All история humanity is basically war and armed conflict. Scientists have calculated: over fifty centuries, more than 14 500 of large and small wars has been experienced.
The natural state of civilization
For all the years of human existence, only about 300 years have been absolutely peaceful. The twentieth century spawned world wars, in which tens of countries and hundreds of millions of people participated. The first of these (1914 – 1918) involved 38 states, 74 mobilized a million people. In the Second (1939 – 1945) participated 61 country with a population of 1,7 billion (80% of the world's population), 110 million came under the gun. After the victory over fascism, 40 wars were unleashed during 1945 years (1985 – 260), and over the last decade more than 150.
Over time, the number of wars did not decrease. And in the ancient world, and in the Middle Ages, and in our memory there were plenty of them.
In the fundamental work of the Department of Military History and Law of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences “The Military History of Russia” states: “War is an integral part of the history of mankind, because it (the war) has several hypostases as a socio-political phenomenon. It is an armed confrontation, and the state of society, and a way to regulate relations between the state and social forces, and a way to resolve disputes, contradictions between them. ”
Major-General A. I. Vladimirov in his work “The Foundations of the General Theory of War” states: “History [of civilization] is almost one incessant war, which both propelled human progress and hindered it. It can be stated without much exaggeration that wars in many ways formed the modern being of humanity ”.
Their reasons were the struggle for life, the seizure of another’s property or the upholding of one’s own. Stories are known for many dynastic and religious wars. An important role has always been played by economics and finance. One of the factors of the wars of the last century were national liberation and revolutionary movements. The struggle for the redistribution of spheres of influence, territory and colonies was the cause of the First and Second World Wars.
In modern times, there are new occasions. There are clashes not of countries and peoples, as in the past, but of civilizations. “In the foreseeable future, the main source of the most acute socio-political and economic contradictions in the world will be the struggle for sources of raw materials and survival on the planet,” says Army General M. A. Gareev, president of the Academy of Military Sciences of the Russian Federation. “More and more facts show that the continuous intensive expansion of production with unlimited exploitation of the earth’s resources cannot continue indefinitely.” Authoritative international scientific organizations, UN experts are unanimous that the environmental factor will become the main cause of armed conflicts in the future.
The reality is that as long as states exist, many acute political, economic, ethnic conflicts remain that are not always resolved by peaceful means. And so from wars do not get rid of.
As the English expert Liddell Garth pointed out, “quite often after the end of the war, when the opposing force is eliminated, the obstacles to the contradictions in the views and interests of the former allies also disappear. Very often, disagreements become so acute that friendship, which was necessary during a common danger, turns into enmity after eliminating this danger, so that the allies in one war easily become enemies in another. ”Thus, peace is nothing but the continuation of war by other means and preparation for new armed clashes.
An analysis of the characteristics of war under modern conditions by Major General Vladimir Vladimirov allowed him to draw the following conclusions: war is a “state of permanent, unceasing, controlled“ turmoil ”imposed by the strongest on the rest of the world and the opposing side. The timing of the war is no longer determined by the official (recognized by the international community) fixation of victory, as happened, for example, after the signing of the Act of the unconditional surrender of Germany in 1945. In today's world war, dates are not determined because the war itself has a permanent (constantly ongoing) character. ”
E.E. Messner, Colonel of the Russian Imperial Army, at one time defined the specifics of the war in such a way: “We must stop thinking that war is when people fight, and peace when they are not fighting. You can be a war, without clearly fighting ... Violence (intimidation and terror) and partisanship are the main "weapons"In this war ... The war by guerrillas, saboteurs, terrorists, pests, saboteurs, propagandists will take on enormous proportions in the future."
But the opinion of the German military theorist Clausewitz: “War exists more for the defender than for the conqueror; after all, only the attack causes the defense and with it the war. The conqueror is always peaceful (as Bonaparte claimed). He would be more willing to peacefully occupy the borders of our state; so that he could not do this, we must want war and, therefore, prepare for it, that is, in other words: it is the weak who are doomed to defense, and must always be fully armed so as not to be subjected to a sudden attack; such is the requirement of military art. "
As you know, the politicians start the war. "I believe that in all countries the vast majority of the population wants peace, but the decision is not for him, but for the parties leading the masses," Field Field Marshal Helmut Moltke said at a meeting of the May 14 Reichstag. . Therefore, neither the peace-loving people, nor the pacifist government is a guarantee against the outbreak of war.
It is necessary to take into account the fact that it brings huge profits. "War is a terrible thing ... But it is a terribly profitable thing," Lenin wrote. In the First World, the US imperialists turned from the debtor of Europe into its creditor and made 35 billions of dollars on the blood of the peoples. In the six years of the second world profit of American corporations reached 116,8 billion dollars. Regardless of anything, they are striving hard for this “profitable thing” and now, especially since they have not yet had the chance to experience the destructive consequences of a modern war.
The US economy is in the hands of monopoly capital. For profit, he constantly needs energy resources, uranium, non-ferrous metals and other types of raw materials. For this reason, the fields and markets are brazenly declared areas of the "vital interests" of the leading capitalist states, and military forces are being sent there. The present war is a commercial enterprise. Therefore, the imperialists invest in it as much as they consider necessary and possible, expecting that if they win, they will return the investment with interest.
It should also be noted, and the new expansive geoeconomics as a strategy of "profit" of transnational (that is, not tied strictly to national or state territories) corporations. For this they create and finance private military companies. Today, according to experts, the number of private security companies and the cost of their maintenance is several times higher than the similar aggregate figures of the official armed forces of all states. In their power, TNCs can be compared with the most developed powers, which allows them to “divide” the world and dictate its conditions to it, including through armed struggle.
The enemy is on the threshold ...
October 25 1995, at a closed meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Armed Forces, Bill Clinton, who was then President of the United States, frankly stated: “In the next decade, the following problems will be resolved: the division of Russia into small states through interregional wars in Yugoslavia; the final collapse of the military-industrial complex of Russia and the army, the establishment in the distant republics of the regimes that we need. Yes, we allowed Russia to be a power, but the empire will be only one country - the United States. ”
The American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski proposes to "decentralize" Russia, to dismember it natro - the European part, the Siberian and Far Eastern republics. At the same time, the ideologue of US hegemony proposes to hand over the territory of our country to the Urals under control of Europe, Siberia to China, and the Far East to Japan.
In turn, the well-known political analyst and public figure Alexander Dugin in his work “The Geopolitics of War” described the current situation of the world and Russia in particular: “Humanity and war are synonymous. People have fought and will always fight. Some - voluntarily, because they love this business, others - forcibly, since nothing else remains. Admit it - realism. Trying to avoid it is stupid fear. What war awaits us? One is already coming. This is the establishment of a global order by the West. ”
There are questions: who is to blame and what to do? How to resist Russia in the war with the West?
First of all, it is necessary to abandon the criminal practice of reducing defense spending and constantly increase the military-industrial potential. It is well known that the state spends as much on defense as it evaluates its sovereignty.
The vicious practice of buying weapons abroad from Serdyukov’s feldmebel establishment should be stopped. First of all, Russia should concern itself with equipping its armed forces with promising domestic armament and military equipment. Abandon the imitation of the West and bring the organizational structure of the army into line with the division-regimental system that has justified itself in all wars instead of the existing brigade one. The basic military law says: military art is national. The brigade system does not comply with this law. Major-General Vladimirov notes: “The perception of the Russian army by its peoples created a historically distinctive military system and even such an organizational structure as a“ regiment ”understood and historically specially developed as a military“ regimental family ”, which by definition should be the basis of corporate military ethics , the school of education, the repository of military traditions and the center of military life. ”
Based on the negative domestic experience of leadership of the country and the Armed Forces, in particular by people who are not well-versed in military affairs, when they are appointed to vacant positions in the administrative departments of the government, a certain length of military service must be demanded as compulsory qualifications. In general, government agencies should not be allowed to those who have not fulfilled military duty to the state.
It should also be borne in mind that in wars of a local and, all the more, a larger scale, it is impossible to manage only by the personnel, professional armies of peacetime. Inevitably, mobilization of all the forces and means of the state will be required. Therefore, the position that “wars are fought by the peoples” does not lose its meaning. In accordance with this, there is still a need for mobilization preparation of the population, industry and the entire economy of the country for solving military tasks.
In a large-scale war, a professional peacetime army can last no more than two or three weeks. In the future, a significant role is played by mobilization resources.
... and in the house
In their plans for war with Russia, the United States and its allies have placed great hope in the "fifth column". From the history of many known cases of undermining the inside of the combat power of the warring states. At the same time, it should be noted that during the Great Patriotic War, despite the hardest, catastrophic defeats at the front in its initial period, the “fifth column” in the Soviet rear did not arise. On this occasion, V. M. Molotov, Stalin’s closest ally in an interview with writer F. I. Chuyev, said: “The 1937 year was needed ... remnants of enemies from different directions existed and in the face of imminent danger of fascist aggression could unite. We owe our thirty-seventh year that during the war we did not have a “fifth column”.
The recent history of Russia has confirmed the validity of the words of the former head of the government and the foreign affairs agency of the USSR. The whole country was able to observe how the meetings were held, at which our army, fighting in Chechnya, was covered in mud. How false reports were published about the atrocities of federal servicemen. Like other public and political figures of the Russian Federation spoke at international forums, stigmatizing their homeland, leading a bloody struggle against illegal armed groups. The result is a defeat in the first Chechen campaign, a shame of the Khasavyurt agreements, an attack by Chechen militants on Dagestan in 1999, and the start of a second Chechen war.
For many years now, the “fifth column” has been trying to influence the younger generation, instilling in it the senselessness and inexpediency of the fulfillment of the constitutional duty to defend the Fatherland. Destructive activities are bought by the West representatives of the Russian elites.
“Russia can have as many nuclear suitcases as you like, but since the 500 of billions of dollars of the Russian elite lies in our banks, you have to figure out whose elite it is. Is yours or is it ours? ”Indicates Z. Brzezinski.
The West will never reconcile with the existence of a state that impedes its domination; now and then it voted against unilateral decisions of the UN Security Council.
In 2008, the US State Department solemnly announced that it had completed preparations for a new war with Russia. War of ideas. The main offensive weapon was a computer, and the Internet was chosen as the battlefield.
In waging an ideological war, the main efforts of the United States are aimed at solving the following tasks: supporting the political opposition, dissident structures, carriers of ethnic, religious and other contradictions; undermining confidence in the leadership of the country and the Armed Forces, accusing them of anti-people policies and inability to solve national problems; the destruction of the spiritual and moral foundations of society, the introduction of a split in the friendship of peoples, the incitement of interethnic and inter-religious hatred, and the encouragement of terrorists and separatists; undermining faith in the economic and political stability of the state, introducing apathy and despondency, disbelief and hopelessness into the consciousness of the population; corruption and corruption of the population, cultivation of drunkenness and drug addiction, sexual perversion and licentiousness, cynicism and nihilism; the destruction of the moral and psychological stamina of youth, the promotion of evasion of military service, desertion, high treason; the imposition of doubts about the combat effectiveness of the Russian army and fleet, the reliability of domestic equipment and weapons, an exaggeration of the combat capabilities of foreign troops and weapons.
The same concept is carried out in Russia by political non-profit organizations funded from abroad. They conduct anti-government actions, slander the patriots, distort the history of our country, raise hatred among the younger generation to everything Russian and domestic, advocate for the abolition of conscription in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and their dissolution. Possessing a frank anti-traditionalist, anti-Russian orientation, the liberal-democratic ideology in its essence is nothing more than an ideological weapon for the destruction of our national and religious self-consciousness.
The philosopher Alexander Panarin noted in this connection: “All historical traditions and the history of the people themselves are subject to ridicule, deafening and ironic interpretation.” To combat these phenomena, consolidate society, a national idea is needed, which would be a compass in the development of the country.
Spiritual weapons
Russia's strategy was successful only when it was based on the state idea that faithfully reflected the national interests and mission of Russia, and not on the recommendations and advice of Western countries.
In this regard, the activities of Peter I are indicative. “The profit of Russia is the only criterion that led the first Russian Emperor in his relations with foreign powers,” noted the historian A. A. Kersnovsky. “The Allies more than once rescued the Russians at various periods of the war ... However, only the Tsar saw that they did not pay reciprocation at all and were really only trying to catch the heat with Russian hands — he immediately broke off all relations with them and later waged the war completely separately. Subsequently, this wise tradition of Peter was forgotten. How many misfortunes could Russia have avoided had Russian blood flowed only for Russian interests for two centuries. ”
The national idea, relying on its basic foundations - statehood, culture, freedom, appears in three guises: as an ideal, as a reflection of the historical features of the development of Russia and its prospects, as an organizing and driving force of historical development.
And maybe those are right who say that our people without a social national ideal can lose their historical and cultural identity and become just a population that doesn’t care which state to belong to.
Since the time of Peter the Great, the main motto was “God, the Tsar and the Motherland”, and state patriotism has become above all values and virtues.
What idea underlies the existence and development of Russia? We know the opinion of N. A. Berdyaev: “Russian people put love above justice. Russian religiosity is cathedral in nature. Christians of the West do not know such communitarianism which is peculiar to Russians. The Russian idea is the idea of communism and brotherhood of people and nations ... To be strong in spirit, not to be afraid of the horrors and trials of life, to accept the inevitable and cleansing suffering, to fight against evil - remains an imperative of true Christian consciousness. ”
A characteristic feature of Russian national identity, Russian patriotism is the desire for collectivism. Now, when ideas alien to our mentality are being intensively implanted, when many already perceive with a grin the moral principle once sung in a song: “Think before about the Homeland, and then about yourself”, the struggle to preserve the original Russian national features becomes archiectual.
Russian collectivism has a long history. Reflecting the attacks of the Pechenegs and Polovtsy, fighting the Teutonic knights, saving the country from the invasion of the Tatar hordes, Napoleon's hordes and the German fascist invaders, the Russian people sacred the New Testament commandment: "There is no more that love as if someone laid down his soul for his friends".
Russian idea - absolute justice. At one time, the French president, General de Gaulle, said an amazing phrase: "A Russian person cannot be happy if injustice is happening somewhere."
Russia has always been misunderstood and hated in the West for its power and independence. “We are not loved for our vastness,” said Emperor Alexander III about relations between Russia and the world. Well-known American sociologist and political figure S. Huntington admits: “Only Russian, Japanese and Ethiopian civilizations were able to withstand the frenzied attack of the West and maintain a self-sufficient independent existence. For four hundred years, relations among civilizations have been subordinated to other societies of Western civilization. ”
The reason for the hatred of Russia is its strength. It is only among Russians that “God is not in power, but in truth,” the whole world has God in power. As Napoleon said: "God helps the strong battalions."
In the Western world there are no moral rules, laws. There is only the right to force. He who is strong is right.
Russia is the only power that is destined to fight global evil. So it was during the Tatar-Mongol invasion, in the wars with Napoleon and Hitler. Today, Russia is the only country capable of becoming an impregnable fortress on the path of the spread of an unjust, inhuman, amoral, essentially anti-human Western model of the world. The West has always been afraid of Russia, because it knew: only it can fight back.
According to NATO, only our country has the potential to destroy the United States. “For those who believe that Russia, because of the innumerable problems besieging it, can be written off as a great power, it is necessary to remind an unpleasant but indisputable truth: Russia remains the only country on earth that can destroy America,” the ex US President Richard Nixon.
But not only Russia's military might bring fear to the West. He is afraid of its ideological, cultural, scientific, economic influence, he is afraid of Russia as a new world leader. Our country, by virtue of its striving to help other nations, is destined to become a world empire. This is its cardinal difference from Western civilization, which seeks only to exploit others. “The West bears evil, Russia is good. The West wants to enslave the world. Russia is called upon to be a liberator of nations. This mission is in its special spirit. And the justice of the world tasks of Russia is already predetermined by the spiritual forces of history. ”
In Serbia there is a saying: “Us, Russians, 200 millions”. People in the world began to be proud of their ethnic affinity with the Russians, and in the West they are mortally afraid that the time will come when someone will say: “Us, Russians, five billion”.