Aaron Lea

Le régime de Poutine a besoin d’une guerre permanente, source d’enrichissement pour ses élites. Un régime fondé sur le rejet de toutes les normes internationales est un régime extrémiste qui ne peut être « convaincu » que par la force. desk-russie.eu/2025/10/12/la-…

🧑‍💻📀🎭 Algorithmic Anarchy as a Path to Archaic Order: America’s Tech Oligarchs and the Trumpo-Putin Model of Managed Chaos 🌪️📉🌪️ 📰 Our latest piece takes a direct look at the philosophies of Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin, and their neo-feudal visions of the future. We reexamine Elon Musk and the broader role of American tech oligarchs—not as modernizers, but as enablers of a digital return to the archaic. This isn’t just the crisis of democracy. It’s its deliberate dismantling through the coded tools of “new governance.” 🔻The End of Order: Turning Backwards We begin with Michael Kimmage’s book The World Trump Made, where he argues that the post–Cold War liberal order has lost its momentum. The U.S. is no longer the guarantor of global stability—it has become a key exporter of managed chaos, wittingly or not. 📌“The old world is breaking into pieces—and autocrats are picking them up.” 🔻The Rise of the Authoritarian Mode Figures like Trump, Putin, Erdoğan, Xi, and Modi don’t offer civilizational projects or forward-looking visions. They tap into national trauma and build cults around distorted memories of greatness. “This isn’t a return to tradition—it’s the simulation of legitimacy through myth.” 🔻Musk, Yarvin, Thiel: Techno-Utopia Without Democracy We focus on how Silicon Valley power, represented by Thiel and Yarvin, provides an ideological framework for abandoning democratic institutions in favor of corporate-style, technocratic neo-feudalism. 📌“If democracy hinders profit, get rid of democracy.” “Yarvin says it outright: dismantle the old regime—and let a CEO run the country like a company.” Thiel has long argued that progress and democracy are incompatible—and he funds those prepared to act accordingly. 🔻Elon Musk: Not Just a Businessman, But a Political Architect Musk is no longer merely a tech mogul. He is constructing infrastructure—not for America, but for himself. We frame him as a kind of alternative president—without elections, without a party, but with massive reach and authority. 📌“Musk doesn’t answer to institutions—he creates his own. That’s the new regime model.” 📌“He builds infrastructure not for the public, but for a privatized future: internet, satellites, currency, neuro-links—and an army of trolls.” 🔻Algorithmic Anarchy and Digital Racism A core section of the article analyzes how algorithms built in California and Texas now operate as tools of digital discrimination and control. It’s not just bias—it’s structural. 📌“Algorithms aren’t neutral. They are embedded in power.” 📌“Digital racism is when prejudice is encoded as truth.” 📌“No one elected these systems. But now they choose us.” 📌“Algorithmic anarchy is when you’re told you’re free, but that freedom is measured by what database you ended up in.” 🔻From Democracy to Interface: Simulated Order We describe this condition as managed chaos—a society where democracy is deconstructed, but not replaced with traditional totalitarianism. Instead, it is replaced with an interface. Everything seems to work, but elections are hollow, rights are cosmetic, and protest is flagged as a system error. 📌“We are no longer citizens—we are users.” 📌“The new regime doesn’t need riot police—it just needs your login to fail.” 🔻What Now? The conclusion isn’t all bleak. We raise the question: can the very tools of this transformation be repurposed to resist it? 📌“Either we build digital resistance—or we become vassals in a digital fiefdom.” ‼️🗞️‼️The full text of the article «Algorithmic Anarchy as a Path to Archaic Order…» is available here‼️👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/03/21/alg… 🗞️@ezraklein What Does Elon Musk Want? A Destructive Alliance with Trump? 👉 x.com/ds21111975/sta… 🗞️@OlgaNYC1211 - Elon Musk: The Chaos Agent Fueling Russia’s War on Democracy 👉x.com/ds21111975/sta… @mkimmage @Hancock2001 @curtis_yarvin @realDonaldTrump

💥 War is Peace🕊️🤦🏻‍♂️ (Summary of the article by my friends and co-authors Borukh Taskin and Dmitry Shusharin) 📌“Putin sees these ‘packagers of peace’ as useful idiots, just as Lenin once did.” (from the article) 📌“People are so simple and so ready to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.” Niccolo Machiavelli 🔴The article my friends wrote is not about Russia in isolation, but about the architecture of a world where “peace” becomes packaging and war becomes the mechanism of power. Their text exposes what many Western politicians prefer not to acknowledge: the Kremlin has built an operating system in which nominees and proxy-garchs control the flows, and diplomacy is replaced by ritualized imitation. 🔴The central figure is Kirill Dmitriev. Educated, symbolically “Western,” a man of Goldman Sachs and Pinchuk’s structures, now a diplomatic nominal for the Kremlin. Not a decision-maker but a transmission belt. His presence, irritating for Lavrov, signals only one thing: he is not an actor but an instrument. Figures like him allow Moscow to conduct “peace initiatives” without altering the essence: the war must continue, because the war is the foundation of the regime’s internal stability. 🔴The analysis of proxy-garchs is the backbone of the article. These are not the oligarchs of the 1990s who once feared the state. This is a caste of nominal asset-holders concentrating the enterprises seized since 2022 - 4.5 trillion rubles, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe - in favor of the Kovalchuks, Rotenbergs, VTB and Gazprom. Private property in Russia has been abolished de facto; property belongs to whoever controls the coercive engine of war. Peace is lethal for this system - it breaks the circulation of rents. 🔴This is where Trump’s fundamental misreading emerges. He thinks like a developer: a deal creates stability. In the Russian system, the opposite is true. Only permanent war prevents the elites, the social fabric and the economy from collapsing. Peace is chaos. War is order. Putin learned long ago that conflict is the best instrument for deals, and sanctions the best feeding ground for proxy-garchs. 🔴From here emerges the phenomenon of the “packagers of peace” around Trump - Witkoff, Kushner, Lutnick. For them, Russia is a distressed asset ready for repackaging. For Putin, they are useful idiots, echoing those who once believed Lenin. Any supposed “settlement” will serve only as a façade for returning to war. We have seen it already: the “lasting peace in the Middle East” lasted only a few days, and the same fate awaits any peace document on Ukraine. 🔴The authors also highlight a dangerous global trend: the archaization of power, the return of the “family” model. In Russia this logic is visible in the Dmitriev–Popova tandem overlapping with Putin’s daughter; in the United States - in the Kushner–Witkoff axis, mirroring the Rotenbergs and Kovalchuks. As Michael Sauga noted in Der Spiegel, Trump admires autocrats not for their strength but for their cronyism - and he is moving in the same direction. 🔴A world built on nominees, proxy-garchs and permanent war cannot sustain a pause. The illusion of a settlement is only new packaging. Beneath it lies the only stability a totalitarian regime can produce - the stability of endless conflict. 🗞️‼️The full text of the article is here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @kadmitriev @jaredkushner @cepa @Kasparov63 @TheAtlantic @JuliaDavisNews

🌪️Arithmetic of Chaos: Hamas, Erefiya and the Architecture of Disorder🩸 (Author’s Summary) 📌“Terror is a form of government that arises when violence, having destroyed all power, remains in full control” - H. Arendt 🔴Hamas and Erefiya (a contemporary slang term referring to the Russian state) operate through a shared logic of engineered entropy: both generate controlled chaos, dissolve institutions, weaponize ambiguity, and fragment collective consciousness as a mode of governance. They do not construct order - they extract power from its collapse, turning continuous crises into a political resource and a method for exhausting the West 🔴The USSR system laid the structural foundations for this architecture. Through the KGB, the USSR completed the modern shaping of Palestinian identity and the infrastructure of armed struggle: support for the PLO, training of Fatah militants, large-scale dissemination of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the stimulation of Arab antisemitism, and involvement in conflicts from Suez to the Yom Kippur War. This legacy persists: Hamas inherits the operational model, while Erefiya inherits and repurposes the method for contemporary geopolitical confrontation 🔴The shared grammar of entropy emerges in their governance through the destruction of continuity. Hamas eliminates the conceptual possibility of peace through the doctrine of waqf: Palestine is declared an eternal Islamic trust, rendering compromise religiously impossible. Ceasefires become tactical pauses for reorganization. Erefiya generates informational turbulence, constantly shifting ideological frames and dissolving linear meaning, pushing citizens into cycles of reaction instead of reflection. In both cases, propaganda is directed inward, shaping the population before shaping adversaries 🔴Erefiya’s secular theology - the cult of the “civilizational state” and the idolatry of the “Russian World” - mirrors Hamas’s religious veto on peace: war becomes a metaphysical norm, not a political decision. Ukrainian sovereignty is framed as an affront to a sacred order; sacrificial patriotism is elevated into a civic virtue. Thus arises a dual “veto on peace”: theological for Hamas, pseudo-metaphysical for Erefiya 🔴Proxy chains reinforce their capacity to generate disorder. Hamas is embedded in Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” - from Hezbollah to the Houthis — relying on Qatari funding, Turkish logistics, and the diversion of humanitarian aid. Erefiya functions as a global destabilizer under Chinese protection, using resource rents, shadow fleets, grey re-exports, paramilitary structures, and influence networks across Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. Both regimes rely on external oxygen and negative revenue streams, converting chaos into an export commodity 🔴Western polarization becomes an additional asset. Hamas’s war against Israel fractures political and social structures in the US and Europe, while Erefiya amplifies narratives of “double standards” and “colonialism” to weaken support for Ukraine. International law becomes a field of manipulation: Hamas selectively invokes humanitarian provisions, while Erefiya hides aggression behind sovereignty rhetoric. The distinction between international armed conflict (Russia–Ukraine) and non-international armed conflict (Israel–Hamas) is exploited to blur accountability 🔴Their economic models are forms of death-economy: profit is extracted from destruction, while costs are offloaded onto civilians, neighbors, and donors. Countering this requires criminalizing sanctions evasion, targeting beneficial ownership, controlling dual-use technologies, and constructing robust “sanitary belts” around Israel and Ukraine. Restoring honest language is essential: without semantic hygiene, it is impossible to disrupt proxy chains, contain entropy, or restore global stability 🗞️‼️Full RU text available here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar @WashInstitute @RussiaMatters #hamas

‼️Munich Agreement 2.1 - Will history repeat in Hungary⁉️ 🔴We were compelled to return to our Jan.’25 article by the news of the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest – the city where the Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994. Back then, Ukraine renounced its nuclear weapons and, among other things, transferred to Russia several strategic bombers, from which missile strikes are now being launched against Ukrainian territory. The guarantees given in that same Budapest – by the US, UK, and Russia – turned out to be a fiction, much like the promise of world peace in Munich in 1938, when the leaders of Britain and France ceded the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler in the hope of avoiding war. Instead, Europe slid into the darkness of WWII 🔴In that article we described how the annexation of Crimea in ‘14 effectively became a “Munich 2.0” – the moment when the West chose temporary comfort over strategic foresight. Now, on the eve of a possible deal in Budapest, a new reality emerges –“Munich 2.1”: peace negotiations in which Ukraine will inevitably be the subject, but not a participant 🔴The danger lies in the logic of “war fatigue” itself. In ‘38 it led to appeasement; in 2014 – to the acceptance of Crimea as a fait accompli; in 2025 it may turn into pressure on Kyiv to “freeze the lines” and implicitly recognize the occupied territories. Trump’s ambiguous stance, repeatedly legitimizing the aggressor and the Putin regime as a whole, gives little hope for any humane justice in the forthcoming talks 🔴In our paper we argued for a shift from reaction to prevention. The participants of the @ChathamHouse discussion we referred to at the time stressed that today’s leaders must avoid the trap of excessive optimism, realizing that durable peace demands more than concessions – it requires the continuous demonstration of strength and strategic foresight. Europe must raise its military readiness, not only by meeting @NATO targets and expanding its defense budgets, but by moving from declarative postures to industrial mobilization 🔴Equally critical is the unity of NATO and the EU. Art.5 must remain unconditional; otherwise the eastern flank of the alliance will remain exposed. Today, when Hungary (a NATO member) keeps undermining European solidarity, blocking sanctions against Russia, maintaining open hostility toward Ukraine, and now offering its capital for US-Russia bilateral talks without consulting the EU, this warning acquires a literal meaning 🔴We continue to insist on the need to strengthen both diplomatic and economic pressure. Sanctions, we argued, should serve not as punishment after aggression but as a means of deterring it. Coordinated action within the EU and international frameworks must prevent a situation in which parts of the Global South begin to view Russia’s line as an alternative to the West’s 🔴We examined the nuclear and cyber dimensions of modern security. Europe must reconsider its reliance on the “nuclear umbrella” and expand the role of France and the UK in providing collective deterrence. It should reinforce cyber defense, establish a pan-European cybersecurity agency, and introduce legal norms against disinformation and historical falsification as forms of aggression 🔴We discussed Ukraine’s role and potential leadership. Kyiv, we argued, must obtain long-term security guarantees – through NATO membership or an equivalent arrangement, something Washington has so far resisted. Beyond military and economic aid or formal accession to the EU, Europe must also sustain Ukraine’s cultural identity as a part of its own security system 🔴The world once narrowly avoided signing the “Istanbul Agreements” of March ‘22, often viewed as an analogue of the “Munich Deal.” If the Budapest meeting turns into an attempt to repeat that scenario in new disguise, it will mean that history is again moving in a spiral of concessions 🗞️‼️Link‼️👉 wp3wppow.kasparov.ru/material.php?i… @ZelenskyyUa #RussiaUkraineWar @POTUS

🇪🇺“Origins of Europe’s Strategic Submission” 🌎⁉️🌍 (author’s summary) 📌“We still live in the shadow of a dead USSR, which the Kremlin preserves in Europe’s mind as an instrument of reflexive control. Breaking this illusion is the first step toward restoring the continent’s will.” ‼️As the world debates a mysterious “28-point plan” that looks more like a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation… 🔴Europe enters the mid-2020s in a state of strategic incoherence — not because of one mistake, but as the culmination of three decades of self-comfort that Moscow has turned into a weapon. After the USSR collapsed, the EU convinced itself that large-scale war in Europe had ended for good, and that economic interdependence with Russia and China guaranteed stability. These beliefs, which produced billions in “peace dividends,” blinded European elites just as Moscow and Beijing accelerated rearmament and embraced territorial revisionism. 🔴The full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the persistent chain of “grey incidents” — drones over Poland and Belgium, missile debris in Romania, Russian jets over Estonia, attacks on cables and infrastructure — show that the Kremlin is testing NATO’s eastern flank not militarily, but psychologically. Unlike Sweden in 1981, which immediately called the Soviet submarine in Karlskrona a violation of sovereignty, today’s EU drifts into endless discussion — precisely the outcome Moscow wants. 🔴Russia spends tens of billions annually on cognitive, cyber and proxy operations in Europe. Their purpose is to shift the baseline of debate, erase the line between aggression and “incident,” and make Europeans fear their own reaction more than Russian escalation. The key tool is the fiction “Russia = the USSR today,” a falsification comparable in impact to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” or the “Donation of Constantine”: Europe reacts to a phantom, not to Russia’s real power. 🔴Hybrid war includes agenda capture through the constant invocation of “escalation risk,” securitization that brands normal defensive measures as “aggression,” false-flag cyberattacks designed to obscure responsibility, and long-built proxy networks, useful idiots and dormant saboteurs. Nuclear rhetoric reinforces self-deterrence and traps European decision-making in the question: “How will the Kremlin react?” 🔴Institutional weakness compounds the problem. The €800-billion ReArmEurope program stalls under national vetoes; counter-cognitive budgets are fragmented; trust in the US has eroded after tariff wars and skepticism toward NATO. Europe remains wealthy and technologically capable but politically paralyzed, treating hybrid aggression as a grey zone even though it is a full-scale war in the domain of perception and will. For the Kremlin, it is a perfect architecture: cognitive operations cost less than tanks but damage democracies far more efficiently. 🔴The central point is stark: Europe’s strategic submission is not moral weakness or pacifism, but the result of a systemic gap between the threat and the willingness to name it. Restoring European strategic sovereignty begins with one act — acknowledging that Russia is already waging a war against Europe, even if unannounced. Naming reality is the first return of will. 🗞️‼️Full article here‼️👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/11/24/ist… 📰‼️Our previous, more detailed long piece on the same theme - here‼️👉 x.com/ds21111975/sta… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @NATO @cepa @edwardlucas @MSnegovaya @general_ben @anneapplebaum @TheAtlantic @Kasparov63 @kajakallas @KubiliusA @BMVg_Bundeswehr @SecRubio @Charter97En @PaulGoble1 @Hancock2001 @MoscowTimes @MoscowTimes_ru

💥 War is Peace🕊️🤦🏻‍♂️ (Summary of the article by my friends and co-authors Borukh Taskin and Dmitry Shusharin) 📌“Putin sees these ‘packagers of peace’ as useful idiots, just as Lenin once did.” (from the article) 📌“People are so simple and so ready to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.” Niccolo Machiavelli 🔴The article my friends wrote is not about Russia in isolation, but about the architecture of a world where “peace” becomes packaging and war becomes the mechanism of power. Their text exposes what many Western politicians prefer not to acknowledge: the Kremlin has built an operating system in which nominees and proxy-garchs control the flows, and diplomacy is replaced by ritualized imitation. 🔴The central figure is Kirill Dmitriev. Educated, symbolically “Western,” a man of Goldman Sachs and Pinchuk’s structures, now a diplomatic nominal for the Kremlin. Not a decision-maker but a transmission belt. His presence, irritating for Lavrov, signals only one thing: he is not an actor but an instrument. Figures like him allow Moscow to conduct “peace initiatives” without altering the essence: the war must continue, because the war is the foundation of the regime’s internal stability. 🔴The analysis of proxy-garchs is the backbone of the article. These are not the oligarchs of the 1990s who once feared the state. This is a caste of nominal asset-holders concentrating the enterprises seized since 2022 - 4.5 trillion rubles, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe - in favor of the Kovalchuks, Rotenbergs, VTB and Gazprom. Private property in Russia has been abolished de facto; property belongs to whoever controls the coercive engine of war. Peace is lethal for this system - it breaks the circulation of rents. 🔴This is where Trump’s fundamental misreading emerges. He thinks like a developer: a deal creates stability. In the Russian system, the opposite is true. Only permanent war prevents the elites, the social fabric and the economy from collapsing. Peace is chaos. War is order. Putin learned long ago that conflict is the best instrument for deals, and sanctions the best feeding ground for proxy-garchs. 🔴From here emerges the phenomenon of the “packagers of peace” around Trump - Witkoff, Kushner, Lutnick. For them, Russia is a distressed asset ready for repackaging. For Putin, they are useful idiots, echoing those who once believed Lenin. Any supposed “settlement” will serve only as a façade for returning to war. We have seen it already: the “lasting peace in the Middle East” lasted only a few days, and the same fate awaits any peace document on Ukraine. 🔴The authors also highlight a dangerous global trend: the archaization of power, the return of the “family” model. In Russia this logic is visible in the Dmitriev–Popova tandem overlapping with Putin’s daughter; in the United States - in the Kushner–Witkoff axis, mirroring the Rotenbergs and Kovalchuks. As Michael Sauga noted in Der Spiegel, Trump admires autocrats not for their strength but for their cronyism - and he is moving in the same direction. 🔴A world built on nominees, proxy-garchs and permanent war cannot sustain a pause. The illusion of a settlement is only new packaging. Beneath it lies the only stability a totalitarian regime can produce - the stability of endless conflict. 🗞️‼️The full text of the article is here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @kadmitriev @jaredkushner @cepa @Kasparov63 @TheAtlantic @JuliaDavisNews

‼️Munich Agreement 2.1 - Will history repeat in Hungary⁉️ 🔴We were compelled to return to our Jan.’25 article by the news of the upcoming Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest – the city where the Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994. Back then, Ukraine renounced its nuclear weapons and, among other things, transferred to Russia several strategic bombers, from which missile strikes are now being launched against Ukrainian territory. The guarantees given in that same Budapest – by the US, UK, and Russia – turned out to be a fiction, much like the promise of world peace in Munich in 1938, when the leaders of Britain and France ceded the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler in the hope of avoiding war. Instead, Europe slid into the darkness of WWII 🔴In that article we described how the annexation of Crimea in ‘14 effectively became a “Munich 2.0” – the moment when the West chose temporary comfort over strategic foresight. Now, on the eve of a possible deal in Budapest, a new reality emerges –“Munich 2.1”: peace negotiations in which Ukraine will inevitably be the subject, but not a participant 🔴The danger lies in the logic of “war fatigue” itself. In ‘38 it led to appeasement; in 2014 – to the acceptance of Crimea as a fait accompli; in 2025 it may turn into pressure on Kyiv to “freeze the lines” and implicitly recognize the occupied territories. Trump’s ambiguous stance, repeatedly legitimizing the aggressor and the Putin regime as a whole, gives little hope for any humane justice in the forthcoming talks 🔴In our paper we argued for a shift from reaction to prevention. The participants of the @ChathamHouse discussion we referred to at the time stressed that today’s leaders must avoid the trap of excessive optimism, realizing that durable peace demands more than concessions – it requires the continuous demonstration of strength and strategic foresight. Europe must raise its military readiness, not only by meeting @NATO targets and expanding its defense budgets, but by moving from declarative postures to industrial mobilization 🔴Equally critical is the unity of NATO and the EU. Art.5 must remain unconditional; otherwise the eastern flank of the alliance will remain exposed. Today, when Hungary (a NATO member) keeps undermining European solidarity, blocking sanctions against Russia, maintaining open hostility toward Ukraine, and now offering its capital for US-Russia bilateral talks without consulting the EU, this warning acquires a literal meaning 🔴We continue to insist on the need to strengthen both diplomatic and economic pressure. Sanctions, we argued, should serve not as punishment after aggression but as a means of deterring it. Coordinated action within the EU and international frameworks must prevent a situation in which parts of the Global South begin to view Russia’s line as an alternative to the West’s 🔴We examined the nuclear and cyber dimensions of modern security. Europe must reconsider its reliance on the “nuclear umbrella” and expand the role of France and the UK in providing collective deterrence. It should reinforce cyber defense, establish a pan-European cybersecurity agency, and introduce legal norms against disinformation and historical falsification as forms of aggression 🔴We discussed Ukraine’s role and potential leadership. Kyiv, we argued, must obtain long-term security guarantees – through NATO membership or an equivalent arrangement, something Washington has so far resisted. Beyond military and economic aid or formal accession to the EU, Europe must also sustain Ukraine’s cultural identity as a part of its own security system 🔴The world once narrowly avoided signing the “Istanbul Agreements” of March ‘22, often viewed as an analogue of the “Munich Deal.” If the Budapest meeting turns into an attempt to repeat that scenario in new disguise, it will mean that history is again moving in a spiral of concessions 🗞️‼️Link‼️👉 wp3wppow.kasparov.ru/material.php?i… @ZelenskyyUa #RussiaUkraineWar @POTUS

🇪🇺“Origins of Europe’s Strategic Submission” 🌎⁉️🌍 (author’s summary) 📌“We still live in the shadow of a dead USSR, which the Kremlin preserves in Europe’s mind as an instrument of reflexive control. Breaking this illusion is the first step toward restoring the continent’s will.” ‼️As the world debates a mysterious “28-point plan” that looks more like a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation… 🔴Europe enters the mid-2020s in a state of strategic incoherence — not because of one mistake, but as the culmination of three decades of self-comfort that Moscow has turned into a weapon. After the USSR collapsed, the EU convinced itself that large-scale war in Europe had ended for good, and that economic interdependence with Russia and China guaranteed stability. These beliefs, which produced billions in “peace dividends,” blinded European elites just as Moscow and Beijing accelerated rearmament and embraced territorial revisionism. 🔴The full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the persistent chain of “grey incidents” — drones over Poland and Belgium, missile debris in Romania, Russian jets over Estonia, attacks on cables and infrastructure — show that the Kremlin is testing NATO’s eastern flank not militarily, but psychologically. Unlike Sweden in 1981, which immediately called the Soviet submarine in Karlskrona a violation of sovereignty, today’s EU drifts into endless discussion — precisely the outcome Moscow wants. 🔴Russia spends tens of billions annually on cognitive, cyber and proxy operations in Europe. Their purpose is to shift the baseline of debate, erase the line between aggression and “incident,” and make Europeans fear their own reaction more than Russian escalation. The key tool is the fiction “Russia = the USSR today,” a falsification comparable in impact to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” or the “Donation of Constantine”: Europe reacts to a phantom, not to Russia’s real power. 🔴Hybrid war includes agenda capture through the constant invocation of “escalation risk,” securitization that brands normal defensive measures as “aggression,” false-flag cyberattacks designed to obscure responsibility, and long-built proxy networks, useful idiots and dormant saboteurs. Nuclear rhetoric reinforces self-deterrence and traps European decision-making in the question: “How will the Kremlin react?” 🔴Institutional weakness compounds the problem. The €800-billion ReArmEurope program stalls under national vetoes; counter-cognitive budgets are fragmented; trust in the US has eroded after tariff wars and skepticism toward NATO. Europe remains wealthy and technologically capable but politically paralyzed, treating hybrid aggression as a grey zone even though it is a full-scale war in the domain of perception and will. For the Kremlin, it is a perfect architecture: cognitive operations cost less than tanks but damage democracies far more efficiently. 🔴The central point is stark: Europe’s strategic submission is not moral weakness or pacifism, but the result of a systemic gap between the threat and the willingness to name it. Restoring European strategic sovereignty begins with one act — acknowledging that Russia is already waging a war against Europe, even if unannounced. Naming reality is the first return of will. 🗞️‼️Full article here‼️👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/11/24/ist… 📰‼️Our previous, more detailed long piece on the same theme - here‼️👉 x.com/ds21111975/sta… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @NATO @cepa @edwardlucas @MSnegovaya @general_ben @anneapplebaum @TheAtlantic @Kasparov63 @kajakallas @KubiliusA @BMVg_Bundeswehr @SecRubio @Charter97En @PaulGoble1 @Hancock2001 @MoscowTimes @MoscowTimes_ru

🌪️Arithmetic of Chaos: Hamas, Erefiya and the Architecture of Disorder🩸 (Author’s Summary) 📌“Terror is a form of government that arises when violence, having destroyed all power, remains in full control” - H. Arendt 🔴Hamas and Erefiya (a contemporary slang term referring to the Russian state) operate through a shared logic of engineered entropy: both generate controlled chaos, dissolve institutions, weaponize ambiguity, and fragment collective consciousness as a mode of governance. They do not construct order - they extract power from its collapse, turning continuous crises into a political resource and a method for exhausting the West 🔴The USSR system laid the structural foundations for this architecture. Through the KGB, the USSR completed the modern shaping of Palestinian identity and the infrastructure of armed struggle: support for the PLO, training of Fatah militants, large-scale dissemination of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the stimulation of Arab antisemitism, and involvement in conflicts from Suez to the Yom Kippur War. This legacy persists: Hamas inherits the operational model, while Erefiya inherits and repurposes the method for contemporary geopolitical confrontation 🔴The shared grammar of entropy emerges in their governance through the destruction of continuity. Hamas eliminates the conceptual possibility of peace through the doctrine of waqf: Palestine is declared an eternal Islamic trust, rendering compromise religiously impossible. Ceasefires become tactical pauses for reorganization. Erefiya generates informational turbulence, constantly shifting ideological frames and dissolving linear meaning, pushing citizens into cycles of reaction instead of reflection. In both cases, propaganda is directed inward, shaping the population before shaping adversaries 🔴Erefiya’s secular theology - the cult of the “civilizational state” and the idolatry of the “Russian World” - mirrors Hamas’s religious veto on peace: war becomes a metaphysical norm, not a political decision. Ukrainian sovereignty is framed as an affront to a sacred order; sacrificial patriotism is elevated into a civic virtue. Thus arises a dual “veto on peace”: theological for Hamas, pseudo-metaphysical for Erefiya 🔴Proxy chains reinforce their capacity to generate disorder. Hamas is embedded in Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” - from Hezbollah to the Houthis — relying on Qatari funding, Turkish logistics, and the diversion of humanitarian aid. Erefiya functions as a global destabilizer under Chinese protection, using resource rents, shadow fleets, grey re-exports, paramilitary structures, and influence networks across Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. Both regimes rely on external oxygen and negative revenue streams, converting chaos into an export commodity 🔴Western polarization becomes an additional asset. Hamas’s war against Israel fractures political and social structures in the US and Europe, while Erefiya amplifies narratives of “double standards” and “colonialism” to weaken support for Ukraine. International law becomes a field of manipulation: Hamas selectively invokes humanitarian provisions, while Erefiya hides aggression behind sovereignty rhetoric. The distinction between international armed conflict (Russia–Ukraine) and non-international armed conflict (Israel–Hamas) is exploited to blur accountability 🔴Their economic models are forms of death-economy: profit is extracted from destruction, while costs are offloaded onto civilians, neighbors, and donors. Countering this requires criminalizing sanctions evasion, targeting beneficial ownership, controlling dual-use technologies, and constructing robust “sanitary belts” around Israel and Ukraine. Restoring honest language is essential: without semantic hygiene, it is impossible to disrupt proxy chains, contain entropy, or restore global stability 🗞️‼️Full RU text available here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar @WashInstitute @RussiaMatters #hamas

💥 War is Peace🕊️🤦🏻‍♂️ (Summary of the article by my friends and co-authors Borukh Taskin and Dmitry Shusharin) 📌“Putin sees these ‘packagers of peace’ as useful idiots, just as Lenin once did.” (from the article) 📌“People are so simple and so ready to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.” Niccolo Machiavelli 🔴The article my friends wrote is not about Russia in isolation, but about the architecture of a world where “peace” becomes packaging and war becomes the mechanism of power. Their text exposes what many Western politicians prefer not to acknowledge: the Kremlin has built an operating system in which nominees and proxy-garchs control the flows, and diplomacy is replaced by ritualized imitation. 🔴The central figure is Kirill Dmitriev. Educated, symbolically “Western,” a man of Goldman Sachs and Pinchuk’s structures, now a diplomatic nominal for the Kremlin. Not a decision-maker but a transmission belt. His presence, irritating for Lavrov, signals only one thing: he is not an actor but an instrument. Figures like him allow Moscow to conduct “peace initiatives” without altering the essence: the war must continue, because the war is the foundation of the regime’s internal stability. 🔴The analysis of proxy-garchs is the backbone of the article. These are not the oligarchs of the 1990s who once feared the state. This is a caste of nominal asset-holders concentrating the enterprises seized since 2022 - 4.5 trillion rubles, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe - in favor of the Kovalchuks, Rotenbergs, VTB and Gazprom. Private property in Russia has been abolished de facto; property belongs to whoever controls the coercive engine of war. Peace is lethal for this system - it breaks the circulation of rents. 🔴This is where Trump’s fundamental misreading emerges. He thinks like a developer: a deal creates stability. In the Russian system, the opposite is true. Only permanent war prevents the elites, the social fabric and the economy from collapsing. Peace is chaos. War is order. Putin learned long ago that conflict is the best instrument for deals, and sanctions the best feeding ground for proxy-garchs. 🔴From here emerges the phenomenon of the “packagers of peace” around Trump - Witkoff, Kushner, Lutnick. For them, Russia is a distressed asset ready for repackaging. For Putin, they are useful idiots, echoing those who once believed Lenin. Any supposed “settlement” will serve only as a façade for returning to war. We have seen it already: the “lasting peace in the Middle East” lasted only a few days, and the same fate awaits any peace document on Ukraine. 🔴The authors also highlight a dangerous global trend: the archaization of power, the return of the “family” model. In Russia this logic is visible in the Dmitriev–Popova tandem overlapping with Putin’s daughter; in the United States - in the Kushner–Witkoff axis, mirroring the Rotenbergs and Kovalchuks. As Michael Sauga noted in Der Spiegel, Trump admires autocrats not for their strength but for their cronyism - and he is moving in the same direction. 🔴A world built on nominees, proxy-garchs and permanent war cannot sustain a pause. The illusion of a settlement is only new packaging. Beneath it lies the only stability a totalitarian regime can produce - the stability of endless conflict. 🗞️‼️The full text of the article is here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @kadmitriev @jaredkushner @cepa @Kasparov63 @TheAtlantic @JuliaDavisNews

🌪️Arithmetic of Chaos: Hamas, Erefiya and the Architecture of Disorder🩸 (Author’s Summary) 📌“Terror is a form of government that arises when violence, having destroyed all power, remains in full control” - H. Arendt 🔴Hamas and Erefiya (a contemporary slang term referring to the Russian state) operate through a shared logic of engineered entropy: both generate controlled chaos, dissolve institutions, weaponize ambiguity, and fragment collective consciousness as a mode of governance. They do not construct order - they extract power from its collapse, turning continuous crises into a political resource and a method for exhausting the West 🔴The USSR system laid the structural foundations for this architecture. Through the KGB, the USSR completed the modern shaping of Palestinian identity and the infrastructure of armed struggle: support for the PLO, training of Fatah militants, large-scale dissemination of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the stimulation of Arab antisemitism, and involvement in conflicts from Suez to the Yom Kippur War. This legacy persists: Hamas inherits the operational model, while Erefiya inherits and repurposes the method for contemporary geopolitical confrontation 🔴The shared grammar of entropy emerges in their governance through the destruction of continuity. Hamas eliminates the conceptual possibility of peace through the doctrine of waqf: Palestine is declared an eternal Islamic trust, rendering compromise religiously impossible. Ceasefires become tactical pauses for reorganization. Erefiya generates informational turbulence, constantly shifting ideological frames and dissolving linear meaning, pushing citizens into cycles of reaction instead of reflection. In both cases, propaganda is directed inward, shaping the population before shaping adversaries 🔴Erefiya’s secular theology - the cult of the “civilizational state” and the idolatry of the “Russian World” - mirrors Hamas’s religious veto on peace: war becomes a metaphysical norm, not a political decision. Ukrainian sovereignty is framed as an affront to a sacred order; sacrificial patriotism is elevated into a civic virtue. Thus arises a dual “veto on peace”: theological for Hamas, pseudo-metaphysical for Erefiya 🔴Proxy chains reinforce their capacity to generate disorder. Hamas is embedded in Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” - from Hezbollah to the Houthis — relying on Qatari funding, Turkish logistics, and the diversion of humanitarian aid. Erefiya functions as a global destabilizer under Chinese protection, using resource rents, shadow fleets, grey re-exports, paramilitary structures, and influence networks across Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East. Both regimes rely on external oxygen and negative revenue streams, converting chaos into an export commodity 🔴Western polarization becomes an additional asset. Hamas’s war against Israel fractures political and social structures in the US and Europe, while Erefiya amplifies narratives of “double standards” and “colonialism” to weaken support for Ukraine. International law becomes a field of manipulation: Hamas selectively invokes humanitarian provisions, while Erefiya hides aggression behind sovereignty rhetoric. The distinction between international armed conflict (Russia–Ukraine) and non-international armed conflict (Israel–Hamas) is exploited to blur accountability 🔴Their economic models are forms of death-economy: profit is extracted from destruction, while costs are offloaded onto civilians, neighbors, and donors. Countering this requires criminalizing sanctions evasion, targeting beneficial ownership, controlling dual-use technologies, and constructing robust “sanitary belts” around Israel and Ukraine. Restoring honest language is essential: without semantic hygiene, it is impossible to disrupt proxy chains, contain entropy, or restore global stability 🗞️‼️Full RU text available here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar @WashInstitute @RussiaMatters #hamas

🤔The Kremlin Without Kozak: The Era of Lawyers Is Over⁉️ ‼️Our article is out in English and French (@DeskRussie_en ). 🔴It traces the resignation of the architect of the Kremlin’s legal façade of Rashism and shows how his Moldova/Ukraine schemes — from asymmetrical “federalization” to fleet-based legal cover — ultimately failed. The Kremlin’s conclusion is clear: the age of legal bargaining is over; guns will speak instead. Kozak is shelved for now—perhaps to be wheeled back later as a special negotiator—while the machinery he built keeps grinding on. 🗞️‼️Read the English version here👉 desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/the… 🗞️‼️Read the French version here👉 desk-russie.eu/2025/09/28/le-… 🗞️‼️Read the Russian version here👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/25/kre… @DeskRussie @anneapplebaum @RFERL @BalkanInsight @EuromaidanPress @CarnegieRu @FeyginMark4 @michaeldweiss @Kasparov63 @cepa @RUSI_org @CarnegieEndow #Moldova #RussiaUkraineWar

🤔The Kremlin Without Kozak: The Era of Lawyers Is Over⁉️ ‼️Our article is out in English and French (@DeskRussie_en ). 🔴It traces the resignation of the architect of the Kremlin’s legal façade of Rashism and shows how his Moldova/Ukraine schemes — from asymmetrical “federalization” to fleet-based legal cover — ultimately failed. The Kremlin’s conclusion is clear: the age of legal bargaining is over; guns will speak instead. Kozak is shelved for now—perhaps to be wheeled back later as a special negotiator—while the machinery he built keeps grinding on. 🗞️‼️Read the English version here👉 desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/the… 🗞️‼️Read the French version here👉 desk-russie.eu/2025/09/28/le-… 🗞️‼️Read the Russian version here👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/25/kre… @DeskRussie @anneapplebaum @RFERL @BalkanInsight @EuromaidanPress @CarnegieRu @FeyginMark4 @michaeldweiss @Kasparov63 @cepa @RUSI_org @CarnegieEndow #Moldova #RussiaUkraineWar

🤔The Kremlin Without Kozak: The Era of Lawyers Is Over⁉️ ‼️Our article is out in English and French (@DeskRussie_en ). 🔴It traces the resignation of the architect of the Kremlin’s legal façade of Rashism and shows how his Moldova/Ukraine schemes — from asymmetrical “federalization” to fleet-based legal cover — ultimately failed. The Kremlin’s conclusion is clear: the age of legal bargaining is over; guns will speak instead. Kozak is shelved for now—perhaps to be wheeled back later as a special negotiator—while the machinery he built keeps grinding on. 🗞️‼️Read the English version here👉 desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/the… 🗞️‼️Read the French version here👉 desk-russie.eu/2025/09/28/le-… 🗞️‼️Read the Russian version here👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/25/kre… @DeskRussie @anneapplebaum @RFERL @BalkanInsight @EuromaidanPress @CarnegieRu @FeyginMark4 @michaeldweiss @Kasparov63 @cepa @RUSI_org @CarnegieEndow #Moldova #RussiaUkraineWar

🤔The Kremlin Without Kozak: The Era of Lawyers Is Over⁉️ ‼️Our article is out in English and French (@DeskRussie_en ). 🔴It traces the resignation of the architect of the Kremlin’s legal façade of Rashism and shows how his Moldova/Ukraine schemes — from asymmetrical “federalization” to fleet-based legal cover — ultimately failed. The Kremlin’s conclusion is clear: the age of legal bargaining is over; guns will speak instead. Kozak is shelved for now—perhaps to be wheeled back later as a special negotiator—while the machinery he built keeps grinding on. 🗞️‼️Read the English version here👉 desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/the… 🗞️‼️Read the French version here👉 desk-russie.eu/2025/09/28/le-… 🗞️‼️Read the Russian version here👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/25/kre… @DeskRussie @anneapplebaum @RFERL @BalkanInsight @EuromaidanPress @CarnegieRu @FeyginMark4 @michaeldweiss @Kasparov63 @cepa @RUSI_org @CarnegieEndow #Moldova #RussiaUkraineWar

🤔The Kremlin Without Kozak: The Era of Lawyers Is Over⁉️ ‼️Our article is out in English and French (@DeskRussie_en ). 🔴It traces the resignation of the architect of the Kremlin’s legal façade of Rashism and shows how his Moldova/Ukraine schemes — from asymmetrical “federalization” to fleet-based legal cover — ultimately failed. The Kremlin’s conclusion is clear: the age of legal bargaining is over; guns will speak instead. Kozak is shelved for now—perhaps to be wheeled back later as a special negotiator—while the machinery he built keeps grinding on. 🗞️‼️Read the English version here👉 desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/the… 🗞️‼️Read the French version here👉 desk-russie.eu/2025/09/28/le-… 🗞️‼️Read the Russian version here👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/25/kre… @DeskRussie @anneapplebaum @RFERL @BalkanInsight @EuromaidanPress @CarnegieRu @FeyginMark4 @michaeldweiss @Kasparov63 @cepa @RUSI_org @CarnegieEndow #Moldova #RussiaUkraineWar

Дмитрий Козак написал Путину письмо с критикой войны, а после отставки уехал за границу «Агентство» выяснило новые детали сентябрьской отставки Дмитрия Козака с поста заместителя руководителя администрации президента. Перед увольнением он написал Владимиру Путину письмо, в котором раскритиковал нападение России на Украину. Вскоре после этого он уехал за границу, но при этом регулярно возвращается домой, следует из слов четырех знакомых бывшего чиновника. Детали. Перед отставкой 18 сентября с поста замглавы администрации президента Дмитрий Козак подготовил два документа – официальное заявление об увольнении по собственному желанию, а также личное письмо на имя Путина, знают два собеседника «Агентства», знакомые с обстоятельствами ухода Козака (они ссылаются на слова самого бывшего чиновника). ▪️В письме бывший замглавы АП раскритиковал нападение России на Украину, и сделал это в очень жестких выражениях, следует из слов одного из собеседников. ▪️Сам Козак считает, что не вызвал у Путина гнев своим демаршем и даже рассчитывает с ним увидеться в ближайшее время, утверждает другой собеседник «Агентства», знакомый с бывшим чиновником еще с 1990-х. ▪️Почти сразу после отставки Козак стал часто бывать за границей – он отправился в Израиль, следует из слов четырех собеседников «Агентства». Но это никак не связано с опасениями за собственную безопасность, утверждает знакомый экс-чиновника. Он ездит в том числе на лечение и возвращается в Россию, уточнил он. Контекст. Козак – единственный чиновник в ближнем окружении Владимира Путина, который осудил войну, писала летом The New York Times. По данным издания, в этом году он предлагал Путину прекратить боевые действия в Украине, а также провести реформы внутри России, которые бы затронули спецслужбы и судебную систему. Козак и Украина. Козак родился в Кировоградской области Украинской ССР, а учился в Ленинградском университете. В 1990-х он работал в команде мэра Петербурга Анатолия Собчака вместе с Путиным. Последний, став в 1999 году премьером, сделал Козака главой аппарата правительства. С тех пор он работал министром, полпредом президента на Кавказе, вице-премьером и замглавы президентской администрации. ▪️Перед нападением России на Украину Козак отвечал в Кремле за взаимодействие с непризнанными ЛНР и ДНР. Он участвовал в заседании Совета безопасности 21 февраля 2022 года, на котором решался вопрос о признании этих «республик». Во время своего выступления Козак критиковал украинское руководство, однако затем сам попросил у Путина разрешение «ответить на вопрос, присоединять или не присоединять Донбасс». Судя по всему, его дальнейшие слова были вырезаны. Собеседники «Агентства» говорят, что Козак выступил против нападения на Украину, это же следует из материала The New York Times и расследования Reuters. ▪️После этого Козака фактически отодвинули от вопросов, связанных с Украиной, однако в отставку не отправили. Он отвечал за другие регионы ближнего зарубежья, где Кремль в последнее время преследуют неудачи – на президентских и парламентских выборах в Молдове пророссийские кандидаты проиграли, а в Абхазии разгорелся внутриполитический кризис. Поэтому и кураторство этих территорий передали другому замглавы кремлевской администрации – Сергею Кириенко. Козак занимал пост и кабинет, но фактически был без работы в последнее время, говорит его знакомый. ▪️В СМИ появлялись разные сообщения о новых вариантах трудоустройства чиновника – начиная от полпреда в Северо-Западном округе и заканчивая позицией защитника прав бизнеса. Однако после отставки 18 сентября Козак никакой пост так и не получил. Подробнее биографию Козака и связи его семьи можно прочитать в исследовании «Проекта» «Отцы и деды»: nepotism.proekt.media/cards/kozak-dm…

🤔The Kremlin Without Kozak: The Era of Lawyers Is Over⁉️ ‼️Our article is out in English and French (@DeskRussie_en ). 🔴It traces the resignation of the architect of the Kremlin’s legal façade of Rashism and shows how his Moldova/Ukraine schemes — from asymmetrical “federalization” to fleet-based legal cover — ultimately failed. The Kremlin’s conclusion is clear: the age of legal bargaining is over; guns will speak instead. Kozak is shelved for now—perhaps to be wheeled back later as a special negotiator—while the machinery he built keeps grinding on. 🗞️‼️Read the English version here👉 desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/the… 🗞️‼️Read the French version here👉 desk-russie.eu/2025/09/28/le-… 🗞️‼️Read the Russian version here👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/25/kre… @DeskRussie @anneapplebaum @RFERL @BalkanInsight @EuromaidanPress @CarnegieRu @FeyginMark4 @michaeldweiss @Kasparov63 @cepa @RUSI_org @CarnegieEndow #Moldova #RussiaUkraineWar

💥 War is Peace🕊️🤦🏻‍♂️ (Summary of the article by my friends and co-authors Borukh Taskin and Dmitry Shusharin) 📌“Putin sees these ‘packagers of peace’ as useful idiots, just as Lenin once did.” (from the article) 📌“People are so simple and so ready to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.” Niccolo Machiavelli 🔴The article my friends wrote is not about Russia in isolation, but about the architecture of a world where “peace” becomes packaging and war becomes the mechanism of power. Their text exposes what many Western politicians prefer not to acknowledge: the Kremlin has built an operating system in which nominees and proxy-garchs control the flows, and diplomacy is replaced by ritualized imitation. 🔴The central figure is Kirill Dmitriev. Educated, symbolically “Western,” a man of Goldman Sachs and Pinchuk’s structures, now a diplomatic nominal for the Kremlin. Not a decision-maker but a transmission belt. His presence, irritating for Lavrov, signals only one thing: he is not an actor but an instrument. Figures like him allow Moscow to conduct “peace initiatives” without altering the essence: the war must continue, because the war is the foundation of the regime’s internal stability. 🔴The analysis of proxy-garchs is the backbone of the article. These are not the oligarchs of the 1990s who once feared the state. This is a caste of nominal asset-holders concentrating the enterprises seized since 2022 - 4.5 trillion rubles, according to Novaya Gazeta Europe - in favor of the Kovalchuks, Rotenbergs, VTB and Gazprom. Private property in Russia has been abolished de facto; property belongs to whoever controls the coercive engine of war. Peace is lethal for this system - it breaks the circulation of rents. 🔴This is where Trump’s fundamental misreading emerges. He thinks like a developer: a deal creates stability. In the Russian system, the opposite is true. Only permanent war prevents the elites, the social fabric and the economy from collapsing. Peace is chaos. War is order. Putin learned long ago that conflict is the best instrument for deals, and sanctions the best feeding ground for proxy-garchs. 🔴From here emerges the phenomenon of the “packagers of peace” around Trump - Witkoff, Kushner, Lutnick. For them, Russia is a distressed asset ready for repackaging. For Putin, they are useful idiots, echoing those who once believed Lenin. Any supposed “settlement” will serve only as a façade for returning to war. We have seen it already: the “lasting peace in the Middle East” lasted only a few days, and the same fate awaits any peace document on Ukraine. 🔴The authors also highlight a dangerous global trend: the archaization of power, the return of the “family” model. In Russia this logic is visible in the Dmitriev–Popova tandem overlapping with Putin’s daughter; in the United States - in the Kushner–Witkoff axis, mirroring the Rotenbergs and Kovalchuks. As Michael Sauga noted in Der Spiegel, Trump admires autocrats not for their strength but for their cronyism - and he is moving in the same direction. 🔴A world built on nominees, proxy-garchs and permanent war cannot sustain a pause. The illusion of a settlement is only new packaging. Beneath it lies the only stability a totalitarian regime can produce - the stability of endless conflict. 🗞️‼️The full text of the article is here‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @kadmitriev @jaredkushner @cepa @Kasparov63 @TheAtlantic @JuliaDavisNews

🧌🩸🇷🇺 Phantom Pains for Surkov: New Tricks of the Kremlin’s Nooscope (Summary of our article — still painfully relevant — written after the interview of the Kremlin ideologue Surkov to the French L’Express) 📌“Geopolitical solitude is a constant of our national self-perception… One must stock up on patience, bread, and weapons for the black day” — Vladislav Surkov 🔴Nearly twenty years after his first ideological performances, the former “architect of sovereign democracy” and “curator of the DNR/LNR separatist project” reappears in new Kremlin texts — this time through his disciple and ghostwriter, Alexander Kharichev, a functionary in Putin’s Administration.
His essay “Civilization ‘Russia’”, published in the magazine The Notebook of Civic Enlightenment, is the newest product of the Kremlin’s nooscope — a device for selling ideology without an idea, faith without faith, patriotism without the human being. 🔴In Kharichev’s five-pillar chart — faith, truth, patriotism, collectivism, and will — Russia turns into a civilizational attraction where statehood becomes religion. His “code” is not a spiritual core but an algorithm of subordination. It serves power, not the people: it justifies autocracy through the rhetoric of a besieged fortress, where a patriot is one who keeps silent, and a dissenter is an existential threat. Thus a civilization without memory or logic is built — where history resets with every television speech. 
🔴“Yesterday — the Russian world; today — traditional values; tomorrow — multipolar humanism.” That is Putin’s ideology: alive only until the next propaganda injection. We showed that this so-called “Civilization Russia” is not about the nation but about the survival of the regime itself. In it, Kharichev is not a thinker but a clerk of a funeral agency, painting the coffin of a dying country to the sound of its anthem. “Value sovereignty,” in his hands, becomes the justification of total isolation and the bankruptcy of Russia’s private economy. The Kremlin’s ideology has become a bureaucratic technology of rule — stripped of faith, philosophy, or service — replaced by the administrative magic of excuses. 🔴Vladimir Putin has long understood that ideology in Russia is dangerous even to those who invent it. So he creates it as a perpetual temporary structure — flexible, mutable, and self-serving. It is an ideology of opportunism, not of ideas. While Surkov rewrote Heidegger and Dugin cosplayed Spengler, Kharichev brought their legacy to its final parody: a pseudo-scientific “science of bonds,” replacing thought with ready-made tables. Putin’s greatest discovery is that the absence of ideology is ideology. Hence the “think tanks” and the hordes of Z-propagandists producing mantras instead of meaning. 🔴We wrote then — and it remains true now: the more cracks in this Titanic’s hull, the louder the choir of passengers singing about Russia’s “mission.” The higher the stillborn cries of “value sovereignty,” the lower the nation’s capacity to survive its own goida hysteria. 
🔴Thus is born the “Civilization of the Kremlin” — where patriotism, faith, and truth serve only one purpose: the preservation of power over the weary and narrow-minded. 
🔴And Surkov himself, like his epigone Kharichev, remain mere servants of a vast pseudo-philosophical machine producing a single commodity — fear, refined to the point of trembling admiration. 🗞️‼️Full article “Phantom Pains for Surkov: New Tricks of the Kremlin’s Nooscope” Aaron Lea‼️👉 kasparovru.com/material.php?i… @LEXPRESS @Kasparov63 @ForeignAffairs @cepa @charter_97 @AtlanticCouncil #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussiaIsCollapsing

🇪🇺“Origins of Europe’s Strategic Submission” 🌎⁉️🌍 (author’s summary) 📌“We still live in the shadow of a dead USSR, which the Kremlin preserves in Europe’s mind as an instrument of reflexive control. Breaking this illusion is the first step toward restoring the continent’s will.” ‼️As the world debates a mysterious “28-point plan” that looks more like a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation… 🔴Europe enters the mid-2020s in a state of strategic incoherence — not because of one mistake, but as the culmination of three decades of self-comfort that Moscow has turned into a weapon. After the USSR collapsed, the EU convinced itself that large-scale war in Europe had ended for good, and that economic interdependence with Russia and China guaranteed stability. These beliefs, which produced billions in “peace dividends,” blinded European elites just as Moscow and Beijing accelerated rearmament and embraced territorial revisionism. 🔴The full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the persistent chain of “grey incidents” — drones over Poland and Belgium, missile debris in Romania, Russian jets over Estonia, attacks on cables and infrastructure — show that the Kremlin is testing NATO’s eastern flank not militarily, but psychologically. Unlike Sweden in 1981, which immediately called the Soviet submarine in Karlskrona a violation of sovereignty, today’s EU drifts into endless discussion — precisely the outcome Moscow wants. 🔴Russia spends tens of billions annually on cognitive, cyber and proxy operations in Europe. Their purpose is to shift the baseline of debate, erase the line between aggression and “incident,” and make Europeans fear their own reaction more than Russian escalation. The key tool is the fiction “Russia = the USSR today,” a falsification comparable in impact to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” or the “Donation of Constantine”: Europe reacts to a phantom, not to Russia’s real power. 🔴Hybrid war includes agenda capture through the constant invocation of “escalation risk,” securitization that brands normal defensive measures as “aggression,” false-flag cyberattacks designed to obscure responsibility, and long-built proxy networks, useful idiots and dormant saboteurs. Nuclear rhetoric reinforces self-deterrence and traps European decision-making in the question: “How will the Kremlin react?” 🔴Institutional weakness compounds the problem. The €800-billion ReArmEurope program stalls under national vetoes; counter-cognitive budgets are fragmented; trust in the US has eroded after tariff wars and skepticism toward NATO. Europe remains wealthy and technologically capable but politically paralyzed, treating hybrid aggression as a grey zone even though it is a full-scale war in the domain of perception and will. For the Kremlin, it is a perfect architecture: cognitive operations cost less than tanks but damage democracies far more efficiently. 🔴The central point is stark: Europe’s strategic submission is not moral weakness or pacifism, but the result of a systemic gap between the threat and the willingness to name it. Restoring European strategic sovereignty begins with one act — acknowledging that Russia is already waging a war against Europe, even if unannounced. Naming reality is the first return of will. 🗞️‼️Full article here‼️👉 moscowtimes.ru/2025/11/24/ist… 📰‼️Our previous, more detailed long piece on the same theme - here‼️👉 x.com/ds21111975/sta… #RussiaUkraineWar #RussiaIsATerroristState @realDonaldTrump @NATO @cepa @edwardlucas @MSnegovaya @general_ben @anneapplebaum @TheAtlantic @Kasparov63 @kajakallas @KubiliusA @BMVg_Bundeswehr @SecRubio @Charter97En @PaulGoble1 @Hancock2001 @MoscowTimes @MoscowTimes_ru