Asking warmongering American warlords funded by war-profiteers to mediate peace in Ukraine is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse or wolf to guard the sheep
Welcome to the peace initiative for Ukraine in which you can contibute by raising your awareness as well as your consciousness[+] and spirit to the modes[+] of neutrality[*], decency, respectfulness, wisdom[*], objectivity, mastery of the intellect, surrender (ego and mind to God’s will), and finally peace (inner then outer). To properly grasp everything, we recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative in the order that we[*] designed it, which is listed in the CONTENTS. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we urge you to do it, please.
With this article we start a new segment in this peace initiative, which is all about Peacemaking Mediation. After we discuss ins and outs of peace mediation, we start with the US role in both war and peace.
The world expects the UN, US, or EU to help Ukraine to negotiate a peace deal with Russia but this is impossible as we will clarify in this whole segment covering several articles. Moreover, we explain why there is a need for another peacemaking medium such as the Council of Wise Slavic Seniors with spirited public support. This war can only be ended sooner rather than later by a mass global movement of peace-loving people with the international working class that combines the struggle against war with the struggle against its cause, capitalism-driven unipolar world.
Diplomatic settlement was impossible under globalist Biden administration due to the denial of this possibility (incl. a decree[+][+]) by Kyiv, which is supervised by the globalists (Western ruling elites, neo-colonialists who want to rule the world through imposing the Western ultraliberal values) – the warlords of the United States and NATO who are war profiteers as they own stocks in military (a.k.a. defense) industry or are otherwise funded by it. Expecting peace talks brokered by people who profit from war is like expecting Dracula to promote blood donation drives😊.
Diplomatic settlement was impossible under globalist Biden administrationdue to the fact that the globalists who run NATO have had no bargaining chips to force Russia into complying or compromising. This fact was confirmed by newly-elected US President Trump in February 2025, who admitted[+] Russia “has all the cards” in Ukraine peace negotiations.
The globalists (power-hungry, megalomaniac white supremacist keen on global domination, believing they are superior to others, similar to Nazi ideology) falsely thought they would bring Russia to its knees with (dis)information warfare and economic warfare but they have failed miserably. They have had absolutely no means to pressure Russia into submission or obedience, which is why they have kept trying and contriving new means while not even considering what price Ukraine had to pay for it (the cost of lost lives, territories, and independence).
Western capitalist-oriented entities mistakenly assumed that Russian decision-makers would prioritize economic interests above all else, overlooking or underestimating the complex interplay of historical, cultural, and geopolitical factors that shape Russian policy and national identity. People often view others through the lens of their own values and motivations, failing to recognize differing cultural, spiritual, or ideological frameworks. The greedy, materialistic globalists thoughtlessly expected generous[+], spiritually-minded[+][+] Russians to be like them driven by greed or capitalist motives and so get them to comply due to the monetary threats. Trying to bribe a Russian bear with stock options when all it wants is security, respect, and honey... how did I not think of that? Trying to bribe a Russian bear with stock options when all it wants is security, respect, and honey... how did I not think of that?😊
However, such approach in shaping their expectations or anticipations based on psychological projection and speculative extrapolation rather than on comprehensive analysis of evidence-backed facts and historical data or cultural understanding, proved to be flawed, destructive, toxic, and even deadly. It demonstrates the risks of applying one's own worldview or motivations to other nations or cultures without sufficient consideration of their unique characteristics and values. This situation illustrates a broader principle: when people with low level of consciousness (greedy, prejudiced, hatred or fear-driven…) judge others, they are not really seeing others for who they are, which can have disastrous and fatal consequences, thus Jesus[+] condemned hasty judgment of others outside of proper judicial contexts. Those Western policymakers foolishly thought that sanctions, such as the Russian crude oil price cap[+], pressuring OPEC to reduce the price of oil, barring Russia from the SWIFT system, as well as using coercions, intimidations, bribing Russian dissidents and traitors, or funding opposition to the Russian government (to organize protests, to vilify Putin…) would work their magic. However, since Russians generally prioritize security and the preservation of their culture and faith over economic benefits, none of these economic warfare tactics could have succeeded in making them yield to Western globalists even if they would have had some impact. Polls[+] have indicated that Russians are increasingly supportive of continuing the war until Ukraine's complete capitulation, despite feeling the economic toll of conflict. Most of the Russians would rather be less affluent and enjoy their culture than becoming wealthier but losing their identity by adopting what they perceive as immoral Western values, which is unlike other manipulable and somewhat corrupt Slavic nations (Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, and Slovenes) who changed many of their principles to suit the globalist agenda and so sold their soul, as perceived by many conservative analysts (who might have a point even if they exaggerate). The point is, it has been impossible to reach a diplomatic settlement in favor of those who see themselves superior over those who are in fact superior on the battlefields and economically (as we evidenced earlier[*]).
When it comes to Trump administration, even though they realize[+] that Russia “has all the cards” in Ukraine peace negotiations, diplomatic settlement is highly unlikely because the Western powers and Kyiv regime are too invested in the war to let it all go up in smoke. The whole situation is a huge disaster for them but they can’t bring themselves to admit that Russia has defeated them or that all their plans since 2014 fell flat, misfired and backfired.
The refined and organized capitalist ruling “elite” that sponsors elections and governments of the world has been warmongering for long enough to be exposed at last for what they are – war profiteers that have no interest in peacekeeping. Their marionettes posing as politicians, diplomats, and representatives in governmental and intergovernmental organizations cannot mediate peace even if they cared to do so, as they are coerced by those powerbrokers with all sorts of existential threats and character assassination. From the West, there were no proposals for a settlement in Ukraine at all from anyone. More of a reason we, the public, need to take matters into our own hands. Not by useless protesting directed to the ruling class or civil disobedience but by acting on this peace initiative's provisions and adapting the virtuism[+] (postcapitalistic, virtues-driven concepts) as opposed to capitalism. As we will explain, resistance movements are counterproductive or ineffective as well as too often hijacked by other interests groups, so we do not recommend any such actions.
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” – former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower[+]
The working class, whose exploitation is the source of all profit and military power, constitutes the vast majority of the world's people. It has no interest in war. It is workers, particularly young workers, who serve as expendable soldiers in a new world war and who are suffering from a massive decline in living standards, due to sanctions imposed by the ruling elite whose earnings and profits soar in contrast.
For this war to end and to prevent World War III and nuclear catastrophe, an awakening of the working class is needed. It is achievable by simply raising own consciousness[+] and broadening awareness of all the mechanisms behind this war.
Just by reading and sharing this peace initiative, there will be enough compounding impact and cumulative collective energy to empower a paradigm shift.Like the snowball effect and the butterfly effect, whereby a butterfly flapping its wings might change the weather on the other side of the planet. The idea that something small, like getting informed and informing others, with a ripple effect can have much larger effects, such as ending this war, rests on the scientific and psychic notion that the world is deeply interconnected.
In November 2023, an EU politician, Hungary's PM Viktor Orban revealed[+] the strategy of the West in this war: Get Ukraine to fight Russia. Defeat Russia. Get regime change in Moscow. New regime will bow to us. Plunder Ukraine and Russia (like in the 1990s, which also Putin said[»]). He obviously could not verbalize the last part but this is a logical conclusion because there must be a reason why the West is highly invested in this war as they always need a return on their investment. However, this plan did not pass the first stage, so Orban was saying that the West needs a plan B. But this plan was already the plan B. Plan A with sanctions since 2014 totally failed, too. Plan C also failed, which was to involve most of the world and get them to side with and help Ukraine in their war effort. The next plan, let's call it Plan D, was to sow discord within Russia in an attempt to break its territory up along ethnic lines and once again use terrorism and extremism as a tool to fight Russia. So, what the West need is a plan E, if not F (maybe we missed a plan or two), which is in essence “a way out” as Italian PM Meloni said[»] in September 2023.
We are in a war where both sides – Ukraine with NATO and Russia – see the other as an existential threat. That makes a workable peace agreement beyond reach. Since it became obvious that Ukraine and NATO could not win this war, the best possible outcome for NATO is a frozen conflict that would likely to have a variety of terrible consequences for Ukraine and Russia. The worst possible outcome is a nuclear war, which is unlikely but cannot be ruled out. The most probable outcome is that Russia is going to win the war but to what extent, it depends on when the peace negotiation would take place. The sooner the better for Ukraine and the West. The later the better for Russia because with time they would be able to seize more territories and kill more anti-Russian people. Russia might not fully defeat Ukraine but, in any case, it will end up conquering a large swath of Ukrainian territory and making it part of Russia, while at the same time turning Ukraine into a dysfunctional rump state as long as it is ruled by the US-puppet regime.
Even before their SMO1[+], in October 2021, Russian leaders stated[+] that there can be no viable negotiations with Ukraine until the current Ukrainian regime is replaced by an independent (from the US and EU), strong, incorrupt, diplomatic, trustworthy government.
In May 2024 (just days before Zelensky mandate as a president expired), the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs placed Zelensky on the wanted list[+] on criminal charges, sending a clear signal[+] that the Russian state cannot legally negotiate with a wanted criminal, who is also no longer a legitimate president of Ukraine since 21 May when his mandate expired. No one ever negotiates peace with prosecuted criminals. Waiting for another legitimate leader in Ukraine to emerge will prolong the misery of both the Ukrainian and Russian people, which is another reason why we are calling for the public to get involved in this peace initiative.
If enough of us make pressure on our leaders to stop funding the war and start negotiating a peace deal based on realities rather than wishful thinking, then Kyiv will have no other option but to start negotiation. Russia has showed[*] willingness to negotiate peace from the very start up to now, issuing proposals every month or so but Kyiv and NATO have been unwilling to accept a defeat and the obvious fact that there is no way Ukraine can ever defeat Russian military and recapture all five regions.
The problem is that time is on Russia’s side, so with time, Russians make more advances and as victors will be in a position to make ever more demands. This is why we need to push for peace ASAP. Ukrainians are delusional and victims of mass psychosis induced by NATO warlords, therefore it would take too long to leave it up to them to come to senses. Therefore, we need to show up for them and step up the peace agenda.
In August 2023, Deputy Chair of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram[+][+]:
It is impossible to argue with references to the UN Charter when understanding that beyond sovereignty, there is also the right of nations to self-determination. But any peace proposals have a chance for success under three key conditions:
Participation of both sides of the conflict.
Consideration of historical context. And it is this: there was never a country called Ukraine before 1991. It was a fragment of the Russian Empire.
Consideration of current realities. And they are as follows: Ukraine is in a state of semi-decay, and part of its territories has returned to Russia.
The mediator who is willing to acknowledge these obvious facts has a chance for success. All others have none.
The UN, US, EU, and UK officials can’t qualify as mediators as they disregard Russia’s demands, refuse to consider historical and current realities, and have chosen their side.
With their strong anti-Russian statements or Russophobia, they deliberately continue to burn bridges and destroy any chance for peace talks, while, effectively, giving no thought to the consequences. The Western (NATO states) anti-Russian propaganda has antagonized Russians to such an extent that they are understandably indisposed to make any concessions to Western diplomats who pose as peacemakers while hiding from view the gun they hold behind their backs. The Russian Foreign Ministry completely ruled out[+] a role for the US, UK, France, and Germany in future Ukraine negotiations:they are not considered neutral mediators.
Furthermore, all Western authorities are controlled by Washington that since the armed conflict broke out in April 2014[*] (by new unelected US-puppet Kyiv regime launching a so called anti-terrorist military operation run by neo-Nazi militants against ethnic Russian minority in Donbas that protested against violent revolutionaries who ousted democratically-elected government) never even attempted to solve the conflict diplomatically through negotiations with the Russian authorities. Biden never bothered to even speak to Putin since February 2022 and when Trump resumed power in January 2025, he acted like a mafioso rather than a diplomat or peacemaker by falsely thinking he could end the war by making Al Capone-style threats and ultimatums[+][+] to the biggest and militarily-mightiest[+][+][ꚛ] country in the world as well as to the BRICS+ alliance[+], as well as to many other countries (Denmark[+], Panama[+][+], Canada[+], Mexico[+][+], Columbia[+], Egypt and Jordan[+]…), which only exposed him as an arrogant thug who is totally detached from reality.
Trump threatened[+] with tariffs and taxes on imports but he is either ignorant or dumb as he either does not know or is foolish to think others, especially Russians, do not know that Russia and the US have virtually no trade whatsoever that Trump could tax or tariff. In 2024, the US imported only $2,9 billion[+] worth of goods from Russia. The few things there are, like Uranium and fertilizers, are critical to the US, which the US can’t get from anywhere else in the same quantity and timelines, and thus would be shooting himself in the foot. In fact, it is Russia that is in a much better position to threaten the US with restricting exports of uranium to the US[+] (for its nuclear power plants)! The US can’t get it from anywhere else while Russia can find other buyers just like it got them for gas and oil when the EU banned it.
Trump threatened[+] also with sanctions on those countries that continue to buy products from Russia. But, again, he is either ignorant or stupid if he believes that he would be able to get Russia's top importers[+] like China, Belarus, Kazakhstan, India, and others[»] (87%[?][+][+][ꚛ] of the world – 163 countries) to sanction[+] and stop buying Russian goods. Even many Ukraine and NATO countries can’t live without some Russian goods, which they continue to buy despite the trade war or sanctions! No one obeys the US anymore, so Trump is delusional, detached from reality.
Take note[+] that the US is much more dependent on Russian imports than vice versa as the trade balance between the two countries has been always in favor of Russia, meaning Russia always wins in trading with the US! Ever since the start of the armed conflict in 2014, in trade, the US has paid to Russia $126 billion more than Russia paid to the US – those profits have surely helped to fuel the Russia's war machine.
Naturally, all Russian authorities and most of Russians found his threats extremely "disrespectful", "insulting", and "ill-informed"[+]. The Kremlin, being very diplomatic and restrained as usual and, as opposed to their Western counterparts, said[+] it does not see "any new elements here." No one was surprised because everyone is already used to American-style “diplomacy”: threats, ultimatums, blackmail, coups, bombings, and such. Once again, the US regime took the moral low ground showing no honor or decency while, with their decent responses[+][+] to mafia-style diplomacy, Russians showed the world what they are made of. Russian response to Trump's “barking”[+] or their style of diplomacy is perhaps best portrayed by this epic an eye-opening letter[+] of Russian Tzar Ivan IV (a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible) to the Swedish King John III in 1573, in which we highlight:
“it is unbecoming of great sovereigns to write barking… But if you, taking on the mouth of a dog, wish to bark for amusement, that is your servile custom: it may be an honor for you, but for us, great sovereigns, even to correspond with you is dishonorable. To write barking to you is worse still, and to engage in mutual barking with you is the worst disgrace imaginable in this world. If you wish to engage in mutual barking, then find yourself a servant like yourself and bark with him.”
Trump promised to end the war within 24 hours and failed[+]. His first broken promise, first failure was no surprise to anyone as US impotence is as well-known as Trump’s arrogance, or shall we say, American arrogance, overconfidence, and self-importance.
The way Trump has roared onto the scene, demeaning and bullying every country left and right, leaves one to ponder how truly effective his tactic will be in this new world in which other countries see Russia as inspiration and so are no longer as beholden nor fearful of the US and its big braggadocio threats. Denmark, Panama, Canada, and Mexico, for instance, have already rebuffed his wild threats (while Columbia folded).
The most ridiculous mechanism by which Trump aimed to bring Russia to its knees is by forcing Saudi Arabia to bring down the price of oil! He even insolently blamed the Saudis for the Ukraine war but then had the nerve to outrageously expect them to oblige with oil prices as well as to invest a trillion dollars in the US! No wonder most world leaders and people in general see him as a jerk and no wonder Saudis and OPEC rebuffed[+] Trump's demand.
Trump also said[»] then right upon his inauguration that “If OPEC drops the price of oil, the war ends immediately,” obviously oblivious of Russia's economic and military power and resistance. Kremlin spokesperson responded[»] “No, this conflict does not depend oil prices…” For comparison, Russia lost over 14 million people (26+ million Soviets altogether) fighting Nazis in WWII and did not end the war even because of that but Trump foolishly believes that Russia losing some money would end the war. Money-driven Trump should have known it at least from Roosevelt: “In all history, no major war has been lost through lack of money…”
But let’s just say Trump’s plan to hit Russia on oil and gas works to an extent, whether through OPEC price reduction or the combination of that and a renewed targeting of Russia’s oil tanker ‘shadow fleet’, even if Russia lost vast amounts of oil revenue, how could this possibly end its war effort “instantly” as Trump claimed? It could not slow Russia’s war machine for quite a long time as Russia has one of the highest foreign exchange reserves in the world, not to mention various other resources and commodities, which according to Bloomberg[+][+], surged Russia’s revenues to record levels. Bloomberg admits Russia has such high-flying economic growth that revenues are soaring even without counting oil. Russia is quite well shielded against any possible sanctions Trump could dream up. But Trump's intellectual capability is not big enough to take into account all that, so to be honest, he is screwed, poor guy.
One has to wonder, what is Trump prepared to do when his war-ending “plan” utterly flops? He could go “all out” but such action would gravely damage the “peacemaker” image he tries hard to project. Russia is clearly[+] not afraid of Trump’s threats and the only real option Trump has is to stop aid to Ukraine by blaming the war on Biden and so end the war on Russia's terms, which he also did from the start by officially freezing all aid to Ukraine for the first 90 days of his new presidency.
Slavs, particularly Russians, tend to be suspicious of strangers because over the course of history, more than others, they have been constantly attacked by malicious foreigners, which is why they have trust issues. The main tactic of many foreign invaders was ‘divide and conquer’, whereby Slavic nations were often played against each other, which made it easier to defeat and conquer them (ideologically or otherwise).
This might as well be the case with the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine, so both nations should look into that so as not to fall prey to foreign forces or ideologies. Ukraine might have been exploiting the anti-Russian sentiment among the Westerners for their agenda but this is hurting them more than helping.
There is a witty folktale about Two Cats and A Monkey that might illustrate why Russia and Ukraine would be better off without foreign arbitration or mediation:
Once there were two cats who were good friends. One day, being very hungry, they were pleased to find a large piece of cheese, which they then cut into two to share it.
But one piece was then slightly bigger than the other. Both hungry cats wanted the bigger piece, so they started to quarrel with each other about who's going to have it. To settle the dispute, they consented to refer the matter to a monkey who had a weighing scale that could divide the cheese into equal amounts. He eagerly accepted the arbitrator's role of dividing the cheese fairly. Feigning humbleness and righteousness, the clever monkey put both pieces of cheese on the opposite ends of the scale, and then he took a small bite from the bigger piece so as to reduce its size and weight to match the smaller piece. But he bit it off a little too much, which made then the other piece larger. So, he then justifiably took a bite from the other piece to make it even with the other piece. However, the same mistake happened yet again, so he had to once more bite off the other piece but it was furthermore too much. This munching in the name of justice continued repeatedly till the pieces became very small.
Seeing their cheese gradually diminishing, poor cats pleaded with the monkey to give himself no further trouble and to just give them back what was left.
“Well then, you owe me a fee for sorting out the problem. What remains should be my compensation then,” replied the clever Monkey, upon which he crammed the remains into his mouth and with great gravity dismissed the courtyard. Clearly, he used this opportunity to trick the cats into allowing him to eat practically all of the cheese but they never realized that they were being completely fooled.
"If only we had not quarreled among ourselves, we would have our cheese instead of being hungry now," the two cats understood at least that much. Moreover, it became clear to them that if they had settled the issue among themselves without resorting to a negotiator or a judge, they would have not lost everything. Still, it never occurred to them that the shrewd monkey took advantage of their trouble for his own benefit.
This story teaches us that when two fight, it's always the third one who gets the benefit or wins while the conflicted two both lose. And also, that those who pose as arbitrators might not be that genuine, even if they are not biased.
The US Role
Referring to the aforementioned anecdote, one such dubious arbitrator is the US – the country that is most profiting from this war and has been extremely hostile toward Russia, which is why Russians were unwilling to negotiate with Washington under Biden administration. With new Trump administration, the mood changed, nothing else.
👉 When we mention the US here or throughout the whole peace initiative, we only mean the US government or its ruling elite rather than the good-hearted US public – let's make that very clear. The government ought to represent public opinion but unfortunately, the opposite is often the case – public opinion represents the government – due to propaganda systems. In other words, the tail is wagging the dog. As the gap between public opinion and published opinion increases, thereby the chances to end the war increase as well because the support for it decreases. Despite decades of strong anti-Russian and anti-Putin propaganda coming from both government officials and the mass media, it is remarkable how many Americans are there who think with their own heads and are brave enough to speak up despite all the smear campaigns against them, including character assassinations.
That said, we also point out the words of H.L. Mencken, an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar: “As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
That works both ways as the people represent the government that brainwashes them. There are too many Americans who are so indoctrinated to hate the Russians that many of them are even ready to die fighting the Russians – for the benefit and glee of war profiteers. Many American soldiers joined Ukrainian forces not because they cared for Ukrainian territorial integrity or Ukrainians but because they jumped at the longed-for opportunity to “kill the Russians” and so live out their deep-rooted hatred of Russia that was instilled in them by decades-long anti-Russian American and British propaganda (including movies with Russian villains[+][+][+]), which however had no roots in reality since Russians (especially present-day Russians) never really did any harm to them.
One of the biggest hypocrisies in modern history is the US complaining about Russia’s military operation in Ukraine as “violation of international law” and Putin as a “war criminal”. All while their own history is one long string of invasions. Imagine the audacity! It's like a serial killer complaining about someone jaywalking😊. With their track record, it is, at best, a pot calling the kettle black as malicious Yankies are clearly projecting while accusing Russians of the very wrongs that they themselves are guilty of to the nth degree.
So, about that high horse they're riding... does it run on hypocrisy or just good old American exceptionalism😊? The US has been at war for 227[+][+] out of 249 years (91%) of its existence! Americans have killed 20-30 million people[+] (plus countless dead US soldiers) since WWII. With all their dirty wars, no time to take a look in the mirror, is there? Honestly, at this point, the US flag should just be a GIF of an endless bombing montage😊. It has invaded[+] and executed hostile incursions into other countries' territories more than 200 times[+] (according to the US Congressional Research Service report[+], 469 foreign military interventions[+][]) in 84 countries with the catastrophic toll of many millions dead, wounded, and displaced! The US wages forever wars[+], over 13 of them since Putin took power in 2000, not even counting American proxy wars in Ukraine and elsewhere. And yet, they wag their finger at Russia? Hi pot, meet kettle. I'm rubber, you're glue.
Imagine if Putin waged 13 wars! He is labeled an evil imperator and war criminal, to say the least, for just waging one war (and miraculously ending another one, in Georgia that Georgia started[+], in five days without seizing power there, saving countless lives). Clearly, he lacks America's 'freedom-spreading' initiative😊.
Also, US has nearly 900 military bases[+] in more than 70 countries and territories around the world (in addition to America’s 749 domestic US military bases[+]). As of 2022, when Russia sent less than 100.000[+][+] troops to Ukraine, the US had 176.206[+][+] active-duty military personnel outside of the US posing as global police while totally Americanizing and exploiting the host countries but no one is condemning or sanctioning them. What the heck are American troops doing there??? No wonder these countries are American vassals and their leaders are the US-puppets.
Funny, isn't it? A military-industrial complex masquerading as a country assuming moral superiority over anyone is the highest form of hypocrisy. Jesus might have to come down again for the modern-day Pharisees.
Remember? Hypocrisy was the sin Jesus most frequently and forcefully condemned during His earthly ministry, as especially evident in Matthew 23[+]. Jesus' most frequent and pointed criticisms were directed not at murderers, pedophiles, thieves, or slave owners but at the hypocritical Pharisees, whom Jesus likened to "whitewashed tombs" – appearing beautiful outwardly but full of dead bones inside. Furthermore, he scorned also people like Americans for judging others while ignoring own faults, seeking to take the speck out of others’ eye, when there is the log in their own eye[+] or who is without sin throwing stones at another sinner[+]. As Americans are giving to the needy (Ukraine), they make sure the whole world knows about it, but such announcing with trumpets, Jesus said[+] only hypocrites do.
While other sins like murder, theft, pedophilia, slavery, and exploitation were prevalent, Jesus focused above all on hypocrisy for a reason. The same reason why we focus on it too. Hypocrisy often conceals and perpetuates all those other sins. By exposing the hypocrisy of the authorities, Jesus aimed to dismantle the structures that allowed various sins to flourish under the guise of virtue. Integrity matters! Virtue signaling not. We should not follow or support the hypocrites because they are deceivers who are doing the work of Satan, who is the originator[+] of lies and deceptions. By supporting the hypocrites, people go down the wrong path that leads to wars and such.
There would be no war in Ukraine if Kyiv and West were not run by hypocrites! We can assure you of that. All the virtue signaling from Kyiv and Western capitals has blinded many fools to support the war effort rather than peace negotiations, which Russia insisted on from the start, as also evident by the fact that they launched their SMO with only under a 100.000 troops which is not enough to seize a town, let alone a whole country. It is Kyiv regime and their NATO backers who are warmongers and fearmongers engaging in hate-speech while posing as arbiters of truth, champions of moral superiority, and heroes – only Satan's disciples do such things. While Russians have been constantly offering[*] peace negotiations, NATO warmongers have been openly opposing[*] them and Zelensky[*] even banned it by a decree[+] in September 2022.
We might need to take that back about the US being a military-industrial complex masquerading as a country because America is actually an ideamasquerading as a country, as told by Joe Biden[»], Bono[»], and others[+][+][+]😊.
One of the biggest lies and cover-ups over the past few years as it relates to Russia and Ukraine is that the United States has been an innocent bystander that they've been watching from afar as Russia suddenly decided in 2022 to unprovokedly invade Ukraine out of the blue. The truth is much darker than that and goes back more than 35 years when the United States and NATO built up an apparatus in Ukraine all in an effort of destroying Russia, just as they destroyed Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union with other Warsaw Pact member states (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) who allied in 1955 to serve as a counterbalance to NATO.
As former CIA analyst Larry Johnson explains here[+][»][+], the US has been provoking this war since March 1999 when Clinton welcomed Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic as new members of NATO, despite Americans promised[+pg.6] to Gorbachev in 1990 "no extension of NATO's jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east"[+]. Two weeks later, on 24 March – 10 June 1999, NATO attacked Russian ally Serbia. Russia under Yeltsin then tried to send equipment and reinforcements to Serbia but NATO blocked it. To contain Russia, NATO backed a bunch of Chechen Islamic Sunni radicals connected to ISIS in attacking inside Russia, which made Yeltsin appoint Putin as PM and endorse him also to replace him as President who then won the Second Chechen War (26 August 1999 – 16 April 2000). The US has been provoking this war with constant NATO expansion and hosting NATO military exercises[+][+][+] on Russia's borders. Imagine if Russia or China would do that to the US, host military exercises in Mexico or Cuba – what would the US do?!
But as Larry Johnson explained, there were two papers that were written for the US government, which prove that US provoked this war with a diabolical strategy to use Ukraine as a proxy with the ultimate goal to defeat Russia and so disable it to help China, as the US see China as the main rival end enemy challenging the US hegemony in the world. The US has been supporting Taiwan separatists with the goal to weaken and defeat China, just as it has been backing Chechen separatists and Ukraine to defeat Russia.
One paper[+][+] was by Rand Corporation in 2019 titled ‘Overextending and Unbalancing Russia’, elaborated evil tactics for the destabilization of Russia such as “providing lethal aid to Ukraine so as to exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability.” As geopolitical scientist Manlio Dinucci explains[+][+], this war was mapped out in 2019, three years before Russia's intervention, as evidenced by the Pentagon-funded think-tank Rand Corporation’s plan presented to the House of Representatives on 5 September 2019.
The other paper[+] was submitted by Aaron Wess Mitchell to the Pentagon's Office in October 2020, and published by the National Interest in August 2021. American Jewish foreign policy expert Aaron Wess Mitchell, who replaced Victoria Nuland as the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the Trump State Department, now serving[+] as Vice Chairman of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), as Senior Advisor at the Office of Strategic Stability and Security at the United States Institute of Peace, and as co-chair of NATO's high-level Reflection Group (a commission of senior experts tasked with providing recommendations to NATO Secretary-General for decision-making of the Alliance), basically laid out the strategy what the US need to do – use Ukraine as a fulcrum to defeat Russia, so as to force mighty Russia to bow to the West rather than support China that challenges US hegemony.
That has been the strategy, a diabolic strategy, according to former CIA analyst Larry Johnson[»][+][+] and all the like-minded people who read these two hideous papers from immoral, malicious, depraved Americans, who should be in prison, rather than be called “experts” and advising American and NATO leaders! Especially when their strategy has proven not just ineffective but disastrous.
Some say the authors of the Ukraine strategy should be in prison. Others say a book deal and a CNN contributor gig are more fitting. You like potayto and we like potahto2😊. One way or another, bad beginning makes a bad ending, and what goes around comes around eventually. And frankly, a CNN contributor gig sounds like a special kind of hell – all that stress, intrigue, backstabbing, hate comments, and zero time for a real life. Talk about a life sentence😊.
Accountability in DC? About as common as them calling their mistake a "teachable moment" and then charging you for the lesson. They'll just rebrand themselves as 'lessons learned consultants'😊 and waltz straight into a Raytheon-funded think tank or land a cushy gig at Lockheed Martin, where such erroneous foreign policy proposals maximize shareholder value as war is just good business to them.
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.[+]
A brief moment of humor before we turn to more somber matters: How many American strategists does it take to admit a disastrous foreign policy blunder? Zero. They just keep changing the bulb and insisting the room is getting brighter😊.
So, as the aforementioned two pieces of evidence prove, this was an actual plan within the US government, a strategic vision to start a war against Russia by using Ukraine as a proxy to defeat Russia, and then use the Russians against Chin. These people are sick. Their strategy is diabolical. NATO propagandists keep saying this is just Russian propaganda but it's in black and white – just go and read it[+][+][+].
Knowing about the American strategy to defeat Russia in Ukraine long before Russia launched its preemptive SMO in February 2022, there can be no talk of “unprovoked invasion”, as well as it proves that the war in Ukraine is US proxy war against Russia to defeat first Russia and then China so as to maintain global hegemony. Unfortunately, common people are not aware of it, which is why they are the perfect patsies for being manipulated into anti-Russian narratives.
Under the new Trump administration, the US has been posing as a mediator although it is a direct participant in this war. During “peace” talks with Russia since March 2025, Trump did not want peace but mere 30-day ceasefire to buy time to rearm Ukraine and has been continuing supplying weapons[+][+][»][»][+] and intelligence to Ukraine, as well as kept all sanctions[»], showing no real signs of de-escalation other than just mere talk – genuine mediators never do that; they ought to be neutral.
Let's not forget that Trump is a narcissist and a warlord who in his first term (Jan 2017 – Jan 2021) started arming (here is he bragging[»] about giving them javelins) Ukrainian neo-Nazis[»]and training them to kill the ethnic Russians, including an elite Ukrainian commando force[+]; he quadrupled the Ukrainian military in size (it didn't quadruple under Barack nor Biden but under Trump), he had put anti-Russia hawks in key positions[+], including Mike Pompeo as CIA director and John Bolton as national security adviser, setting up at least 12 secret CIA bases[+] in Ukraine targeting[»] the Russians; he established new military bases in Poland and Romania; in his first 4 years, had carried out 23 NATO military exercises[+] along the Russian borders, 11 of them in Ukraine and all of them involving Ukraine; in September of 2020, his US Air Force B52 bombers flew for the first time along the Crimea coast (just imagine how would two-faced USG react if Russians did the same and sent its bomber jets to fly across US borders), and he got two Eastern European countries (Montenegro in June 2017 and North Macedonia in March 2020)[+] into NATO despite Russian fierce opposition and NATO's promise[+pg.6] not to extend NATO's jurisdiction for forces of NATO one inch to the east"[+]. So, he's as much a facilitator of this bloodshed as Biden and Obama. A warlord pretending to be a mediator or a “Prince of Peace” (while also bombing Yemen[+]) while he is a co-belligerent may fool some folk but the majority of the world sees the US true face as it is being defeated again (Korean War, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, as well as proxy wars in Angola, Nicaragua, Cuba – Bay of Pigs, Laos, Cambodia…). Everyone knows that the war in Ukraine is America’s proxy war against Russia (Trump calls it Biden's war[+] to coverup his faults and failures) and that the US and NATO lost this war. The US under Trump tried pulling back hoping to cover its tracks and save face, which the Russians let to an extent in the name of peace.
during the 1960s and 70s, among those opposed to the Vietnam War the anti-war slogan was "Make love, not war" and now it is "Make money, not war"😆
When Donald "This Is Not My War" Trump realized he had virtually no leverage to bully the Russians, his mask was off, so he did the last thing that the US could do – he removed all restrictions imposed by Biden on Ukraine’s military operations allowing missiles to strike Russia, as told[»] by German chancellor Merz in May 2025: “There are no longer range restrictions for weapons… neither by the British nor by the French, nor from us, from the Americans also not. That means Ukraine can now also… attacking military positions in Russia… We call this Long Range Fire…”. Then on the eve of Ukrainian attack on Russian nuclear triad bombers with NATO weapons and intelligence on 1 June 2025, Trump's former Secretary of State Pompeo and Senators Graham and Blumenthal pilgrimed to Ukraine to assert that "There is no withdrawal from Ukraine for the USA!"[»][+]
Putin has proven he has tried peace with the Americans and that they can’t be trusted. Russians have no illusions about the stability of US politics and its President’s litany of half-baked policies as well as the seemingly endless cabaret of clowns that populate Trump’s cabinet. Like Zelensky, Trump is a former showbiz guy, so it is all about show and generating big headlines (like: “I will put a stop to this war in 24 hours”) but no substance, unfortunately. The Trump admin is leaning heavily on juvenile gimmicks and posturing, rather than on substance. With no actual noteworthy achievements, it's just getting more pathetic.
Trump’s unhinged, adolescent-level tweets and running his impromptu foreign policy from a social media app (such as “I am not happy…Vladimir, STOP!”[+] – he actually believes[»] that his social media posts have influence on Putin) is a clown world and no match for Russian state-of-the-art statesmanship, regardless of whether one likes their decisions or not. Russian authorities are evidently on a totally different level than American self-aggrandizing high-officials. Trump is playing 2D checkers while everyone else beyond NATO is playing 5D chess; his game is nothing more than a side show. Trump’s tweets show he has a very shallow and sparse grasp of the complex geopolitical realities of all the foreign policy theatres – Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and everyone else sees it. Trump should have learned from Zelensky that he can’t brag and BS his way through diplomacy, it just doesn’t work. Surely, it doesn’t work with Russians and most of the world, although it might work short-term in fellow self-aggrandizing EU states to their detriment.
American False Predisposition
When asked what have Russians ever done to harm them to hate them so much, members of the American public don't have an answer or give some general, idiotic, unsubstantiated responses[+](Russians are “predators”, “invaders”, “murderers”, “lawbreakers”, “rapists”…) that describe more Americans than Russians, while still not having one single answer about what have Russians ever done to them to justify their hatred, which indicates that they have been indoctrinated and get caught in a reality distortion field. Whether Russians invaded Ukraine or just intervened after many years of Ukrainian oppression and terror of the Russian ethnic minorities can be clear after a brief look at the history of the conflict dating back to 2004 and escalating in 2014 – all under American meddling and passive aggression.
When asked why Russia is the main threat to the United States, even US high officials such as presidential candidates were unable to answer, as evidenced in a presidential debate[+][»] on BlazeTV hosted by American journalist Tucker Carlson.
Russia has historically done much good to the US
Not that the Americans are aware of it, nonetheless, undoubtedly, Russia has historically done more good than harm to the US[+], such as:
✅ being among few major nations supporting the US in the War of Independence (1775–1783)[+][+];
✅ supporting the Union against the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–1865) which deterred the British from intervening;
✅ providing a wealth of natural resources by bestowing them Alaska (for a symbolic price) in 1867[+];
✅ helping them beat the Nazis in WWII (1941–1945)[+][+] and thereby establish American hegemony in the world (as British Empire declined then);
✅ taking American astronauts to the International Space Station and being the best partner in space exploration (the US used the Russian rocket engines as they were much more reliable than those made in America; Russia has flown US astronauts to ISS ever since 2011 when the US Space Shuttle program ended);
✅ sharing legitimate intelligence (e.g. for counterterrorism);
✅ in 2001, after the 9/11 attack, the first person to call G. W. Bush was Vladimir Putin to offer his full support and intel on all known terrorist groups;
✅ exposing dirt on Hillary Clinton[+] to the American people in 2016 is not a small thing Russian hackers allegedly did too (in July 2016, Donald Trump asked Russia to help "find" the missing emails from Hillary Clinton's private server from her tenure as secretary of state, which she illegally bungled[+] as they contained compromising information about her; WikiLeaks published it then[+]); there’s no doubt the leaks helped swing the election in Trump's favor – by exposing Hillary’s political machinations evidenced by her emails[+][+][+][»], Russians helped Trump win the 2016 presidential election, HRC said[+].
Clinton's use of a private email system and a private server violated federal law, as well as State Department protocols and procedures, and regulations governing recordkeeping but she was not charged because she did not act with criminal intent, the historical standard for pursuing prosecution. Nevertheless, the public turned against her. Clinton’s controversial emails[+][+] provided a glimpse into the inner workings of her campaign and her influence peddling (exposing how donors to the Clinton Foundation were influencing her in her job), as well as offered shaming details about her embarrassing views on trade and the middle class. With WikiLeaks revelations, Americans found out that Hillary Clinton is a fraud, and it was not hard to see why she fought so hard to keep her transcripts of speeches to Wall Street banks paying her millions of dollars secret, as well as responsibility for murders[»], especially in relation to Benghazi, Libya (which is just one of many reasons why some call her Killary[+][+][+][+][»])
✅ also, Russians have not surrounded America with their military bases and did not put their nukes in proximity to the American borders, which cannot be said about Americans who did all that to Russians and more. The US hypocrites demand that Russia withdraws its troops from the territory of Ukraine and some other states all the while the US has troops and military bases across Russian borders and all over the world where no one wants them. They bribe the local corrupt politicians into approval.
Of course, Russia has done even more good to US ally Europe[+], such as:
✅ Russia defeated the Nazis in WWII, ending the WWII, and so saved countless European lives by sacrificing millions of Russian and Soviet lives. Let’s not forget that Ukrainian nationalists (their descendants and fans are in power now in Ukraine) were fighting on the side of Nazi Germany, betraying their fellow Soviets.
The Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad[+] in February 2022 proved[+] to be a decisive psychological turning point, ending a string of German victories and decreasing the popularity of the Nazi Party, which was then bolstered by Russia defeating Nazi Germans also in the great Battle of Kursk (both battles were in Russia). In the end, the Soviets overran Germany’s eastern defenses and conquered the German capital Berlin, defeating Hitler himself.
The Allies (especially the UK and the US) surely contributed but without Russians, the Nazis would have won and remained in power (racist, anti-Semitic, and cruel[+] Roosevelt was ill and died in April 1945 without defeating the Nazis and was replaced by Truman, and brutal[+] Churchill had to resign[+] as Prime Minister on 23 May 1945, just days after the German capitulation, whereas Stalin remained in power till his death). The only thing Churchill had to offer Stalin was a bombing campaign against Germany. Germany was indiscriminately bombed[+] by the US and the UK but it was conquered by the Soviet Red Army. Hitler and his chief propagandist Goebbels killed themselves because Russians conquered Berlin (Russians obtained Hitler's dental remains). Two days later, on 2 May 1945, German General Weidling surrendered Berlin to Soviet General Chuikov as the Red Army captured Berlin[+] (it took them only 2 weeks to conquer it).
Ernest Hemingway, who served as a WWII war correspondent and an unconventional soldier in Europe, was cited[+][+] in a Soviet newspaper Pravda[ꚛ] on the 23 February 1942: “Anyone who loves freedom owes such a debt to the Red Army that it can never be repaid…Anyone who fulminates against Hitler should consider the Red Army a heroic model which must be imitated.” And let's not forget who the leader of Red Army was – Stalin.
And, following Hemingway's statement there[ꚛ] is the one from the Commander of US forces in the Far East during the WWII, General Douglas MacArthur whose message[+] was that "the Red Army is the pride of peace-loving peoples: foreign figures salute the Red Army." Since the Cold War, NATO countries censored and suppressed all the praise for the Soviets and communists but the truth has its ways of coming out[+][+].
✅ Russia made Germany the strongest European economy thanks to cheap Russian resources[+] (mineral fuels, oils, distillation products, pearls, precious stones, metals, copper, aluminum, nickel, iron, steel, etc.) – without Russia, Germany could not have prospered as much because Germany's economy is based on industry, which depends on Russia's cheap fossil fuels. The evidence is in the fact that after cutting itself from Russian natural resources by imposing sanctions on Russia, the German economy fell into recession, was hit the hardest of all NATO members, and has suffered from deindustrialization and other self-inflicted damage. Despite being the most sanctioned country on the planet, Russia's economy is better than Germany’s[+][ꚛ] and all the other countries in Europe (not just the EU but also better than in Switzerland, the UK, etc.)[+].
We should all be also grateful to Russians for giving us many precious inventions[+][+][+][+] that most people do not even know that came from Russians such as television[+], radio receivers[+], radars[+], airplanes[+], helicopters[+], parachutes[+], lasers[+], modern type of incandescent lightbulb[+], solar power[+], satellite[+], holograph/hologram[+], heating radiators[+], roller coasters[+], telegraph[+], Telegram Messenger[+], electric trams[+], the periodic table of the elements[+], AC transformers[+], grain harvesters[+], foam fire extinguishers[+], Nuclear power plants[+], field surgery[+], classical conditioning theory[+], deciphering the Maya script[+], linear programming[+], vodka, etc. Russians also recently invented a vaccine/cure for cancer[+][+][+], which they generously give to the mankind for free.
Most people are not aware of all these revolutionary inventions and innovations coming from Russian geniuses because Russians do not show off and the West3 has a notorious habit of appropriating many originalities from other countries branding them as their own and commercializing them. For instance, most people in the US believe that even Tesla was an American, although he was a Slav like the Russians (born in what is now Croatia to ethnic Serbian parents) and the first[+] and best[+][+][+] electric cars come from Europe, not the US.
While the Americans, masters at branding themselves as the best in the world and branding their rivals as backward, terrorists and dictators, let us point some facts:
Russians Won the Space Race
Soviet (Russian) pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin[+] was the first human to journey into outer space (he completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes; also Titov did it four months later and was a first person in space for over 24 hours) – Russians beat the Americans to it and won the Space Race, which made the Americans so furious with envy that they set out to be, at least, the first to put a man on the Moon. It was their chance to redeem themselves in the global Space Race. Whoever got to the moon first would attain serious bragging rights.
But it was actually Russians who got to the moon first with their spacecraft called Luna 2[+] in 1959 but Russians were never the ones to brag. Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body. Russians beat Americans to it, too.
Kennedy made a pledge to land a man on the Moon but never lived up to it as he died in November 1963 (alleged4 moon landing[+] was in 1969), after the Soviets beat the US again by landing other several “firsts”[+] in the Space Race (maybe, that's what killed Kennedy – ever thought of that? Several humiliations and defeats in the Cold War).
In August 1962, Russians were also the first to launch a group spaceflight.
In June 1963, Russians again beat the Americans by being the first to send a woman to fly in space (first woman and 12th person) – Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who flew on a solo mission and was only 26 at the time – impressive. She joined a cosmonaut program only one year earlier in 1962; before that she was a factory worker and a hobby skydiver; she orbited the Earth 48 times. She has been a Member of the State Duma since 2011. First American woman in space happened 20 years later, in 1983; she was third woman in space as another Soviet woman beat Americans to it.
In 1965, Russians again beat the Americans by being the first to perform a spacewalk[+] – Alexei Leonov became the first human to perform an extra-vehicular activity, and in January 1969, Russians were again the first to perform a dual spacewalk. Another Russian cosmonaut, Anatoly Solovyev, holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed (16), and accumulated time spent spacewalking (over 82 h)[+].
Soviets or Russians already pocketed several “firsts” before Americans got theirs5 (alleged moon landing[+] in 1969). And, it continued as Russian cosmonauts set new space records time and again, the last one in February 2024, when yet another Russian cosmonaut, Oleg Kononenko, set a new record for spending the most time in spaceand on the International Space Station (ISS)[+][+].
Another Russian cosmonaut, Gennady Padalka, held the world record for “the most time spent in space” at 878 days before him since June 2015 – top eight[+] have been all Russian cosmonauts. Yuri Malenchenko ranks third for time spent in space and he became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003. In the category “Total human spaceflight time by country”[+], Russia beats the US, as Russians have spent more time flying in space, although the US sent more flights and more people into space.
Also, in the category “Ten longest human spaceflights”, Russians rank at top five, the longest one was 438 days in 1994-1995.
Russians took the first animal into orbit, a dog Laika in November 1957. The technology to de-orbit had not yet been developed, so there was no expectation for survival. She died several hours into flight. Belka and Strelka became the first canines to safely return to Earth from orbit in August 1960. The first animals to enter space were fruit flies launched by the United States in 1947. Americans got their fair shares of “firsts” and records but overall, they are no match for the Russians. Just like they are no match in Arctic exploration[+].
Let's close this section with a joke, shall we?
Zelensky announces Ukraine wants to build a moon base. The idea is that Ukrainian astronauts will live there permanently. When the astronauts were asked if they really wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a barren, lifeless, empty wasteland, they said: "No. That's why we want to go to the moon."
Russians Won the Arctic Race
Arctic resources race[+] is the competition between countries for available natural resources of the Arctic[+][+]. The Arctic contains significant amounts of minerals, boreal forests, marine life (fisheries), and fresh water. The mineral resources include major reserves of oil and natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickle, zinc phosphates and diamonds. The Arctic region is also home to an estimated 400.000 indigenous people.
Russia controls the Arctic resources extraction or production as well as transport routes such as Northern Sea Route. Russia also leads in icebreakers fleet needed to enable vessels to transport oil and gas from Arctic – it has more icebreakers than all other countries combined[+].
Russian President Vladimir Putin named the development of the Arctic, along with the Far East, as the country’s strategic priority. He has previously noted that the region is of great importance to Russia in terms of defense and natural resources.
Whoever controls the commodities or natural resources, controls the world.
Russia already has the biggest gas reserves in the world and is about to control the energy markets with its exploitation of Arctic resources of gas, oil, and LNG.
By 2030, LNG production in the Russian Arctic zone is expected to increase by 200 percent[+]. If we take LNG Production by Country[+], Russia is already top 6 in the world[+], so with doubling their production, they might soon match the US and Qatar. If we take Natural Gas Production by Country[+], Russia is already second in the world[+], behind the US by small margin, so when they add their Arctic LNG production, they might beat the Americans in near future. But the most important difference is that the US uses most of its gas domestically and can only export around 11%[ꚛ], while Russia exports more than 30%[+][+] of its natural gas and so earns much more than the US from it and can control the world markets this way.
Russia is already the world's largest natural gas exporter[+] and this matters the most on the global markets. Also, Russia will likely lead even more in that sector because the US decreased investment in natural gas production because it increased investment in renewable energy (wind and solar) and so the US handed Russia the keys to the kingdom. Russia, on the other hand increased investment in natural gas production, such as in Arctic exploration and exploitation.
With more than half (53%) of all Arctic coastline along its northern shores and half of Arctic population (2,5 million Russians living there), Russia has dominated the Arctic where as much as $35 trillion[+] worth of untapped oil and natural gas could be lurking. This will make Russia the commodity superpower of the world. Therefore, the last thing anyone among the world leaders should be is enemy of Russia. Especially Ukraine would profit much more from being Russian than American ally.
The country that controls production and export of energy, it essentially controls the global economic growth. This is why the US and the West want to contain Russia. They will not be able to impose sanctions and oil price caps. Russia not only controls the Arctic resources extraction or production but also transport routes such as Northern Sea Route to deliver gas and oil to biggest and most reliable consumers such as China and India. Russia will not need Europe as a customer any longer as the West plans to decouple from Russia by 2027.
In regards to transport, Russia also leads in icebreakers fleet needed to enable vessels to transport oil and gas from Arctic – it has more icebreakers than all other countries combined[+]. And with Russia selling its resources through Northern Sea Route to Asia and the Global South, de-dollarization comes into play because Russia receives payments in ruble and yuan and there is no going back to trading in dollars. The implications are huge. Especially if you combine it with Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which means that Russia and China control the sea and land trade routes, which shifts trades away from Western currencies. And with alleged global warming, Arctic will become an even greater economic arena. [»] Russia is now behind the wheel.
Russia is currently the chair of the Arctic Council of the eight Arctic states: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, the US
The first persons to reach the North Pole on foot (or skis) and return with no outside help, no dogs, airplanes, or re-supplies were Misha Malakhov (Russia) and Richard Weber (Canada) in 1995. No one has completed this journey since.
Russians Lost the Culture War but the West Lost Its Soul
American culture dominates the world, not the Russian, so the US won the cultural war. However, much of it is trash culture[+][+], and although the US won the hearts of the masses, Russia won the hearts of the world’s intelligentsia.
When it comes to Russian cultural assets, it is absolutely impossible to imagine world culture without them. However, our governments in the West, without our consent, have illegally censored or blocked Russian news and culture from us for more than a decade, whereby we have lost chance to benefit enormously from Russia, which is a great pity.
How can it be normal that in Europe, our television is loaded with American news programs, shows, and movies but none from Russia, even though Russia is in Europe and the US is not?! How come every TV subscription in Europe includes CNN but not even a single Russian news channel[»] even though Russia is in Europe and the US is not?! It became a norm due to Americanization of Europe thanks to the corrupt European leaders who take bribes or fall for pressures from the US officials and corporate giants.
In Europe, we have been bombarded with all kinds of trash culture[+][+] from the West[»][ꚛ][»][»][»][»][»][»][+][»][»][»][»][»][»], as many American celebrities are real degenerates and immoral people, who are propped up into role models for a reason – to hurl us into dumbness so that we would obey the dumb or cunning leaders. Not to mention all American junk or overpriced products. If you live in the West, just think about when was the last time you saw an original, real Russian movie or documentary, or heard Russian music, or read contemporary Russian literature? We don't mean from or about the US puppets like Navalny[+][+][»][»][+][»][ꚛ][+][+][»] or any other Russian traitors who work on the behalf of Western interests (you can tell that when the West gives them prizes, awards and such, and Russians give them nicknames such as Analny for bending over backwards to please the Western masters) but from true, authentic Russian people who are not doing as told by the Western puppet masters. Even long before alleged “Russian invasion”. If you are struggling to remember the times you experienced authentic Russian culture from Russian patriots rather than Russian traitors (who scorn at highly-popular Russian government any chance they get only so that they could get the power or bribes from the West), then you can be sure your government has failed you, it has deviously deprived you of your right to benefit from Russian culture. Get even by going to the Gateway to Russia[+].
Here are just a few old and contemporary legends that give us goosebumps and a broader, brighter outlook on the world:
➡ Russia has given the world so many outstanding writers[+], including poets, such as Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Pushkin, Bulgakov[+], Turgenev[+], Gogol, Goncharov[+], Bunin6[+], Maxim Gorky, Pasternak7[+], Mayakovsky[+], Nabokov[+], Yesenin, Sholokhov8[+], Brodsky9[+], Solzhenitsyn[+][+][+] – 6 Nobel laureates[+] + 10 top contemporary Russian writers[+]and readrussia.org[+]
100 masterpieces of Russian literature you should read (incl. contemporary)[+]
5 new Russian books translated into English in 2024[+]
8 books by Russian writers that will make you cry[+]
5 main Russian women writers of the 20th century[+]
The Ringing Cedars of Russia(also known as Anastasia) series of books[+][+] by Vladimir Megre – so powerful that it grew into a movement and Zionists made every effort to discredit it. The real hero here is not Megre (ethnic Russian born in Ukraine) but the extraordinary main protagonist of his books, Russian Anastasia10[+], who is so exceptional that many people doubt she exists[+]. Some say, she has more power in Russia than Putin, and Putin has implemented one of her ideas in 2016 – Federal Law No. 119 FL[+][+] giving everyone (including foreign nationals) one hectare (2.5 acres) of land free of charge.
➡ Diana Ankudinova[»][»] – a young Russian singer, there’s no one like her in the world
➡ All-time songs: Katyusha[»][»][»][»], Kalinka[»][»], Moskau[»][»] and Dorogoy Dlinnoyu[»]. Plus pops songs: t.A.T.u on Eurovision[»] and ‘My Marmalade’ by Katya Lel[»+][»][»] or a teeny song Sigma Boy[»+][»][»], 15 Russian songs for a feast[»]
Vladimir Vysotsky (1938 – 1980) is Russia’s favorite bard, poet, singer and actor, who composed nearly 600 songs that are still popular among many Russians.
➡ Russian choreographers[+][+][+] and dancers[»] – Ensemble "Beryozka"[»], Bolshoi Ballet[»][»][»], plus Rasputin shuffle dance[»][»][»][»]… 10 greatest Russian choreographers of all time[+]
➡ Oscar-winning films: 1980 ‘Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears’[»][»], 1994 “Burnt by the Sun”[»][»], plus many more nominated[+] (the last nominated one was in 2017 – “Loveless”[»][»]).
Films of Andrei Tarkovsky[+] (Stalker[+][»][»], Solaris[»], Andrei Rublev[»], and The Mirror[»]); Onegin[+][+][»][»] (2024, movie adaptation of Pushkin’s novel), Sputnik[+][»] sci-fi (2020), Coma[»] (2020), Sobibor[» (2018), Arrhythmia[»] (2017), Battle for Sevastopol[»] (2015), On the Road to Berlin[»] (2015), Stalingrad[»] (2013), Going Vertical (aka 'Three Seconds'; 2018), Night Watch[»] (2004), Viking (2016), Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan[»][»][»](2007), HardcoreHenry[»] (2015), He Is Dragon[»] (2015), Guardians12[»] (2017), The Heart of Parma13[»] (2022), Along Unknown Paths[»] crossover movie 1982, Ma-ma[»] musical (1976), Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair[»] fairy tale (1970), Morozko[»] movie (1964), Sadko[»] fairy tale (1952),The Snow Queen[»] animated film, Masha and the Bear[»] cartoons[+], 6 Russian movies & series on Netflix[+], 5 Best Soviet movies based on Dostoevsky’s books[+], 5 Best Soviet movies based on Leo Tolstoy’s books[+], Best Soviet WWII movies[»][»][»][»], Liberation[»] (5 movies series), War Movies playlist[»]…
Warning: Russian films, very much like many German and French films, are not pleasing to all those who prefer special effects over substance. Movies with emphasis on special effects leave nothing of value in human heart.
Did you know that two Russian Jewish brothers founded Hollywood[+]? – Brothers Ossip and Nikolay Schenker became the founders of the largest Hollywood film studios – MGM and United Artists.
How to watch Russian movies & TV shows FOR FREE with subtitles[+]
Playlist with Russian Movies with English Subtitles[+]
Konstantin Stanislavski (1863 – 1938) was the Russian character actor and theater practitioner, author of the Stanislavski system of acting.
➡ Painters Wassily Kandinsky[ꚛ], Marc Chagall[ꚛ], Kazimir Malevich, Ilya Repin[ꚛ], Nikolai Roerich[ꚛ], Ivan Aivazovsky[ꚛ], Arkhip Kuindzhi[+], Nicolas de Staël, Alexej von Jawlensky, Valentin Serov, Natalia Goncharova, Nicolai Fechin, Ivan Shishkin,and others[+][+][+][+], avant-garde artist Olga Rozanova[+] – The 10 greatest Russian artists ever[+]
➡ Typical Russian souvenirs include Matryoshka dolls[+], samovars for water heating, ushanka and papaha warm hats, fur clothes, Khokhloma painting[+] (on wood with golden, red, and black paints), Gzhel’ ceramics[+] (blue-and-white tableware), Palekh lacquer miniature[+], Zhostovo trays[+], Pavlovo-Posad shawls[+], Vologda lace[+], Dymkovo toys[+], Gorodets painting[+], Kasli cast-iron moulding[+], wood and bone carving, embroidery, painting on wood and metal, etc.[+]
➡ In figure skating, Ilia Malinin produced a first quadruple axel in Grand Prix history[»] and also Kamila Valieva is the first female ever to land a quadruple jump[»] (at the 2022 Beijing Olympics), but envious Americans had to, off course, ruin it for her and Russia by alleging a doping and oddly only after14 US team lost the gold medal to Russia – in the meantime, she has been cleared of any wrongdoing[+]15[+]
➡ Russian cuisine[+] – Russian vodka, kvass (soda made of bread), caviar, Bashkir honey, Adygean cheese, buckwheat[+], karavay[+] (round shaped bread), pelmeni and vareniki (filled dumplings), borscht ( beetroot soup), shchi (cabbage soup), solyanka (or bigus – cabbage or pickles stew with meat , fish, or mushroom), Beef Stroganoff (sautéed beef pieces in a creamy sauce served over noodles or mashed potatoes or rice), Chicken Kiev (breaded chicken cutlet filled), Olivier salad (a.k.a. Russian salad – a mix of diced potatoes, vegetables, eggs, and meat with mayonnaise), golubtsy (cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat and rice), kholodets (meat jelly), vinegret (salad of boiled beets, potatoes, carrots, pickles, and sauerkraut), blini and oladyi (thin and fluffy pancakes), syrniki (fried quark pancakes), medovik (layered honey cake with a creamy filling), pryaniki (gingerbread), and etc.[+][+][+][+]
Even some of the 7 cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ukraine can be contributed to the Russians (Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Monastery of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, Odesa's city centre, Wooden churches/tserkvas of the Carpathian Region) and none to actual Ukrainians.
➡ Moscow and Saint Petersburg feature such world-renown museums as Tretyakov Gallery and Hermitage, famous theaters like Bolshoi and Mariinsky, ornate churches like Saint Basil's Cathedral, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Saint Isaac's Cathedral and Church of the Savior on Blood, impressive fortifications like Moscow Kremlin and Peter and Paul Fortress, beautiful squares like Red Square and Palace Square, and streets like Tverskaya and Nevsky Prospect.
colorful Saint Basil's Cathedral[+ꚛ»] in Moscow, built in the 16th century, is an icon of Russia and one the most famous esthetical architectural master-pieces16[+] if the world, however, there are countless others Russian byzantine orthodox churches that are so beautiful that we get goosebumps while visiting them. The most beautiful Russian Orthodox churches outside Russia[+]
➡ Diverse regions and ethnic cultures of Russia offer a great variety of traditions, like Russian banya, Tatar Sabantuy, or Siberian shamanist rituals.
➡ Major tourist routes in Russia, besides Moscow and Saint Petersburg, include a travel around the Golden Ring of ancient cities, cruises on the big rivers like Volga, long journeys on the famous Trans-Siberian Railway, Sochi sea resort, lake Baikal (the Blue Eye of Siberia), Kam-chatka volcanoes and geysers, Karelia lakes and granite rocks, Altai snowy mountains, Tyva wild steppes, etc.
For more samples of Russian culture, visit the Gateway to Russia[+].
In contrast, Ukraine has not given the world anything[+][+] or anyone[+][+][+][+][+][+] as significant in terms of culture, arts, and innovation, which is why most of the world appreciates Russia much more than (economically and culturally) poor and corrupt Ukraine. The only Ukrainians who added some value to the world in recent decades are those who fled Ukraine – in other words, no thanks to Ukraine, and ethnic Russians born in Ukraine (e.g., Gogol, Megre).
Russians are significantly more educated than Europeans and Americans (especially white Americans, who are less educated than Asian Americans[+]).
The Russian Federation has the highest tertiary17 attainment rates in the world[+], at 63% of 25-34 year-olds compared with the OECD average of 44%[+]. Percentage of citizens age 25-64 who have completed tertiary education according to OECD 2021 report[+] – Russia[+] ranks better than the US[+], the UK[+], the EU[+] and Ukraine[+].
And when it comes to just higher education(without vocational courses), then Russia beats the US, the UK, the EU, and Ukraine again! Percentage of population 25 years or older with a Bachelor's Degree or higher in 2021[+]: Russia – 41,2%; the UK – 37,3%; the US – 35% (most of them are Asian Americans[+][+]); Germany – 28,3%; France – 19,7%; Ukraine – 16,1%.
As we enter into the age of AI, due to the power of marketing, branding, and showing off, many believe that the US leads the race in innovation and while that’s true to an extent, it must be noted that behind many of the US brands are many unpretentious Russians powering the latest advancements. Google was founded by Russian-born Sergei Brin, and Intel’s Pentium line was designed by Russian-born Vladimir Pentkovski, after whom the Pentium was named. Also, the founder and chief scientist/programmer of the world’s leading AI company, OpenAI – creators of the famous ChatGPT – is Russian-born Ilya Sutskever.Telegram Messenger[+] (an instant messaging service like Twitter) and the social networking site VK (an alternative to Facebook) were founded by the Russian-born Durov brothers.
All IQ rankings[+][+][+] show that Russians have much higher IQ than Americans and all other NATO nations. Yet “smart” Americans (No.30 in the world) believe that one man named Putin outsmarted all the Russians, faked all elections without them realizing it😊. This guy Putin must be some genius when he is able to outsmart a whole nation full of highly intelligent people😊.
All US and NATO enemies, such as Russia, China, and Iran are way more intelligent than them, so the question is, who are you siding with?
In the International Olympiad in Informatics[+], both Chinese and Russians are better than Americans with each winning more gold medals and overall medals[ꚛ].
Bear in mind that the US has twice as bigger population than Russia to draw from.
The same is true with the International Collegiate Programming Championships[+][ꚛ], International Mathematical Olympiad[+][ꚛ], and other international competitions showing the supremacy of Russian human capital and their contribution to the world.
Russia is somewhat handicapped by the artificially imposed sanctions, embargoes, frozen assets, and economic terrorism from the West, which keep it from turning into a native technological powerhouse in the fields of computers and AI development but the human capital is clearly there and ready for the breakthrough that will come as Russia finally decouples from the West and turns to China, with whose help it will build up its semiconductor (and other) industries.
The point of this article was to shine a light on greatness of Russia and its people to the Western world where they are portrayed as being nothing but evil and even called as subhumans by neo-Nazis from Ukraine, who call them “orcs”, just as Nazis used to refer to Russians (as well as Ukrainians and all other Slavs) as “Untermenschen”.
For peace to come, we all need to stop vilifying or demonizing one another but to find the goodness in people. Considering how much greatness has come from Russia, we all, especially, Ukrainians , would much more benefit from being friends with Russia rather than antagonizing them and censoring their cultural and scientific assets.
Thank you for reading this article and participating in this peace initiative by raising your awareness and, hopefully, your consciousness and spirit. To properly grasp everything, we[*]recommend reading the articles of this peace initiative for Ukraine in the proper order, which is listed in the Contents. So if you haven’t read the previous articles, we recommend that you do. This article is part of the “Peacemaking Mediation” segment. When you are ready, please proceed to the next article in this series: American Animosity and Rivalry
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alleged moon landing — watch here[»] some evidence disputing the veracity of it proving it was just a $30 billion hoax to prove to the world during the Cold War that the US is more capable and powerful than the communist Soviets
American firsts[+] (if we do not count all the insignificant American "firsts" such as first person to make suborbital flight, first spaceflight by winged spacecraft, first orbital maneuvers, first space rendezvous, first civilian in orbit, first space docking...)
Anastasia[+] (not to confuse her with the Romanov princess Anastasia) is a surviving member of an ancient Vedic culture, whose powers and knowledge far exceed anything known today. She was born in 1969, in the Western Siberian taiga. She has extraordinary powers such as clairevoyance, healing, creation or manifesting, wisdom
Kamila Valieva also performed a quadruple jump on couple other occasions proving she didn't need a dope to do it; consider how mean her American rivals must be to deny this innocent teenager her precious, historical victory; couple weeks later Russians attacked Ukrai
while most others were/are more concerned to show off a size of a city hallmark (Eifel tower in Paris, Statue of Liberty and One World Trade Center in NYC, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Shanghai Tower...), Russians place more value on esthetics and spirituality
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