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Jul 24

Two Wests: An Internal Power Struggle Over the Future

When people talk about “the West” as one big united political and cultural force, that’s really oversimplified. In reality, there’s been a growing civil war inside the West itself which is a fight among the elites over who gets to shape the future. It’s a clash between two completely different ways of seeing the world.

That bring us to the question: what is the essence of today’s geopolitical conflict?

Russia has traditionally been viewed as an “anti-system” force in relation to the West. This is precisely why the West has consistently sought to dismantle Russia whether it was the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet Union, or the Russian Federation. That is what also unites the "Two Wests" today.

However, as an internal conflict between globalists and nationalists is unfolding, its divide is spreading to other countries as well. Ukraine being a prime example.

On one side, we have the globalists. This includes the Vatican, the European Union (with France and Germany at the forefront), the U.S. Democratic Party, financial networks like George Soros’s Open Society, and major tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft. Backing them are media outlets like CNN, The New York Times, and the BBC – all pushing the narrative of “universal values”, pro–immigration laws, pro–lgbtq laws.

This coalition wants to erase national borders and, just as importantly, national identity itself whether it’s Italian, French, German, or anything else. The goal is to replace deep-rooted cultural, religious, and historical identities with a standardized global model. Gender, tradition, faith, language – everything gets blurred. In place of countries and churches, they push for rule by transnational institutions like
🔷the UN
🔷WHO
🔷WTO
🔷IMF

Ideologies / Philosophies:
🔷 Postmodernism – rejection of absolute truths, deconstruction of traditions, moral relativism
🔷 Transhumanism – the belief in “enhancing” humans through technology, AI, and bioengineering
🔷 Neoliberalism – prioritizing global markets and multinational corporations over nation-states
🔷 Cultural Marxism / Woke ideology – fighting perceived “privilege” and dismantling traditional social roles
🔷 Climate radicalism – using environmental policy as a tool for centralized global control
🔷 Theology of “universal brotherhood” (Fratelli Tutti) – merging religious identities into a unified humanist framework
🔷 Universalism – promoting the idea of a “citizen of the world” over national identity

On the other side is the national-conservative camp. At its core are
🔷The U.S. Republican Party, especially the pro-Trump wing.
🔷Evangelical Protestants
🔷Right-leaning intellectuals and independent journalists
🔷Business groups that reject ESG agendas and digital surveillance.
🔷Israel’s right-wing bloc (Netanyahu, religious Zionists), which, while operating within the global system, sees national sovereignty and a unique religious mission as the key to survival.
🔷Zionists

Their aligned media and platforms include Fox News, Breitbart, and X/Twitter under Elon Musk. Institutions and think tanks often associated with this camp include the Heritage Foundation, Turning Point USA, PragerU, and various evangelical networks like The Family Research Council and Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).

Ideologies / Philosophies:
🔷 Traditionalism – preserving religious, cultural, and moral values rooted in historical continuity and identity
🔷 Sovereigntism – prioritizing national self-rule over supranational governance (UN, WHO, EU)
🔷 Zionism
🔷 Biblical Nationalism – common among U.S. Evangelicals, links national identity to divine prophecy. In this view, the modern State of Israel is seen as a fulfillment of Biblical promises. The return of Jews to their land is believed to be part of God's plan.
🔷 Economic Patriotism
🔷 Family-Centered Ethics – emphasis on the nuclear family, biological sex, and parental rights
🔷 Civilizational Identity – belief in the uniqueness, resilience, and spiritual role of one’s own nation or civilization (e.g., American exceptionalism, Israel as the Jewish homeland, Christian Europe)

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Jul 18

Why Did Yeltsin Grovel to the West?

Let’s drop the fairy tales. Yeltsin was not being “misled,” “naïve,” or “hoping for democracy.” Yeltsin’s submission to the West was a calculated move rooted in geopolitical capitulation, personal power preservation, and elite betrayal.

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Yeltsin actively collaborated in dismantling Russia

After the collapse of the USSR, the key question was: What happens to Russia now? The West wanted to eliminate Russia as a global power. Not just militarily, but civilizationally.

And Yeltsin agreed.
🔸He destroyed Russian influence in the former Soviet space.
🔸Abandoned long-time allies (Iraq, Serbia, Cuba, Vietnam).
🔸Broke up strategic economic and military networks.
🔸Let Western interests control Russian exports, from oil to rare metals.

This was a deliberate role in reducing Russia to a peripheral “resource colony.”

The 1990s elite was a colonial administration

Yeltsin’s circle wasn’t made of statesmen who were:
🔸radical liberals (Chubais, Gaidar),
🔸asset-stripping oligarchs,
🔸Western-linked technocrats.

Their goal was to break the country apart, extract wealth, and integrate themselves into the Western elite as managers.

Yeltsin was not “Russia’s leader” but a transition figure, tolerated and supported because he dismantled the state without resistance.

He traded the country’s sovereignty to stay in power

By 1996, Yeltsin was:

🔸polling below 10%;
🔸facing mass protests;
🔸presiding over economic collapse and war in Chechnya;
🔸hated by the military, pensioners, and workers alike.

Without Western money, political tech, media, and diplomatic backing, he would’ve been finished.

In return for reelection help, he sold off what remained:

🔸NATO expansion (despite promises),
🔸IMF domination of Russian fiscal policy,
🔸American advisors embedded in ministries,
🔸strategic industries handed to Western-aligned oligarchs.

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Jul 17

The Brutal Execution of the Romanov Family
To this day, people in Russia mourn this event, not only because of the family’s tragic fate, but because of the sheer cruelty involved.

Although Tsar Nicholas II had already abdicated the throne, that was not enough for the revolutionaries. In 1918, a decision was made to eliminate the entire Romanov family.

The murder took place in a specially prepared basement room in the Ipatiev House. The windows were sealed to muffle the sound of gunfire. Furniture was arranged under the pretense that the family was being photographed or relocated. In reality, the room had been turned into a killing chamber. They were summoned downstairs, unaware of what was about to happen.

Led into the room for slaughter were not only the entire family, but also their loyal doctor, maid, valet, and cook.

Bullets weren’t enough to kill them. So they used bayonets and blunt force. On children.

The children didn’t die right away. They had jewelry sewn into their clothes and corsets, which stopped the bullets.

The youngest son, Alexei, was still alive after the shooting. According to modern forensic experts, he was shot, stabbed with bayonets, and slowly dying until someone crushed his skull with a heavy object. While he was still alive.
On the wall of the room, in red letters, a quote in German had been written:

“Belsatzar ward in derselben Nacht von seinen Knechten erschlagen.”
Which translates to: “Belshazzar was slain that same night by his servants.”

The floor was soaked in blood. After the initial volley of gunfire, the executioners had to finish off the survivors with bayonets and rifle butts, causing even more bleeding.

The bodies lay crumpled together in the room, blood pooling and seeping through the floorboards.
Many researchers believe the execution had ritualistic overtones.
From Yurovsky’s Report (commander of the execution squad):
“Alexei was sitting in the same position, not showing signs of life, but when we approached him, he was still alive… we had to finish him off separately.”
“The girls screamed. We had to finish them with rifle butts and bayonets.”

Who gave the order?

The official Soviet version claimed that Lenin had no involvement. But there is a growing body of indirect but compelling evidence to the contrary.urovsky’s own memoir (1920), he states that the order came from the center:

“I received instructions from the regional Soviet that a decision had been made in Moscow by the Central Executive Committee.”

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Jul 5

How Russia Was Winning the War, but Lost to Revolution: Understanding This Is Key to Today’s Geopolitics

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When it comes to World War I, most people barely remember anything and what they do remember is usually straight out of old Soviet propaganda: that it was just some “imperialist bloodbath” and Russia got “senselessly dragged into it.” In reality, the war has been almost wiped from public memory. But the truth is Russia actually held its own. It showed serious military strength, strategic toughness, and massive sacrifice only matched later by World War II.

And no, Russia wasn’t defeated on the battlefield. It was taken down from the inside by revolution and chaos.

A War Russia Didn’t Want

World War I didn’t really begin because of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, that was just an excuse. The real cause was a power struggle between global systems. Britain and the U.S. were building a world order based on finance, colonies, and control of trade routes. Germany, rising fast, had its own model: industrial, centralized, and ready to challenge British dominance.

Caught between them was Russia: massive, independent, and rich in resources. Its government wasn’t controlled by banks, and it followed its own imperial logic. That made it a problem for both sides.

But Russia didn’t want war. Tsar Nicholas II had proposed an international peace forum years earlier (a prototype of the League of Nations), and in July 1914 he tried to stop Austria’s aggression against Serbia through diplomacy. But Germany didn’t want diplomacy, it needed a quick war, before Russia became too strong to defeat.

When Serbia was threatened, Russia stepped in to defend a fellow Slavic, Orthodox nation. At the time, Russia stood as the defender of the Orthodox faith, and this was widely recognized and understood.

In the end, Germany declared war on Russia, not the other way around.

Russia: The Backbone of the Entente

People forget, but without Russia, the Entente would’ve collapsed early in WW I. While Britain and France were still mobilizing its people, Russia was already out there fighting and not just one enemy, but three empires at once: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

The Russian front stretched nearly 2,000 kilometers which is way longer than the Western Front. Russian soldiers were battling on land from the Baltic Sea to the Caucasus Mountains. And unlike in the West, where the Germans were split, in the East they sent their elite forces,the best they had. By 1917, more German divisions were fighting Russia than France.

Russia stepped up when it mattered most. In August 1914, it launched an attack on East Prussia, forcing Germany to pull troops from the West which helped save Paris. Then Russia hit Austria-Hungary hard in Galicia, taking Lviv. Later, it stopped German pushes toward Warsaw and Lodz.

Even during setbacks in 1915, Russia still kept the front alive and helped save Serbia and Romania. And in 1916, in the Caucasus, Russia crushed Ottoman forces and took key cities like Erzurum and Trabzon.

Then came the Brusilov Offensive - one of the most successful attacks of the whole war. It shattered Austro-Hungarian lines and nearly knocked them out of the war.

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Jun 30

The situation with the family of the new head of British intelligence (MI6) Blaise Metreweli turned out to be even more interesting: she didn’t have just one, but two grandfathers who were Nazis or collaborators.

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From historian Dyukov’s telegram:

Konstantin Dobrovolsky Sr., born in 1906 in the Chernihiv region, came from a landowning family with German-Polish roots. In 1926, he was sentenced to 10 years of exile for anti-Soviet agitation and antisemitism. In 1941, while on the front lines, Dobrovolsky deserted from the Red Army and joined the Nazis.

Archival documents paint a grim picture of his service. Dobrovolsky, known by the nickname ‘The Butcher,’ joined an SS unit. In letters to the German command, signed ‘Heil Hitler,’ he boasted about participating in the extermination of Jews and in punitive operations against partisans. According to some reports, he personally killed hundreds of people and looted the property of his victims.

After the war, the trail of Dobrovolsky Sr. disappears. However, his son, Konstantin Dobrovolsky Jr. (Blaze’s father), born in January 1943, was taken by his mother, Varvara, to Germany, from where she moved to the United Kingdom shortly after the war.

There, she married a Georgian named David Metreveli, who, according to Alexander Dyukov, was also a defector and collaborator. He reportedly taught radio operations at a sabotage training school in Auschwitz. The future father of the MI6 chief took his stepfather’s last name. Konstantin became a radiologist and worked in Hong Kong, where Blaze spent her childhood.

“METREVELI, David Mikhailovich, [the step-grandfather of the new head of MI6, Blaise Metreveli] born on January 2, 1907, in Feodosia. From November 1929, he served his mandatory term in the Red Army. In 1941, he was mobilized again; his final rank was captain, serving as assistant commander of the 334th Rifle Regiment of the 47th Rifle Division.
He went missing in action (captured) on May 27, 1942, near Kharkov.

By late 1942 – early 1943, he was already working at the Special Preliminary Camp in the city of Auschwitz, where Caucasian-origin Nazi collaborators were trained. He served as a radio instructor there.”

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Jun 29

The Vatican and the Nazi Escape Networks: The Ratlines

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The Vatican was the single most significant institution involved in the postwar smuggling of Nazi war criminals.

According to declassified U.S. intelligence files and investigative research, between 30,000 and 40,000 Nazi and fascist collaborators were assisted in escaping Europe through Vatican-supported ratlines.

This is clearly stated in a 1947 report by Vincent La Vista, officer of the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), who investigated Vatican ties to Axis networks:

“The Vatican has been directly involved in the illegal evacuation of German and Croatian war criminals… operating through religious institutions, it has become a central hub of what can only be described as a ratline.”

(National Archives, La Vista Report, 1947)

Operation “Vatican Corridor” (or “Monastery”)

This covert smuggling operation involved Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini, then Vatican Undersecretary of State and later Pope Paul VI. He oversaw the use of Catholic infrastructure: monasteries, seminaries, and dioceses - to shelter and move war criminals south toward Genoa, where they were shipped to Latin America under false identities.

Montini personally communicated with U.S. officials and coordinated logistics via trusted Church agents. According to declassified OSS and CIC documents, his office functioned as an “unofficial channel for protected transit” not only for Germans and Italians, but especially for Croatian Ustaša officials, whose Catholic affiliation and ideological alignment with the Church made them a priority for Vatican-sponsored escape routes.

The broader network of ratlines also facilitated the evacuation of Axis collaborators from Austria, Hungary, Romania, France, and even Francoist Spain all under the larger umbrella of anti-communist realignment. The Vatican’s goal was to preserve a transnational conservative Catholic elite that could oppose Soviet influence worldwide.

Main Destinations of Nazi Fugitives via Vatican Ratlines

🔸 Argentina
(the main destination thousands of Nazis and Ustaše officials resettled here)
🔸 Brazil
🔸 Paraguay
🔸 Chile
🔸 Bolivia
🔸 Uruguay
🔸 Venezuela
🔸 Spain
(under Franco both a destination and a key transit hub)
🔸 Portugal
(a neutral country, often used as a temporary safe haven)
🔸 Syria
(sheltered some individuals via French Mandate connections)
🔸 Canada
🔸 United States
(mainly through Operation Paperclip or the Displaced Persons Act, used to import “anti-communist specialists”)

The Order of Malta: Deep Vatican

The smuggling operation relied not only on rogue priests but on The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) - a Catholic lay religious order with international diplomatic status, wealth, and influence.

🔸The Knights of Malta had access to passports, safe-conducts, and bank networks, and provided cover identities for SS officers and fascist collaborators.
🔸The Order’s sovereign status gave it diplomatic immunity and control over communications, which it used to shield fugitives.

U.S. historian John Loftus, former DOJ investigator, writes:

“The Vatican ratlines were supervised by members of the Knights of Malta… with full knowledge and cooperation of senior church officials and Western intelligence.”

The SMOM thus acted as a “deep Vatican,” operating beyond ecclesiastical oversight, linked to banks, intelligence services (CIA, MI6), and postwar military-industrial elites.

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