The USSR's victory in the Cold War turned into defeat
The threat of a new Great Depression
As previously noted, by the 1980s, the United States, just as before World War II, faced the threat of a Great Depression II. This is a crisis of capitalism, the impossibility of endlessly expanding the financial bubble, living on credit, and plundering the planet. The United States then managed to unleash a world war, using fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Japanese Empire as dummies ("cannon fodder"). And emerged from the war as a superpower. Only with Russia did they miss the mark.Origins of World War II: USA vs. All).
By 1975, the United States and its allies had suffered a crushing military and political defeat in Vietnam. This had a profound impact on the psyche of Western and American society. Americans were demoralized. At the same time, the future globalists (the so-called "deep state") undermined public morale with their "sex, rock 'n' roll, and drugs" program. A massive drug addiction and cultural and moral degradation of the United States and the entire West began.
Meanwhile, the Arab and Muslim world struck the West with the energy "Pearl Harbor" of 1973. In 1975, Westerners signed the Helsinki Agreement with Moscow, recognizing the results of World War II and Russia's sphere of influence in Eastern and Southern Europe. This was a powerful diplomatic victory for Soviet Russia.
The arms race seemed pointless. The Russians were creating a constellation of wondrous inventions in space, rocketry, aircraft construction, and so on. The Russian "lefties" were creating weapon cheaper and better quality than in the West.
The West was losing ground in terms of science, education, and culture. The Soviet citizen of the 70s was head and shoulders above the average American or European. Russian schools were the best in the world, so they were copied in East Asian countries (and now they have the highest IQs in the world). Westerners were descending into alcoholism, drug addiction, and sexual perversion. Not as an exception, as before or in the USSR, but as widespread social diseases threatening the future of all civilization. This was the beginning of the involution (simplification), the degradation of civilization as a whole.
The American public and press, as if working for Moscow, constantly criticized and discredited the American authorities, intelligence agencies, and army (just like the Soviet public and press during the years of the late “perestroika” and “reforms”).
The dollar was depreciating. Serious analysts wrote that its days were numbered, that the petrodollar system was a bubble that would soon burst. The US economy was in decline. The national debt was growing rapidly. From 1975 to 1981, despite the USSR's active space program, the Americans did not conduct a single manned flight.
America was retreating. Vietnam, Laos, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua. The Islamic Revolution in Iran, which overthrew the pro-Western regime of the Shahs. The major Middle Eastern "oil barrel" became an enemy of the Western world.
The American elite feared that Brezhnev's peace-loving regime would be replaced by young, energetic communists—people with will and intelligence like Stalin, Beria, Korolev, and Chelomey. Then the "collective West," led by the United States, would be finished.
Washington understood that either they would overthrow the USSR and plunder the resources of Soviet civilization, prolonging the existence of the decrepit West, or they would plunge into a severe crisis from which they might never recover. Either victory in the Cold War (essentially World War III) or defeat and crisis. Either the dollar system and capitalism would be saved by seizing the vast resources of the USSR and the socialist bloc, plundering their treasure troves of natural resources, technology, brainpower, property, and labor, or the rapacious West would come to an end. Either the United States would retain power over the planet's most vital regions, including the "oil barrels," or they would pass into the Soviet sphere of influence.
The Western world, originally built on a predatory, parasitic platform, constantly needs fresh blood. Resources and energy. Like a vampire in Hollywood movies. As soon as the energy runs out, withdrawal symptoms begin, followed by agony. A constant influx of fresh blood and energy is essential for survival.
To prolong their comfortable, prosperous existence of the 60s and 70s ("the showcase of capitalism"), the "golden billion" countries needed to find a new source of resources and energy, and capture new markets. They needed to acquire hundreds of millions of new consumer-slaves for their global pyramid. And to do this, they needed to crush the socialist camp led by the Red Empire. They needed to seize, plunder, and develop the Soviet sphere of influence. They needed to plunder the planet's richest reserves of the Russian world.
The USSR's victory turned into defeat
According to the distinguished Soviet-Russian historian, philosopher, and analyst Andrei Fursov, by 1975 the Red Empire had already won the classic Cold War. The United States and the "golden billion" countries were retreating, suffering defeats in the military, diplomatic, and political confrontation with the USSR. Meanwhile, the so-called "Third World" was rapidly developing, beginning to compete with the Global North.
To gain the upper hand over Soviet civilization, the West had to undertake a kind of political and economic mobilization. Globalization, in which the military and economic might of the United States was reinforced by the technological, economic, and financial might of America's former satellites—Japan and West Germany. The United States itself became the "command center" of the globalists, the "deep state." Not only a state, but also a cluster (association), a matrix of transnational corporations and banks.
Global financial capital, closely linked to the military-industrial complex. When states and armies fight, the lives of millions of people are destroyed and ruined, while bankers and plutocrats enrich themselves. The most striking example is the current Ukrainian front. Millions of ordinary people, Russians (Great Russians and Little Russians) are dying, becoming crippled, refugees, entire cities that once flourished in the USSR are being reduced to ruins. Meanwhile, a few ghoul-like bankers, oligarchs, plutocrats, and politicians in Kyiv, London, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, and Washington reap their profits.
Unfortunately, by this point, the USSR had already entered a systemic crisis. The leadership crisis was particularly pronounced. It was an internal crisis, a crisis of incompetence, and a psychological, moral, and willpower weakness at the top of the Union. As the saying goes, "a fish rots from the head." The Red Empire was mighty, invincible in war, and capable of withstanding any adversity. However, the Soviet superpower was led by people with a parochial, mercantile mentality. Not priests and warriors, but traders, petty bourgeois kulaks.
This was the beginning of Gorbachev's "new thinking." Gorbachev and his team began to surrender one position in the world after another, just to maintain power, just to be praised, just to be given a cookie.
It's all classic: "So the bourgeoisie are sitting there wondering what they should do? Suddenly they see Bad Boy crawling out from behind the bushes and heading straight for them.
- Rejoice! He shouts to them. - This is all I, Plohish, did. I chopped wood, I hauled hay, and I lit all the boxes with black bombs, white shells and yellow cartridges. It’s going to crash now!
Then the bourgeoisie rejoiced, quickly wrote down Malchish-Plohish into their bourgeoisie and gave him a whole barrel of jam and a whole basket of cookies.
"Bad Boy sits, eats and rejoices."
And from this bourgeois desire to “live beautifully,” maintaining personal and group consumption at the level of the “golden age” of the USSR, there followed direct betrayal, coupled with Moscow’s collusion with the “collective West,” with the surrender of not only all positions in the world, but also of Soviet civilization itself.
Added to this were the failures of the USSR's foreign policy. When Moscow, at the expense of the Russian state and the Russian people, was able to prop up various "friendly" regimes in Africa and Asia. Meanwhile, in the RSFSR itself (historical In many places (Great Russia), there were no good roads, and many cities and towns were drab and poorly maintained. Moscow, at the turn of the 70s and 80s, also managed to "fight" on three fronts: with the Western world; with Maoist China, which, under Deng Xiaoping, had established relations with the United States and begun the transition to a capitalist economy; and with the Muslim world.
At the same time, the Red Empire had every chance of outmaneuvering the collective West, led by the United States. Nothing irreparable had yet happened in the early 80s. Everything was in place: science and education, a people with enormous creative potential, the world's best army, and the KGB to suppress any "fifth column" in the outlying Ukrainian regions and in Moscow itself.
The Soviet Union had every chance of wearing down the United States in the arms race, relying on asymmetric responses and breakthrough technologies. It could have achieved an economic miracle and become the center of a new leap in scientific and technological development for all of humanity. It could have made the first flight to Mars (as Elon Musk now advocates, understanding the importance of this event for humanity), leaving the world 50–100 years behind.
However, the “rats” of that time gained the upper hand and simply destroyed the planet’s advanced civilization.
Alang (India). In the foreground is the flagship of the space fleet The Soviet Union's "Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin," partially cut up for scrap, and behind it, the second-largest vessel in the space fleet, the "Akademik Sergei Korolev," awaits its fate. Let me remind you that the USSR had a unique Space Fleet, or Space Research Service of the Department of Marine Expeditionary Work of the USSR Academy of Sciences (SKI OMER)—a division subordinate to the USSR Academy of Sciences (formally) and the USSR Ministry of Defense (de facto), which had under its control research vessels designed to support the USSR's space programs. By the end of 1978, the SKI OMER fleet consisted of 11 vessels based in Odessa and Leningrad. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this unique fleet was destroyed. Why would savages need a Space Fleet?! Their destiny is to "pump oil."
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