For World Peace, Restore the Russian Aristocracy, Protect the Minorities, Encourage the Nobility -- and Abolish the Oligarchs Wherever They May Be
Let's take seriously the question of the future
The duty of the aristocrats are to stop wars — not prolong them — and often this duty must come at some level of personal discomfort even demise. So be it.
OK, so what’s really going on with the Ukrainian war? And how might we stop it?
It’s not an idle concern. In some sense I’m implicated in it because several of the companies I invested in — satellites and facial recognition — have been deployed in Ukraine. But there are lots of people implicated. We should all be working to end the war on just terms and we should all be asking what comes next after Putin, after Zelensky.
I have two pretty good pieces from the early days of the Ukrainian war — February 2022-March 2022 which more or less sum up my thinking at the time.
Looking back on it now though I think I was being insufficiently pessimistic.
In the olden times elites would use war as a way of resetting populations. They’d thin out the population and kill off troublesome males. The males so killed off, the women could be more easily interbed with the conquering soldiers.
You’re not really supposed to ask if that sort of thing still goes on but it seems pretty obvious that it does. If there are breeding programs like that rave in the desert doesn’t it stand to reason that there are culling programs too?
Certainly that’s how it feels now that North Korea is talking about dispatching soldiers to Ukraine. Might Kim Jong Un be sending them there to die?
That became apparent to me when Clearview.AI was used to identify some of the war criminals from the war — and found a bunch of non-white Russians. This was deeply disturbing to me on many levels.
I wonder if something similar to the interbreeding of old will occur with the Turkic women and the Russian men. Or with Ukrainian women and Western European men? It seems likely. Might this have been the whole plan all along? Looking at how readily Putin is to mention Gumilev who studied the Turkic peoples in his discussion with Tucker Carlson.
Meanwhile Putin has exiled the Russian mafia and to the UAE to Indonesia where they are much easier to detect and observe.
On the Ukrainian side we’re told that by Fortune that “the average age of Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia is 43-45, while the youngest troops remain exempt from front-line combat.” The younger cohort will be essential in the future of Ukraine but many of the women are living abroad in Western Europe or the United States. It seems obvious that they’ll be a lot of marriages and children produced from these unions.
All of this violence seems a tremendous loss and waste to me. A Russian aristocratic friend of a Turkish aristocratic friend of mine is in the drone business. I, too, am in the drone business. Isn’t it terribly wasteful of us to be investing in drones that could kill when we could use drone technology to map the world and protect creation?
I have never and would never sell weapons. In fact I sold my shares in a company right when it started weaponing. I have only carried a gun when people were credibly trying to kill me and I have only fired upon someone who was firing upon me. I can’t say I recommend it. It took me many years to get over it and in some ways I never have.
We could, if we wanted, imagine a world in which the mobbed up defense companies in America and the mobbed up defense companies in Russia were arrested in their pursuit of yet another wasteful arms race. Didn’t we learn our lesson from Vietnam and the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars?
Let’s not have the Secret Mormons (like the Cheneys or Trae Stephens) and the Russian Jews in charge of the war machine, OK? It’ll never turn off, especially when their enterprise runs on the fossil fuel industry. Russia herself seemingly is starting to realize the danger and blocked Mormons from evangelizing in 2016.
Let me suggest a few things first.
It’s widely known that Putin once said that collapse of the Soviet Union “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”
Is Putin wrong? Well he’s certainly fit to judge after cleaning up its aftershocks. It’s hard to imagine a world leader who inherited a worse hand than Putin and who never the less managed to catapult Russia back among the power nations of the planet. Not for nothing did Mitt Romney describe Russia as the greatest geopolitical threat America faces. Of course how much Romney sincerely believed that — his running mate was Paul Ryan who was put on the ticket by Russian-Jew billionaire Paul Singer — and how much it was just posturing I leave to others to decide for themselves.
Russia is never as strong nor as weak as she looks, the saying goes, and it’s unquestionable that Putin changed the course of world history. All things come to an end though and I suspect Putin will be replaced in fairly short order too.
From Putin’s perspective the Russian Armenians working alongside the Huntsman Mormons collapsed the Soviet Union so as steal the Baku oil fields. Did you know that Jon Huntsman Sr. even became an Armenian citizen? This is what the TENET scandal is really about.
Of course these efforts were unsuccessful because the Soviet Union helped the Azeris keep their control of the oil first in the 1918-20 Azerbaijan-Azeri War and then later in the First Nagorno-Karabakh (1988-1994) when the Russians negotiated a ceasefire in May 1994.
Armenia has turned toward NATO once more after the Belarusians, working with the Netanyahu Israelis, armed the Azeris with drones to attack Nagorno-Karabakh.
An Armenian friend of mine told me that there was grave concern in the 1980s that the Armenians might all be killed and that they ought to go out and spread their seed as a way of keeping them all alive. I don’t know. I wasn’t there. But I could see how you might want to forestall a second Armenian genocide in that way.
Still another way to stop the genociding is to become the Russian state. That seems to have been the approach that Gorbachev took. It didn’t work. And it seems to be the hope of the Armenian-led Russian Today which also isn’t exactly working and getting sanctioned. Maybe it’s too difficult for the Russian-Armenian mafia to be ennobled and enabled.
I’d say the greatest Russian tragedy was the failure of the Decembrists to wrest the country from the bestial czar.
I agree with Solzhenitsyn that the czar had failed in his duties to protect the Russian minorities — namely the Jews but also later the Armenians — and so he had to go. As I said the duty of rulers is to protect their minorities.
Eric Garland has a pretty useful analysis of Solzhenitsyn’s book, Two Hundred Years Together, which talks a lot about the fraught relationship with Russian aristocracy and the Russian Jewry — a complicated relationship that persists to this day. That book has still hasn’t been translated into English despite many requests. Might the first step of closer ties between the Russian Federation and America be that translation?
I once offered to translate the book — only to be told by neoconservatives (which is to say Russian Jews) that I shouldn’t dare do it.
I used to have a poster of Solzhenistyn in my home office and I’d require my employees to read his 1974 essay Live Not By Lies. My old teacher Charles Kesler wrote a very good analysis of Solzhenitsyn’s speech at Harvard. When my mother was recovering from cancer the second time she read the Cancer Ward. Among my best classes in college was Gary Hamburg’s honors seminar on War and Peace where I got an A.
Tolstoy as you know was from a Decembrist family and he knew well the power of Abraham Lincoln’s vision for the world.
In 1909 Leo Tolstoy recalled the following story: “Once while traveling in the Caucasus I happened to be the guest of a Caucasian chief of the Circassians, who, living far away from civilized life in the mountains, had but a fragmentary and childish comprehension of the world and its history… [W]hen I began to tell about the great statesmen and the great generals of the world he seemed at once to become very much interested… ‘You have not told us a syllable about the greatest general and greatest ruler of the world. We want to know something about him. He was a hero. He spoke with a voice of thunder; he laughed like the sunrise and his deeds were strong as the rock and as sweet as the fragrance of roses. The angels appeared to his mother and predicted that the son whom she would conceive would become the greatest the stars had ever seen. He was so great that he even forgave the crimes of his greatest enemies and shook brotherly hands with those who had plotted against his life. His name was Lincoln and the country in which he lived is called America, which is so far away that if a youth should journey to reach it he would be an old man when he arrived. Tell us of that man.’”
Tolstoy never got around to writing his novel about the Decembrist movement but its necessity couldn’t be ignored in the modern era. Next year will be the 200th anniversary of the attempt to install a constitutional monarchy by the liberal minded officer corps. I wonder how Russia or her diaspora will mark it?
You can imagine a world in which the imperial court of Catherine the Great never really ended, a world in which many of the Russian aristocrats weren’t faced with that terrible choice of exile or, worse yet, complicity in their own demise.
You might wonder, as I do who the real father is of Catherine’s children and what her descendants are doing now. I wonder this sort of thing about a lot of the monarchs and I suspect both the NSA and FAPSI are going to get increasingly good at triangulating who is who using the latest in DNA technology.
Over the years I’ve met quite a few Russian aristocrats who imagined that by throwing their lot in with the revolutionaries they might be spared its excesses. Some indeed were — at least for a time. Still others I have met tried to hide the evidence of their aristocracy as mine did. The concern was that if anyone knew we were aristocrats the Bolsheviks would come for us.
Over the years the Russians themselves have helped me in different ways in my career. There are those who want me to make peace and even intermarry within the Russian world. I politely demure and tell them that I’m an American and I like very much not intruding in their affairs. Still the old Russian proverb ‘Рыбак рыбака видит издалека’ (Rybak rybaka vidit izdaleka) — “a fisherman [always] spots another fisherman from afar” — made it increasingly difficult to hide. Accepting the responsibility of aristocracy shouldn’t come with denying its perks.
And yes I was spotted early by the Nazi network around Rebekah Mercer, who its fair to say is a lot more tied into the Nazi-Russian nexus than we’re allowed to talk too much about. Many of the remnants of the Nazi network became Soviet too once they’d been blackmailed by the KGB. Terrified of all of that sort of thing coming out the Russian Jewish mafia would extort Germans and German-Americans into backing Israeli causes. Sometimes the U.S. government would even give its assent to that sort of thing. How do you think that Germany became the largest provider of weapons to Israel after the United States anyway?
This is a dangerous history. If you read The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945 you’ll understand that the White Russians, having lost everything, were more than willing to help a young Austrian take power if it meant stopping the rise of the Bolsheviks in Germany. The relationship between the Russian aristocracy and the Viennese aristocracy runs quite deep.
After the Great Patriotic War the Russians, having taken Berlin, knew who the German spies were in the West. Rather than out them the Russians began to work them.
Of course I’m a bit biased given that my grandfather was half a secret Russian aristocrat and half a son of the American Revolution. To this day I’ve been friendly with the descendants of the Nekrasov, Trubetskoy, Botkin and Tolstoy families.
What would Russia look like were it a constitutional monarchy? I’d say it would take the best of the Russian empire and share it with the world.
If you squint you can imagine a world where Russian resources, Chinese labor and American ingenuity work together to enrich all three countries to the world’s benefit. You could imagine these three countries working together to mitigate climate change’s effects, to safeguard the world’s biodiversity, and even to venture out into space.
Recent events have made it unlikely that Jews can serve the role that they once did. These middlemen oftentimes took advantage of the situation. To name them is to know them — Leon Black, Matt Michelsen, Joe Lonsdale, David Sacks — and to know that they just aren’t very good at this.
Henry Kissinger, who was always a lot more Germanophilic than he let on as an alleged “refugee,” traveled around enriching himself offering “advice” and ferrying messages. I’m still not sure if it was a good idea to block him from investing in Clearview.AI.
In this effort he followed a time-honored tradition. Robert Maxwell bounced between countries. So too did Jeffrey Epstein, who left his fortune to his brother and a Belarussian Karyna Shuliak.
We’re not ready yet to talk about the Belarusian deep state but it’s hand is seemingly everywhere these days. Could it be because that’s where the KGB really is?
Maybe we should talk a bit more about America and Russia sharing intelligence, know how and of course, technology.
Maybe the Russians can help us clean up and neutralize the oligarchs here in America.
And maybe, just maybe the lawsuit between me and Hal Lambert and his co-conspirators over the satellite technology and facial recognition operating in Ukraine is a good place to start.
If I didn’t betray the Russians who I knew socially when the Mueller team was threatening me I’m never going to betray them now.
Among me and mine there has always been and always will be a seat for patriotic Russians who call forth the best of the Russian nobility.
How would you define aristocracy in the context of the American story
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