Author: Andrej Il’nitskij – 01/04/2023
Mental genocide – the strategy of the hegemon
“Don’t worry about anything that has nothing to do with the present,” Chapaev said.
— You still need to be able to get into the future that you are talking about. Perhaps you will find yourself in a future where there will be no Furmanov. Or perhaps you will reach a future in which there will be no you”
“Chapaev and Void”, Pelevin
War is a complex phenomenon where there are philosophical, sociological, mental, historical, military and other components in various proportions. Alas, history shows that as human civilization develops, the number of military conflicts increases.
Multi-scale wars are becoming a form of social existence.
George Orwell wrote: “War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is power” and this is the cruel reality of the Western world, which declared a civilizational war on Russia.
This article will show how to survive and win in this existential clash.
Peace is war
History shows that as civilization develops, the number of wars and various kinds of military conflicts increases.
Wars become a form of society’s existence – a difficult, tragic and all-changing existence.
Clausewitz’s popular ideology that war is a continuation of politics by other means is irrelevant.
Today, war is politics itself.
Former US Secretary of Defense D. Rumsfeld once said that a “transformative event” is needed to overcome the crisis and create a new world. They, in his opinion, can be epidemics, revolutions/coups and, of course, wars.
After the Second World War, more than 250 military conflicts took place. About 80% of them are the work of the United States and NATO. More than 10 million people have died in these conflicts.
Not surprising at all.
Getting out of the crisis through war is a traditional method for them. Yankees are extremely algorithmic: if something worked, and not just once, you can try it again. Therefore, they regularly and cynically set fire to the world, hoping to take all the resources for themselves under the cover of smoke and chaos, camouflaging this robbery with a veil of “struggle for democratic values”.
The analysis of the US “National Security Strategy”, adopted in October 2022, clearly shows that Russia is a principled, high-quality rival for the West, the rival number one.
Analysts from the most influential British think-tank — the Royal Institute of International Relations Chatham House back in 2021 in their report “Myths and misconceptions in the debate on Russia” emphasized: Regardless of who ultimately succeeds Putin, Russia’s political culture will continue to hinder the development of more constructive relations with the West undoubtedly. The West will not be able to normalize relations with Russia due to the profound difference in goals and values.
We are a stumbling block, a fundamental civilizational obstacle to the development of the West. Therefore, their policy in the next decade will be aimed precisely at the destruction of Russia.
War for Hegemony
The West unleashed a hybrid war against Russia with a “hot” proxy conflict on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR.
War to destroy Russia.
This war has compacted space, time, and meanings.
She firmly linked the present with the future, plunging the future into the present.
Everything that is real is authentic. Otherwise, it is discarded.
The image of the future, ensuring sustainable development, social progress, and similar political science simulacra are no longer relevant.
What, who and why we are today – determines our tomorrow.
These questions really came up before us-seriously and without semitones.
And no one will solve them for us.
The whole history of Russia shows that when they try to make us part of something else, brought in from outside, they lead us to destruction. No matter what the intentions are, the question for Russia is exactly this: by ourselves or in no way.
Nothing else is given.
Therefore, the meaning of the present is the choice of the future.
Today, war is the strategy of the West.
The essence of the Western strategy is to ensure the power of the hegemon.
The content is to eliminate what hinders hegemony.
As our Supreme Commander-in-Chief has repeatedly emphasized:
“They simply have nothing to offer to the world other than maintaining their dominance…”
This is a strategy of destroying Russia, subjugating China, and everything that can shape the multipolarity of the world.
This strategy is based on the ideology of superiority, the ideology of the abolition/ destruction of the other.
Even if “the other” is history, culture, civilizations, countries, peoples, states.
For if otherwise means wrong, then it must become right.
For there is only one standard of correctness — the hegemon.
Anything that does not correspond to it is a historical fluctuation and encumbrance of the world with excessive complexity.
Therefore, it must be adjusted, changed, and cease to be itself… or cease to exist at all.
In fact, this is global segregation and neo-Nazism, as the political scientist Fursov correctly wrote: The “brown” idea in the modern world works to create a system that denies the human part in man. In this respect, Hitler appeared too early. Because he didn’t have the technical means to turn a man into a brute. But when he said: “I release you from your conscience”, he was heading this way…”
The Grey-Zone of War
The initiators and customers of the Western war against Russia are the United States and Britain.
Or, more precisely, multinational corporations, including various “groups of influence” and network structures that represent what is commonly called the deep state.
Deep state, as a “shadow global force”, is a global problem. This is exactly what Trump talked about in his election speech at the beginning of 2023: “I will destroy the deep state. Many Americans now understand the enemy isn’t Russia or China. The enemy is the US deep state oligarchy that weaponizes intelligence services, bribes politicians, and controls the media…”
In fact, we are talking about a government that is completely closed and uncontrolled, aggressive and expansionist, acting in the name of its own interests and according to its own established rules.
We are talking about a global power aimed at destroying national States and international law.
For the war for hegemony waged by the deep state against the world, the concept of a “gray zone” was developed and doctrinally fixed.
The policy of the “gray zone” is a policy of war, it is a game without morals and rules, an ideology without principles, actions without responsibility, a war without declaration, but with a clear goal – to ensure the hegemony of the West (more precisely, the same deep state).
There is a global party of the “gray zone” against Russia, not only from the outside, but from the inside, — the party of coming to power through a war aimed at destroying the civilizational foundations and the mental sphere of Russia.
This is a mental war that combines the tactical level of information warfare with cognitive-psychological operations, culminating in the occupation of the enemy’s mental sphere.
The goal of the West’s mental war is our history, culture, and education — the content core of our civilization, the organizational basis of which is a strong state that ensures the country’s security.
Ideology is a ray that penetrates the fog of the “gray zone”.
Ideology is a field of mental warfare.
Highly organized states do not exist without ideology.
The absence or weakness of ideology in the present is the fundamental uncertainty of the future.
Russia’s ideological equipment must be effective, powerful, and meet the challenges of the time. Ensuring this – is the task of the State.
The basic platform – the “National Security Strategy” – already exists, and an active, ideologically verified offensive policy is needed.
The Morality of War
Thirty years after the collapse/self-dissolution of the USSR, Russia tried to “integrate” into the Western world. But the more widely we opened up and met our Western “partners”, the more they used us to their advantage, completely ignoring ours.
The roots of the policy of constant hypocrisy and deception, double standards, the categorical refusal of the West, led by the United States, from a formal agreement on non-expansion of NATO and security guarantees for Russia, total pressure on the economic, diplomatic, sports, ethnic and cultural areas, the boundless arrogance of Western agents of influence in Ukraine, etc. — all this is based on the incompatibility of two ethical systems.
Russia for the West is an eternal “abnormality and incomprehensibility”, it is an annoying mystery.
The West, which has passed through centuries of its own social Darwinism, the brutal inquisition, the genocide of the colonies, etc. inhumane practices filled with meanness, cruelty and cowardice, cannot understand our multi-ethnic, multi-religious Russian civilization, the character of our people, which is especially pronounced among people who are Russian in soul, precisely in difficult times for our country.
The existence of our non-hypocritical morality and the moral foundations of society is the very “wrongness” that hinders the hegemony of the West (sic – USA!)
Therefore, our confrontation with the West is a civilizational, existential confrontation, where Russia has only one choice — to remain itself or to disappear at all.
Therefore, the West will try to put the squeeze on us.
We have nowhere to retreat — neither in space nor in time.
Therefore, we will win!
On the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, there is a fierce proxy battle of the global civilizational war between the West and Russia. Such civilizational conflicts, like civil wars, do not end in a draw, they end in the destruction of one of the opponents or, at least, the deprivation of the identity and subjectivity. It is mental warfare that solves this problem.
In this existential confrontation, the West’s weakness, paradoxically, lies in its fading but still dominant strength, in the swaggering sense of superiority to the rest of the world that they are imbued with and do not hesitate to demonstrate.
Western civilization, in the frenzy of “self-aggrandizement” and the absolutization of liberal values as a priority and the only measure of correctness, has reached the denial and cancellation of its own foundations without realizing it!
Not only the morals and dogmas of the Christian faith have been refuted, but also the world of facts, science, and knowledge.
War as a philosophical category and morality are closely interrelated. Clausewitz emphasized: “The moral factors of war constitute the spirit that lowers the whole war, establish a close connection with the will, which moves and directs the entire mass of forces, practically merging with it, since the will itself is a moral quantity…”
Russian policy – is a policy of ideals, where the importance of ontological value categories is fundamental.
It is large-scale and strategic in its essence.
In this idealism — its pragmatism, strength and … attractiveness for the rest of the world.
Today western colonialism is not about the occupation of a territory and the seizure of its resources – whether material or human.
Neocolonialism is the occupation of the information environment and mass consciousness…
This is mental neocolonialism.
The main technology of this neocolonialism is mental genocide, the essence of which is to “erase” and to reset the worldview of the target society and state.
It is important to understand that in the mental war with the West we are dealing with a war of two deep basic axioms of values.
There is a profound and incompatible moral and ethical difference between the West and Russia.
Traditions, values, and worldviews are a field of mental warfare.
In the mental war with the West, we are dealing with a war of two deep basic axioms of value.
There is a profound and incompatible moral and ethical difference between the West and Russia.
The mental sphere — the information environment, education and upbringing, the spiritual foundations of the Russian people, history and culture — is a strategic environment, the protection, sovereignty and integrity of which the state must ensure, having the appropriate tools and capabilities both on the external contour and inside the country.
There is no greater sacrifice than to lay down one’s life for one’s comrades, for one’s family and home, for one’s people, for one’s homeland: “There is no greater love than if a man lay down his life for his friends” – The Gospel of John 15:13.
The meaning of life is not only in it — it is outside of it.
War, whether it is traditional, hybrid, or mental, is not the point – it is politics.
Mental war’s blitzkrieg consists in paralyzing the will of the enemy through influencing its elite and media, in order to destroy state institutions, decompose the army and security structures with their own hands.
You can’t win a war by living according to a non-sovereign ideology, following alien economic models, managing through agents of influence of “unfriendly” countries whose material assets are located on foreign territory, under the control of those who openly declare the need to destroy Russia.
This is not about militarizing the country, but about ideological mobilization of its political class, which is obliged to ensure the peaceful and secure development of Russia.
This is an existential choice.
This is the metaphysics of the moment.
This is the ideology of the present.
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*The article represents the author’s personal point of view.
Author:
A. Il’nitskij is full State Councilor of the Russian Federation of the 3rd class, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Senior researcher of the Higher Attestation Commission.