Russia After Trump’s Victory

Israel Shamir • November 17, 2024

Russians were happy at Trump’s victory. They always liked him. Russia is the only European (“white”) country that preferred Trump to Clinton and Harris. In vain, the masters of spin explained that Trump would be worse for Russia. The people, however, continued to notice that the US found itself on the same historical page as Russia: denying woke ideology; being led by a serious he-man; against wars, for employment and peace and for Christianity. Down with trannies and faggots; down with political correctness and micro-aggressions! The war in the Ukraine still goes on, but under new Minister of Defence Andrey Belousov it is becoming a success. Every day brings a new modest victory, liberating a few more villages of the endless Donbass. It’s a slow struggle, as Russia prevails against 32 NATO states -an incredibly heavy burden for a war against secession, as it has become.

Let’s review just how we got here.

The USSR had been dismantled and dispossessed by the authority of former president Gorbachev and the first president of Russia, Yeltsin. At the time, the Ukraine declared its neutrality and friendship with Russia. With its share of Soviet infrastructure, heavy industry and its 50 million diligent workers, the Ukraine had more than enough resources with which to prosper. However, the pugnacious American neocons were not satisfied with this solution. They wanted blood, full-spectrum dominance, victory in a zero-sum game. They deliberately transformed the Ukraine into a mortal threat to Russians, a knife permanently poised at the throat of Russia. They established bioweapon labs and built NATO military bases. Finally, they began to economically strangle and violently harass Donbass, the Russian-populated part of the Ukraine. Donbass had been arbitrarily incorporated into the Ukraine by decision of the Soviet authorities around 1920, but it remained solidly Russian by populace and language. Such diversity was not a problem for a strong USSR, but the weak statelet of Ukraine could not tolerate any dissenting voices.

Russian president Vladimir Putin inherited the setup, and he was willing to let the Ukraine maintain its independence. He signed the Minsk agreement, guaranteed by Germany and France, that Kiev would permit the autonomy of Donbass. Again, the same neocons reneged on the agreement. They later admitted that they signed it just to get time to rearm the Ukraine. Kiev reneged also on its own declaration of neutrality and friendship with Russia which were part and parcel of Russia’s recognition of the Ukraine’s independence. They ignored the December 2021 call of Vladimir Putin to make permanent peace.

In February 2022, just a few weeks before the planned joint Ukrainian-NATO invasion into Russia proper, Russia began its Special Military Operation in the Ukraine. Its forces quickly moved over to Kiev, seized the airport, and advanced to Kharkov, a big predominantly Russian city. At that time, the Ukraine sued for peace, and promptly the new Russian-Ukrainian peace treaty was initialled in Istanbul. Again it specified autonomy for Donbass, neutrality for Ukraine, and recognition of the Russian language wherever it was spoken, but then the British PM Mr Boris Johnson came to Kiev and convinced the Ukrainian leaders to renege on this agreement and resume the war. The war went on and on with small changes of the frontier, while the Ukraine was drained of hundreds of thousands of fighting men. Eventually (some might say inevitably) the initiative in the war passed into Russian hands, and now it is firmly theirs.

Russia meanwhile remained a peaceful land, with the exception of the scarcely-populated areas of Kursk where it bordered the Ukraine; the brunt of the fighting was carried out by Russia’s professional army, that is well-paid warriors, and not by regulars or mobilised troops. Russian shops are well-stocked, Russian theatres are full, the Russian people are content. And those who aren’t content, do not complain.

Russians typically accept the stoic formula: “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” Both protesting and expressing passionate approval of the war effort might be equally harshly punished. War hero Strelkov and the pacifist Kagarlitzky, Mrs Berkovich (a Jewish playwright) and Miss Kevorkova (a pro-Palestinian writer) all equally find themselves in jail. The scope of the arrests is not particularly alarming: according to pro-Western NGOs, about 1300 men and women altogether were brought to court for expressing all forms of dissent. For comparison, this is ten times less than Ukraine’s current roster of 13,000 political prisoners. Still, it worries the journalists, and they are doing their best to not become the next nail.

This statistic was improved by a wave of migration away from Russia in 2022: the people who found themselves disagreeing with the war, voted with their feet. While abroad, some of them published anti-war opinions and then later were reluctant to return home. Many of the emigrants moved to Israel and took Israeli citizenship. When war broke out between Israel and its Arab neighbours, these Russian refugees mostly supported the genocide in Gaza, thus proving they were not pacifists, but just pro-Israel and pro-Western enemies of Russia. The self-removal of these people helped Russia when the Russian authorities expressed their cautious support for Palestine: this move passed without public controversy.

Like all developed countries, Russia is cursed with a strong Israel lobby, well entrenched in the cultural sphere; but at least in Russia it is less powerful than in the USA and in the UK. Over the years, the most active members of the Jewish lobby left for Israel, decimating its numbers. Still, what remains is strong enough to block all publications of any pro-Palestinian sentiment. Unsurprisingly, the Israel lobby dominates the Ukraine. Almost all Ukrainian oligarchs and media figures are of Jewish origin. They are also dead set against Trump.

Many people around the world are surprised that Jews in America vote for Democrats, even though Trump was clearly better for Israel. There is a big secret hidden here. All nations naturally find the Jews troublesome, and the Jews, like true Judoka, have learned to channel this feeling in their favour. Are you against the Jews? Then support Israel, they say. The gay parades in Tel Aviv are obviously anti-Jewish, being based on the denial of the traditional Jewish values (shlilat ha-golah, in Hebrew). Are you against Israel? Then support the Jews! Conservative Rabbis will sing you sweet songs about their hatred of Zionism. This heads-I-win-tails-you-lose tactic is not a new idea – back in the 1930’s of the last century Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini argued about it. The latter recommended that they accept Jewish fascists like Jabotinsky as allies. Hitler objected. Later Benito learned to his sorrow that such allies would fail him at the most inopportune moments.

Nowadays the formula has been simplified: Nazis support Israel, Progressives support international Jewry. And nobody is left who is against both. This divide-and-conquer alchemy works just as long as the Jews and Israel both remain awful. Some folks are bold enough to admit that Zionists are criminals, but then they immediately will cover themselves with political correctness by idolizing the Jews. Vice versa is also a viable opinion: the Jews are a problem that needs to be solved, and the State of Israel is that solution. This is an elementary dialectical ploy, but even Hitler was snared with this devise, being an enemy of Christ and His Church. Thus, he supported the Jews in their main task – in their fight against Christ.

Just how Russians would like to see the world was well expressed by President Vladimir Putin in his memorable speech at the Valdai conference. Readers of TUR got a glimpse of it in the piece by Pepe Escobar. Putin called for a world without hegemony, without international factions, without zero-sum games, with full sovereignty and independence of all states. This is very different from what we currently have, and it happens to be an inversion of the plans of the neocons. But this is the operative Russian attitude: they employ it in their relations with China, and would like to enjoy such an effective working relationship with the US. For them, MAGA is just fine; let the US be great, as long as it does not use that greatness to crush other independent states. The US will no longer be permitted global hegemony and militarized chains of satellite nations. Do what you want at home, and do not interfere with others.

That is why the Russians are very positive about Trump’s victory. They think that he fights for them, too, by undoing the world-grasping plans of international Jewry and its wholly-owned subsidiary, the Democrats. Whatever he does inside the US is his business, and the Russian people are fully prepared to enjoy the spectacle of his political manoeuvring.

Russians see the Republican victory as though Americans had cast off their Zionist chains. They wonder why so many Americans are totally captivated by the Jewish narrative; they discuss the manner in which the ADL rules their minds; they debate, sotto voce, why the US is willing to spend all its wealth on Israel. They can’t help but note that American men are circumcised, and that it is the homeland of Christian Zionism. The Russian attitude towards Jewry is that of the Church: Sicut Judaeis Non. We do not hurt the Jews, nor do we allow them to hurt us. Russians have a modest respect for Jews as the people of the Old Testament. They admire the stories of plucky Hebrews battling Roman imperial clout, but it does not extend as far as allowing the Jews to dismantle Russia a second time.

Russia has weathered NATO’s war in the Ukraine without breaking a sweat. Meanwhile, it watched as major cities in the US and the UK were wracked with “mostly peaceful” left-wing violence, largely led by Jewish organizations like Black Lives Matter. To Russians, Trump’s victory means an end to progressive violence in America, and perhaps abroad as well. We will see! This is an exciting time to be alive for thinking commentators. So many nuances to be explored, so carefully ignored by the mainstream media. Dynamic silence has never been so full of holes.

Edited by Paul Bennett

https://www.unz.com/ishamir/russia-after-trumps-victory/