The geopolitics of the Apocalypse, or the Tale of how the old man Brzezinski lost his mind ...
For the Orthodox consciousness, it is obvious that our distraught, degenerated world has been balancing on the brink of the greatest upheavals and grandiose world cataclysms for quite some time. Maddening humanity boldly abandoned the grace-filled cover of God, almost entirely surrendering to the spirit of satanic pride, demonic vanity and vile, unnatural depravity, entering into a fierce war with the Creator, brazenly correcting all moral norms and restrictions, all His holy laws and commandments.
For an analyst armed with a Christian worldview, there is nothing unexpected, incomprehensible and surprising in this. The Savior Himself warned us about this. The apostles of Christ foretold the terrible process of apostasy, fall and apostasy by the Holy Spirit. Many details of both current and future events have long been known to us, Orthodox, according to countless prophecies of holy saints of God, who cried for centuries of horrors, temptations and temptations of the “end times” aloud to everyone who wished to listen to the call of Heaven.
From century to century thundered all over the world: “Have ear that hears, that the Spirit speaketh to the churches. Behold, I stand at the door and to the point: if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come to him and have supper with him, and that with Me. Be faithful even to death and give women the crown of the belly. To the victorious and observant of My cause until the end, I will give him power over the town hall, and I will save him with a rod of iron, for the vessels of poor people will be broken. ”
Some listened.
Heart.
They distributed the precious beads of God's truths to those around them - contemporaries and descendants.
Something has come to us ...
But All this spiritual wealth of sincerely believing Christians does not at all exclude attempts to analyze the processes occurring in the world from the point of view of the weak human mind, with the help of scientific tools available to our wretched rational understanding. Moreover, for us, the current, so shaky faith, it will even be useful to reinforce the ancient truths with a study of modern geopolitical processes.
Once, a long time ago, when Europe was still Christian, venerable professors from its leading universities considered philosophy to be the “handmaiden of theology.” Why is geopolitics worse?
THE HEART OF THE WORLD IN THE LOOP ANACONDES
Perhaps the greatest influence on the geopolitical concepts of the twentieth century was one of the founders of modern geopolitics, the Englishman Halford Mackinder. The range of his interests was extremely wide. For some time he taught geography at Oxford and the University of London, then headed the London School of Economics, and in 1919-1920. He was appointed High British Commissioner of Southern Russia.
25 January 1904 of the year Mackinder spoke at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the report "The geographical axis stories", which made him famous. The meaning of this theory is that all the major events of the world history of mankind revolve around the main geographical" axial region "(pivot area), which itself may not be the scene of these events, but control over which provides the one who manages to conquer it, geopolitical domination over the world.
The term "axial region", he designated the expanses of Eurasia, arguing that it was her land mass that “Bordered by ice in the north, riddled with rivers and numbering in area 21 000 000 square. miles - and there is that “geographical axis” around which the historical process is developing. And the coastal regions of Eurasia bordering between land and sea are the main arena of the struggle between the “land bandits” controlling the continent and the “sea bandits” dominating the ocean space of the “external crescent”. Such a struggle is the main catalyst of all historical changes since ancient times.
Mackinder was very concerned that the central strategic position in the "axial region" is occupied by Russia, and "no social revolution will change its attitude to the great geographical boundaries of its existence." Mackinder called the inner core of the Eurasian continent Heartland (Heartland) as the “heart of the world”, since it is this heart itself remaining inaccessible for direct expansion of the ocean powers that represents the geographical space, the outcome of the struggle for which is decided by the fate of the world. It is easy to see that the zone of “historical accomplishments” around Hartland is the very same “conflict zone” of Alfred Mahan, in which the whole world history from Adam to Armageddon, from the Fall to redemption, from Christ to the Antichrist, takes place from the century.
In the mid-twentieth century, the center of the Anglo-American school of geopolitics moved to the United States. The most famous American geopolitical became Nicholas Spykmen. He formulated his concept in two works: “American strategy in world politics. United States and the balance of power” (1942) and “Geography of the world” (1944).
Like Mackinder, Spykman proceeds from the traditional geopolitical division of the world into continental and maritime centers of power. Just like his predecessors, he pays the main attention to the “buffer zone” between them. It, according to Spikeman, includes the periphery of the Eurasian Heartland, that is, Western and Central Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Afghanistan, the Indian Subcontinent, Tibet, Indochina, China and Eastern Siberia.
He called this buffer zone Eurasian Rimland (rim - rim, edge, ring; land - land), i.e. marginal or ringed ground. American geopolitics proposed their own formula of world domination: “Who controls Rimland dominates Eurasia; who dominates Eurasia - controls the fate of the world. ” This formula is a kind of mirror reflection of Mackinder's concept, but the main geopolitical thesis still remains the same: control over the Russian “heart of the world” is the key to world domination.
Thus, it is no exaggeration to say that Since the 19th century, all geopolitical science answers one way or another to the same question that is central to the West: how to neutralize Russia? How to shake, and it is better to destroy the hated Russian control over the giant Eurasian land massif?
The war for the Russian "heart of the world" at different times was waged by different geopolitical players, from Genghis Khan and Napoleon to Hitler and Bush Junior. But its essence was always the same. Already in the middle of the twentieth century, it was reduced to a simple and cruel formula.
Either Rimland will strangle the Russian heart in the American “anaconda loop”, i.e. The US will dismember Russia and finally establish its hegemony in Eurasia and around the world, or Heartland will regain its lost geopolitical unity (that is, Russia will consolidate Eurasian allies around itself and push America out of Eurasia). In either case, the usual political face of the world will change quickly and radically.
There can be no draw!
In 1990-x and at the beginning of the two thousandth, after the collapse of the USSR, at the time of its highest power, the West led by the United States did not even conceal that its ultimate goal was, in the words of the notorious Brzezinski, "geopolitical pluralism in Eurasia and in the former USSR" . Translated into ordinary language, this meant the inevitable dismemberment of our country. “Russia will be fragmented and under tutelage”, this world-famous Russophobe has repeatedly declared, adding that a new geopolitical balance will be achieved in the XXI century “at the expense of Russia, against Russia and on the ruins of Russia” (“The Great Chessboard”, 1997 ).
But ... Ancient wisdom is not for nothing that it says: man proposes, but God disposes. The current global financial crisis has buried these dreams. The short geopolitical epoch of Western domination is rapidly nearing completion. The American "oceanic" empire is on the verge of collapse. Russia, on the contrary, found the strength to overcome the consequences of the collapse of the USSR, survive the “liberal occupation” of the Khazar Russophobes and began to make the first tentative attempts to return to its natural geopolitical borders. But even these first attempts showed that The weakened Western Rimland today can hardly oppose the resurgent Russian Eurasian empire.
Verily, wondrous are thy works, O Lord!
BZEZINSKY ENDSHPIL
Furious rusonenavistnik Brzezinski, who for many decades had all his political authority, all the strength of his considerable backstage influence, used to irretrievably weaken Russia and take it beyond the Great Geopolitical Game - this same Brzezinski this year released the sensational book “Strategic Insight” (Zbigniew Brzezinski, Strategic Vision, New York 2012), which simply shocked Western analysts and political scientists. For openly admitted: the United States overstrained. America lost its chance to become a sustainable world hegemon. The West is waiting for a serious geopolitical crisis, and the whole world - a radical reformatting of the existing geopolitical structure. Wherein It is Russia that owns the "heart of the world", which it has managed to still protect from dismemberment and occupation, is a key geopolitical player, on which the course and outcome of this global redistribution depends. (By the way, the second such key player he calls ... Turkey. Well, how can you not remember the prophecies of the elder Paisius!)
This amazing story with Brzezinski deserves more detailed consideration. And that's why. 84-year-old "old Zbigniew" is one of the most odious figures of the American foreign policy elite. Western analysts show: “His writings attract with their intelligence the foreign policy reality, and at the same time they cause a feeling of discomfort from the consciousness of the inevitable consequences of this reality. Brzezinski personally actively participated in the Cold War, and to this day is closely associated with the current political elite of the United States. Brzezinski's geopolitical concepts were used by Washington for several decades, both under Carter and Reagan ... That is why his books are not only historical studies, but also political documents that allow the reader to become better acquainted with the deep understanding of American foreign policy. ” (Hauke Ritz, “Why does the West need Russia?”).
As a director of one of the main strongholds of mondialism, the Trilateral Commission, Brzezinski always viewed the United States as an informal world empire that, imperceptibly, gradually, behind closed doors, defined and regulated international relations between the rest of the world. At the same time, one of the main goals of such a backstage geopolitical game was to maximize the weakening of Russia, with its further dismemberment and the complete elimination of the “Russian factor” from the historical arena.
And in his new book, “Strategically Entered Light,” Brzezinski describes the radical political reversal of America. He advocates a large-scale revision of the entire previous US foreign policy over the past seventy years. The central thesis of his book - The United States is now on the eve of the collapse, in the same situation as the Soviet Union was in the 1980s. On this basis, Brzezinski completely revises his traditional attitude towards Russia. He comes to the conclusion that the survival of the West in a multipolar world completely depends on whether the West succeeds in integrating Russia, reborn from the ashes, into its own geopolitical system, transformed from an adversary into an ally.
In his numerous interviews on the new book, Brzezinski argues that with the establishment of a multipolar world the entire 500-year geopolitical era of global domination of the Atlantic maritime powers comes to an end.Being asked in an interview about the consequences of such a development, Brzezinski replied: “We can no longer dictate our will. We can no longer be the daunting global player that governs international affairs in the world. ” Even such faithful Western satellites of the West as Georgia, Taiwan, South Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Israel and part of the Middle East will lose their affection for the United States in the near future, says “old Zbigniew”, and will be involved in the power sphere of influence of Russia and Of China ...
Brzezinski states: The West inexorably weakens. He can no longer afford to wage serious, big wars: “From our experience, we must understand that the use of military force entails unforeseen consequences and, moreover, is very, very costly. We can no longer be a global policeman, because it will lead us to bankruptcy, cause a social explosion and lead to the loss of US international legitimacy. ”
The explosive growth of anti-Americanism in the “democratized” Maghreb countries after the “Arab spring” supported by Washington is the best confirmation of these words. The climax of growing American impotence in this region was the assassination of 11 in September of 2012 in Libya by an angry mob of the American ambassador, Christopher Stevens. In traditional diplomatic practice, such an emergency is the 100-percent reason for a big war, but ... The United States, having a huge military potential, unexpectedly encountered the fact that in a number of important situations it is useless. You can, of course, bomb Libya into the Stone Age, and only this will only multiply the hatred of the Arab world for deceitful and hypocritical America, which rejoiced when the “insurgent people” tore Gaddafi into pieces, and when the same people tore her own ambassador, she responded completely different.
It seems that the United States in the Arab world fell into the same trap as the USSR in Afghanistan. It seems that the end of the adventure will be the same ... It is symbolic, by the way, that the last time the US ambassador Adolf Dubs died while performing his official duties in 1979, it was there, in Afghanistan.
No wonder, in an interview with PBS Newshour, Brzezinski warns: “America may experience the same systemic paralysis that was 1980's in the Soviet Union.” And if Western civilization fails to conclude a long-term strategic alliance with Russia and Turkey, then this may turn into global isolation for it. For Pax Americana, this means a complete collapse of US political influence throughout the world, right down to its closest neighbors — Mexico, for example.
Many world leaders agree with Brzezinski that the international community is on the verge of global change. This time even the president of Russia, whom Brzezinski hates so much, agrees with him.
“The world is moving into another economic, technological, geopolitical epoch, and this transition will be long, difficult, and for some - painful”, said September 7 in Vladivostok at the APEC summit, Vladimir Putin. And after four days, 11 September 2012, the deputy head of Rossotrudnichestvo George Muradov specified at a press conference in Moscow that Russia "Intends to promote the incorporation of Ukraine into the Eurasian and Orthodox civilization".
Such statements did not come unnoticed by the Western media. "The Kremlin is reviving the formula" Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality. " The idea of the "Third Rome" is again relevant ", the American press states with alarm (" The Daily Beast "11.09.2012, the article is called" God’s Squadron of Putin ").
I.e?
That is, the orthodox, Russian “heart of the world” is beginning to come alive little by little ...
Heartland comes into motion ...
And woe to those who stand in his way!
Of course, the upcoming process of a total repartition of spheres of geopolitical influence, unprecedented in scale over the past few centuries, will not be fast, simple, and bloodless. But he, for all his difficulties and contradictions, is unstoppable. The Russian future again shines us with world greatness and glory. Because, according to the word of the Apostle Paul, "if God is with us, who is against?"
"If God be with us, who is with us? .. Understand tongues and repent, as God is with us!"
Conclusion
There is nothing new in modern geopolitical concepts for the Orthodox worldview and self-consciousness. Even on the contrary: rather, geopolitical scientists will find something new for themselves in Christian historiosophy and eschatology.
For the modern Orthodox consciousness there is no doubt that that “geopolitical consolidation of Eurasia” around the revived Russian Empire, which politicians talk about today, was predicted long ago by God's saints, enlightened by the grace of the Spiritpropelling the future greatness of Russia despite all the obstacles and misfortunes that our people are waiting for on this difficult path.
This greatness was announced to us from the distant 18th century by the seer-monk Abel, narrating in one of his “very preystrashnyh” books:
“About the fate of the Russian state, there was in prayer a revelation to me about three evil spells: Tatar, Polish, and the next - Jewish. A Jew will scourge the scorpion of the Russian land, rob its shrines, close the churches of God, execute the best Russian people. This is the allowance of God, the wrath of the Lord for the renunciation of Russia by the holy king.
But then Russian hopes will come true. An Orthodox cross will shine on Sophia, in Constantinople, Holy Russia will fill with the smoke of incense and prayers, like a kreen from heaven. ”
Rev. Seraphim of Sarov spoke about this future Russian greatness: “Before the birth of the Antichrist, a great long war and a terrible revolution in Russia will occur, exceeding all human imagination, for bloodshed will be the most terrible. Many people loyal to their fatherland will be killed, the plundering of church property and monasteries; the desecration of the churches of the Lord; the destruction and plundering of the wealth of good people, the rivers of Russian blood will be shed.
But the Lord will have mercy on Russia and lead it through suffering to great glory ... Before the end of time, Russia will merge into one great sea with other lands and Slavic tribes, it will constitute one sea or that huge universal ocean folk, about which Lord God since ancient times spoke with the mouth of everyone Saints: "The terrible and invincible Kingdom of All-Russia, Pan-Slavic - Gog and Magog, before which in trembling all nations will be." And all this is just the same as twice two four, and certainly, as God is holy, from ancient times predicted about him and his formidable dominion over the earth.
The combined forces of Russia and other peoples of Constantinople and Jerusalem will be filled. When Turkey is divided, it will almost all be left for Russia ... ”
The same thing was said by the famous teacher of Russian monasticism, St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov) in 1865: “No one will change the predestination of God's Providence for Russia. The Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church (for example, St. Andrew of Crete, interpreted on the Apocalypse, chapter 20) predict Russia's extraordinary civil development and power "...
At the height of the revolutionary unrest of the beginning of the twentieth century, the great Russian prayer book, the holy righteous Father John of Kronstadt, foresaw the same coming Russian Victory:
“How many enemies are our Fatherland now! But the All-Good Providence will not leave Russia in this sad and disastrous state. God's righteous destinies are committed over Russia. Her forge troubles and misfortunes. Do not be afraid and do not be afraid, brethren: the right hand of the Lord will find all those who hate us and will avenge us righteously. I foresee the restoration of a powerful Russia, even stronger and more powerful. On the bones of the martyrs, as on a firm foundation, a new Russia will be erected — in the old pattern; strong by your faith in Christ God and the Holy Trinity! The Russian people have ceased to understand what Russia is: it is the foot of the Throne of the Lord! Russian people should understand this and thank God for being Russian. ”
Let us become worthy of this terrible, great and beautiful Russian destiny!
Read the full article on the Russian Folk Line website. See link below.
- Konstantin Dushenov, Russian folk line
- http://ruskline.ru/analitika/2012/09/18/geopolitika_apokalipsisa_ili_skaz_o_tom_kak_starik_bzhezinskij_s_uma_soshyol/
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