Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Dawn of a Multipolar World

The Russian military operation in Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022, has heralded the beginning of a new era in our lifetimes. It has become clear to pretty much everyone with any geopolitical knowledge that we are living in a new geopolitical setting compared to a month ago.

The very response to the Russian operation in Western Europe and North America alone, is a clear indication of just how important the ruling classes judge the situation. Not only have relations with the Russian Federation been downgraded or outright suspended in the imperial core of the West, but a veritable cultural war against anything Russian has been declared.

Russian athletes and artists have been banished from international competitions and events, Russian cultural products have been excommunicated, the use of the Russian language has been all but outlawed in the public sphere, displays of Russian nationality or even ethnic descent have become slandered or even attacked, and even Russian cats are no longer welcome at conventions of feline enthusiasts.

To anyone with a functional brain and unclouded judgment, the major discrepancy between the anti-Russian hysteria and the impunity with which for example the United States and “Israel” have been allowed to pursue their agendas, is clear as day.

Despite over 70 years of colonial exploitation and occupation of Palestine, the Zionist entity is still welcome on the world stage. Despite having massacred over a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan in the last twenty years alone, the United States has never been made an international pariah. Despite nearly seven years of bombing, starving and massacring Yemeni civilians, Saudi Arabia is cherished by the elites across the West. But Russia responding to 8 years of Ukrainian persecution of the people of Donbass and the duplicitous and deceitful NATO meddling at its western borders has been punished to an extent that has barely ever before been seen in international diplomacy.

The reasons behind this hypocritical and over-the-top attitude, not to mention the empty virtue-signaling blue-and-yellow flag waving by the liberals and so-called “progressives” across the West, are manifold. One obvious reason is, quite simply, racism.

Russia is, and always has been, often considered somewhat of an outsider in European international politics. A country that is considered vast, mysterious and inherently “different.” The deeply rooted idea of the “barbaric Asiatic hordes from the East” still runs very deep in the collective subconscious of the western public opinion.

“The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian has no regard for human life and is an all out son of b—-, barbarian, and chronic drunk.”

Statement by General George S. Patton on 8 August 1945, as quoted in General Patton : A Soldier’s Life (2002) by Stanley P. Hirshson, p. 650

It’s a diet form, if you will, of the Nazi rhetoric of the subhuman denizens of the East, those who just so happen to dwell on the incredibly fertile and rich soils of Ukraine, Novorossiya, and Russia proper.

It’s no wonder therefore, that the hard core of the US-backed EuroMaidan regime that was put in power with CIA support back in 2014, consists out of literal neo-Nazis who have absolutely no qualms flaunting their infatuation with the SS, the anti-Slavic racial agenda of the Third Reich, or with infamous Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. The near total civilisational collapse that was the 1990s in Eastern Europe has resulted in a major historical revision, in which Russia and the Soviet Union have been vilified, the Western imperial agenda promoted, and foreign occupiers such as the Nazi Germans and Polish ultranationalists praised.

It’s not without reason that Vladimir Putin specifically called out the fifth column, the “national traitors” even within Russia itself that in their hearts and minds want nothing more than to be Western.

“They don’t live there in the geographic sense, but in their thoughts, in their slave mentality,” the Russian president said. “The problem is that in essence, their mentality is there, not here with our people. Not with Russia. They think it’s a sign they belong to a higher caste, to a higher race. Such people are ready to sell their own mother if only they are allowed to sit in the hallway of this very highest caste. They want to be just like them and imitate them in everything.”

Indeed, far from slavishly following the liberal-capitalist agenda of the unhindered free market, the breaking down of family values and cultural traditions, the removal of any public role for faith and religious institutions and the total individualisation of society at the expense of collective identity and solidarity, Russia has under the presidency of Vladimir Putin chosen a wholly different path.

For years, Putin has been a thorn in the side of the liberal-capitalist plans for what is after all the largest country on the planet. By putting an end to the casino capitalism of the Yeltsin era, by forcing oligarchs to either submit to a larger national plan or forfeiting their wealth entirely, by cracking down on CIA-funded NGOs, and by promoting a collective Russian identity based on solidarity, patriotism, religion, and family life, Putin has drastically altered the course of Russian society.

Again, referring to the aforementioned presidential speech, Putin warned of the danger of the foreign and domestic forces that seek to utterly undermine and enslave Russia like they have tried in the past.

“Their goal is to destroy Russia. But any nation, and even more so the Russian people, will always be able to distinguish true patriots from scum and traitors and will simply spit them out like an insect in their mouth, spit them onto the pavement. I am convinced that a natural and necessary self-detoxification of society like this would strengthen our country, our solidarity and cohesion and our readiness to respond to any challenge.”

While the president is far from a return to Soviet times, and while he has shown himself more than willing to negotiate and even compromise with Western interests whenever they protested too loudly, Vladimir Putin has been stamped a persona non grata and mortal enemy of the Western imperialist core already years ago. Long before there was any mention of a conflict in Ukraine, long before the 2014 coup in Kiev even.

Of fundamental importance to any study of geopolitics is the differentiation between the subjective goals a person, organization, or state seeks to achieve, and the objective role they play. The study of these matters is crucial in order to avoid the pitfalls laid out by propaganda and misinformation.

The precise subjective reasoning behind the decision of the Russian political and military leadership to get directly involved in Ukraine are hard to know for certain.

The much-needed denazification of the latest NATO colony comes very late, after nearly 8 years of Kiev junta aggression against the people of Donetsk and Lugansk that has killed at least 14,000 people. And it is true that Russia has not previously played the role of major Resistance factor to the extent that for example Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, or Ansarullah have.

As was mentioned before, the Kremlin has been more than willing in the past to “play nice” with the imperialist powers of the West in order to avoid confrontation, and has as a result been hesitant to throw its full weight behind the Axis of Resistance or to openly confront the creeping Western aggression into both Asia and Eastern Europe. At least, until recently, Russia has disappointed at times, for example in refusing to step up against the NATO aggression plans towards Libya in 2011, or in not using their UN Security Council vote in helping Yemen against Saudi aggression.

Regardless, what truly matters in this day and age, is the objective role that Russia fulfills right now. And that role should be quite clear and obvious: Russia challenges the unipolar, US-dominated world order that has been in place since the end of the Cold War. Never before in the past thirty years has US-NATO hegemony been challenged in such an open and radical way. Never since the end of the bipolar power structure of the Cold War has there been such a slap in the face of global imperialism by a country that itself has global superpower status.

Don’t misunderstand me, of course there have been heroic nations and movements that have always held up high the flame of liberation and resistance. The Islamic Republic of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Hezbollah, Ansarullah, and the entirety of the Palestinian nation come to mind immediately. The year 2021 saw a historical victory of the Afghan people over the military industrial complex of the Western powers as well. However, the balance of power on a worldwide scale made it possible for the imperialist core to either downplay these defeats they suffered, or hush it out of public discourse completely. No such luck when the entirety of the Russian Federation is involved, however.

The international reaction to the Ukraine conflict has shown clear as day that the unipolar world is ending.

While much of Europe immediately knelt down and kowtowed into the dust for US demands to sanction and punish Russia, even at the expense of European economies that are now facing dire shortages of gas, petroleum, and even wheat, the vast majority of the Global South was firm in its refusal to get roped into a conflict that was not theirs to meddle in.

Even countries that did get sucked into the latest UN vote condemning Russia in words, often refused outright to impose any sanctions on Moscow. Major rising powers such as China, India, Pakistan, and Iran even abstained from the vote completely. In terms of world population, it is no exaggeration to say that more than half of the planet is not participating in any economic sanctions or other form of confrontational approach against Russia.

Now, one can agree or disagree with the core premise of the Russian military operation against the Zelensky government and its backers. Unfortunately, however, Western mainstream media and a large section of the public opinion has no idea at all what this premise even is. The Russian intervention resulted from thirty years of NATO incursion and expansion that directly violated the agreement reached between the Western powers and the USSR at the very end of the Cold War.

“Not one inch to the East” was the deal that Mikhail Gorbachev was promised. A deal that was broken almost as soon as it was signed, with little to no actual response from the Boris Yeltsin administration in power in the Kremlin back then.

Secondly, the conflict in Ukraine is not new, but has been going on at the very least since 2014, when the NATO-backed EuroMaidan movement overthrew the government of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and installed a puppet regime that was propped up by openly Nazi armed groups such as the Azov and Aidar Battalions. Ever since, state violence against the population of the Donbass region has been a near daily occurrence. Around 14,000 people have lost their lives in the conflict between the US-backed Kiev government and the supporters of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which only declared their independence precisely in protest against the 2014 NATO-Nazi coup.

Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke clearly when he officially recognized the two People’s Republics: Russia has played along with the global system for a very, very long time.

Even under Putin’s presidency, Russia continued tacitly accepting the status quo of a further expanded NATO, an increasingly Russophobic and aggressive Central Europe, and the US-dominated international dollar-based financial and economic system. The question could be asked if the former KGB agent was in fact playing the long game, waiting for Russia to build up its strength before finally demanding its rightful place in the sun again. It is quite possible that this is the case, but this is by no means a justification of NATO expansionism or the tight-fisted chokehold that the elites in Washington, London, and Brussels try to keep on the entire world.

Let there be no misunderstanding: this conflict is one of historical proportions. We can barely even begin to comprehend the historical turning point that we are living through now. Most of the world’s major actors on either side of the hegemony-versus-resistance battle do know though, which explains why the Ukraine war has gone international so rapidly.

On the side of the hegemony we find the entirety of NATO and the European Union supported by neo-Nazis, liberals, the majority of both US Republicans and Democrats, the entirety of the capitalist world’s international financial institution structure, the World Economic Forum, the Zionist entity and worldwide Zionist movement (often Zionist financiers that have no qualms with actively backing Nazi death squads, such as is the case with oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi and his friends in the Azov Battalion), and the Wahhabi scourge including ISIS itself; alongside the corporate top of the Silicon Valley elite, the social media and tech moghuls and their corporate scions with such representative institutions like McDonald’s, PayPal, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Visa, and PornHub.

On the side of Russia, we see Communists, nationalists (of the non racial supremacist variety), the Islamic Resistance, the majority of the emerging Global South powers including China, Pakistan, and India and the worldwide anti-imperialist movement across the board. The vast majority of the Global South at large, including generally neutral countries in continents like Africa, Asia and Latin America, have also refused to dive into the suicidal path of fomenting the flames of war.

Despite the complex intricacies of geopolitics and the fact that war is always a terrible thing that should be avoided whenever possible, the choice to make should be clear. This is fundamentally a conflict between hegemony and resistance, between submission and liberation, between oppression and justice. This conflict is the spark that has ignited the flame of the new emerging global system. The era of the multipolar world has arrived.