Is Russia Looking For New Friends in the West?

As I’ve written before, I do not believe that Russia engages in active measures. That means that they do not try to meddle in the internal politics of Western countries.

It’s … an interesting strategy, I suppose.

Short of a nuclear war which would eliminate a significant swath of Europe, Russia and North America, these countries aren’t going anywhere, and realistically speaking some sort of relations will have to be restored going forward. But, again, this seems to be impossible unless new people come to power and the old-timers don’t seem like they want to allow for a peaceful and democratic change of guard, do they?

Like, the only way that things cool down and normal relations between East and West restored is if the murderous neocohens in the media and the government are kicked to the curb. The current political establishment is hell-bent on a showdown with Russia and the consensus is largely bi-partisan in just about every single Western-aligned country. Amusingly, even the “pro-Russia” party in Ukraine denounced Russia before getting shut down and having their leaders arrested anyways. So, what is the plan then? Just sit back and hope for the best?

Isn’t that what got Russia into this situation in the first place?

Luckily, for the first time since I’ve been following Russian internal political chit-chat, I’ve heard the idea that Russia ought to find new friends in the West publicly voiced by serious voices. For example, Senator Pushkov recently published an op-ed in a rather serious journal talking about the need to start reaching out to American conservatives.

My translation:

We must work on and expand our English language on Russian social media to reach a large audience, there are millions of people in the US who would like to read this information, said the head of the commission on informational politics and cooperation with mass media, Aleksei Pushkov.

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“Having laid the foundations for our own informational sovereignty, we must, of course, begin laying the foundations for providing ‘informational mulipolarity’ [NOTE: they love that buzzword in Russia - multipolar] to the outside world. A word about the blogosphere: we need to work not just on Russian social media, but the English-speaking segment as well. Here, we have a lot of work to do.”

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According to the Senator, no efforts are being made on this front at the moment in Russia, “no one is working on this.” “Just looking at the English-speaking internet alone, we could reach a gigantic audience. 73 million people in the US are ready to hear us. These are the people who voted for Donald Trump in the last elections.

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He added that the trust in the official media in the West is rather low. This is a good opportunity for Russia in the information war. The Senator explained that the level of trust for the local media is about 35-40% [NOTE: It’s probably much lower, Senator].

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According to Pushkov, more people are trusting bloggers who, as people believe, present a more honest picture of the world. This is an opportunity for Russia.

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“We do not work with these bloggers at all. We do not try to reach this ‘underground’. We do not know anything about this world and we do not want to learn. These people want alternative information,” said Senator Pushkov.

All very true.

Like I’ve said before, Russia’s grand strategy for dealing with the West has been to stockpile weapons and … well, to stockpile weapons. There has been no systematic effort to even understand the situation in the West, let alone to explain the dire straights that the West finds itself in to the domestic audience. As a result, most Slavs are still under the impression that people shit on golden toilets in America. Many react with shock and anger when you dash their dreams by revealing just a little bit about what’s actually going on in the West.

At the very least, Russia could inform its citizens about the plight of ordinary Americans who have been labelled terrorists or foreign agents by their own federal government for holding the wrong political views - views that are considered mainstream and normal in Russia, by the way.

Instead, we have Margarita Simonyan and RT, which simply pushes a tired, old, leftist narrative, and refuses to give this dissident “underground” that Pushkov is referencing any airtime. I know Americans and other Westerners who have come to Russia, offering help in the media game - to provide a pro-Russia perspective to Westerners. The door has been slammed in all of their faces. Again and again, the answer seemed to be that Russia did not want to engage in informational warfare with the West because that might offend their “esteemed Western colleagues” to quote Sergei Lavrov. Now though, for the first time, I’m seeing people with weight and power to their name saying rather common-sense things.

Does this mean that Russia is finally getting serious about facing down the West?

It’s a hopeful sign, at least.

Anyways, I reached out to Senator Pushkov. If he wants to get acquainted with the dissident underground in the West, I’d be happy to provide him with the links and give him the full run-down. I’m not holding my breath, but, hey, no one will be able to accuse me of not trying after this.

And there are other voices who have spoken about the need to find friends in the West, as well.

For example, Alexander Dugin decided to speak plainly about the issue of Jewish power in the West being the key driver of conflict with Russia and poor treatment of Americans at home with his latest piece. It was published on KATEHON, a project financed by the self-styled Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev with the stated goal of engaging with anti-globalists in the West.

Sergey Glaziev you may have heard of. Some of his articles have been translated into English and made their way into blogosphere circulation - he’s the guy talking about how Russia needs to embrace “Christian Socialism”. Oh, and don’t let the S-word scare you. What Glaziev is talking about amounts to a nationalization of the Russian economy. But the S-word is preferred to the N-word. N-words prefer to use the term “anti-Globalist” or “multipolarist” when referring to themselves in Russia.

But we will know whether or not the idea has made its way to the Kremlins only when they leak it to the political pundits and have them “debate” the idea on Channel 1. I’ll be keeping an eye on Soloviev’s “Evening” show to see if this idea is actually being considered by the higher-ups or not.

There are two key areas of work that could easily be realized.

The first is to translate what Western bloggers are saying about their own countries and share it with the Russian masses to snap them out of their doe-eyed idealism. The second is to provide support to pro-Russian bloggers who are trying to avoid nuclear war with Russia by writing to and convincing their Western audiences to chill out and not listen to the neocohens’ lies.

Now, all of this should have been done years if not decades ago, true.

But Russia was not a serious country back then. Ukraine changed things, forever. All signs seem to be pointing towards Russia becoming a serious challenger to ZOG hegemony in the years to come. Western dissidents ought to consider whether they might be in need of some new friends in the years to come as well.