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Bill Rattigan's avatar

As Putin knows, it’s not the people of the west; it’s the ruling elite, Epstein class of Satan worshipping pedos who have gained control who are the real enemy.

frankly's avatar

Sorry our history is replete with advice that we have ignored at our own peril.

So here we are back to the same old, well someone else has to change, it's not our fault paradigm.

We built our status and pile of goodies while our goons enforced our diktats to steal from foreign countries.

We did not walk a mile in their shoes. Now they come for us.

Bill Rattigan's avatar

Yes almost all nations have at some time fallen under the control of evil and Russia is no exception but now looks to become the light of the world.

Philip's avatar

It's always important to remember that when talking about the West we must in my opinion often separate the current Western thought amongst the very strange and dark actors that are the 'elites' from the many incredible 'ordinary' western folk who are in some ways awakening to their psychopathic behaviour..

Tom Welsh's avatar

"Double standards are very characteristic of the West: they spoke of progress while creating slavery, they spoke of equality while colonizing other peoples, they spoke of justice while organizing the genocide of entire countries and societies".

Thank you for this generally accurate and thought-provoking article! However, I take issue with the perhaps rather hasty statement that "the West" created slavery. Apart from the extreme vagueness of "the West", which I suppose does seem more definite as seen from Russia, slavery has characterised most human societies known to history. While serfdom was no doubt a more typical Russian institution, I don't see that being a serf was necessarily much better than being a slave. In any case, vast slave trades existed in Europe, Africa, and Asia from the earliest times. Americans often seem to take the "credit" for "creating slavery", but nothing could be further from the truth. Most slave traders simply bought people already enslaved by fellow-Africans or Asians. Although I do not know the facts, I suspect that slavery was practised in the Americas before the advent of Europeans.

Vince Wagner's avatar

You should invite me to speak at your next philosophy conference. I will untie the Gordian knot in less than 10 minutes, you will finally learn something, we can adjourn and then all go out for cocktails. I’ll make it simple: the entire world is infected by a parasite. A parasite that is poisoning it and strangling it. It is the Zionists. That, is the crux of the problem

Nicole Alexiel Argyros's avatar

Professor Dugin, given that the material and institutional infrastructure of governance is now globally uniform, how exactly does a multipolar project propose to structurally bypass this total synchronisation to actualise a genuinely autonomous civilisational temporality?

In the contemporary world, the Western concept of time has long ceased to be an idea and has mutated into an inescapable physical architecture. The planetary grid is completely synchronised. Every aspiring alternative 'pole' on the global stage, whether navigating through the lens of civilisational resentment or traditional revival, is entirely dependent upon a shared, locked-in operational grammar.

When a state coordinates its sovereignty through Westphalian bureaucratic administration, clears its transactions via global financial plumbing, tracks its logistics via microsecond network protocols, and evaluates its internal legitimacy through material performance metrics and technical optimisation, it is no longer operating on 'cyclical' or 'sacred' time. It is clocked into the exact same systemic machine as its geopolitical rivals.

At this profound level of systemic complexity and integration, mere political or civilisational will is structurally insufficient to affect a genuine decoupling. The systemic costs of engineering an entirely separate, parallel global infrastructure are prohibitively high. Consequently, geopolitical hedging does not pave the way for a true civilisational succession and merely generates localised friction points and inefficiencies within the existing planetary matrix.

China may attempt to hyper-optimise its position, and Russia may act as a defensive, rear-guard friction point against the late-stage pathologies of this global system, but neither is introducing a rival civilisational operating system -- only an attempt at better terms within it. To believe that a society can achieve genuine temporal autonomy while its state mechanics and technological stacks are entirely mediated by this synchronised infrastructure is a romantic illusion. You cannot rewrite the fundamental coding of a planetary machine simply by changing the cosmetic cultural wallpaper of the state running it. Multipolarity at the level of rhetoric is still total synchronisation at the level of systems and infrastructure.

mehdi valizadeh's avatar

A society can RESIST and find a way. And present your way as a rival civilisation operating system. Resistance is the key

Nicole Alexiel Argyros's avatar

So what does a rival operating system look like?

​Pro tip: it cannot fundamentally rely on Westphalian state mechanics, formal bureaucratic administration, digital technics, nor performance-based economic metrics. And if the 'alternative' is in any way simply a regional variation of central banking plumbing, logistical optimisation, and state data-tracking, then sad to say it isn't a rival civilisation. At all.

JohnSmith's avatar

Excellent initiative on time.

Indeed, following physics, I'd go so far as to say space-time curves around completely different conceptions.

To my sensibility, this is the time of Armageddon.

Of the final confrontation.

Everything is too clear, everything is too heavy, everything pushes toward free will without compromise or strange modesty. Let's wait.

David Chere-Bolelwang's avatar

Deep and thought- provoking discussions like these go to the core of what is ailing the West.. Rarely if any, do they come up anywhere in the West where they are needed the most.. Philosophically and in terms of wealth, the West captured the hearts and minds of the entire globe, more so since the end of WWII, and the crises of moral and spiritual decay are now what the whole world is having to face up to if there is to be any global survival of life on the planet.

The fact of the matter is that the entire Western way of life has been more a criminal establishment and has treated the entire globe as its turf to do as it wills, regardless of the harm, spiritual and in other ways like the brutal colonization of Africa..

Simply put, the West cannot save us all just as it is unable to save itself. Gatherings like the BRICS, SCO, ASEAN and other like-minded associations need to see the big picture and hopefully be the bridge that will see us through.. (from Johannesburg)

Sister Lily's avatar

Excellent thinking

The Last Warrior's avatar

Каплан не силён, но он хороший стратег и отличный плеймейкер. Тигр не силён, но он хороший стратег, умелый игрок. Если вы продолжите идти этим путём, мы можем подумать, что вы сотрудничаете с этими тиграми в стратегических целях.

The Last Warrior's avatar

Не вся правда должна рассказываться повсюду; причин и оснований много. России необходимо взять себя в руки перед лицом мировых держав. Не вся правда должна быть рассказана повсюду; причин и оснований много. России нужно взять себя в руки. Вы имеете дело с кошкой, когда на другом конце света находится тигр. Этот тигр ВСЕГДА изматывает свою добычу с помощью кошки, а затем охотится на неё.

The Last Warrior's avatar

Вы не стратег, который думает о России, любит её и защищает; именно вы втягиваете Россию в трясину. Вы не стратег, который думает о России, любит её и защищает; вы просто человек, который втягивает Россию в трясину. Что вы за стратег?

The Last Warrior's avatar

Russia must withdraw from Ukraine. Withdraw Russia from Ukraine, don't dream of attacking Poland, strategy demands it. What is your aim? You constantly manipulate Russia and drag it into a quagmire.