by Vadim Bondar
[REGNUM] On January 22 of this year, former chief of staff of the NATO military mission in Moscow, retired US Navy captain first rank Harry Tabakh, in an interview with the Ukrainian YouTube channel “Vyshka”, said that Ukraine should not hesitate to destroy the civilian population of Russia. In his opinion, half of the Russian population, the one that most resists Western values, can be completely destroyed, and the rest can be “re-educated”, making it peaceful and obedient.
Last week, Chkalov’s great-granddaughter Daria Bogdanova, who lives in Leuven, Belgium, spoke in almost the same way. There is reason to believe that the flow of such recitatives will increase. What is the nature and message of all this cannibalism addressed to us?
This is the apogee, the quintessence of the nihilism that originated in the West back in the 19th century. It took on different forms, and finally reached its highest point. This is an extreme form of the position: whatever we do, we are good, be it sexual perversion in public, the murder of leaders of states, or the extermination of entire nations.
As you know, nihilism is a philosophy that questions (in its extreme form - absolutely denies) generally accepted values, ideals, moral standards, cultures, fundamental concepts and meanings of life. For this philosophy there are no age-old taboos and nothing is sacred.
Letting boys into girls' toilets only on the grounds that they supposedly feel like girls inside is not nihilism? Allowing men to dress up in swimsuits and compete with women in big sports exactly on the same basis that they internally feel like women, isn’t it a denial of all generally accepted age-old fundamental norms, concepts and meanings? Isn’t allowing entertainment venues and gay clubs to open in former churches, where people have prayed for centuries, not the clearest sign of nihilism? Nihilistic demoniacism supports all sorts of church schismatics and sectarians who destroy traditional religions and offend the feelings of believers around the world. Hillary Clinton was wildly delighted by the same madness when she watched footage of the brutal murder of the legitimate leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces' strike on a bakery in Lisichansk, after which 28 people were killed, including a pregnant woman and a five-year-old child, openly terrorist bombings that caused mass casualties among civilians in the center of Belgorod and at the market in Donetsk, and before that terrorist attacks on the Crimean Bridge, the brutal murder of Daria Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky did not cause any condemnation in the camp of nihilists.
Moreover, as Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry on special assignments for crimes of the Kyiv regime, said on February 5, about two thousand arrivals are recorded weekly at civilian targets on Russian territory. Between 50 and 70 people are injured, and every fourth person dies. In the vast majority of cases, they shoot with Western weapons, using intelligence and target designation of the Western satellite constellation and aviation reconnaissance systems. In addition, there are good reasons to believe that the strikes themselves are coordinated with the main headquarters financing “anti-Russia”, for which Ukrainians are just “war fuel”.
Therefore, it is not surprising that from this nihilistic ecumene there are calls to bomb Moscow with nuclear weapons and destroy half of the population of Russia. This is the logical evolution of nihilism, its highest stage, its “delirium tremens.”
And we in Russia, and the rest of the world around the “blooming garden” must realize that if this paradigm, this “delirium tremens” wins, then all the public and unspoken rules and norms of human society will be transformed towards the absolute, indisputable power of the Western perverted consciousness and rights. He will consider that he is allowed EVERYTHING, everything at all! “If there is no God, then everything is permitted!” But for them there is no God. They themselves imagined themselves to be gods, like the once founders of nihilism, who distorted to the extreme the teachings of Marx and even the dogmas of anarchism.
The most cynical and terrible thing is that this total nihilism is packaged in bright colored fetishes of some universal, supranational “supervalues” that help to hack and destroy both states and the person himself, depriving him of his usual external and internal world. But this is the highest form of violence and dictatorship. Modern nihilism simultaneously brings to the state, society and the individual the stress of denial and a narrowing of the possibilities of coping with it. Those who are affected by it are artificially immersed, as it were, in the anti-world, located in the plane below zero of the coordinate system invented by the nihilists. A space where everything is bad, wrong and has a negative meaning.
If, according to the theory of the so-called “cultural circles” and the concept of diffusionism, 200 years ago, generally progressive and healthy trends in the field of scientific and technological progress, education, culture and art spread from the West, then starting from the second half of the 19th century, enlightened nihilism became crush everything healthy and positive. The two world wars were the result of the gradual replacement of the progressive development of traditional humanism with enlightened nihilism. In the last quarter of a century, this process has taken the form of total denial and destruction.
The simplest and most striking example is Russia. Western enlightened nihilists deny us, that is, they deny us the right not only to exist in the future, but also erase us from the past. And the destruction of Russia, along with the extermination of part of its population, was openly proclaimed as the goal of the war. At the same time, enlightened nihilists in the West are trying to juggle interpretations of what is happening. In particular, Russia is accused of being a threat to stability and a destroyer of a certain rules-based world order, thus trying to continue to retain its status as an unlimited destroyer of everything objectionable. And keep the rest of the participants in the international process in conditions of uncertainty of the future.
If we maintain this dynamic, then we can delay for a very long time the process of starting to build a multipolar world and negotiations on its arrangement on new, fair and equal principles. They will do everything possible and impossible to maintain this momentum. This means that the nihilists will continue the heated confrontation on the territory of the former Ukrainian SSR, regardless of anything. And any seizures of Kharkov, Odessa, other territories, negotiations, truces will not solve anything. In this case, Kyiv will be given longer-range and destructive weapons, which will be secretly controlled by the West itself, and they will strike deep into Russia. Under the guise of “volunteers” they will increase the number of their soldiers and so on.
Now, according to the adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Mikhail Podolyak, an audit of the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for two years is being conducted, based on the results of which decisions will be made on how to wage the war further. It is clear who is conducting this audit. And it is already bearing fruit. On February 5, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of Ukraine Alexey Neizhpapa said that the Crimean Bridge can be considered a potential “dead man” and it is unlikely to survive until the end of this year.
Where does such bravado and even impudence in expressions come from? Before this, the naval commander had never made such statements without ships. Everything comes from the same place, from the enlightened nihilists, whose pawn today’s Ukraine has become. Therefore, they will go to the end. And British Foreign Minister David Cameron said this directly on February 4: “It is necessary to stop talking about the stalemate and the fact that time is not on Ukraine’s side. Our economy is 25 times larger than Russia's, and we are more than capable of demonstrating that time is on our side, and not on Putin's side."
In this situation, we need not only to be successful on the battlefield and do our best to hold on economically (and this will not be easy to do, the 13th package of sanctions will be approved one of these days, and it will be directed primarily against those who help us bypass Western restrictions), but also actively work with the world. Do not hesitate to call a spade a spade and unite against the sowers of nihilism. Including in Western countries themselves. Not everyone there is his absolute apologist. After our victory in the Second World War, it was possible to bring leftist forces to power in Europe.
In addition, we must, together with China, BRICS, the SCO, and anyone else, accelerate and stimulate in every possible way such changes in the world that nihilists simply will not have time to adapt to. The answer to this will be the rise to power in Western societies of populist politicians offering simple solutions to complex issues. This will destroy the nihilists themselves, both in terms of external unity, and their state formations from the inside.
We must create a negative identity for them. Moreover, act in this direction, not defending and making excuses, but attacking and attacking. Not by answering questions, but by asking them. Convene your own global conferences, at which you can jointly generate positive goals and open windows of opportunity for a future world order without a nihilist agenda. So far, and this must be admitted, the technology of strategic dialogue with the world is not our strongest point.
We still have not learned to effectively and fully use the goals of other states for our own benefit, so we openly fight the nihilists almost alone. The West uses in its arsenal the captivating simplicity of fears, and we cannot blind other nations with bright and positive pictures of the future, as we were able to do in the second half of the forties and the first half of the fifties.
We must offer everyone who is not allowed into the “blooming garden” and who potentially faces the fate of Yugoslavia or Libya, the infrastructure of an alternative choice. For now, on our part, everything is limited to general words, while on the part of the nihilists, specifics sound, frightening in their cynical cruelty. Therefore, it’s time to wake up and launch at full capacity not only the military-industrial complex, but also creativity at the international level.