Humanity has entered a critical era, a new period in world history. It is not just a matter of changing the world order, reformatting the system of international relations and evolving the doctrines and values underlying the global architecture. Today, profound and truly tectonic changes are taking place.
By Nikolai Patrushev
Before our eyes, the Western-centred colonial world order, which originated in the age of the Crusades and took shape during the Great Geographical Discoveries, is experiencing a final collapse. It was then that the foundations were laid for the Western model of civilisation, which was predatory in nature and has existed with some modifications to the present day.
Within the framework of this model, a narrow group of states built a pyramid, establishing themselves at its top and granting themselves exclusive powers. How this pyramid of parasitism is designed and to whom each of its floors is assigned is clear from the division of the world into developed, transitional and developing states, which is accepted in modern Western practice. The essence of this system is simple: all those who are on the lower level must transfer uncomplainingly and practically free of charge to the top their own resources: material, financial, intellectual, human. In fact, we are dealing with a multi-level parasitic superstructure on a global scale.
The word “parasite” is Greek for “sponge”. In ancient Greece, this was the name given to swindlers who gained the trust of wealthy citizens and used cunning and often force to take control of their homes. This was also the way in which the Western powers acted, securing their dominance and using the most brutal and inhumane methods.
History knows many examples. The European conquest of the New World was accompanied by the genocide of the indigenous population. More than 15 million slaves were taken from Africa as a result of their partition and plunder to America, mainly to the United States. The large-scale diversion of resources from South and Southeast Asia, the “opium wars” in China and other similar operations are in memory.
At the same time, colonial-imperialist projects were planned and implemented mainly by private capital: merchants, entrepreneurs, joint-stock companies and corporations, which were more powerful than many states and had their own armies and fleets.
Today, East India companies and colonial administrations have been replaced by transnational corporations, whose resources exceed the potential of most states in the world. Politics in Western countries is not shaped by elected authorities, but by big business itself. US arms companies have long felt they own the Pentagon, and their fellow information giants such as Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon do not even try to hide the use of technologies to collect personal data and social control around the world for their own purposes.
The private banking conglomerate known as the US Federal Reserve is a creditor of the US government, which in turn has put the rest of the world on the “needle of the dollar”. Washington continues to deliberately, albeit by force, increase the national debt, which has now exceeded $32.5 trillion. Successive Fed chairmen boast that the US can pay back any loan it gets because it can print unlimited money.
For the sake of global domination, the West uses direct military influence, threats of force, “privatisation” of elites, “colour revolutions”, and encourages terrorism and extremism. Therefore, the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance actually provides the United States with the opportunity to absorb states, depriving them of their independence in the defence of their national interests. NATO’s duplicity cannot be hidden under any pretext. For years, NATO members have been paying lip service to peace, but at the same time, they fight or threaten war against any country that does not agree with US policy. NATO’s military power is used to maintain Western hegemony, economic subjugation, and political pressure on states that do not pose a military threat to the alliance. In seven decades, NATO members have been involved in more than 200 military conflicts around the world.
It should be noted that, in practice, NATO armies are also colonial armies for America. If necessary, Washington will easily send the troops of other member countries of the alliance to the slaughter without risking the lives of the representatives of the “exceptional” American people.
International terrorism, which in its present form is a direct tool for promoting Atlanticist influence, is also along the same lines. Almost all major modern terrorist groups are created, supplied and financed by Western intelligence services, implementing the decisions of the political leaders of their countries.
Psychological influence on the inhabitants of other countries and continents became an effective non-military method of strengthening Western dominance. For centuries, professional propagandists of the Old World have been constructing arguments according to which they not only bring good to other nations, but also supposedly do so in the form of charity, almost to their own detriment. Everyone remembers Rudyard Kipling’s lines about “the white man’s charge”, which, in his words, is to send his “best sons into the service of sullen tribes”. However, it is less well known that some British colonies, such as Australia, were originally used only to cleanse the metropolis of criminals and outcasts.
The conceptual justification for colonialism was embodied in the so-called scientific racism created in the late 19th and 20th centuries in England and the United States. Its theorists explained the need for the guardianship of the “superior” races over the “inferior” races through arguments about the physical and intellectual inequality of the human races.
There is another aspect. Russia is perceived by the West as a constant threat. After all, the dismantling of the colonial system began after World War II under the direct influence of the Soviet Union’s achievements and victories. It was then that the Western metropolises lost direct control over their possessions, and dozens of states around the world gained independence. As a consequence, the colonisers had to switch to mechanisms and methods of indirect coercion: dragging new countries into political and military blocs, bribing local elites, economic and technological enslavement and exploitation of other people’s resources through hidden schemes. The losses were enormous, and this did not increase the love for our country in the West.
Today, the entire arsenal of means available to its adversaries is being used against Russia. These are not just threats or condemnations, but also thousands of information resources under their control and a multi-level system of public opinion processing, which are based on an extensive network of foreign public relations agencies designed to create reasons for unleashing vicious information campaigns around the world.
Westerners gain additional influence by participating in the training of promising managers and representatives of law enforcement agencies, who then become drivers of harmful ideas to the detriment of their states’ national interests. In recent years, hundreds of foreign intelligence employees and others involved in organising intelligence and subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners have been identified and neutralised.
Having been rebuffed, the United States and its allies have resorted to tactics to destroy the security architecture in the world that has been established over the years. Ignoring the goals and principles of the UN Charter, they seek to replace international law with a self-defined “rules-based order”. In its neo-colonial aspirations, the West is trying to destroy the most important integration associations, but beyond its control: ASEAN, SCO, BRICS, CIS, EAEU and others, pursuing the long-term goal of turning independent states into its vassals.
US policy circles have convinced themselves of America’s supposedly special messianic destiny to rule the world through an assertive foreign policy without recognising anyone’s interests. They are actively interfering in domestic processes in Latin America, Africa and Asia, building new alliances for themselves. Among them are the trilateral AUKUS partnership with Britain and Australia, the US-Japan-Republic of Korea triangle, which are aimed at China, Russia, DPRK and other countries in the region that do not obey Washington’s will. In the Asia-Pacific region, the White House is obsessed with the idea of forming a security network structure, in which Tokyo has an important place. Plans are underway to establish a NATO branch in the Asia non-violent. Cooperation with Britain is intensifying to utilise the potential of its intelligence services, technological achievements and the integration of the force into ongoing US operations. Washington cannot give up on the idea of a pocket “branch” of NATO in the Middle East.
The expansion of the US military machine is accompanied by a forced reformatting of the mentality and spirituality of the population in all countries where the Anglo-Saxons seek to expand their influence. False ideas and values are being systematically and compulsively inserted into their public consciousness in order to consolidate the neo-colonial claims of the West.
First of all, these are the ideas of globalism, the very opposite of patriotism, which does not recognise the diversity of cultures and ways of life and is designed to force all countries and peoples under the banner of Western consumer civilisation.
Furthermore, it is the tired propaganda of false theories of gender diversity with the invention of dozens of genders and the ability to change a person’s biological parameters at the first whim or even under compulsion.
Finally, it is the development and imposition of insane pseudo-environmental doctrines designed to justify the need for a radical reduction in humanity’s numbers under the slogan of nature conservation.
The pseudo-scientific concept of transhumanism is cultivated, according to which man is declared to be an intermediate link in biological and social development, leading to the demand to “improve” him, almost forcibly, through genetic modification and fusion with technological systems. At the same time, people are presented with various technocratic theories that justify the dependence of humans on new technologies and allow artificial intelligence to control them.
Betting on anti-human and frankly misanthropic ideas has long been a trademark of the elites in Western Europe and the United States. The proposed doctrines are, in fact, an attempt by the West to preserve its former benefits and privileges. Consequently, all states and peoples who do not want to follow these vicious ideas, but profess and defend their way, sanctified by thousands of years of experience and traditions of their ancestors, are automatically proclaimed enemies subject to “re-education” by any means, including force.
That is why it is important that the majority of humanity, which does not agree with the role it has been assigned as the “fodder base” of the West, should unite and put an end to neo-colonial hegemony, finally withdraw its political, economic, social and cultural systems from the influence of the so-called Western civilisation.
We are witnessing that the centre of economic activity has shifted from the global West to what have hitherto been called developing countries. They have already surpassed both the United States and Europe in terms of the volume of products produced, the scale of investment, the pace of technological progress and the growth in the quality of life of the population.
Not surprisingly, at the beginning of the 21st century, when resources became much harder to extract, the American, British and European globalists found themselves in a difficult situation, and the pyramid of parasitism wobbled. Pockets of freedom struggles emerged in different regions of the world. Independent states have ceased to tolerate systemic robbery. Centres of power have formed on the planet, which no longer wish to submit to Anglo-Saxon hegemony. A significant part of Eurasia, China, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Arab world, all these are the poles of the future world order. In the context of Russia’s harsh confrontation with the collective West, whose “hot” phase was the special operation in Ukraine, the process of their formation has accelerated significantly. A convincing confirmation of this is the refusal of the majority of the world’s states to join the anti-Russian sanctions.
Russia has become a centre of attraction for all those who are willing to resist the parasitism of the West, because we offer an alternative path. Its main parameters are reflected in the new edition of the Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation. We are open to cooperation with all constructive countries, public and political forces willing to move forward together on the path of development, laying the foundations of a new, genuine democratic multipolar world order.
Most states are ready to work together in this direction. Direct proof of this is the 11th International Meeting of Senior Representatives on Security Issues, held in Russia on 23-25 May this year. Delegations from 101 countries and six international organisations participated in the forum.
The conference took place in a difficult international environment, under conditions of undisguised pressure, when the ambassadors of the United States, Britain and France tried to force their participants to abandon their trip to Russia. Such hostile actions came as a surprise to no one. The West does not recognise organised formats without its leading role, as well as bilateral and multilateral interaction based on equality and international law.
In their speeches, the participants emphasised that the turbulence of processes in the modern world is a direct consequence of the desire of the collective West and global transnational corporations to reverse the process of restoring balance and justice. The thesis that the most important principle of international relations should be mutual respect and unconditional recognition of the right of others to choose their own path of development, their social, political and economic structure is a red thread.
The experience of holding such forums shows that the majority of the world’s countries realise the destructive nature of the global policy of the United States and its satellites and how suicidal it is today to submit mindlessly to the West. In the public speeches of our partners, in bilateral negotiations and in behind-the-scenes talks, we hear the same leitmotif: the development of humanity depends directly on the strengthening of a multipolar world and the preservation of traditional moral values.
We should not forget that the UN remains the main mechanism for dialogue and coordination of states on issues requiring joint action, and the UN Charter already contains the principle of multipolarity based on regional representation. In this sense, the question of expanding the UN Security Council to include countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America is increasingly relevant.
Today it is obvious that objective prerequisites for the transition to this kind of world order have been formed due to the profound socio-economic and political crisis in the Western world and the rapid development of non-Western societies. There are also subjective reasons, expressed in the desire of various actors to build a global architecture of a new kind, in which there will be no place for the division of countries and peoples into classes, types and varieties.
The most important resource for opposing the designs of modern colonialists is historical memory, which Westerners, despite their best efforts, have not been able to erase. The peoples of all regions of the world remember centuries of ferocious oppression, and no fable of the “white man’s civilising mission” can erase the horrors of English slavery, the atrocities of Hitler’s Nazis and their henchmen. Nor will they forget the Belgians who hacked off the limbs of the inhabitants of the Congo as punishment for underperforming in the rubber harvest, nor will they forget the French and Americans who turned the burgeoning island of Haiti into a giant slum during two centuries of inhuman robbery.
It is well known that the destruction of Libya, the two Iraqi campaigns and the wave of Arab ‘colour revolutions’ were a direct consequence of Washington’s attempt to prevent African countries and the energy-rich states of the Middle East from escaping Western control.
Europe, which has recently been stirred by the desire for sovereignty (also called “strategic autonomy”), also poses a growing threat to US hegemony. The conflict in Ukraine was organised by Washington and London not only to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, but also to weaken Europe, where Germany had previously played ‘first fiddle’.
In its attempts to maintain its dominance, the West itself destroyed the tools that worked better for it than the military machine. These are freedom of movement of goods and services, transport and logistics corridors, a unified payment system, the global division of labour and value chains. As a result, Westerners are isolating themselves from the rest of the world at a rapid pace. The US share of global GDP is spilling out rapidly. The current decade will be spent under the slogans of import substitution and rejection of the dollar.
The “printing press” strategy, like the entire Western financial system, is viable exactly as long as the United States and its satellites wage new colonial wars. However, there are no financial pyramids that exist forever. This is an immutable law of economics. It is obvious that in the foreseeable future the United States will have to accept the role of one of the poles of the multipolar world, and Europe, which has accepted to become an American vassal, will have to work hard to gain geopolitical independence.
Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the National Security Council of the Russian Federation @vakulinchuk
