What is happening now in Ukraine is a war. There is no more SMO: what there is is called ‘war’. Not a war between Russia and Ukraine, but a collective war of the West against Russia. When American informers direct missiles towards Russian territory, one can only speak of ‘war’, and it doesn’t matter which hands they are fighting with. When they aim the HIMERs at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, it can be interpreted as an attempted nuclear attack on Russia. If the US, NATO and the collective West had not sided with the terrorist regime in Kiev, all the HIMERs’ objectives would have been successfully achieved long ago, but the real war has begun. The West has crossed all red lines. This is irreversible.
Russia – both the authorities and the people – cannot fail to understand this. Hence the first steps towards the declaration of martial law and mobilisation – in Chechnya, in Crimea and then, I believe, in other regions too – especially the border regions.
What is happening above all requires reflection. Three geopolitical periods can be distinguished in the modern history of Russia.
The first is that of the 1990s. The USSR collapsed and Russia capitulated in favour of the West. The price of the capitulation was the dismemberment of the great power (Russia as USSR = Russian Empire) and the delayed disintegration of the Russian Federation, a split of the USSR. The West predicted the final disintegration of the Russian Federation. Of course, Yeltsin attempted – albeit clumsily and inconsistently – to oppose it: hence the point of the First Chechen Company. If Russia had lost it, it would have been left with only one option: what modern Western ideologues call ‘decolonisation’, i.e. complete disintegration and the final transfer of power to a pro-Western occupying administration, the so-called ‘liberals’.
The second period began with Vladimir Putin’s rise to power. The new course consisted of stopping the inevitable (as it seemed at the time) disintegration and restoring Russia’s sovereignty, which had been dealt a severe, almost unbearable blow. At the same time, the government’s main line was not to enter into a direct confrontation with the West, to relax vigilance and create the illusion that Russia agreed with the globalists’ basic demands, but only insisted on a postponement. It worked. The second Chechen campaign was won and the Chechens themselves, from separatists and enemies of Russia, became its most loyal sons and defenders. Separatism was also eradicated in other regions. Russia strengthened its independence and began to actively influence international processes. At some point, the West recognised Putin’s strategy and orientation towards sovereignty and began to prepare for a serious confrontation.
In 2014, the globalists broke into Ukraine, organised and supported a coup d’état and brought a neo-Nazi Russophobic terrorist clique slavishly loyal to the US and NATO to power in Kiev. Moscow responded by reuniting Crimea and supporting the long-suffering population of the Donbass, but it was a compromise. The epilogue came on 24 February 2022.
We have now entered the third period of Russia’s modern history: a war with the West.
This period is the most difficult and decisive, but we could not prevent or avoid it. The price was surrender. The geopolitical war of the West against Russia is ongoing, only the stages change: cold or hot. Right now it is hot, there is no hotter place.
The West does not admit the very possibility of the existence of a sovereign, independent and autonomous Russia. The same applies to China and other countries that take their sovereignty seriously. From the globalists’ point of view, only those states have a right to exist that agree with the ideology of liberalism, with the general line of the US and NATO, with the movement towards world government. All those who oppose must be defeated.
This is a purely racist approach. Anyone who thinks differently from us should be wiped off the face of the earth. This is nothing new for the West. What is new is its fusion with liberalism, with the LGBT agenda, with the radical desire of the modern West and its elites to destroy all the structures of traditional society – religion, the state, the family, ethics, man himself – by merging him with a machine and putting him under total surveillance, under total control. Welcome to the Matrix, to the ‘brave new world’.
Russia – and especially sovereign Russia – does not fit into this context at all. That is why the West openly supports all terrorist and extremist organisations and terrorist acts directed against Russia, against Russians, against Russian civilisation itself and its bearers.
We are at war. It is already impossible to avoid and has never been avoidable from the beginning, because this is the basic logic of the history of things: while some powers want to maintain the unipolar world and their planetary hegemony at any cost, others are rebelling against it and openly proclaiming a multipolar world order. Who wins this war will determine the future, if there is a future.
Russia has already entered the war. China, another powerful sovereign pole, is about to enter.
It should therefore come as no surprise that Russia is in a ring of fire. The escalation of hostilities between Russian allies Azerbaijan and Armenia, the conflict between other allies, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the promise of some political forces in Georgia to open a second front against Russia, the artificial rekindling of the Transnistrian conflict in Moldova, the growing threats to Belarus and the policies of its sovereign leader Alexander Lukashenko and, finally, the attempts to isolate the Kaliningrad region and the direct attacks on Russian regions – Crimea, Belgorod oblast, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov oblast, Krasnodar Krai – are all elements of the US’s customary Western Anaconda strategy to strangle Russia. Legitimately, we are looking for an answer and this explains the true meaning of the last SCO summit.
We need allies in a multipolar world. And we have a chance to find them, but this time outside the West.
In essence, we are in World War III.
What to do in such a situation?
First and most important: accept things as they are. This is very important. The public consciousness does not catch up with the course of events, does not understand the meaning of history, is not aware of the irreversibility – fatality – of change. Suppose a murderer enters a house and the owners are sleeping. Or another situation: he sneaks in and they, aware of the threat, are awake. Of course, this too could end badly, but there is a possibility. When everyone is asleep, there is no chance of salvation. Russia, wake up.
The second thing is to declare martial law in the country and act accordingly. Not everywhere, but in the most vulnerable key areas, especially in the border regions. In those that are already at war. Or in those where the authorities are objectively and soberly aware of the situation the country is in. Remember how the regions behaved during the covid epidemic? Some introduced stricter measures, others less, and the Kremlin was watching, noting, observing. Now it is the same. We impose martial law, we rebuild policy on a clear ‘All for the front, all for victory’ thesis, and we are responsible for it. If we have been too hasty, we will correct ourselves. And if we are too late?
Third: restructure the economy in a warlike manner. I may be condemned by the patriots who hate our government’s economic blockade, but I see that the economic situation in Russia is much the same, given such radical conditions. We thought it was the weakest link, but it is not. I don’t want to and cannot go into any more detail, but the main thing is another: we have to put industry and the financial system on the warpath. It is everyone’s job to equip our troops with everything they need. From weapons, transport, UAVs, body armour and secure communications to clothing and medicine. It is now a matter of life and death. The supply of the army and volunteers. And here, perhaps, the worst punishments should be meted out for sabotage and corruption. Those excesses in the procurement of our fighters, which we all hear about, make our blood run cold.
Fourthly, the mobilisation of society. Most competent people and those who fight say that we do not need total mobilisation, but full equipment and an influx of qualified reservists with military experience and a profession. People are ready, but they must be given the conditions. Both material and psychological. To go from peace (or rather the illusion of peace) to war there must be good reasons. The Russian information machine should provide them.
Fifth: a culture of awakening. Society must wake up to war. This requires a huge effort – in education, in the arts, in the reorganisation of the information sphere.
Who are we? Who is our enemy? Where does this conflict come from? What are its causes? What are our traditions, ideals and values for which we are shedding blood, enduring hardship and receiving blows?
Who are they? Where does their hatred for us come from? Why have they decided to destroy us? What kind of world do they want to build?
In a thousand ways, scientists, artists, philosophers, journalists, teachers must give clear answers to these questions over and over again.
The culture of awakening is ideology. The ideology of our Victory.
One last thing: many already awakened people – they still think in the categories of loyalty/betrayal. This is already behind us. The conditions for betrayal are no longer there. The die is cast and there is no turning back. Those on our side are condemned on that side. Those who try to cross over to the side of an enemy intent on destroying us sign their own condemnation
Yes, we are not on an equal footing. The collective West fights for its planetary supremacy, while we fight only to be, only for life, only for the right to be what we are. They can withdraw, as long as they have somewhere to go. We cannot. Our backs are against the wall.
The West is attacking us on our own Russian soil. And no one can count on the enemy’s forgiveness. Everyone will be reminded of everything.
All that remains is victory. In the name of the fallen. In the name of the living. In the name of those who have yet to live and who may never have the chance to be born. Everything depends on us.
Translation by Lorenzo Maria Pacini