti-Semitic and anti-American.”[xvii]
What did the anti-immigrant parties have to do with “terrorist armies” in the Middle East? What did any of it have to do with splitting America off of Europe? Here was a question requiring careful consideration. To answer this question, one might well imagine how NATO would have prospered if Hillary Clinton and Marine Le Pen had won their respective elections. What if Europe followed France’s lead? Would the politically correct Americans remain allies with the new Europe? “What I would suggest,” said Kalashnikov, “is that your anti-terror experts read Vladimir Lenin who provided the textbook for terrorists. How they should set up combat units; who is to be killed first and second; what strategy and tactics to adopt. Lenin developed a complete theory for using terrorism to take power and govern a huge state. That was the beginning of Soviet strategy, statehood and government, as well as international policy.”[xviii]
More than one year after Kalashnikov’s curious pronouncements, a former Kremlin economic advisor named Andrei Illarionov, made an even more curious statement. In a December 2014 television interview, Illarionov noted that Europe had reached its lowest level of defense readiness. He also noted that Russia was openly threatening the West with nuclear war. Illarionov then made an astonishing prediction, adding that “the European nations will not be very much surprised, let’s say, if in the spring of next year, 2015, there will be some kind of massive political movement – let’s say a kind of ‘Islamic spring.’”[xix]
Being Russian himself, having worked in the Kremlin, it seems obvious that Illarionov had access to high-level sources. The coming “Islamic spring,” he said, would not occur in the Middle East, “but in Europe.” He mentioned destabilizing effects on “certain European countries” where the crisis would “consume the energy and attention of European leaders at a time when Mr. Putin would try and fulfill his neo-imperial project….”[xx]
Illarionov was quite specific when he said the coming “Islamic spring” in Europe would involve “movements and activities … in European countries themselves.” When asked if this could be triggered by Russia, Illarionov said, “I am just warning … when it should happen … European societies should not be [too] much shocked and surprised.”
Illarionov’s prediction carries forward the suggestion that Moscow instigated the migrant crisis. For how else could Illarionov have known about an “Islamic spring” involving “movements and activities … in Europe”? His prediction was an unlikely direct hit. To know something in advance is to know something is being planned. Illarionov clearly predicted the most significant event of the following year. He also implied this event was planned to distract the West from Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. And this prediction fits perfectly with the analysis of Lt. Col. Viktor Kalashnikov, a resident of Moscow, who warned of Russia deploying “terrorist armies” in 2013. The fact is, people in Moscow knew what was coming. And why wouldn’t they? It takes enormous resources and real planning to move millions of people from the Middle East to the heart of Europe. A lot of people had to know in advance, if only to set up the needed transport system.
Insights of a Romanian general
Those who have lived under communist regimes, who were educated as strategists, are in a better position to properly evaluate recent events than their West European counterparts. During an August 2015 Adevarul Live television discussion, retired Army General Constantin Degeratu referred to the European refugee crisis as a “hybrid war” of aggression, conjured out of the Middle East by Russia. Superficially, the refugee crisis “completely covered the problem of the Russian aggression against Ukraine,” Degeratu noted. He then stated that the whole refugee operation was “well organized.” The general added, “Look at the people who are coming. They are better dressed and better fed than 10 to 15 percent of Romania’s population. This is a planned invasion, it doesn’t have a direct cause in the Middle East….” He then pointed out the logistical difficulties involved in moving millions of people hundreds or thousands of miles. “If somebody is to come from Afghanistan with a trolley to the border of Macedonia, this requires logistics.”[xxi]
As if to clarify Kalashnikov’s earlier point about Hungary, Degeratu pointed to a curious anomaly. “It is said that this threefold increase in the number of refugees compared to the numbers of last summer is taking everyone by surprise. But [this] occurred a week after Hungary completed the building of [a large border] fence. Doesn’t it seem interesting to you that first the fence was built and afterwards this migration started, in that particular area?”[xxii]
Retired Army General Alexandru Grumaz was also on the program. He agreed that the migration was “well supported.” He added that Turkey also had an interest in pushing the refugees along, toward Europe. It was, said Grumaz, a crisis of European institutions. Degeratu said the problem of the refugee invasion could not be solved. Why? “Because it is managed by Russia and thus it is meant not to be solved, but to be maintained.” The general then said, “Russia’s interest is to maintain this crisis.”
“It is clear,” said Degeratu, “that if the European Union doesn’t want to live the nightmare … which says that in the years 2030 to 2040 more than 60 percent of the active EU population will be Muslim … then the European countries should decide if they want to survive as a civilization or not.” According to Degeratu’s strategic assessment, “We have to understand that we are the target of a war, and we may call it hybrid, or an asymmetrical war, but this migrant wave is a consequence of it.” He then summarized the perilous cost of the migrants for Europe, noting, “the cost for each one of these people is three times the minimum retirement pension in Romania!”[xxiii]
Surely, said Degeratu, “The political attitude [in Europe] with regard to this situation needs to change. So far, it’s been peace-time politics. Now we are the target of an aggression. Border control is absolutely mandatory.”
According to Prof. Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski, who was asked by Dr. Cernea to comment on Gen. Degeratu’s assessments, “The opinions of Gen. Degeratu are fully justified and I would subscribe [to] each of his statements….” Prof. Żurawski is one of Poland’s best political analysts. He teaches social science at the University of Łódz and the National School of Public Administration, serving in the National Council for Development, an advisory board to President Andrzej Duda. He is also a counselor to the current Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jacek Czaputowicz. According to Prof. Żurawski, the Russians are not responsible for all the refugees who have flooded into Europe, but it is certain “they did their best to make [the problem] larger … to confuse the political scene in European countries … as much as they can. Russia is the main ally of Assad and Iran….” These allies of Russia, he said, have maximized “the scale of the refugees.” Prof. Żurawski also pointed to “the semi-criminal FSB/local mafias and hybrid structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina.” These also played a role in moving refugees through the Balkans into the heart of Europe. “The conclusion is,” he said, “that Russia had instruments to maximize the troubles” despite Europe’s inability to find “a smoking gun.”[xxiv]
Prof. Żurawski also noted that, “Anti-immigrant parties in the West are usually pro-Russian (Front National, AfD); so deepening the crisis helps Russia’s followers in the West.” This point should not be overlooked. (Kalashnikov hinted at this factor with reference to Hungary more than a year before the refugee crisis began.) Here the manipulation of the European right takes center stage. Moscow has every reason to believe the European anti-immigrant parties will gain political traction as the refugee crisis intensifies. Moscow, therefore, has reason to invest in the European right. Simultaneously, Moscow also uses its agents on the European left. These agents intensify the crisis through “politically correct” policies. As the left drives the crisis forward, the right opposition grows and seeks ready allies – and is driven into Moscow’s open arms.
This process may already be underway in Hungary where Prime Minister Viktor Orban has shifted toward Moscow.[xxv] The Chief of the Hungarian General Staff, Gen. Tibor Benkő, says that Hungary does not have to buy equipment exclusively from NATO countries. Russia is currently modernizing Hungarian Mi-24 and Mi-17 helicopters for $64 million.[xxvi] Perhaps even more alarming is Prime Minister Orban’s tolerance with regard to Russian infiltration of the Hungarian right. Former Hungarian anti-communists are now celebrating Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, linking arms with Russian officials. According to authors Péter Krekó and Lóránt Győri, Russia has invested political capital in “hate groups in Central Europe,” with financial ties “to violent organizations in Central and Eastern Europe as well….”[xxvii] This is a conscious strategy:
In Moscow’s toolkit of active measures and hybrid warfare, the boundaries between violent and nonviolent tools are increasingly blurry. And this process is two-directional: not only can information be weaponized; violent organizations can be used as soft-power tools. The Kremlin is highly effective at infiltrating fringe parties and paramilitary organizations in Central Europe. They are easy to purchase or control, as these extremist groups tend to be small and easily manipulated.[xxviii]
What is the ultimate strategic value of the infiltration and manipulation of fringe parties and paramilitary groups? Keeping this question in mind, when we look at the present-day chaos in the Middle East, Russia’s past support for terrorist organizations of every kind becomes less and less of a riddle.
The former Romanian Minister for Communications and Information,[xxix] Marius Bostan, was asked by Dr. Cernea if he agreed with Gen. Degeratu’s remarks. Bostan replied, “From the perspective of my own experience in public service and politics, I do agree with Gen. Degeratu’s opinion that Russia is likely to have been involved in the migrant crisis and … it should be regarded as a hybrid war operation against the West.” Bostan emphasized that “a very important component of the hybrid war is the cultural dimension.” Here the Internet plays a key role. The Russian long-term investment in “propaganda, disinformation, opinion and behavior-shaping” cannot be underestimated. A short-term view would be a mistake. Bostan explained,
There is something about the Russian strategy that is difficult to explain to our Western allies. It’s the fact that Russia usually acts on both sides of a (real or manufactured) conflict. For instance, on [the] Internet we notice that Russian propaganda, disinformation or trolling activity on forums and social networks typically carry messages meant to create/amplify conflicts between different ethnic or religious groups – Romanians versus Hungarians, Poles versus Ukrainians, Christians versus Jews, etc. And they encourage at the same time groups with opposed views – far left anti-market tendencies [versus] libertarian ones, LGBT-rights [versus] conservative Christian activism, open-border multiculturalism [versus] anti-immigration movements, etc. Thus, Russia is able to provoke conflicts and crises, and to influence the public agenda of the countries it targets for subversion.
This ambivalence may seem paradoxical to Western minds, used to a binary logic according to which something cannot be black and white at the same time. Well, Russians are not Westerners. In the East, black and white may be defined in many different ways. Moreover, the Russian leaders still function according to a mentality shaped by Marxist dialectics, which says that progress results from the constant struggle between contrary elements.
It looks like the West is only now discovering that, for instance, Russian internet trolls simultaneously support a certain cause and its contrary.[xxx]
Bostan has laid out one of Russia’s key strategies. He says this kind of strategy is “difficult” for the West to understand. As Rudyard Kipling expressed it, “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.” At some point in the future, however, the West must learn to appreciate Russia’s “scissors strategy” – “that Russia usually acts on both sides of a … conflict.” If there is one central lesson to be drawn from this study, Bostan has underscored it.
In their Atlantic Council article, “From Russia with Hate,” Péter Krekó and Lóránt Győri explain how Polish counterintelligence “is currently investigating Mateusz Piskorski, the leader of the Polish leftist party … as well as former activists of the far-right Polish Congress of the New Right (KNP) on charges of espionage on behalf of Russia.”[xxxi] Here is the classic Russian “scissors strategy” at work.
If the refugee crisis is part of a Russian scissors strategy, how does Russia benefit? First, political tensions are intensified between the European right and left; second, the right can be pushed toward Moscow by a variety of mechanisms; third, a general weakening of NATO develops under a scenario of “divide and conquer”; fourth, a general demoralization and loss of belief in existing institutions naturally follows.
In his interview with Epoch Times in November 2015, General Degeratu showed the depth of this understanding when he said we “should see who takes profit” from the refugee crisis. “Well,” he explained, the Russians profited, and many cracks appeared in NATO. “We see how ‘united’ Europe has been,” Degeratu added. “Full unity! There have been 50 voices in our European ‘unity.’”[xxxii]
Those who have set up the exercise have understood all our weaknesses and have exploited them properly. What else have they obtained … does anyone still speak about the Ukrainian crisis? Not anymore. There are also 1 million – in fact, 800,000 – refugees, from Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, most of them from Donbass. Eight hundred thousand. There are 8,000 dead. Around 2,000 children and pregnant women have died in this crisis. We almost haven’t seen them on the (TV) screen, there have been no gatherings, there was no session of the Romanian Parliament….[xxxiii]
Degeratu is extraordinarily perceptive, and other experts agree with his assessment that Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe. “Maybe some of us are too militarily-minded and ask questions that shouldn’t be asked,” said Degeratu.
Direct testimony from a Syrian general on Russia’s double game
There is a stunning revelation in the fragment of a September 2015 interview given to Witold Gadowski by Syrian Brigadier General Ahmad Aljjdeaa, a soldier with thirty years of experience in the Syrian Army who is also the deputy minister of defense in the Syrian government-in-exile. According to Gen. Aljjdeaa, “Russian officers are constantly present in the branches of the Syrian army supporting the regime of Bashar Assad….” Then he added, “Russia is interested in confusion in Syria. There are also four military training centers in Russia, in which fanatics are trained, who then fill the ranks of the Islamic State troops (ISIS). Among the trained are also Chechens.”[xxxiv]
Related to this, another curious headline reads: “In retreating from Iraq, ISIS terrorists lost their Russian passports.”[xxxv] The facts are reported as follows: “The Iraqi military, who at the end of last week occupied the university building previously held by ISIS in the city of Mosul, displayed what was found in evidence as the identification papers of Islamic State terrorists, which mostly turned out to be Russian.”[xxxvi]
Again, it is a case of the “scissors strategy.” Moscow has perfected the fine art of stage-managing fake wars and phony splits with false fronts made up of “useful idiots.”[xxxvii] Russia’s deployment of terrorist and counter-terrorist forces in Syria and Iraq should surprise no one. This procedure was used during the Soviet-Afghan War in the 1980s and again during the recent wars in Chechnya.[xxxviii]
At this juncture it may be useful to recite a bit of history. In July 2005 the Russian KGB/FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko told the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita that Ayman al-Zawahiri (then Al-Qaeda’s second in command) was trained by the FSB in Dagestan in 1997. According to the former KGB foreign intelligence officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky, Litvinenko “was responsible for securing the secrecy of al-Zawahiri’s arrival in Russia … in 1996-1997.”[xxxix]
The Romanian intelligence defector, Lt. Gen. Ion Mahai Pacepa, has described Moscow’s use of Arab terrorist organizations throughout the Cold War in his books.[xl] We know that Russia stands firmly behind the Islamic terror regime in Tehran. Researcher Antero Leitzinger explained, “Modern terrorism was born within a year, 1967-68. International socialists (communists) started the fashion all over the world simultaneously, which should make us suspicious about the common roots. National socialists followed suit, turning Marxists of Muslim origin into Islamists of Marxist origin.”[xli]
Among the closest associates of Khomeini, there were many Communists who had conveniently grown beards. Mustafa Ali Chamran had studied in California and Egypt before he founded a Red Shi’ite secret society. His pupils included later foreign minister Ibrahim Yazdi, oil minister Mohammed Gharazi, and Lebanese fellow student in Berkeley University, Hussein Shaikh al-Islam, who led the occupation of the US Embassy in Tehran. This occupation, shortly before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, focused Iranian radicalism into anti-Americanism…. Mohammed Beheshti, whose death at a bombing on June 28th, 1981, remained a mystery, had resided in East Germany. Khomeini’s early companion and foreign minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh had successfully accommodated with the new regime. Both Ghotbzadeh and Chamran had received Palestinian terrorist training. As a student in the USA, Ghotbzadeh had been recruited by the [Soviet] GRU.[xlii]
With regard to the Soviet-Afghan War, Leitzinger explained that Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) had developed special capabilities by the late 1980s, especially “how to manipulate Islamists and to make Communists (of the Khalq faction) to grow beards and join their declared enemies.” According to Leitzinger, “This ‘Khalq strategy” provided a successful alternative to the more orthodox “Parcham strategy” that relied on ideologically less unholy alliances.”[xliii]
Leitzinger argued that the Russian secret services “gained a tight hold on international terrorism, and [especially] on Islamism” in the 1990s. The terrorist is, in essence, a special kind of agent provocateur. A Western analyst finds it difficult to see the Afghan-Soviet War or the first and second Chechen Wars as utilizing provocation techniques on a broad scale. Former CIA official T.H. Bagley and KGB defector Peter Deriabin noted, “Soviet provocation … remains little understood in the West. People safe in a democratic system may find it difficult to conceive that rulers would systematically use such hostile techniques against their own subjects.”[xliv]
If Moscow’s wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya were built around terrorist provocations, and the objective was to radicalize and infiltrate Islam, and reorient Islam against the West, then the wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya appear in a more intelligible light. The Soviet Union did not invade Afghanistan for conventional reasons, or to attain classical military control.
With the advent of the refugee crisis in Europe, with the likelihood of thousands of terrorists settled within a mass of protected Muslim refugees, the least sign of Russian involvement – or the involvement of Russia’s Islamist surrogates – ought to inspire a shockwave of alarm through Europe’s security establishment. Given the history of Moscow’s infiltration of Islam, and the mounting evidence of Russia’s double game, the Kremlin would be the most natural suspect in any close study of the refugee crisis. Arguably, any other focus would be irresponsible.
As reported by the BBC, U.S. Gen. Philip Breedlove, the senior NATO commander in Europe, said that Russia and Syria were “deliberately weaponizing migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve.” He cited Russia’s use of barrel bombs against Syrian civilians. What was the purpose of such indiscriminate attacks? The purpose was, he said, to “get them [masses of people] on the road” to Europe.[xlv]
Masses of homeless people, adhering to an alien religion, is one problem for Europe. Terrorism is yet another. Since the refugee crisis began Europe has been hit with an unprecedented wave of terrorist attacks (not to mention rapes and robberies). First came the Paris killings of November 2015, then the Brussels bombings of March 2016, then the Nice truck attack and the Normandy church attack of July 2016. Then there was the string of Islamic stabbings across Europe.[xlvi]
Some of our sources (quoted above) have claimed that modern terrorism was introduced to the Muslims by the communist bloc half a century ago. This point must not be forgotten when evaluating the left’s strange love affair with Islam. “From the very beginning,” said former KGB Lt. Col. Konstantin Preobrazhensky, “the so-called Bolsheviks, or communists, were considering Muslims as the reserve [army], as the human resource for the world revolution. Not all … people know that the second appeal by Lenin, after the Great October Socialist Revolution in 1917, was addressed to Muslim toilers….” Preobrazhensky continued:
At that time Islam was the religion of the oppressed … of the people colonized by the West. As Lenin said by the time of the … Communist International, ‘The West is existing at the expense of the East.’ Even now we can hear such conclusions, such ideas. And as soon as the Russian Revolution took place, Russian Muslims immediately supported it, so that the communist Muslim military organizations were formed. The Muslim communists were dethroning the local bourgeois Muslim governments which appeared in the Russian Empire[xlvii].
Muslim refugees to Europe: a Russian policy
According to Antoni Rybczynski, “The migratory crisis in Europe is largely a work of Russian policy….” He further stated, “Already … when nobody expected Russian raids in Syria, Vladimir Putin warned that Europe would face the great problems associated with the influx of immigrants.” In this way Moscow supported Assad while undermining Europe.[xlviii]
Another Niezalezna.pl headline underscores this same idea: “Putin’s diabolical game, Exporting Muslim immigrants to Europe.” The article begins, “The Norwegian authorities believe that the refugees’ invasion of their country is a Russian provocation.”[xlix]
In October 2015 the Czech Minister of Defense, Martin Stropnicky, suggested that Russia was possibly financing the transportation of refugees to Europe. “Although I do not have 100 percent proof of this information,” he said, “I cannot discount it either.”[l] Given all we know, his surmise is logical. It is sensible. Why wouldn’t Russia – which has armed Islamic terrorists throughout Asia – arm Islamic terrorists in Germany, Britain, France or Sweden?
According to a member of the Estonian National Defense League, Ants Laaneots, “Putin’s aim is the disintegration of the European Union and NATO, if possible.” Russia, he added, is promoting “Euroscepticism.”[li] More likely, Russia’s strategy includes many subtle and indirect objectives. As with the work of the late Mohammad Fahim in Afghanistan, Russia can take over a NATO-defended country through the work of an enterprising criminal. Russia can thereby paralyze the heart of Afghanistan or the heart of Europe in a way that mocks European compassion.
The Chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis, made an observation on 15 September 2015 about the refugee crisis almost identical to others we have seen:
I was thinking who had to profit, and I know now. In the current crisis, the whole attention is focused on Europe. Nobody is speaking of Ukraine any more, although there are almost 2 million refugees there as well. Putin has chased them away, and nobody is proposing them to go where life is better….[lii]
According to Landsbergis, the current migration crisis is a threat to European civilization.
Europe has met a big danger for its own system, even for its own civilization. The Germans earlier had illusions, that they would manage to integrate a million Turks, that the Turks would become Germans and there would be no problem. It didn’t work. Ghettos were created, a state within the state, and these are big problems….[liii]
The Ukrainian MP, Anton Gerashchenko, speaking on TV Channel News One, stated:
The crisis of migrants in Europe arose because of Putin. The war in Syria began in 2011, but migrants flooded [Europe] like a large river in the spring of 2015. Russia made a decision after Europe imposed economic sanctions on Russia: ‘Let’s create problems for them.” They created a problem: $1,000 was allocated for the head of [each] refugee who will be taken from Syria to Europe. A million refugees are a billion dollars. This is nothing to Putin….[liv]
The cost to Europe, however, is much more than a $1 billion. Gerashchenko added that an atmosphere of xenophobia has been created in Europe along with the growing influence of various nationalist parties, which are known for their favorable position toward Putin’s Russia.
Conclusion
Whatever the causes of the Refugee crisis, Moscow’s strategists have taken full advantage of the situation. Those who know Russian policy best, who are geographically further east, know that Russia has something to gain. If a “smoking gun” is absent, in a strict sense, there is yet a loaded gun. One might say this gun is pointed at the heart of Europe.
With regard to proof, the strategist does not wear a white lab coat or follow some academic procedure to understand the world. He is not a prosecuting attorney who has to prove his case in a court of law. He is engaged in “a duel on an extensive scale” – which was Carl von Clausewitz’s famous definition of war. If military and political leaders only acted on the basis of scientific proof – or relied only on proofs that would be used to convince a jury – they would not be able to act at all. The soldier and the stateman exercise judgment on a more commonsense level.
Consider the following analogy: If it is 2 December 1941 and an American plane spots six Japanese aircraft carriers moving east between Alaska and Midway Island, a sensible strategist would assume that the Japanese were intending to attack the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. The sensible strategist would be quite foolish to declare that “there was no proof” of a Japanese intention to attack. It would be pedantic, under the circumstances, to say there was “no smoking gun.” Strategy dictates an entirely different epistemology. The reported movement of the Japanese aircraft carriers would constitute a loaded gun, aimed at the U.S. Pacific Fleet. A responsible military leader does not wait for that gun to be fired. An American admiral, drawing the proper inferences, would know exactly what to do. He would alert the fleet at Pearl Harbor and take countermeasures. He would know, as one who directs fleets, that every enemy move speaks to intention. That must be the foundation of his certitude, of his practical knowledge.
In terms of the Muslim refugee crisis in Europe: reports of ISIS training camps in Russia, reports of GRU/SVR and Russian Mafia assistance to a massive influx of refugees, reports of Russian infiltration of terrorist organizations throughout the Muslim world, etc., constitute a loaded gun. We must judge these reports as strategists – not as social scientists. This must be the foundation of a new strategic methodology for the Muslim Refugee problem. Clearly, this is not simply about Islam. Russian involvement is indicated. Russian strategy must be understood as part of a greater strategic whole in order to properly assess the larger situation.
This research paper was written and researched by J.R. Nyquist and Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea. It was first published on May 29, 2018 at the website of the Center for Security Policy – Microsoft Word – Russia_Refugee_05-28-18.docx (centerforsecuritypolicy.org)
Footnotes and Links
[i] http://www.fronda.pl/a/gadowski-dla-frondapl-agenci-panstwa-islamskiego-wsrod-imigrantowf,57134.html?part=1
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] http://www.vocativ.com/news/224151/syria-government-assad-kills-more-civilians-than-isis/index.html
[iv] http://www.vocativ.com/news/247479/russian-airstrikes-killed-more-syrian-civilians-than-isis-fighters/
[v] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
[vi] http://ileanajohnson.com/2015/12/witold-gadowski-polish-journalist-talks-to-fronda-pl-about-syrian-refugees/
[vii] http://www.businessinsider.com/organized-crime-is-now-a-major-element-of-russia-statecraft-2015-10
[viii] http://ileanajohnson.com/2015/12/witold-gadowski-polish-journalist-talks-to-fronda-pl-about-syrian-refugees/
[ix] https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/02/usegypt_relations_under_attack_1.html#ixzz58JwFkwoF
[x] https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardminiter/2011/08/18/the-exciting-notion-of-arab-spring-is-a-jedi-mind-trick/#2ab603254ce7
[xi] Ibid.
[xii] The former intelligence official was interviewed by J.R. Nyquist on condition of anonymity.
[xiii] Katehon’s president is Konstantin Malofeev, a Russian oligarch with close ties to Aleksandr Dugin, previously the co-founder of the National Bolshevist movement (along with Eduard Limonov). This was a movement which combined nationalism and communism (i.e., a Red-Brown prototype movement). More recently Dugin changed his ideological formula, mixing pan-European or Eurasianist ideas with nihilistic metaphysics in order to justify a worldwide anti-U.S. alliance between traditionalist and Marxists. All this is interspersed with a thinly disguised Lenin-style anti-capitalist millenarianism which seeks to hasten the “end times” with the destruction of Carthage (i.e., the United States). Dugin’s pretense at Orthodox Christianity should not be taken any more seriously than his nationalist pretenses. His entire ideology is an arcane justification for a renewed USSR/Third Rome. His enemies are the old enemies of the USSR. His friends are the old friends of the USSR. Dugin’s philosophic sophistication is not to be taken seriously, though his past fascination with Aleister Crowley’s black magic craves closer investigation. Of course, Dugin’s flirtation with esoteric ideas has helped to win adherents on the alt-right, particularly among neo-pagans, occultists and Sufis. His supposed positive attitude toward traditional Christianity leads to the conclusion that he is consciously toying with dialectically opposed theologies and ideologies. Using conspiracy theory as a tool to advance his anti-U.S. agenda, Dugin also pretends to support President Donald Trump, making English language broadcasts praising Trump for stopping globalism and “the expansion of liberal ideology.” Dugin also praises Alex Jones and Infowars. To watch Dugin’s English language broadcasts, see – “The Mystic Shaping Russia’s Future and Bringing Back the Dark Ages, https://godsandradicals.org/2017/03/28/the-mystic-shaping-russias-future-and-ending-the-modern-era/. See also, http://www.4pt.su/en/content/who-aleksandr-dugin and https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/06/dugins-evil-theology-robert-zubrin/.
[xiv] http://katehon.com/article/tragic-loss-red-pasha
[xv] http://www.trevorloudon.com/2013/06/exclusive-part-2-former-kgb-colonel-victor-kalashnikov-on-the-dangers-of-putin-worship-russias-anti-western-alliance-with-islam-israel-syria-iran-and-the-kremlins-grand-strateg/
[xvi] Ibid.
[xvii] http://conservativeread.com/former-kgbs-victor-kalashnikov-dangers-of-putin-worship-russias-islamist-alliance-plans-to-destroy-nato/
[xviii] http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/07/were-911-terror-attacks-false-flag.html
[xix] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=27&v=F6vj0z_oZIs – at about 15 minutes into the interview.
[xx] Ibid.
[xxi] http://adevarul.ro/international/europa/adevarul-live-generalul-degeratu-despre-criza-imigrantilor-rusia-cea-genereaza-criza-acestei-migratii-excesive-1_55e05dbdf5eaafab2c014a6e/index.html
[xxii] Ibid.
[xxiii] Ibid.
[xxiv] From Żurawski’s written reply to Dr. Cernea.
[xxv] www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-meets-hungary-viktor-orban-agenda-gas-soviet-sanctions-551263
[xxvi] http://www.defence24.pl/geopolityka/wegry-sie-zbroja-orban-kupi-sprzet-w-rosji
[xxvii] http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/component/content/article?id=35796:from-russia-with-hate-the-kremlin-s-support-for-violent-extremism-in-central-europe
[xxviii] Ibid.
[xxix] Bostan was minister from Nov. 2015 to July 2016.
[xxx] Written response to inquiry of former Communications and Information Minister Marius Bostan to Dr. Cernea, dated 3 March 2018.
[xxxi] www.atlanticcouncil.org/component/content/article?id=35796:from-russia-with-hate-the-kremlin-s-support-for-violent-extremism-in-central-europe
[xxxii] http://epochtimes-romania.com/video/constantin-degeratu-criza-refugiatilor-a-fost-o-operatiune-organizata—1099
[xxxiii] Ibid.
[xxxiv] https://wpolityce.pl/swiat/260088-syryjski-general-oskarza-w-rosji-szkoleni-sa-fanatycy-ktorzy-potem-zasilaja-szeregi-panstwa-islamskiego
[xxxv] jagiellonia.org/wycofujac-sie-iraku-bojowcy-isis-zgubili-swe-rosyjskie-paszporty/
[xxxvi] Ibid.
[xxxvii] See, especially, Yao Ming-le, The Conspiracy and Death of Lin Biao (1983). There it is explained how Gen. Lin Biao secretly prepared to wage a phony war with the Soviet Union in 1971.
[xxxviii] See, especially, Bearden and Risen, The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB (New York: Random House, 2003), p. 233.
[xxxix] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko#cite_note-69
[xl] Ronald Rychlak and Ion Mihai Pacepa, Disinformation: Former Spry Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism (WND Books, 2013). See also, Pacepa, Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Eana Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption (1990).
[xli] See also Antero Leitzinger’s article in the The Eurasian Politician – Issue 5 (April-September 2002), “The Roots of Islamic Terrorism,” http://users.jyu.fi/~aphamala/pe/issue5/roots.htm
[xlii] Ibid. In this matter Leitzinger offers citations from the following sources: Livingston & Halevy, Inside the PLO (USA, 1990), p. 153-154; and Kuzichkin, Inside the KGB – Myth and Reality (Frome, 1990), p. 302.
[xliii] Leitzinger referenced Finnish researcher Anssi Kullberg’s master’s thesis on Russian geopolitics focusing on the Islamic Renaissance Party founded in Astrakhan in June 1990, “under KGB surveillance.” Kullberg
[xliv] Deriabin and Bagley, KGB: Masters of the Soviet Union (New York, 1990), p. 252.
[xlv] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35706238
[xlvi] http://time.com/4607481/europe-terrorism-timeline-berlin-paris-nice-brussels/
[xlvii] Konstantin Preobrazhensky: “How the Russian Communists Run Islam.” https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Preobrazhensky+Konstantin+How+the+Russian+Communists+run+Islamic+Terrorism+https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3d0AqMCLqTRFo&PC=ACTS&refig=ebf0ef63163f4c948bcf96c60aeb434a&ru=%2fsearch%3fq%3dPreobrazhensky%2bKonstantin%2bHow%2bthe%2bRussian%2bCommunists%2brun%2bIslamic%2bTerrorism%2bhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253D0AqMCLqTRFo%26FORM%3dEDGNCT%26PC%3dACTS%26refig%3debf0ef63163f4c948bcf96c60aeb434a&view=detail&mmscn=vwrc&mid=19EC1DC31D497F37378719EC1DC31D497F373787&FORM=WRVORC
[xlviii] http://niezalezna.pl/77702-jak-putin-i-asad-produkuja-uchodzcow-rosjanie-stosuja-taktyke-z-wojny-czeczenskiej
[xlix] http://niezalezna.pl/73114-diabelska-gra-putina-rosja-eksportuje-islamskich-imigrantow-do-europy
[l] http://www.uawire.org/news/czech-minister-of-defense-it-is-possible-that-russia-is-financing-the-influx-of-refugees-to-europe
[li] http://www.uawire.org/news/estonian-politician-russia-uses-the-migration-crisis-as-part-of-its-hybrid-war#
[lii]http://zw.lt/litwa/landsbergis-o-kryzysie-z-uchodzcami-winna-jest-rosja/
[liii] Ibid.
[liv] https://newsone.ua/news/politics/gera shhenko-krizis-migrantov-dlya-evropy-pridumal-putin.html
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308 responses to “Russian Strategy and Europe’s Refugee Crisis”
Refugee situation was manufactured and is being exploited primarily by global capitalists (who need weak nation states and cheap labour) and Zionists (Israel needs to fuel anti-Islam sentiment in the West to continue receiving unconditional support). Maybe Russia can benefit indirectly, but they would benefit from independent nation states with conflicting interests more. (feel free to delete my comment for using the z-word)
The “Zionist” conspiracy is anti-Semitic, I believe, and “Israel needs to fuel anti-Islam sentiment in the West to continue receiving unconditional support” is a fiction, and is, moreover, disparaging. Those who say such things are not friends of Israel, and your tone, sir, is not appreciated, I must say.
Kelaino Hawkshawe, Commit may be one of those referred to by Romanian Minister of Communication and Intelligence Marius Bostan, as a Russian Communist troll, who goes onto internet forums sowing seeds of discord among different groups, such as between Christians and Jews.
Interesting how that was the first comment made after the posting of an article in which that kind of activity was pointedly referenced.
Funny, isn’t it?
GreyKnight – “who goes onto internet forums sowing seeds of discord among different groups, such as between Christians and Jews. ”
first, I wrote nothing against Jews, second, it is you and Jeff (and other zio-trolls) who sow discord between Christians and Muslims.
Commit — I am a Zionist troll? I am not even interested in the subject. I do not even write about it. You, however, are obsessed.
Does Israel need to exist for there to be anti-Islamic sentiment in the West and elsewhere?
Nosir, it surely doesn’t. I feel strong anti-Islamic sentiment, no matter what other countries do or dont exist, lol. When I see a Muslim -and there are a few in my area- I feel that I am looking at a mortal enemy, because by their training and ideology that is what they are. I hope that they turn to Christ, but I cant help but have very strong feelings of resentment whenever I happen to see them. Which, thankfully, is rare.
Even my beloved Southland is not free from the scourge.
And you are posting here for what purpose?
Forgive my confusion, Mr. Nyquist, but is this question directed at me?
No. It was directed at the first poster.
Right. Thanks for the clarification.
I guess the comments are not placed directly below the first post — I should have referred to the poster by name — Commit
Yes, WordPress does seem to order comments in a strange way.
The Soviets have succeeded in breeding for themselves a clique of elite scapegoats in the Western world who will be blamed for sabotaging the old world order and collapsing the world economy. I have the impression that the “evil capitalists” have become involved in a play whose script they do not understand and whose outcome they do not even suspect:
With the beginning of globalization, they have sold the Soviets the rope on which they themselves will hang. This is exactly what you don’t understand either, just like 90% of the Germans here.
Oh yeah, sure, the entire Marxist left celebrating refugees in every single country but it’s the Capitalists really behind it all.
This problem exists because Europe is unwilling to flex its military might. See here for my review of the situation:
https://catxman.wordpress.com/2021/06/27/a-fallen-axe-europes-absconded-role-in-geopolitical-affairs/
In other words, if Europe were more like America, it would be an additional stabilizing force in the world, rather than a big baby that just sits on its hands.
The problem is that Europe has lost its taste for war. It cannot stomach bloodshed and destruction anymore, so it blanks them out of its collective consciousness. Talk shows import American stars to hype the latest filmic vehicle, while ignoring the rough-and-tumble world outside Europe’s window. Yet America cannot be relied upon to do it all. A bi-regional coalition of Europe plus America would go far toward remedying the chaos we see in the world today (Syria et al.)
Exactly right.
Without going too deep for now, there are two considerations;
The first is that there is a centuries long antipathy between Poles and Russians (and other east europeans) which color perceptions. How can they forget the conquest of Poland? How can we forget the attempted conquests of Russia by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
The second is regarding Islam and Marxist-Leninism. The tail is waging the dog, and always has. One has some 1400 years in which certain habits of mind are perpetuated, the other is fatally Atheistic and draws upon only five centuries of thought at the very most. All the original revolutionaries had Christian or Jewish-believing families and backgrounds,and could only fall so far into the morass, ”burdened” by the reflex of civilized morality and ethics to at least a degree. Very different is the cultural experience of the Jihadist, which knows no such reflex. They knew what they were doing when they flocked to the Bolshevik banners from 1917 on. Fighting for Islam against Russia,, is what they believed.
It would be safer and more accurate to say that Islam is absorbing the revolutionary potential everywhere,every firebrand, every fascist, every criminal mafia, every single one. Not the other way around. It was realized that Islam would absorb the USSR,and everywhere else. And they would be enabled by the crafty foxes who would join them and profit by the ruins
Against this always has been Russia.
Interesting historical analysis, @Vladimir.
Admittedly, I don’t know that much regarding the history of Eastern Europe, but didn’t the Russian Empire get its “revenge” on Poland by taking some of its eastern territory in the 1790s?
”Empire” is more of a curse than a real ”revenge”. But on the level of ”Russian”Royalty and not that of the common people, the Romanovs had always sought Empire from the beginning, and had the typical Machiavellian mindset of the acquisitive Western European royals of that era-since that is exactly what they really were. Austria and Prussia helped themselves to their share, and suddenly found themselves facing each other and Russia entirely, with eventually dire results.
You might guess that I’m one of those who have a real Romanov antipathy, and you’d be right. The Bolsheviks were the spiritual children of that family, whether they’d claim them or not.
Russian revenge on Poland took place by the dismemberment of Poland. Poland had no national existence for over 100 years because of Imperial Russia. The Red Army invaded ca 1920. The Poles managed to beat them back.
He is also attempting to rewrite history. As Jeff points out, Russia is profiting from the situation and is certainly not standing against it. The work on this started under Stalin and has simply grown since then. Putin is, like a good pupil of Stalin, using it.
Vladimir, your last sentence is utterly laughable.
Yeah … Russia is against radical Islam. Did you even read the article Jeff wrote?
I did,we have the same information,and then some. Here is the problem,if you are interested in the truth. There is a Force in the Middle East, which seeks to conquer the entire world. It’s enemies could easily destroy it, especially in combination against It. But It’s enemies hate and fear each other more than they hate and fear It. And they seek to profit from It at everyone else’s expense. So it survives, grows,revives and surges, and It’s enemies will sadly never join forces.
Historically Russia has always been against radical Islam; this is why you never hear of the Golden Horde today, or the Khanates of Crimea or Astrakhan or Kazan either, to use examples.
Jeff, not sure if you can comment, today on my YouTube channel, a climate scientist from the UK tried challenging me on the topic that the Grand Solar Minimum will not happen. When I asked him what happens if the global geo-political scene shifts from peace and stability to a focus on food only caused by adverse weather events linked to the Grand Solar Minimum. This same UK climate scientist also went against Grand Solar Minimum News another Youtube channel which warns people about the Grand Solar Minimum for so-called ‘spreading disinformation’. This same UK Climate scientist has also dismissed the discussion of China going to war over food in a Grand Solar Minimum scenario because their population number is a issue as well:
I guess he has a different theory.
ohngineer, you said;
”Russian revenge on Poland took place by the dismemberment of Poland.”
Three Empires divided up Poland, which was an Empire itself, over a period of time. The Romanovs were as the Hohenzollerns and the Habsburgs.
” Poland had no national existence for over 100 years because of Imperial Russia.”
See above.
”The Red Army invaded ca 1920.”
Wrong. Marshal Pilsudski’s forces took advantage of the Russian Civil War and invaded Russia in 1919. The Red Army beat them back all the way to the Vistula.
” The Poles managed to beat them back.”
It would have been better had they not tried to revive their 16th century Empire in the first place.
”He is also attempting to rewrite history.”
If you show some history,you would surprise me. As it is you have some ethno-tribal and/or religious hatreds for Russians and for Orthodox Christianity; it’s obvious. Were it not Marxist Leninists,it would have to be another ”reason” with you.
” As Jeff points out, Russia is profiting from the situation and is certainly not standing against it.”
I’d say Turkey among others is profiting more. Like I said, if Russia hadn’t intervened when it did, Damascus would have fallen and an Islamist regime would be in Syria, with horrible consquences for the world.
”The work on this started under Stalin and has simply grown since then. Putin is, like a good pupil of Stalin, using it.”
You know little of what you hate. Russia is post-communist and post-soviet. I have my issues with the way things have played out there since 1991, but I trust the Russian people, always, to sort it out eventually.
But the Russian people do not rule Russia. A group of secretive people out of the CPSU security apparatus control the media and Russia’s key industries. There are many serious questions about this.
Serious questions about serious people. People do not want to rule, because people do not want to know how the soup is made, just that it tastes good as a result.
Does it taste good?
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If I hated Russia, you would have a point. I do not hate Russia, but the points I made do stand. For you to say that Russia is post-communist and post-soviet says you haven’t paid much attention to what Mr. Nyquist has said.
No, I actually read what you say too. Mr. Nyquist no doubt knows I understand him quite well. My narrative differs. Like the story of the seven blind men and the elephant, you have to look at every aspect of a thing. As it stands, what is it that you actually know, compared to what you merely assert?
ohngineer, you said;
”Vladimir, your last sentence is utterly laughable.”
That is because you have no historical sense. The Romanov drive to westernize Russia led to the education and disillusionment of Westernized intellectuals who seized upon Western-born Marxism to revolutionize society and make the leap of progress fancied by atheistic intellectuals in the West
Oh please. Quite often outsiders have a better position to see what is going on in a country than the residents. This was the case for the misnamed US civil war in Great Britain, and is the case in Russia. Your statement is still risible as is your response.
Quite a bit of presumptive hubris there, but then I see that even more with your aside concerning the US Civil War. The English papers were full of hypocritical cant (”Perfidious Albion” has long been a real criticism of their Elites to this day), as they excoriated the North for trying to keep the Union together, while bemoaning the pro-slavery forces those same Elites profited from.
Perfidious Albion is a real thing. Unfortunately.
Greyknight, you said about my comment on Israel and Islam that;
”Nosir, it surely doesn’t. I feel strong anti-Islamic sentiment, no matter what other countries do or dont exist, lol. When I see a Muslim -and there are a few in my area- I feel that I am looking at a mortal enemy, because by their training and ideology that is what they are. I hope that they turn to Christ, but I cant help but have very strong feelings of resentment whenever I happen to see them. Which, thankfully, is rare.
Even my beloved Southland is not free from the scourge.”
By ”training and ideology” indeed. Did Marxist-Leninists from the former Soviet Union fan the flames of Islamist revival? Sure, they contributed.
At some point with the decay of Ideology, all that is often left are the hatreds and paranoias, and the residue of previous propaganda stories. Governments and peoples alike march along by inertia and reaction in familiar grooved ruts, especially when disappointments shock and alarm them. Post-Communists cheer on and support people who would gladly send them to Jehennom once they take over. This video, although Liberal,makes a few good points;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElUwMUO3ttU
(Now, Clannishness is a feature all over the world, not just Chechnya,but it’s a going thing in the FSU. When things fall apart, it is what works, a new Feudalism, maybe in future.)
What should shock and alarm though is the already mentioned growth in numbers and power of the Muslims. I see non-muslim couples with one or two children at the most, maybe three or four. A short time ago I saw a playground with a Muslim woman and her children; I counted eight children. They believe in their future…And while Marxist-Leninists have few children, the Christians somewhat more. Who will replicate their desired future? Even the Chinese are getting old, a real crisis.
The American South… Did you know that the favorite English language bestseller in Russia is ”Gone with the Wind”? More clannishness, family, hierarchy, survival and getting things done. There’s a saying; ”the Kremlin has many towers”…Clans all the way to the top, intrigue…
They are having children as their is no women’s liberation in Muslim culture.
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This is very true, Mr. Nyquist. They are not stupid or short-sighted.
Jeff wrote, “They are having children as their is no women’s liberation in Muslim culture”. That is so true. A parallel of Islam to Nazi Germany–both have sought to promote breeding as part of the spreading of their ideology and at same time to develop a whole new flock of eager recruits to throw into the war.
Vladimir, that was an interesting video. I had never looked too much into Chechnya, other than I remember when the terrorists from there took over the school and killed almost half of the hostages. I remember l was surprised to learn that Khadyrov and the republic of Georgia were Muslim.
There used to be far more clannishness in the South. A lot of it is gone, but in the rural areas it is still strong in some ways. Unfortunately, many of us have become apathetic. I was blessed to be in a strong family, but family ties in my generation have weakened as most in the past 2 generations have moved to the cities, and been indoctrinated at big universities. I had to cut ties with 1st cousins I had been very close to growing up, because the govt overreach due to Coronavirus, and the BLM/Antifa riots revealed strong fundamental differences between us.
I believe the differences come from things they were taught at the universities, because I dont believe they were raised to support such nonsense as BLM and government trying to control every aspect of our lives, ie “wear a mask, stay 6 ft apart, stay home, take the shot, etc, etc”. But they not only fell in line with all of that, but expected everyone else to as well. It is sad.
Greyknight,you said;
”Vladimir, that was an interesting video. I had never looked too much into Chechnya, other than I remember when the terrorists from there took over the school and killed almost half of the hostages. I remember l was surprised to learn that Khadyrov and the republic of Georgia were Muslim. ”
Yes, Russia had the good fortune to win Chechnya as part of her five wars with Iran/Persia.
”There used to be far more clannishness in the South. A lot of it is gone, but in the rural areas it is still strong in some ways. Unfortunately, many of us have become apathetic. I was blessed to be in a strong family, but family ties in my generation have weakened as most in the past 2 generations have moved to the cities, and been indoctrinated at big universities. I had to cut ties with 1st cousins I had been very close to growing up, because the govt overreach due to Coronavirus, and the BLM/Antifa riots revealed strong fundamental differences between us. ”
The major real reason for Stalin’s collectivization was to force millions working in Agriculture and have them look for work in the factories in the cities which were built with the sale of raw materials to the West. Many American engineers and technicians in the USSR in the 1920’s and 1930’s helped set things up. Russia was already quickly Industrializing before the Revolution, but basically Stalin felt Russia had 10 years to Industrialize where it took the West 100 years. At tremendous cost, the Russia did. Anyway, moving to the cities of millions had a profound effect on life, cushioned to a degree by the collective effort but also with the nationalist understanding that sooner or later, Germany and other Western powers would be at war with the Soviet Union, and thus with Russia too. People often lived in large communal barracks, with several families together and little privacy. If anything, it all made the bonds stronger.
”I believe the differences come from things they were taught at the universities, because I dont believe they were raised to support such nonsense as BLM and government trying to control every aspect of our lives, ie “wear a mask, stay 6 ft apart, stay home, take the shot, etc, etc”. But they not only fell in line with all of that, but expected everyone else to as well. It is sad.”
This BLM and ”Antifa” is a joke, except that the resistance to it’s lunacy is even more of a joke. I don’t want to say anything that might be misunderstood, but this sort of nonsense would not be tolerated outside the Western world. What in the hell is wrong with people, tolerating these scum?! It’s not so much a Marxist ideology, but an absolute inversion and reversal of the Hitlerite Ideology. Everybody even Marx knew that there is a heirarchy of peoples and individuals alike, and the Apostle says that ”star differs from star in glory”, still remaining a star… Like i’ve said before,fools in the West are less loved. And the sign is that their idiocy is tolerated more.
That same scum — as you call Antifa snd BLM — is running China and Russia. Only in China and Russia they control major institutions from which they draw more sophisticated helpers to help them entrench their power. They hold power by virtue of cultivating the “classics” of their Satanic creed.
Vladimir in full damage limitation mode I see. “Cui bono? Russia, maybe a bit, but… Turkey much more so!!!” I knew this article would make you squirm.
”Squirm”,anonymous? There’s enough ammunition for everyone to shoot each other in the circular firing squad that should be forming against militant Islam.
This vatnik is the biggest clown we’ve had posting here in a long time. I’m just surprised Mr. Nyquist hasn’t picked up on it yet but continues to treat him like a serious person. He is even himself a self-admitted totalitarian, amongst all his other faults and absurdities.
So, true to malignant form, you stoop to Anti-Russian xenophobic Vatniki slur from the start; what is next for such spiritual dwarves, calling people ”Moskals”,or ”Sovoks” or perhaps ”Gopniks”? It is psychologically similar to Anti-Semitism, and it comes as no surprise that it is often connected to it; maybe to you I am really a ”Zhid”?. I am thinking that Mr. Nyquist treats me as a ”serious person” because he is intelligent to recognize an adult, a ”serious person”, when talking to me. Our differences proceed from more of the realm of philosophies, than whatever ethno-tribal and/or religious primitivism you draw your negative energy from.
What’s more, is that you are lying directly about me, saying that I am a ”self-admitted totalitarian” when I am nothing of the kind. As for my ”faults and absurdities”, I’m sure that I have them, but you lack the self-awareness to understand that my efforts to counter xenophobia by displaying the humanity of myself and my dear Russian people, do not qualify as ”faults and absurdities”. For it is painfully obvious that your mental task is to demonize and villify, because these things are necessary for most in their hearts and minds, to get them to kill other human beings.
Are you a Fascist, Ricardo Galvan? Muslim? Some kind of religious or nationalist reactionary? Funny that your beliefs are not under the microscope, because you are too busy flinging excrement for people to ask you any important questions.
The whole global terrorism was invented by CPSU, KGB and GRU. And now is controĺled by Lubyanka square – FSB headquarters. FSB controls Russia entirely and that means that both GRU and SVR are controlled by KGB/FSB. So the ultimate problem in this world is called FSB. All military conflicts around the globe were provoked by Russia and its proxies – China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. The Russian mafia controls 95%-100% of the global organised crime, including the global drug trafficking. China is Russia’s proxy and that means that Moscow indirectly controls Huawei, Tik Tok and the Chinese economic expansion around the world. The Russian federation – terrorist and mafia state number one!
”Stefan Stankov”, I think you do more to destroy your own credibility in your monomaniacal Russophobia, when you spout nonsense about China being controlled by Russia.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jeff-nyquist-show/id261015748. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/paul-williams-interview/id261015748?i=1000029873589
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jeff-nyquist-show/id261015748
Islam surge into the West. Specifically, Muslim radicals training camps, communities on USA .
One was brought to light in my general area several years ago. It in the middle of nowhere, Alabama. I believe it is no longer being used, but it was at one point.
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The whole global terrorism was invented by CPSU, KGB and GRU. And now is controĺled by Lubyanka square – FSB headquarters. FSB controls Russia entirely and that means that both GRU and SVR are controlled by KGB/FSB. So the ultimate problem in this world is called FSB. All military conflicts around the globe were provoked by Russia and its proxies – China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. The Russian mafia controls 95%-100% of the global organized crime, including the global drug trafficking. China is Russia’s proxy and that means that Moscow indirectly controls Huawei, Tik Tok and the Chinese economic expansion around the world. The Russian federation – terrorist and mafia state number one!
The ”Ultimate Problem” is Islamofascists and OUN/B fanboys and similar cretins.
Th EU has plenty of useful idiots installed in key positions of governance, but I would argue that they are Zionist controlled rather than taking orders from Moscow:
https://www.rt.com/news/525690-africans-migration-eu-german/
The BBC is far from a reliable transparent news source:
https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YaOoQxT7Ug
I see parallels with the current EU migrant crisis and the influx of death squad members from Guatemala in the 1980’s.
When one looks at the divisive LBGT trends and BLM organisations the literature behind these movements and the capitol supporting them is 99.9% Jewish in origin.
I am surprised that you could write such a detailed article on Syria without making more than cursory references to Israel’s influence in the region.
Sure, Russia is well positioned to capitalise on the situation, but let us not forget that US in the guise of Senator John McCain had first boots on the ground in 2012 providing intel support and weaponry to ISIS.
One of the key strategic pieces to the middle east destabilisation is missed out entirely from your article, namely the destruction of Libya, that certainly wasn’t the fault of any Russian….
You are diverting attention away from the facts. Libya was earlier. No Ukraine invasion.
Mr. Nyquist, maybe if Commit had read the article a little more closely, he wouldnt have tipped has hand so easily, lol
As soon as they mention the Jews or Israel you know what kind of a safari it will be. And they will always deny being antisemites. So predictable.
”Predictable Primitives”, one might call them, lol. One can easily critique Jewish religion and culture, but this is a different thing I think.
I used to know a young Somali in the city I live in, who had arrived in my country several years before the 2015 “refugee” crisis. Although he didn’t look like being overly into Islamic “tradition”, he still apparently followed the five-times-a-day Islamic prayer routine and attended the weekly Friday prayer. However, his overall behaviour displayed nothing but contempt for his new home country, and he didn’t care much about following rules or good manners. Also, he was talking a highly aggressive anti-colonial talk. A contradictory, if not to say suspicious, fellow for sure. One day, I saw him with a book by, of all authors, Noam Chomsky (!) in his hands. I asked him how come he read such literature. He first didn’t quite know what to say and then came up with the flimsy excuse that he wanted to improve his language skills. When I insisted that to read Chomsky meant reading a leading intellectual of the American hard left, he simply shrugged his shoulders and said, well, he merely wanted to learn about that viewpoint as well…
On October 3, 2015, there was held a big (free-of-charge) propaganda event called “Voices for Refugees” on Heldenplatz in Austria’s capital Vienna. Half Rock concert, half radical-left political manifestation, it lasted for six and a half hours and was attended by more than 100,000 people, who had also come in droves from abroad. In the street demonstrations preceding the concert, one could see Red Banners with Hammer & Sickle on them and all kinds of radical slogans! Then-Austrian head of state Heinz Fischer, a rabid socialist who in his role as State President pretended to be “non-partisan” which he never was, nevertheless joined the occurance, “dignifying” it with his “statesmanly” revolutionary presence. What a communist farce from beginning to end! This was the “Refugees Welcome!” side of the dialectic in action. Here is a full recording of the event:
Part 1/2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewaK-U0xwjM
Part 2/2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjWyh9Y6NBA
Chomsky is the worst of the worst. No religion in him at all. Islam and atheistic socialism share one vision: the destruction of the West.
Mr. Nyquist, the interesting thing about Noam Chomsky is that while the man is a total Atheist and Materialist, he absolutely proved in his earlier scientific work that it is literally impossible for human language to have evolved from Animal sounds. This was not popular with the Scientific establishment, so now he’s known for his politics, not his contributing another nail into the coffin of Evolutionary theories.
Yes, that is an irony.
Well Jeff, It seems this site isn’t for me after all. You scrubbed my comment that I took time to place resources in. You could always have responded or provided correction if you disagreed, but you decided instead to censor. More fool me for wasting the time, it won’t happen again.
Happy Zionism!
Well, he is an imperialist and zionist shill, but unlike others, he understands that his side lost.
This is really crazy. I am neither an imperialist nor a Zionist. It is simply absurd to lay that at my door because I do not believe in your Jewish conspiracy theories.
I did not scrub your comment. In fact, I hit the spot I’ve button when I saw it just now. I do have to sleep on occasion. It was waiting for me to approve and I woke up to a series of calls that kept me off the site, and am only now going through comments. When you post links it requires me to hit an approve button. Not sure why WordPress does this. I do not scrub comments without warning.
So Jeff, do you think there’s anyone above the FSB in the Russian security state, or is the head of the FSB about to be the ruler of the world, once NATO & other Western countries are conquered (or experience Marxist revolutions) and out of the way?
Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Security Council is the true decision maker. You can guess from his meetings with Xi. it is where the grand strategic decisions are being made https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1721345.shtml
Oh please.
You are asking about “Russia’s secret rulers,” which is a complicated question, and a controversial question, because we have interlocking “systems” of economy and politics at work. The USSR was a state capitalist system masquerading as a command economy (with a KGB/black market economy undergirding it — if you will forgive my simplifications). By definition, the Soviet system was never communist. Marxist-Leninist texts are very clear on this. The CPSU was “building socialism.” Real communism, said Marx, is only possible once the power of capital is smashed throughout the whole world. This has never happened and will never happen (in my opinion). Therefore, if anyone says that communist ideology is dead in Russia, they are admitting to a misunderstanding: first, because Marxism-Leninism was and is not an ideology, but a “science”; and second, because the ruling party was run by Marxist-Leninists (i.e., scientists of Revolution) who nonetheless recognized that a slow process of reformatting human consciousness was needed as a prologue to success. Please understand, if you are able: Marxist “science” needs to be differentiated from the slogans and active measures used to produce the necessary effects needed for the Revolution to succeed. Marxism is not a slogan shouted by a Marxist stooge. It is not the propaganda of global warming, or feminism, or LGBT rights, or even “all power to the Soviets.” No. Marxism is the science of developing these slogans in order to smash the existing culture tactically and strategically. None of these slogans are scientifically true or true in any sense. An attack on the left flank is not true or false. Scientifically, it is either the correct strategy or it is incorrect. Experimentally it leads to success or failure. So, yes, Marxist ideology was dead in Russia because there never was any Marxist ideology, just the slogans needed by the “scientific managers” of human affairs (acknowledged by Lenin). This was never Marxism, but the world took it to be Marxism. Therefore, setting it aside was not a defeat for Marxism, but a step up for the science of Marxist management. It is clear to those who follow events carefully, that the “science” of Marxism-Leninism yet provides the Russian and other state systems with a steady stream of ideas, analyses, strategies, and opens the door to “allies” in the non-communist world. The Communist Party, in just about any country you might name, could rarely succeed in holding power after a free and fair election. So, given all this, who rules Russia? A gang of secret police officers with no guiding principles (except greed)? Following what plan? In alliance with what political forces at home and abroad? Using what techniques or higher-level concepts? The answers here cannot be evaded. Without Marxism-Leninism, they could not succeed for want of coherence. Of course, they cannot advertise their ideas. And why should they? In America, the friends of the Revolution hold an increasingly powerful position in the state and culture. What fool denies it? You may object that I am rigidly adhering to Cold War preconceptions. But I am not. My thinking is highly adaptive and flexible. I affirm, here and now, that we must remain open to evidence. Mine is not a preconception. As soon as there is real evidence of a change — philosophically and organizationally — in Russia, I will be the first to embrace it, commend it, and draw hope from it. But I tell you, there is no authentic evidence of genuine change. The system has not changed there. It has been reorganized for the purposes of executing a more effective political attack. If you follow all the evidence carefully, if you listen to the witnesses — true and false — you will see there is something to what I am saying. I watch closely for contradicting evidence. So far, Russia supports all the communist countries around the world. Her commitment to Orthodoxy is a lie, a false front. Facts must count more than wishful thinking. Russia works with China, North Korea, Cuba, etc. Here is coherency. Here is how you read the Kremlin. The secret police under Putin grabbed, for themselves, key industries and businesses. Yes. They are thieves. They took advantage of the disarray which set in with Gorbachev’s grand maneuver. They enriched themselves. The mafiya complex does exist. But they could never hold power without the academies of science and the “brain” of the Soviet state. Here was intellectual coherency. Here were governing principles, however evil we think they were. Policemen who are, in principle, the same as gangsters, could never rule without ideas. And so, they are clearly dependent on the old “science” of Marx and Lenin, and upon the secret structures the communist movement built for itself around the world. Here is a philosophy, a new kind of religion in the form of politics, striving to remake the world and man. You ask, therefore, if there “is anyone above” the FSB? Of course there is. A policeman has almost no ideas. He is politically empty. And a corrupt policemen is even more helpless and dependent than a corrupt general. To rule means to have ideas. Oh yes, it is ideas — always — that qualify rulers and guide them. Whoever manufactures our ideas rules over us, whether we are policemen or businessmen or aristocrats. So, then, communism is still there.
Mr. Nyquist, the ”Scientific Management of human beings” has been going on for a long time, well before the Bolsheviks came to power (which they could not done without their interface with wartime military intelligence in Russia and the coterie of police spies within Bolshevism) the intellectuals could do no more then than they can now; talk. It took men of action to test those theories when they thought them useful.
Now, these same kind of men carry water for Islamics, because they think with it they have better chances, for pragmatic utilitarian reasons.
I have more to say but that is what is necessary for now.
Am I mistaken, or did not Aristotle say that politics was not scientific, but was more like cookery.
Marxism is indeed a religion, one whose mantras must increasingly be recited and espoused, with North Korean style visible vigour, by all who wish to be accepted as upstanding citizens in the West nowadays. Just wait until hearty adherence to those mantras becomes not just an evidence of faith, but the means of staying alive and keeping your biometric credit in the black, upon pain of being unable to buy or sell or travel or otherwise cancelled.
I personally think that the director of the Russian FSB Alexander Bortnikov wouldn’t be the most powerful man on Earth, but certainly one of the most powerful men on the planet. It’s important to know that Russia is in charge of the global terrorism, the Cuban intelligence, the Iranian IRGC, etc. and using these and other structures they are leading a global war against the West. The terrorism serves to attack Western targets around the globe and especially to destroy gas and oil instalations in order to deprive the West from foreign oil and gas and to make it buy more energy resources from Russia. And on the other side, oil and gas prices increase due to the terrorist attacks against the energy infrasturcture. Russia killed 30-40% of the Chechen population during the wars in order to get the oil resources of Chechnya and to have access to the oil from Caspian sea, which is worth trillions of dollars. The same was the reason to annex Crimea and Russia is led again by its energy imperialism in the Arctic. FSB, SVR and GRU are the biggest terrorists and gangsters on the planet!
Ah, again I sense an Islamic Chechen ideology and/or that of the Galician fanboys. Probably Chechen.
Off topic but…
Public Health Scotland Covid-19 Deaths Within 28 Days of Vaccination…
PUBLIC HEALTH SCOTLAND PUBLICATIONS
COVID-19 statistical report 23 June 2021
LINK: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/covid-19-statistical-report/covid-19-statistical-report-23-june-2021/
This can be easily found through a web search. At the link click on Data Files Deaths Within 28 Days of Vaccination (about halfway down the page). Scotland keeps a running total of the deaths in the first four weeks after vaccination. That number is 5522, keeping in mind there are only 5.5 million people in Scotland. The United States population is 330 million or 60 times that of Scotland. Cypher that math, and is there any doubt that the United States doesn’t keep such records?
Scotland United States
Population 5.5 million 330 million
Deaths 5522 331,320 (5522 X 330)/5.5
Excel Spreadsheet Formulas to add columns
=Sum(B2:B178) Phizer 1877 Deaths
=Sum(C2:C178). Astra Zeneca 3643 Deaths
=Sum(D2:D178). Moderna. 2 Deaths
Commit, I realize that some global capitalists greatly contribute to the “refugee” problems in America, as in for example, the meat processing industry being instrumental in bringing thousands of Somalis into the U.S. But the article was talking about how Russian govt is either creating the refugee crisis in Europe, or greatly helping it along and taking advantage of it for Communism’s own ends.
But yes, it is a fact that many at the top of major industries are plumb greedy, and cause policies to be enacted to bring cheap, foreign labor into areas to benefit their bottom line.
But then you had to go blame Israel for “fueling anti-Islam sentiment in the West”. I am no Zionist. I think the govt and elites of Israel, are just as corrupt as those of China, Russia, America, Canada, or any other country. However, I also know that the Jews are God’s chosen people, and He will bring them back to Himself, and that those who bless them will be blessed, and those who curse them will be cursed.
Be that as it may. To go blaming Israel for something that the article clearly shows that Russian govt is behind, makes me think you are one of the trolls referred to, or maybe a Nazi type. I dont know.
As far as me trying to sow discord between Muslims and Jews, do you not realize that the very essence of Islam is discord between it and all who will not submit to it, be they Jews, Christian’s, Hindus, or whatever?
Islam creates it’s own anti-Islam sentiment. I desire no coexistence with Islam, my friend. For by Islam’s own doctrine, that cannot be.
Commit, you should read the book Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.
Organized crime seems to have hijacked the US government, as well. There would appear to be competing crime families, staking out territory.
Jeff, thanks for your answer. That makes a lot of sense. So you’re saying you think there’s some higher political apparatus within Russia applying Marxist-Leninist theory to different political situations and scenarios both in Russia and around the world, moving all nations toward Marxism? And giving commands that move through different networks of operatives— be they political, religious, criminal, business, intelligence service networks, etc.? I wonder how many millions of operatives we’re talking about throughout the world, and how many organizations they’ve infiltrated. To be at the top of that structure, calling the shots, committing the kind of crimes they’ve committed… it’s almost impossible to even imagine the person or group of persons who must be in charge. To call them psychopaths would be an understatement!
I believe collegial bodies of Marxists in Russia and China, coordinating with similar bodies in other countries, are advancing the cause of the Revolution.
Mr. Nyquist, you said;
”I believe collegial bodies of Marxists in Russia and China, coordinating with similar bodies in other countries, are advancing the cause of the Revolution.”
Ah, but let’s look at one of these coordinators as an example, a now deceased General (died in 2019 ), who was deputy chief of the Soviet General Staff and President of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhmut_Gareev
Oh, but the name indicates something interesting…. Yes, he was Muslim, a Bashkir Tatar. Now mind you, certainly a ”Coordinator” of some kind, and I find his stance on the Great Patriotic War to be correct, but Marxism didn’t teach him much more than what he already knew from life as an ethnic Tatar Muslim in Russia. And he sure got sent to the Middle East alot to be an Advisor in Muslim countries…
Muslim, Marxist. Russian Patriot.
I don’t think the answers are as simplistic as I would prefer them to be.
No, the answers are not simple, Men need ideas to live by, Gareev was not a Russian nationalist any more than Stalin was — despite the Great Patriotic War. The truth about the war he defended was probably not the full truth; but I do not know for sure. If the people would not fight for Marxism, the Marxists would have to make a concession. What of it? Gareev is clearly not a Tatar patriot. I would willingly gamble that he was not a Muslim. What remains? Whose creature could he possibly be? No, don’t tell me and spoil it. HE WAS A MARXIST-LENINIST! Of course. And an advisor to Afghan president Mohammad Najibulla, the “bull,” who was not by any means a Muslim either. Another Marxist-Leninist. But such people are not to be spoken of. Lower your voice. Look away.
Very interesting.
“I wonder how many millions of operatives we’re talking about throughout the world…”
Russia’s population, according to the latest figures available (non – public statistics from 2006), is 132,000,000 people.
Out of the total population of Russia:
· 81,840,000 (62) are people of pensionable age or approaching it;
·1,736,000 are servicemen of all kinds (career military and national servicemen) and employees of military-related enterprises and scientific institutes (this figure includes 1,686 generals and admirals);
· 2,140,000 are serving members of the FSB (Federal Security Service, former KGB), FSO (Federal Protection Service), FPS (Federal Frontier Service), FAPSI (Federal Agency for Government Communications), SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service), FMS (Federal Migration Service), etc etc;
· 2,270,000 are serving members of the Ministry for Emergency Situations, Ministry of the Interior, Internal Armed Forces, Ministry of Justice, Narcotics Control, and State Prosecutor’s Office;
· 1,957,000 are employed in the customs, tax, sanitary, and other inspections services;
· 1,985,000 are civil servants employed by federal ministries and organizations;
· 1,870,000 are civil servants in various authorities and local representation;
· 1,741,000 are civil servants in various licensing, inspection, and registration bodies;
· 2,439,000 are clerks in pension, social service, state insurance, and other offices;
· 797,000 are employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and government representations abroad (UN, UNESCO, etc)
· 692,000 are priests and others involved in the maintenance of religious buildings and so on;
· 2,357,000 work as public notaries, in legal services, as lawyers, or are in prison;
· 1,775,600 work as security guards, detectives, etc in private security agencies;
· 5,780,000 are unemployed (Rosstatistic figure).
So the total number of people who produce nothing and get their wages out of the state budget or from wealthy fellow citizens (or rather from traitors placed in all governments of the world, because Russia is subsidized by the betrayed West and the rest of the world – author’s note) is 109,397,600. That leaves 22,602,400 to do everything else.
However, the greatest pleasure of Russians is sitting at the Computers and writing lies and slanders
(especially slanders against the USA and Western Europe) on all social networks around the world. That’s why people in the US are so confused and tired when they discuss (without knowing it) with Russian and Chinese liars and crooks.
“, and how many organizations they’ve infiltrated.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2nlz7ZM1Ag
All indications are that the KGB has infiltrated the United States and the West in all power structures, including international organizations and the world mass media.
Russia is a hellish empire that will subvert and occupy the whole world!
Don’t forget China. You’ll hurt their feelings giving all the credit to Moscow.
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What a paranoiac monstrosity, a genuine blood libel. It is a shame that the Western nations decided since the1960’s to de-institutionalize it’s mental patients.
Thats absolutely correct, what you said.
And yes – the communism is a religion.
Vladimir, yes, hard times do seem to cause folks from rural/farming areas to pull together and try to help each other out where they can. No doubt, the Russian people from the agricultural areas, bonded closer together under the weight of Stalin’s forced relocations and hard labor.
And yes, the response to BLM/Antifa has been weak. But I can tell you of an instance where they tried to come in 2 or 3 busses to a small town near me. Locals turned out, lining the streets waiting, fully armed and ready. And willing. Nothing happened. Would-be rioters moved on. Of course, something like that is not going to make mainstream news.
In the cities, it has been so pathetic. The only way to stop a mob, is to send a few of the mob to their maker.
Kyle Rittenhouse did very well, I must say. And the upside down justice system went after him.
Well said.
Mr. Nyquist, you asked me about the proverbial ”soup” that people would just as soon eat and not think about what was done to make it;
”Does it taste good? ”
Depends on who you ask. Surely you know that Aristocracy is natural, that you absolutely cannot keep a good man down forever?
Another proverb;
”The laws are very strict, but not enforced”.
The rulers of this world pretend to rule us, and we pretend to be ruled. Nobody dares to go where they will not be followed. And I have seen that the Russian People have much patience but no mercy to their tormentors.
I have tried to show the cultural code involved here, with various sayings and stories and tales. Basically, there are two ”Russias”. One has it’s cranium firmly up it’s posterior and is totally enamored with the West and it’s intellectual fashions, so intellectuals and the grifters of various kinds.They can only rule by fear and/or fraud,when they do rule. The other Russia is very ”deplorable”, more so than any American ”deplorable”, regarded by the previously mentioned as savage and alien and in dire need of correction and instruction, being innately ignorant, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary, patriarchal, etc… There is about as much difference between the Two Russias as between an Cosmonaut and an Aborigine, I imagine. The latter vastly outnumbers the former.
If ”good soup” is not provided, they will kick all their rotten heads in and all the church bells will ring with joy;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I081bnv0pUw
(Note the Crosses with the Crescents below them.)
You are most likely right. Albert Pike, designer of the roadmap for three world wars, did say we have Muslims on our side. He meant the Salafi/Wahhabi sects. On a side note, I understood that Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 was a Zionist, Khazaarian revolution by War Revolution Movement by Khazaarian fake Jews. Their goal is world domination by deceit. Isn’t that also the motto of Mossad? They think that when their Meshiach (Anti-Christ) arrive they will rule the world for a thousand years. Ultimate, God Almighty controls the world. Thank you.
Albert Pike designed three world wars? Have you studied history or just read the forgeries of conspiracy theorists?
That sort of thing is rife in many parts of the world and with certain belief systems
Indeed, quite a lot of people take the Albert Pike/Freemasonry ideas as Gospel.
They do!
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Saeed: you need to read history a bit more closely. The Bolshevik revolution had many people who by ancestry were Jews. However, like their hero Karl Marx, they hated their birthright as Jews so were antisemites and anti-Zionists. History rejects your canard that this was all part of a Jewish/Zionist plot.
Mr. Nyquist, you said with regards to how ”Politics” is done that;
”Am I mistaken, or did not Aristotle say that politics was not scientific, but was more like cookery?”
Found the quote in Plato’s ”Gorgias”, where his Socrates says; ”Rhetoric is to justice what cookery is to medicine. ”
Someone must have been hungry today, lol.
Alas. I am mixing up my Socrates with my Aristotle. It is all Greek to me!
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Lol, it truly is for me…
Mr. Nyquist, you said;
”That same scum — as you call Antifa snd BLM — is running China and Russia. Only in China and Russia they control major institutions from which they draw more sophisticated helpers to help them entrench their power. They hold power by virtue of cultivating the “classics” of their Satanic creed.”
”Satanic Creed”, sure. Many men have sold their souls for worldly things and passions.
More sophisticated too, perhaps. And too, maybe quite afraid and thus more circumspect. In China they have full sway. Most other nations. In Russia they have to lie. Although I’ll let you in on a secret; lying on a grand scale has been going on for a long time, Centuries before formal open Bolshevism. I will show you a link to something which will illustrate, maybe Google can translate if necessary;
http://zarpetr.ru/
I hope that you like historical/political mysteries,that blog is just the tip of the iceberg.
You would be surprised how common is this belief to this very day. ”The Liar” was the first Bolshevik of Russia, many still call him an ”Antichrist”in the Orthodox Christian sense, I know I do.
The Bolsheviks were something entirely new to history. That is what has thrown everyone off.
With the Liar, who did not resemble the Tsar Peter hardly at all and who looked about ten years older, than the Tsar who had left during the ”Great Embassy”, who after his ”return” spoke or wrote no more Russian but instead in Dutch, German, and Latin (Latin which the Tsar didn’t know or use before his trip), and recounted tales of sea piracy to his foreign friends like a professional -when the actual Tsar hated the seas-and who died of yellow fever, a tropical disease,etc… Who moved the capital to the brand new Westernized city of St.Petersburg that he built upon the corpses of over 200,000 workmen, who persecuted everything about the Old Russia right down to the clothing, the alphabet, and even the wearing of beards, who engaged in long foreign wars for dubious interests, and upended the economy so that perhaps a third of the population died by the time his reign ended, who was impious, blasphemous and a persecutor of Orthodoxy, who slept his first several years back every night laying his head on a soldiers belly after having immediately divorcing ”his” wife after ”he” returned (then later married a literal commoner prostitute of foreign origin), who had a constant nervous facial tic after ”his” trip, who had executed, tortured to death or exiled almost everyone he ”knew” before or never saw them ”again”…. I’d say that he was the ”father” of the Bolsheviks in important ways.
Vladimir…
Many thanks for your link to http://zarpetr.ru/ above. I have just briefly perused that site using Yandex to translate and read it. What an interesting site!
You’re welcome, I found it to be interesting too, noting that it has long been common in Russia to suspect a switch to a Tsar Peter double after his trip to the West ended. Alexander Pushkin (who was the grandson of Tsar Peter’s Ethiopian personal manservant Hannibal) hinted at it, a few others in oblique ways.
Having said all that, I want to be quick to note that I do not believe in the ”Protocols of the Elders of Zion” level forgery about Tsar Peter;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_of_Peter_the_Great
That is regularly trotted about by Anti-Russian maniacs and adventurers like Napoleon and Hitler, who republished it before they invaded Russia.
Vladimir, first I wrote my comment twice because there was a problem in my phone and the system blocked. Second, all I wrote about Russia was confirmed by many defectors and dissidents from the Eastern bloc, including people I personally know. And third, I won’t tell you what exactly and from who I’ve learnt and it’s not necessary. I come from Bulgaria, a post-communist country, so I know people who told me many things about Russia and the Russian intelligence. I repeat, I won’t tell you what exactly and from who I’ve learnt. Am I clear? And on the other side, I am 99,99% sure China is Russian proxy. Because USSR trained the Chinese army, the Chinese intelligence and created the Chinese communist party. Then came the fake Sino-Soviet split during which and after this split the recruited by KGB during the 50’s Chinese politicians continued to run China until the beginning of this century. That’s all!
You’ve said what you’ve said ”Anonymous”. I’ll just say that I ask you to remember that the Russia that helped liberate Bulgarians from the Turk is still alive, the Russia of General Skobolev and of Aksakov.
I won’t deny that Russia helped the Bulgarians but I talk about the current Russia’s policy and Russia’s intelligence secret activities. And yes, I am Stefan Stankov but you probably have already understood that.
Vladimir — in your earlier post, are you inferring that Tsar Peter the Great was replaced by an impostor, e.g. “the Liar”?
If so, I see no reference to any such controversy in Wikipedia. In fact, of Peter, it says:
Peter grew to be extremely tall as an adult, especially for the time period. Standing at 6 ft 8 (203 cm) in height, the Russian tsar was literally head and shoulders above his contemporaries both in Russia and throughout Europe.[8] Peter, however, lacked the overall proportional heft and bulk generally found in a man that size. Both his hands and feet were small,[9][citation needed] and his shoulders were narrow for his height; likewise, his head was small for his tall body. Added to this were Peter’s noticeable facial tics, and he may have suffered from petit mal, a form of epilepsy.
How on Earth could someone impersonate a queer looking giant like that?
Methinks you’re wearing your own version of a tinfoil hat??
It sounds like an incredible theory.
Anonymous, you said;
”I won’t deny that Russia helped the Bulgarians but I talk about the current Russia’s policy and Russia’s intelligence secret activities. And yes, I am Stefan Stankov but you probably have already understood that.”
Time will reveal all things hidden, truth and lies, come the Judgement. I wish no harm on anyone and pray for all, in peace.
Mr. Nyquist, since you talked about Islam, what’s your opinion about the Tariqas founded by René Guenon and Frithjof Schuon? Are they also related somehow to Russia? The brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho was a member of this last one and said that numerous important political actors of Europe are also members, including nobles of the british royal family.
Sufism is a form of mystical Islam that was fashionable with certain European intellectuals in the past. It was one of those religious fads that appear and disappear. Olavo later converted to Catholicism and is no longer an adherent of Guenon, and I do not know how many European “nobles” continue with that fad. Islam is coming more and more into conflict with European peoples and institutions, which are not Islamic.
”VirtualConservative1” you said;
”Vladimir — in your earlier post, are you inferring that Tsar Peter the Great was replaced by an impostor, e.g. “the Liar”?”
Yes, I am.
”If so, I see no reference to any such controversy in Wikipedia. In fact, of Peter, it says:”
Wikipedia is useful, but since Peter was a modernizer he is somewhat well regarded, and such contrary talk about him as is out there is not liable to be seriously considered.
”Peter grew to be extremely tall as an adult, especially for the time period. Standing at 6 ft 8 (203 cm) in height, the Russian tsar was literally head and shoulders above his contemporaries both in Russia and throughout Europe.[8] Peter, however, lacked the overall proportional heft and bulk generally found in a man that size. Both his hands and feet were small,[9][citation needed] and his shoulders were narrow for his height; likewise, his head was small for his tall body. Added to this were Peter’s noticeable facial tics, and he may have suffered from petit mal, a form of epilepsy.
How on Earth could someone impersonate a queer looking giant like that?”
No, the ”queer looking giant” impersonated the Tsar Peter, who was already tall (but not that tall!) but differently proportioned with a different face altogether. The theory being that the German Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (something of an amazing freak himself!) and friend of Tsar Peter, Augustus the Strong, actually found a prisoner/minion/mercenary adventurer to impersonate Tsar Peter.
”Methinks you’re wearing your own version of a tinfoil hat??”
Fake impersonators and rulers of Russia, successful or otherwise, are a ”dime a dozen”, seriously. Read about the ”False Dimitri” impersonators, here is an article on the most successful one;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry_I
And Mr. Nyquist and I talked about a more recent example, the defector Col. Mikhail Goloniewski;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Goleniewski
And yes, Elector Augustus was an Abnormality himself;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_II_the_Strong
Goleniewski did not successfully impersonate a ruling tsar, and nobody of any consequence believed his claims. It was speculated that he did this to discredit himself and avoid assassination. Alternatively, he could have been given a self-destruct drug by the Russian special services. Or maybe he lost his mind during his middle years after having risen to a high rank in Polish intelligence, then defecting. Readers can decide which explanation best fits the facts.
This is true, but I referred to him as indeed being in a long line of persons claiming to be Russian rulers, or being put forwards as Russian rulers.
Mr. Nyquist, you said with regards to the Tsar Peter double theory that;
”It sounds like an incredible theory. ”
It is, but it’s one that many Russians have believed for centuries. For me it is not necessary to believe in it, as Tsar Peter was (double or not) a civilizational disaster in any case.
I might add, that even today, there are those who think President Putin was replaced as a double. Conspiracy theories are common universally.
People do seem to take these theories seriously.
Nelson Mandela, really did die in prison. He was replaced with Morgan Freeman.
Moon Over Parador
https://youtu.be/RbB_y4y2Z8s
Invictus
https://youtu.be/RZY8c_a_dlQ
Nelson Mandela on how he survived in prison
https://youtu.be/pp0K2jbEgew
Mandela
https://youtu.be/PSEhKDwA11Q
Jeff, it was announced recently that the entire US military would receive the vaccine in September, shortly after the FDA is set to fully approve it. Are you concerned about this at all, that it might leave the US vulnerable to attack, given the frequency of side effects? Of particular concern is the clotting being detected in 62% of recipients, which can lead to a permanent condition known as Reduced Effort Tolerance – where recipients can no longer exert themselves. For anyone this would be a devastating diagnosis, but for our military, it could be decapitating.
The Pentagon’s intelligence people should be investigating Chinese inputs into this vaccine product. Take a look at the claims of Dr. David Martin. He has some pretty interesting things to say about China’s role. These mRNA vaccines involve a very arcane technological chain of custody and development. China is connected to that chain. You need a decade of testing for safety on a vaccine like this. But nobody — nobody — has considered a vaccine vector attack. Safety may not be the issue. There might even be a triggering mechanism involving Nano-particles. You think every surprise attack involves missiles or bombers? If an enemy has penetrated your health system, you will see death on an unimagined scale if that enemy has inputs on your vaccines. The fact that the Chinese have a role in manufacturing vaccine precursors should leave us all in doubt as to the competence of our own officials. To push a vaccine that would normally require a decade of testing — to literally experiment with hundreds of millions of lives — is so monstrous an act, that every public official pushing it should be compelled to resign from public service. I cannot believe that we have become a guinea pig nation. In principle, we have lost our sense of self-preservation.
Bravo Sir, so very well stated. We only guinea pigs voluntarily so far, but strongly coerced nonetheless. The pressure could become much greater, but I doubt that it will be mandated. People might not be allowed in any business establishment that accepts the privilege of a business license, though, but backlash is building, as in Melbourne, Australia, where people are marching in the streets against in home lock downs. The chant in response to propaganda: “A real virus needs no advertising”.
Yessir
This is going to be impossible for most reading it to believe, but I believe there will be mass executions of our elites for their role in this, once the tide turns. Yes, China is to the eyeballs in it, but our elites could have stopped it if they were truly guarding us. They got away with presiding over the genocide of countless millions of unborn infants and now they’re facilitating, if not encouraging, the genocide of as many of the rest of us as possible. God, Whom they refuse to acknowledge, will visit their iniquities upon them suddenly and require the blood of the innocent slain. It’s inevitable and unavoidable. They are in a world of trouble.
Jeff, thank you for writing this insight! our progressive leaders in the USA and around the world who believe in their 100 year system that they have erected and are so confident in it that there is no possibility of problem. The public-health-academic-big-pharma-industrial-complex seems to be the ultimate fertile soil for a Trojan Horse to be inserted into.
Why is the news nowadays always about what’s going to happen yet never does. Are the laws going to change to allow the FDA to approve unproven vaccines. Clinical trials take years, not weeks. Personally, I doubt that the FDA has been hijacked, as the Veteran’s Administration has, as evidenced by their requiring VA health workers to get vaccinated.
Secretary Shinseki, held a press conference in front of the Jupiter, Florida VA, saying that: ‘There’s a culture of corruption here. I tried to clean it out and I wasn’t able to do it. Therefore, I hereby resign.
(paraphrased).
https://www.kwtx.com/2021/07/10/pentagon-considering-mandatory-covid-vaccines-military-members/
https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/07/01/prepare-for-mandatory-covid-vaccines-in-september-army-tells-commands/
It’s Biden who predicts that the FDA will approve vaccines. The military is just following orders in saying that they are considering forced vaccinations. The key words are: ‘considering’, and ‘predicts’.
The VA can require health care workers to get vaccinated, but the workers can refuse at risk of being fired for insubordination. Soldiers can’t be ordered to be vaccinated with unproven vaccines, because they can’t quit their jobs. If the vaccines were to be approved by the FDA, then the military would be able to order troops to be vaccinated, but it’s only Biden’s prediction, not what the FDA said that it’s going to do. In fact, the FDA would not say what it’s going to do, they would simply do it if and when vaccines proved safe.
Biden is a bully. Bullies are cowards. They always back down when challenged. As long as people continue to wear useless masks which violate the Right to Free Speech, then Government fells that people can be further bluffed into anything.
It’s time to wipe your ass with the mask and FedEx it to Fauci.
Personally, I have seen very little evidence over the years that the military is an independent actor in terms of defending the U.S. Constitution. If the U.S. military is given the order to force Americans to be inoculated, it will eagerly do so. For the same reason rumours of a civil war have yet to verify. Armed Americans have yet to “take the fight” to the Deep State in D.C. Military-worship obscures the chain of command that leads directly to the Deep State. Standing armies, after all, are unconstitutional, and county sheriffs, rather than the police, should be in charge. Given that Obama serially violated the U.S. Constitution on a daily basis, why was there no military coup during Obama’s eight years?
There is a continuity of policy in the military, irrespective of party affiliation of Commander and Chief. The Pentagon would argue with the Administration over stupidity and probably do so all the time.
Seems to me that Biden shot off at the mouth as usual, then the lawyers reigned him in, then to save face, he says he can do what he wants but he changed his mind. It’s litigation that Biden’s handlers fear.
Biden’s back pedaling already.
[ “…despite his authority to do so…] ?
BS!
Right, just like he can punch out President Trump. He could do it if he wanted to. He just won’t for some unknown reason. BS!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/27/politics/vaccine-mandate-for-federal-employees-under-consideration/index.html
[ Biden will not impose the requirement on the US military, despite his authority to do so, for the time being. He is, however, likely to outline how the Department of Defense may seek to approach the issue going forward, the source said. ]
The Delta strain is dead in Melbourne, with only 13% of citizens vaccinated. They didn’t even obey the lockdown.
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/coronavirus-melbourne-to-lift-lockdown-as-delta-outbreak-contained-2495586
My guess is that people feel sick after the vaccination, and anyone who says they have symptoms will be tested, and the spit snot test will invariably show trace of the virus. They just don’t call it Covid unless you have symptoms. No differentiating for Flu, Rhino Virus, or Pneumonia, either.
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Higher COVID Rate Found In Some Counties With Higher Vaccination Rate – Why, And What It Says About The Delta Variant
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/07/26/covid-vaccination-california-counties/