" What is your take on BAP's recent article on Russia?
https://mansworldmag.online/know-your-enemy/
I am not sure the concepts of "right" and "left" have any meaning at this point; however, there seems to be a disconnect between the established "right" in much of the west and their constituencies, as well as Russia's perception of the west's internal factions.
As a followup to the below, this piece from RWA's Substack echos the other article.
I’d say that article is pretty spot on. It actually adheres pretty closely to Guillaume Faye’s theories. He’s the founder of the ‘archeofuturism’ movement, which was the precursor to a lot of the modern nRX, BAP, and other ‘rightwing’ movements of that sort. He was a French theorist who basically saw that Europe was vassaled to the U.S. and therefore promoted the idea of Europe splitting with the U.S. and instead uniting with Russia, even literally so into one unified state he called ‘EuroSiberia’ or something like that. But the underlying idea is that the West is heading to a decadent collapse.
The BAP article correctly points out that Western citizens are much better served by aligning with Russia than anything their own governments support. The problem is, many decades of Cold War indoctrination has ingrained in Westerners the idea that anything that comes out of Russia is some type of subversive poison with the stench of the “evil Bolsheviks” and the big bad dreaded C word which has haunted Western civilization for over a hundred years now.
This is exacerbated by the fact that the last group of people in the West which remains free of the mind control is typically the ‘salt of the earth’ rural types, which haven’t succumbed to the cosmopolitan Democrat city influence, at least using America specifically as an example. But the problem is, these very people—as I think the BAP article implies—are the ones most likely to be naturally averse to the type of image that Russia is presented with by the propagandizing MSM.
In the U.S., the rural and conservative types are the ones most likely to descend from the spirit of the wild west, frontiersmanship, independence and self-reliance—the complete opposite of the dirigisme-style governance represented by the bogeyman specter of Russia with its ‘Soviet legacy’, at least as presented by Western politicians and media.
So my point is that, a certain image of Russia is so ingrained in the people of America’s heartland, that it would seem to me to be very difficult to disabuse them of it and make them see the actual truth of the situation. Sure, the enlightened ones who did the extra legwork like BAP himself have broken through the programming, but I’m not sure how many others of the ‘heartland’ can do so without severe effort. Most Americans of all stripes are so programmed by those decades of the Cold War that all you have to do is utter a few key words like ‘Gulag’, ‘Oligarch’, or the big scary ‘C word’ and they’re ready to take up arms for Ukraine.
'It’s a classic case of emotional and psychic manipulation. The media is very good at it. They know which emotional chords to strike, and know how self-righteous but also selfless Americans can be, and thus how easy it is to manipulate them into supporting a perceived David vs. Goliath cause. Ukrainians are portrayed as ‘freedom loving’ people just at the brink of nearly being Americans themselves. While Russians are dehumanized as non-human ‘Orcs’ from a cold and unforgiving place full of gulags, oligarchs, and that dreaded unspeakable C word. Ukraine is about progress while Russia is about barbarism and ‘might means right’. And Americans love a good black and white moralizing story with a clear-cut good guy and easy to hate villain. Just look at Zelensky, young and hale, likable with his Hollywood smile while Putin is depicted as a stone-cold mafia boss intent on taking people’s freedums by force.'"
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