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Dr. John Mearsheimer’s offensive realism is the premier theoretical framework for international relations. His emphasis on uncertainty and its disruptive influence on world politics gives insight into the Ukraine disaster.
The international system is anarchic. Plans of hostile states are unknowable. There’s no “911” for states to dial in case of an attack.
Uncertainty makes states fearful, and if you’re confident in your strength, you answer threats with force. Seeing the 51st state on its doorstep scares Russia, so it attacked. Irrational behavior? I don’t think so, since it went to great lengths by Great Power standards to avoid war. How would America treat Canada if it was conspiring to park the People’s Liberation Army in Montreal? Could this treatment be considered unprovoked?
There’s a comparison to be made between military powers and dangerous wildlife. Park rangers tell you to treat grizzlies in Yellowstone and rattlesnakes in Yosemite the same. “They only attack people when we scare them. Keep your distance, and you’ll be fine.” As Mearsheimer said in his recent lecture: “If you take a stick and poke a bear in the eye, that bear is probably not going to smile and laugh at what you’re doing. That bear will fight back, and that bear will tear apart Ukraine. It is in the process of tearing apart Ukraine.”
To bring peace to Ukraine, Americans must know how we got here. The United States has been poking the bear since its 1999 extension of NATO to former Soviet bloc countries.
- 1999 and 2004 – Russia bitterly accepted NATO membership from former Soviet bloc states. In 1999, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. In 2004, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
- First Major Crisis – 2008 – Russia intervened in Georgia against neocon attack on Pro-Russian separatists plotted by John McCain and “close friend” Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Russia issued a sharp warning against Georgian and Ukrainian NATO membership as “direct provocations,” a position it’s maintained since without policy adjustment from the United States.
- Second Major Crisis – 2014 – The United States committed an “assault on democracy” by executing the overthrow of fairly elected Moscow-friendly President Yanukovych. Russia retaliated by annexing Crimea and fostering civil war in Donbass.
- Third Major Crisis – 2021 – The United States made Ukraine NATO member in all but name. The United States armed and trained Ukrainians. Ukraine used Turkish drones against Pro-Russian forces. Britain drove a destroyer through Russian territorial waters on the Black Sea. The United States flew bombers near the Russian coast. In November, Russia had reached its boiling point.
Expecting Russia to swallow this belligerence forever was Fukuyama fantasy.
Washington knew the risks. Now they’d like to bleed Russia white enough to paint Orange Revolution on Moscow. If American Pravda cared for Ukrainian lives, wouldn’t it wave the Russian flag to “end war immediately” for public consideration? Instead, CNN gun grab activists cheer on Zelensky’s push to arm civilians with Molotov Cocktails. Facing civilian soldiers, what else will Russia do but turn Kievs to Stalingrads.
Since Making Russia Ukraine Again isn’t Moscow’s plan, I predict Russia will win. Russia’s GDP is smaller than Texas’s and Putin is too smart to swallow a porcupine. Russia is fighting for something close to what it said its fighting for. Ukrainian neutrality, the separatist republics, and Crimea.
Placing nuclear forces on high alert was a message to the United States on Russian resolve. Putin sees survival at stake, and won’t go quietly. We aren’t near Russian surrender, and its military has lots of charge in its battery. The chance of nuclear strikes must be taken seriously.
If Americans knew the true story, they would support peace. The United States could make light work of bringing Ukraine to a tolerable settlement. They’re choosing to risk nuclear war instead.
For the good of its nation, and Europe, Ukraine should grant Russian demands on the condition overreach will be met with all-out resistance. Fighting Russia to the bitter end won’t give Ukraine the government it deserves. Their civilization will turn savage, and “winning” would eternalize dependence on amoral Yanquis who care for Ukraine solely as a chess piece.
Let me be clear. This is not a pro-Putin statement. My admiration for Ukrainians defending their homeland should go without saying. But how can we support a cause led by the group replacing our people for sport? The primary author of Zelensky’s War is the United States government—the mortal enemy of Europeans.
I am a racial idealist who values Ukrainians and Russians equally. But in politics, before you chase ideals, you must follow objective factors. Joining NATO will corrupt and endanger Ukraine even further, and it’s not regaining separatist areas or Crimea. Accepting Russia’s terms is the best available solution for Europeans.
Russia knows who it must run to for leverage with the United States. America gives Israel four billion dollars yearly, fights its wars, and still can’t get it to condemn their hated enemy. Israel holds no strategic value to the United States yet remains unharmed for neutrality. Instead, “little Israel” is applauded by the press for “stepping up.”
Meanwhile, a mighty nation we greatly depend on is threatened for neutrality. The United States is intervening with a death wish against a Russian power it could’ve partnered with. China, which won’t accept submission in its region, will exploit American arrogance. Chinese hegemony in Asia will wreck the liberal world order and unlock nationalism in the West.
American elites are running out of time as world police. Their home base is imploding, and while remaining fearsome tacticians, their strategic bearings are spent. The Great Delusion is fading out, and new orders will rise from groups with the strength to build them.
To ordinary American patriots: Don’t look for the Republicans to save you. They have not stopped The Great Replacement, terrorism, war, skyrocketing black crime, financial calamity, BLM rioting, and COVID. Now they are the loudest voices calling for World War III. All these follies would end if white populists were in charge. Time to give us a chance. A pack of wolves has nothing to fear from a den of vipers. Our war ends the day you decide to wake up, white man.
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So Putin thought that some land grabbing, leveling cities, and killing civilians on purpose will ingratiate him with the Ukrainian people and keep NATO away. Good thinking.
The 5 billion dollar budget intended for bribing certain people in Ukraine and change the ideas of Ukrainians was stolen by Putin’s buddies. Once this kind of generous budgets will fade away so will a certain narrative.
Funny thing is that they are making arrests everywhere. In Moscow for embezzlement and in Kyiv for “disseminating Russian-funded anti-Ukraine information”. They are still wondering about Viktor Medvedciuk’s Pullman wagon (with golden fixtures).
Slovakia made some serious arrests today too. Surely others will follow the lead. Lots of fun.
It’s a disaster, my friend. But to clarify again, I did not say Russia is right. Only their behavior was predictable. The United States needlessly provoked the bear time and time again. And they “encouraged” (putting it politely) the Ukrainian government to do the same.
Here is Mearsheimer predicting this outcome in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wafrb5pqkaQ
It seems no amount of reasoning will convince someone who has made up his mind to hate Russians. If a fraction of this time and energy was spent in fighting our real enemy, our victory would be guaranteed.
Obsessive hatred of Russians won’t solve our problems.
It won’t, Joe. Thanks for commenting, sir.
Russophobia? It’s as ridiculous as Islamophobia, or homophobia.
It’s not irrational. It’s a direct historical experience. Which you do not have and are not prepared to accept. Does Holodomor mean anything to you?
Do you know what NATOphobia is? It is a strange condition that soviet nostalgics, putinistas, and some American doctors share. Main syndrome is disregarding anything what a stubborn east-european has to say.
Anyone paying attention could have predicted in 2015. Anyone who knows Russia’s modus operandi.
After imposing a puppet (like Viktor Ianukovitch) everytime followes subordination and incorporation or anarchy and war. Dr Mearsheimer predicted, but for all the wrong reasons. NATO isn’t attacking Ukraine but Russia. NATO wasn’t looting Ukraine but Russia. Why do you blame NATO?
Did you like the Pullman wagon? Tell me that it’s a difference between Medvedciuk and Tony Montana. One only may hope that Putin and his friends do not share the same death fantasy. Lots of fun, lots of fun as I said.
I agree with all this. I like Mearsheimer a lot. I became aware of him back in the days of ‘The Israel Lobby’.
There may be a contingent of real nationalists in Ukraine who would otherwise be worthy of our support, but the white nationalist case can’t always take primacy over everything in every context. And the corrupt puppet regime in Ukraine is not a good advert for Ukrainian nationalism, it’s an astonishingly bad one.
As for the ‘real’ Ukranian Nazis, a question would be are they exclusively Nazis towards Russia ? Would they be cool with flooding Ukraine with blacks and other Third World hordes if it meant security against Russia? If that were a condition of NATO or EU membership or provided much needed GDP growth ? If the answer is yes, it’s very difficult to take their position seriously.
From the outset I’m generally sympathetic to Putin in this, and to the realist political model offered by Mearsheimer, but not up to the point of we have a nuclear war just to prove how tough we all are. That’s just the height of insanity. It’s not a bar room fight or something. It’s not ok to devastate the planet because of pride.
Then we have to ask where this aggressive stance about Russia comes from in the US ? I’ve seen different historical factors talked about, but I suspect it’s in large part the hysteria is driven by Jews and what they perceive as their unfair history in Russia.
Rather than all this Russia bashing hysterics, if antisemitic policies meant no nuclear war (or other wars) I would take the antisemitic policies and look to systemically depower Jews from all influence in the US and its puppet states in Europe which is a far more humane and just solution that global annihilation.
OMG that means being called Nazis and stuff.
Well said, VR. My position aims for symmetry of reason and principle. White Nationalism is a sound ideology because it allows you to stand over nationalism threatening our race as a whole.
All the best and send an email if we haven’t already spoken.
Well said.
I disagree. It is not, and will never be, America‘s business „to bring peace to Ukraine“. Quite the opposite. And I think the majority of Americans does see it the same way.
You’ve misunderstood the article. The United States is chiefly responsible for this war and primarily responsible for its escalation. They’ve fooled the public (as usual) into thinking their actions are for Ukrainians, which is bogus. If they had cared for Ukrainians, this would have never happened. If they cared for Ukrainians, they would consider Russia’s peace offer. The elites care about Ukraine only as a bulwark of US power. If Americans knew the truth, they would favor peace with Russia. Handing over Crimea etc. The United States could easily pressure Ukrainian officials into this. Thanks to the lying press, the public views this war as an Empire Strikes Back scenario. Sound familiar?
It’s way too late for that.
America should not have saved USSR so many times and should have never bombed to oblivion so many European cities just to please USSR.
Starting with Waren Harding. Instead minding his own love life and scandals, the good gentelman thought it would be properly to save Lenin and his gang. He gave them huge quantities of food, so the Red Army can fight. Pure humanitarianism. Not so much when it’s about mothers and kids running for their life, like today in Ukraine.
You can’t have it both way. And now it is too late. No security exports – no Bretton Woods, if you know what I mean.
Thank you, Robert, for this balanced and well-reasoned article. I agree with you. To be transparent, I am more pro-Putin than you or Greg, although I have some significant reservations about him. This sentence especially resonated with me:
But how can we support a cause fanned by the group replacing our people for sport? The primary author of Zelensky’s War is the United States government—the mortal enemy of Europeans.
Exactly – and this is the crucial point. I too have sympathies for both our Ukrainian and Russian brothers and sisters, but the Ukrainian government is execrable. At least Putin resists our mortal enemy.
I was growing concerned that Counter-Currents is uncritically pro-Ukrainian. Your article reassured me at this juncture when I was considering whether to renew my subscription amidst the launch of the 2022 fundraiser.
The praise means a lot to me, sir. Hah, the italicized section is one of my better moments so far. Thank you.
Greg and I have had several conversations about this war, and no disagreements have arisen. He granted me saintlike patience in writing this article and is proud of the final product. It was a slog to get right. Second special thanks to my brilliant friend Hubert Collins for guidance.
I thought this was a clinic on respectful disagreement—great show.
Please get in touch with me to learn how we’re entering politics this year, Ultrarightist. We’re grateful for your support.
Unfortunately the link is dead.
Here it is: https://counter-currents.com/2022/03/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-424-mark-collett-of-patriotic-alternative/
Like Geoffrey Sachs, Mearsheimer pretends that the recent history of Ukraine doesn’t exist of all.
He simply misrepresents things like Russia reached a breaking point due to NATO.
Mearsheimer pretends that after 1992 Russia never used the subversion, the blackmail, the infiltration, the propaganda, the assasination against Ukraine (in fact against every country in Europe and America). This was in fact a constant of Russia that scared everybody and made everybody to seek NATO and EU protection. Since Yugoslavia War.
Mearsheimer most probably cashed some money to write down some Kremlin lies. Another tarnished reputation.
Repeating the lies from Kremlin will prolong the war, not stop it.
I found it to be a brilliant article. Thank you.
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Thank you, Scott. Please get in touch. Look forward to speaking with you.
It’s such a weaponized vanity of small differences, a righteous psychotic madness engineered to make the MICIMATT very rich.
It’s a sordid affair, that’s for sure.
Mearsheimer’s is a bancrupt modernist-realist take that is incapable to process what is going on. As an alternative I recommend the recent interview with Gary Lachman on Rebel Wisdom or, if Lachman is too much of a “lib” for you, this video from a Croatian TradCat philosopher:
https://youtu.be/2Q0E8Rc1FA4
Not sure how you can say Mearsheimer’s view is bankrupt. His forecasts have a great track record. He also wrote one of the most courageous books of this century. I’ll check out the video tonight. Thanks.
I think the best summary of my extreme pro-Putin view is the article by Mike Whitney which I read on the Unz review. See link below. It is much better than any article I could have written myself.
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/twice-in-a-century-russia-faces-a-war-of-annihilation/
This article is over the top, but there’s value there. I won’t budge from the view that the United States is first to blame for this war. Moreover, I can’t say I’d act differently as Russian head of state. But I’m not Russian, which is why I’ve taken the position I did in this article. Thanks for the comment, Jud.
Thank you for a good article. What does the author think about the influence of Ukrainian and Russian Jews on this conflict? I think this is key to dealing with both Russia and Ukraine.
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/01/jewish-subtexts-in-ukraine/
Very good question. To make it easier it should be about the Russian and Ukrainians oligarchs.
Yes. What’s the author opinion on this?
But how can we support a cause fanned by the group replacing our people for sport? The primary author of Zelensky’s War is the United States government
See hyperlinks in this section. Joyce’s piece was outstanding. Of course, the Ukrainian end is driven by the usual Jewish-American warmongers. One look at Biden’s State Department and uniform pro-war media chorus will tell you that. No one has given a similarly convincing case of Jewish power in Russia. The world-powerful Jews clearly don’t like what’s going on there.
But does that make Russia right from our perspective? It’s debatable. They’re risking a lot for their limited goals and capacity to achieve them. There is another realist perspective: the United States would risk the world to stop Russia from securing its Great Power status. Hitler learned the hard way from 1939 onwards. He thought he could make peace with England but underestimated Jewish power and resolve. Mearsheimer’s flaw is to neglect this issue.
My article placed the blame primarily on the United States (realism) and prescribed the antidote from a white advocacy perspective (ideology). No other solution seems plausible at this point (realism).
Abramovici fled to Moscow, Deripaska stays closer to Putin than a stamp on an envelope, Neftali Benett asked Zelensky to cease fighting… you are very partial on the issue.
The truth is that Russia can not be defended for what has done.
Russia started WW1 and WW2 and now is trying hard for WW3. In between is guilty for some genocides.
“very partial.” Uh huh. Clearly, there’s no pleasing you.
As far as your points, that claim came from “an unamed Ukrainian official.” Israel has emphatically denied it. Unlike white nations, Israel is allowed to pursue its own interests. Obviously, that is neutrality with Russia who is cozy with Israel’s adversaries.
Denying where World Jewry sides in this conflict is just silly. That Russia has powerful Jewish oligarchs itself is a silly rebuttal. I never denied this. But it doesn’t mean a white advocate must take Russia’s side. Their invasion is threatening our race as a whole.
Best wishes, Razvan.
Now I am a bit more pleased.
Our race is under attack and we need solidarity. Right now Russia is pouring bombs on white people. I have expected a tidal wave against it.
Who do you think Benett will side with? With Abramovici or an unknown actor that evaporated countless billions of jewish wealth? Thos is a serious part of the key.
Benett retracted due to possible backlash, so the story was hastly covered.
Best wishes to you too.
Thank you, Razvan. I think Israel will remain neutral since it is in their interests to do so and Israel gets to do whatever it wants. I’m sure Russia has a problem with angry Jewish oligarchs now. But it’s impossible to say how that affects the outcome. To quote Churchill, “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” We’ll see.
Offensive realism is a useful simplification of great power security competition. Like all simplifications, it has its limits.
According to offensive realism, all states are alike, like billiard balls, except that they vary in size. Domestic politics has little place in offensive realism; race does not exist at all.
This is why John Mearsheimer had to co-write The Israel Lobby. From an offensive realist point of view the United States of America should not be dragged around by the nose by a small Middle Eastern state of no strategic use to America, but that it what is happening so it requires explanation. (The explanation is domestic politics, not race — that is too dangerous a topic for even the boldly controversial John Mearsheimer to touch.)
According to offensive realism, the United States of America should be containing China and seeking alliances with the states able to help it do so, states such as Japan, India, and Russia. As with the problem of Israel, we see that that’s not happening, and the reason why can’t be discussed, because it’s race. America’s foreign policy is dominated by antiwhite Jews with an intractable cultural hatred of Russia and Russians, but John Mearsheimer can’t say that.
We pro-Whites should use the best intellectual tools we are offered, and John Mearsheimer’s offensive realism is a great tool. (It’s far better than liberalism.) But we have to keep in mind that race is a vital fact, and every theory that refuse to acknowledge it will from time to time encounter a situation where it will be dangerously wrong, because reality does not go away when we leave it out of our simplified models.
Very well said, Joe. There is nothing to add but contact me to learn more about our plans to take CC political in 2023. I’m looking forward to the conversation.
Exactly! Well said!
This was a good essay. The first question has to be, ‘Is this good for Whites?’. Bringing forward for consideration any other factors before this question is answered seems to me a mistake. This has to be doctrine. The following question is, ‘Do we have the power to make this good for Whites?’. If we do, then the nitty-gritty details matter. If we don’t, then persisting to debate or discuss the matter is time-wasting, self-comforting make-believe, the White Nationalist equivalent of ‘Model UN’ with even smaller prizes.
As hard as it may be to accept, even if the whole world was a collection of self-aware, self-determining and self-supporting ethnonationalist states, war is going to happen. It’s just how some disagreements get decided.
Well said, HT. “What’s good for whites” was my argument’s framework. I hope this came through. This take isn’t incompatible with yours–but war isn’t necessarily inevitable. It won’t happen between NATO states with American oversight. European nationalists having a NATO of their own is possible. But yes, realistically, nationalism is too powerful to restrain itself permanently. Will there be a Great Power to impose peace across Europe after US hegemony? That remains to be seen. But unity is possible because Europe needs it to remain militarily relevant globally (and against Russia, fair to say). It’s naive to think Lavrov and Putin wouldn’t like to see a Greater Russia. But they’re not stupid either and have nowhere near the political or military capacity to resurrect the empire.
I agree with your approach. Part of what I was commenting on was some of the responses in the thread by folks who seem determined to uphold the (counterproductive) position that ‘taking sides’ is the essence of politics.
Yes, indeed. As you said, our side is with our people. Looking forward to our next conversation.
Putin will win allright, but people’s expectations that Russia’s victory is going to amount to some sort of big time imperial restoration exceeds even the Kremlin’s wildest ambitions. This war is a bitter reminder of Russia’s mistakes, as in 2014 the road to Kiev stood wide open with nothing to defend it (although I still doubt that the force numbering less than 200.000 combatants is on a mission to subdue the entire Ukraine, rather than to deplete Ukraine’s armed forces and eliminate their arsenal).
The greatest hope is that this war will deal a lethal blow to every sort of mental inadequacy in Western politics: wishful thinking, solipsism, overvaluation of one self and one’s own delusions, self-reference, cosmopolitanism, and by God, perhaps also to this infantile mentality of ‘standing up to Putin’, sticking your tongue out to your enemies and these nauseating battles for the ‘hearts and minds’, to be replaced with serious dialogue on highest levels by competent people. But perhaps my hopes are in vain? Even now, there are reports that V4 leaders are planning a trip by land to Kiev, ostensibly, to win ‘hearts and minds’.
You’re right about Russian ambitions, Arthur. Nothing much will change until people like us have power. No one else is serious enough about politics. We have a steep hill to climb, but eventually, we will win. Uncertainty over the timing will never disrupt my resolve.
I like and appreciate the article’s overall tone of and take on the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. And like many here, I have doubts and reservations about over-blaming Putin even though I do believe he, his legitimate concerns in launching this tragic war notwithstanding, had overreached himself in this case, overestimated the strength and prowess of his military and grossly underestimated the strength and stamina of his enemies. I think my above statements largely comport with those of Mr. Robert Wallace.
However, Robert made some dire misstatements on China in my candid opinion, which are highly misleading, confusing, and detrimental to the minds of less informed White nationalists in perceiving the critical Chinese question, and are thus seriously alarming and hugely upsetting and offputting to me.
“Conversely, a mighty nation we greatly depend on is threatened for neutrality. The United States is making a death-wish intervention against a power it could’ve partnered with. China, which won’t accept submission in its region, will exploit American hubris. Chinese hegemony in Asia will wreck the liberal world order and unlock nationalism in the West.”
At first, I thought Robert’s was referring to Russia as the “mighty nation” with whom US “could’ve partnered with”, as it is a very wise and effective view and policy for US, idealistically, to conciliate and mend ties with Russia and therefore peel it away from its current dependence on China for hard currency and political sympathy in a joint effort to forge a greater White alliance against China aka. the ultimate external menace and peril to the White race and White civilization in the long run. This strategic would be brilliant, if ever carried out, to secure White survival and advance White interests, despite enormous resistance and sabotage from Wall Street and the US Deep State bribed and tainted with Wall Street shekels. President Trump attempted to reconcile with Russia with that strategic goal in mind. He failed to get reelected so the plan was botched. Great minds like the erudite and astute Dr. Kerry Bolton, who used to write articles for Counter Currents and could be counted as one of our own, at least in broad terms, has also strongly asserted and argued for this strategy.
But then I realized I was wrong. Robert meant China not Russia in that context. With no offense, but how ignorant and myopic a White Nationalist could get to try to “partner with” or rope in China? As I have explained in many of my past essays and comments on this site, China is the single largest, most determined, implacable, irreconcilable and dangerous adversary of, not US government, but the White people and the Western civilization on this planet. China has both the capabilities (thanks to the Western elites’ continuous and tremendous transfusion of capital and high-techs to it in the past four decades) and a fiendishly persistent will to challenge, defeat, subjugate, enslave, and even destroy the White race and White nations, regardless of the latter’s thoughts about and attitude toward it. A powerful and ambitious alien foe, for all its admirable traits and characteristics (ethno-nationalism for itself and so on, which put China in the same light of Israel), cannot be wooed and placated, and can only be learned, guarded against and eventually subdued and overcome, if the White race wants to live and prosper on its own land and space. China must not and cannot be “partnered with”, and the only correct and effectual strategy to deter, contain and tame it is to completely and thoroughly decouple it from the West economically, commercially, technologically and in terms of human exchanges. In another word, if and only if the West, headed by US, irreversibly stops becoming China’s wealth and technology-supplier and talent incubator, the Chinese dragon can be disarmed, defanged and incapacitated.
Three quick point to point retort to the quoted passage of Robert:
1. Blinken’s veiled “threat” to China that “World is watching” and stuff is no indication of a death-wish intervention or constitute anything with a substance. It is simply a circus show. The established Anglo-Jewish political and economic elites have been using this ploy nonstop for the last several decades to confuse and befuddle the public and cut dirty deals and make fat fortunes with China, that is criticizing or even condemning China for human rights abuses and all other misdeeds on an open stage, while ceaselessly and remorselessly aiding and abetting China’s empowerment and surge behind the curtain.
2. China certainly won’t accept submission in its region. More than that, it actively seeks after a hegemonic dominance in its region; yet more than that, it is not satisfied with the new status once it seize the dominance in the Asia-Pacific region, and will seek to expand it power and clout across the world to the home turfs of the White Western countries, through hard and soft means alike, which is something it is carrying on right now when the whole world is engaging in heated discussions and debates on Russia and Ukraine.
3. If, as Robert remarked, “Chinese hegemony in Asia will wreck the liberal world order and unlock nationalism in the West”, what’s there not to desire? Only hope it won’t be too late then for the White West to “wake up”, as a Chinese dominance would surely be 100, if not 1,000 times more ruthless, iniquitous and ferocious than that of Russia, which I won’t dwell on here but only intend to reflect it from one less commonly conceivable aspect of the current Chinese regime by borrowing a quote from some Chinese themselves: “The Russian government’s all dictatorial domestic security measures during the ongoing war on Ukraine, from censorship of social media to the clampdown of dissident protesters, are less severe and drastic than the security measures the Chinese government takes in normal peacetime.”
In fact, Counter Currents is not short of insightful, trenchant, and gimlet-eyed observers on China. Besides the previously mentioned Dr. Kerry Bolton, there are Lord Shang and a few other regular commentators. You are also kindly recommended and encouraged to search and peruse the numerous past articles posted by “F. C. Comtaose”.
I have just made a USD200 donation to Counter Currents. Now I felt a little sad after reading Mr. Robert Wallace’s naive, ingenuous, faint-hearted and starry-eyed view of China. I wish I misunderstood it but I probably didn’t.
Riki-Eiki, please read again. I did not say we could/should ally with China. Definitely not, and I’ve updated to “Russian power” for clarity. We’re grateful for your support and generous gift.
“I have just made a USD200 donation to Counter Currents.”
Good for you. The people keeping the lights on for our race in these difficult times have a lot to be proud of.
Thanks to Mr. Wallace and Mr. Gould, for your kind words of understanding and encouragement. Although it must be admitted that the original syntax of Mr. Wallace’s passage which I quoted and criticized did seem to indicate that we needed to partner with China, I understood it was not what he intended to mean, and the confusion was caused by a lack of contextual clarity. I accepted Mr. Wallace’s explanation with a peaceful mind and I also admit I was a little emotional and overly serious based on my initial interpretation and reaction to the particular passage. Of course I had no regrets making my donations to Counter Currents, which has been a spiritual home to me, and an old mentor and comrade of mine for well over a decade since the first day I came to know it. My loyalty and commitment to support and cherish Counter Currents remain steady, ardent, and unwavering. Thanks again for your kindness and sincerity!
Thank you, Riki. I appreciate the kind words and understanding. Greg, Cyan, and I are grateful for the enduring faith in, and support of, our mission to advance white identity.
I think that the author underestimates the influence of Greater Russian irredentism on the Kremlin’s policy.
At this point anything less than de facto annexation of the Ukraine would be a grave mistake for Russia. If the Russian Army leaves after humiliating the Ukrainians and destroying their cities, Russia will find herself in this same situation again in another fifty years.
The only way for Russia to avoid replaying this dreary episode is to bring the Ukraine home to Russia. Annex it and pour investment in as in Crimea. Lifting Ukrainian living standards would go a long way towards healing the wounds of war and the Russophobia that has been beaten into Ukrainians by their government for almost a decade now.
We will have to wait and see what happens after the Russian victory, but I will be shocked if Donbass and Lugansk are all that Russia takes.
Good comment, James. Like I said, it’s naive to think they don’t want to resurrect Greater Russia but they’re too astute to try. Taking the western ethnic Ukrainian dominant region is untenable and doesn’t offer enough strategic value to Russia. If it can secure what it ostensibly wants for 50 years it would gladly take that. The United States world police capacity won’t last that long. This country is already falling apart. All the best and thanks so much for your support.
Instructive maps here: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/world/ukraine-divided/
I hope that you are wrong. The best outcome for the Ukrainians is the Russia paying to rebuild and integrate them after this war. Russia poured a ton of money into rebuilding Chechnya after it was leveled in the war. I hope that they show me same dedication to healing old wounds towards their fellow Slavs. We’ll find out soon enough I suppose.
And thank you for the kind words. If your work behind the scenes is anything like your writing then this new ‘policy institute’ is in the best of hands.
Thanks, James. I really appreciate it. I’m certain the policy institute will be a smashing success. We are being very fastidious with its construction. Great call on Chechnya. I’m sure Russia will try to aid Ukraine’s rehabilitation as it’s in the Russian interest to do so. All the best and please get in touch, sir.
What an amazing post, pointing out the many precedents which Americans had never heard of, that have caused this war. Thanks for alerting us. I have always believed from the beginning that Ukraine should just announce its withdrawal of its quest to join NATO. In fact, all of Eastern European former-Soviet-satellite states should withdraw as well. But just Ukraine’s withdrawal for now would stop the killing. Instead, I just heard a speech by Biden promising more weapons’ shipments. Here we go again.
Thank you, Alexandra. It was a pleasure speaking to you last night. Here we go again is regrettably correct. Stay in touch, and thanks for your marvelous faith in, and support of, Counter-Currents mission to advance white identity. All my best.
I have supported President Putin’s military operation since day 1. I oppose globalism and therefore I oppose NATO, I oppose the Biden regime, and I oppose the Zelensky regime. I oppose the Zelensky regime’s use of human shields and child soldiers. I oppose sending arms to the Zelensky regime because that will prolong the war, leading to more needless deaths, and some of those arms may end up in the hands of terrorists. I oppose the Zelensky regime’s desire to escalate this conflict and provoke WWIII and the billion+ deaths that would entail.
I question the sanity of the Ukrainian people, especially Ukrainian ‘nationalists’ or just regular Ukrainian Christians who are literally committing suicide in a futile effort to save the regime of a corrupt, globalist, jewish actor who wants to destroy their culture, their religion and their people. I’m glad that Counter-Currents has come around to at least a more balanced perspective on this issue and I thank you for this article, Mr. Wallace. In addition to John Mearsheimer, I recommend watching Colonel Macgregor’s analysis and even Jimmy Dore (the last principled leftist in America) has a lot of hot takes.
Thank you, Jonathan. An honor to write this for the Volk. A mentor of mine just told me to listen to the Colonel. I will. Please get in touch if you’d like to learn more about the policy institute we’re building. Everyone I’ve spoken to is excited about its prospects.
A very sober and sensible analysis. Probably the best take I’ve seen on this very fraught question.
I’m glad you think so, Jerome. Many thanks for the praise. Please get in touch to learn more about our plans to build a policy institute. It is a necessary next step for the cause.
“For the good of its nation, and Europe, Ukraine should grant Russian demands on the condition overreach will be met with all-out resistance. Fighting Russia to the bitter end won’t give Ukraine the government it deserves. Their civilization will turn savage, and “winning” would eternalize dependence on amoral Yanquis who care for Ukraine solely as a chess piece.”
Obviously we all want to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, but each dead Russian, sunken warship, blown up tank and downed plane will help Ukraine in the peace negotiations. Ukrainians have the right, dare I say it, a duty to fight as long as it is possible and feasible, just like Finland during the Winter War.
“Let me be clear. This is not a pro-Putin statement. My admiration for Ukrainians defending their homeland should go without saying. But how can we support a cause fanned by the group replacing our people for sport? The primary author of Zelensky’s War is the United States government—the mortal enemy of Europeans.”
Just because our enemies are for something, that does not mean we should be against it. Obviously the ruling elite which controls the EU, US and NATO is hostile to whites, but that is something that can be changed. It’s something we are doing here every single day. Obviously Ukraine entering NATO or EU would certainly expose the nation to the poison which is slowly killing us. However, I am optimistic that these institutions can be changed from the inside. Not necessarily by voting, but through metapolitics, as always.
Obviously von der Leyen is not going to announce tomorrow that the EU has been reorganized into the first Pan-European empire, but I believe that this war will make Europeans rethink their priorities. Seeing other whites flee and die in war at your own doorstep is a real wakeup-call. In European countries there has been a growing interest in joining self-defence classes and people changing their reserve status.
Richard Spencer has been wrong about many things in the past, but I think he is right about the potential that the European Union has. Let’s just assess the situation for a moment: we have a real war between two large, modern states in Europe, a tightening European Union led by a Germany which has just announced additional 100 billion euros in funding for it’s military. Try telling that to someone 20 or 30 years ago, heck, even ten years ago. I am ultimately optimisic that when Europeans are threatened together, they will work together, and that this war, alongside other possible future conflicts, will ultimately bring our ideas into the mainstream.
Oliwier, thanks for a comment that adds to the discussion.
But how can we support a cause…
Fair to say, this is just one piece of my argument. But you’re right.
However, I am optimistic that these institutions can be changed from the inside.
I hope so. But optimistic is surely a strong word here. America remains the most influential country on Earth (by far) and they’re rabidly determined to hold Ukraine by a string. Does any country have worse geography? Countries like Poland and Hungary don’t demand the same extent of American meddling, and they are relatively better off. Victoria Nuland said in 2014 the United States had spent 5 billion dollars supporting “Ukrainian democracy.” We know what that’s code for. I wonder what this number is up to today? This isn’t to say it’s hopeless there like it isn’t to say it’s hopeless here. Of course not. We have the advantage of monopolizing popular and potentially popular political positions.
As for the final paragraph, well said. I agree.
All my best, and thanks again, Oliwier.
Mr. Wallace, thank you for your active engagement, it means a lot. Recent news about the growth of Counter-Currents, not to mention your upcoming policy institute, is giving me and others a lot of hope for the future. These are dark times for Europeans, but our people will ultimately prevail.
Thank you, my friend. I have no delusions of grandeur, but I’m sure we’ll prevail too. We need the right institutional strategy and a community devoted to its success. C-C is on the right track in both regards.
In Syria back in 2018, Roman Filipov, a 34-year-old Russian pilot was shot down by Al-Qaeda (the ‘moderate’ rebels). Filipov killed himself with a hand grenade along with injuring and killing some of his imminent captors. He had radio comms to the end and is reported as having said ‘this is for our boys’ as he pulled the pin. Well attended military funerals, posthumous decorations, and commemoration in statues followed.
Has anybody in the west heard of Filipov. No. Instead, we hear of the Snake Island stand which was debunked before the proverbial ink dried.
Rest in peace.
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