The Cold War never truly ended: the spectre of the Russian Revolution still haunts American elites — and explains the West’s enduring hostility against Russia even post-1991
Dear Thomas, the greed for Russia did not start in 1917. It has a very long history of French-British "Civilizing Mission" coveting Russia as they saw us as barbarian tribes, similar to how Zionists saw Palestine. There is a very useful article on Wikipedia called "anti-Russian sentiment" that traces the history of the West and Anglosphere coveting Russia and desire to conquer, colonize and dismember it: Here is only the history starting with 19th Century: "On 19 October 1797, the French Directory received a document from a Polish general, Michał Sokolnicki, entitled "Aperçu sur la Russie". This forgery is known as the so-called "The Will of Peter the Great" and was first published in October 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, in Charles Louis-Lesur's much-read Des progrès de la puissance russe: this was at the behest of Napoleon I, who ordered a series of articles to be published showing that "Europe is inevitably in the process of becoming booty for Russia".[25][26] Subsequent to the Napoleonic wars, propaganda against Russia was continued by Napoleon's former confessor, Dominique Georges-Frédéric de Pradt, who in a series of books portrayed Russia as a power-grasping "barbaric" power hungry to conquer Europe.[27] With reference to Russia's new constitutional laws in 1811 the Savoyard philosopher Joseph de Maistre wrote the now famous statement: "Every nation gets the government it deserves" ("Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite").[28][29]
Beginning from 1815 and lasting roughly until 1840, British commentators began criticizing the perceived conservatism of the Russian state and its resistance to reform efforts.[30] In 1836, The Westminster Review attributed growth of British navy to "Ministers [that] are smitten with the epidemic disease of Russo-phobia".[31] However, Russophobia in Britain for the rest of the 19th century was primarily related to British fears that the Russian conquest of Central Asia was a precursor to an attack on British-colonized India. These fears led to the "Great Game", a series of political and diplomatic confrontations between Britain and Russia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[32]
In 1843 the Marquis de Custine published his hugely successful 1800-page, four-volume travelogue La Russie en 1839. Custine's scathing narrative reran what were by now clichés which presented Russia as a place where "the veneer of European civilization was too thin to be credible". Such was its huge success that several official and pirated editions quickly followed, as well as condensed versions and translations in German, Dutch, and English. By 1846 approximately 200 thousand copies had been sold.[33]
In 1867, Fyodor Tyutchev, a Russian poet, diplomat and member of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, introduced the actual term of "russophobia" in a letter to his daughter Anna Aksakova on 20 September 1867,[citation needed] where he applied it to a number of pro-Western Russian liberals who, pretending that they were merely following their liberal principles, developed a negative attitude towards their own country and always stood on a pro-Western and anti-Russian position, regardless of any changes in the Russian society and having a blind eye on any violations of these principles in the West, "violations in the sphere of justice, morality, and even civilization". He put the emphasis on the irrationality of this sentiment.[34] Tyutchev saw Western anti-Russian sentiment as the result of misunderstanding caused by civilizational differences between East and West.[35] " -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment
I think it is astonishingly the same as we see today. Revolution, communist party, socialism, Stalin, etc. have only been used as a propaganda tool, to cover the plain old GREED for Russia. Just like Zionists have been using "islamism", "hamas", "terrorism" to justify their greed for Palestine.
Not only has the Cold War not ended, but one can find this Russio-phobia in 19th century discussions of "the West." See The West: A History of an Idea. By Georgios Varouxakis. Harvard Press, 2025. Recent WWII history have also shown that the lines of the "Cold War" began before WWII was over. This uncomfortably puts North Atlantic societies on the side of the Nazi's -- as shown by the immigration policies in the intelligence communities in which defeated Nazi Germans were received as aids against the "eastern communist menace." It sets the NATO abuse of Ukraine with its neo-Nazi core into a broader historical anti-Russian tradition.
Interesting proposition. I don't usually think first of "vengeance" when I think of Anglo culture. It's a dignity culture and has been for centuries.
However, vengeance is prevalent in the *Zionist subculture* of Jewish culture[**]. There seems to have been a self-sorting of the psychologically vulnerable into the movement early on (cf Nietzsche and Zion, Golomb, introduction chapter), followed by relentless ingroup inculcation of the psychic wounds that lead to resentment.
In America, Trotskyist Zionist Jews gained significant influence in American government as neocons. I have already seen persuasive arguments that vengeance against Russia even for simply being Russia was a stable motivation among that crowd.
One might notice a similar resentment on the liberal left, and I think this has an origin in the subtexts of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory, which was not economically Marxist but rather, neoliberal. Its so-called "cultural Marxism" is in fact the anti-class solidarity cultural weapon which Marx identified as serving the interests of the bourgeoisie: identity politics. All of that is intentional and CT is casually understood as a "social engineering project", by the way.
Foucault's most valuable idea, in my view, is the idea of assessing the genealogy of an idea (or zeitgeist). The genealogy of this "vengeance" is probably pretty important for understanding its ultimate goals and where--or if--it has a natural stopping point. I would say it does not have a natural stopping point where even the descendants of the original targets still exist, because that's how honor cultures and irrationalisms such as vengeance tend to work, especially when bolstered by intellectual habits of keeping resentments alive for several thousand years.
** I would _not_ say that about non-Zionist Jews, especially when acculturation into a dignity culture has occurred. I know of some it absolutely doesn't apply to, at least independently of whatever culture in which they make their permanent home--torahjews.com is where to find that group. Acculturation is of course "assimilation" and Zionism is intentionally highly resistant to that--regardless of location of residence--at the level of the core values which justify the ideology.
Example: Jewish-American professor giving the finger to the Arch of Titus in Rome as vengeance for the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. That is a long held grudge. https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1354711008900616192
No it's an anthropological term. The Old American South is excluded--they are more an honor culture. A dignity culture doesn't hold generational grudges or seek vengeance; an honor culture does. There are many other differences.
Of course subcultures can have honor culture traits even in a dignity culture. Gangs for example. But one could analyze how deep it runs for a given subculture; it's not an unvarying property.
When we see the "Jewish terrorists" assassinating people because the people haven't jumped high enough when commanded, as happened in the 30s and still happens today, that's honor culture.
eta: "Jewish terror" is how it was described in the pre-1948 era.
Keep in mind that the UK is constantly trying to stir up strife so that the Americans will step in and the British then can demonstrate their loyalty, shoulder to kneecap with the Americans all stirring and brave.
Some PM likened it to the Greeks relationship with Rome. A better example is that little yappy dog from Looney Tunes that follows Spike The Bulldog around, singing Spike's praises, getting slapped around by Spike, and getting Spike into stupid fights.
Anyway, without American power. the UK goes from America's Special Little Bitch to a flavor challenged backwater that won't shut up about Male Buggery and long past glories.
Yes, Russia could never been forgiven for her defiant Revolution and it’s definitely the vengeance that animates the Anglo empire. Vengeance and greed.
The desire to punish is an inherent part of the Protestant nature. Control above all. How dare you. . .
Parts of Western elites were quite comfortable with the Bolshevik revolution and saw it a profit opportunity, for example Koch, Rockefeller or Rothschild working with the oil industry and extracting large profits.
Dear Thomas, the greed for Russia did not start in 1917. It has a very long history of French-British "Civilizing Mission" coveting Russia as they saw us as barbarian tribes, similar to how Zionists saw Palestine. There is a very useful article on Wikipedia called "anti-Russian sentiment" that traces the history of the West and Anglosphere coveting Russia and desire to conquer, colonize and dismember it: Here is only the history starting with 19th Century: "On 19 October 1797, the French Directory received a document from a Polish general, Michał Sokolnicki, entitled "Aperçu sur la Russie". This forgery is known as the so-called "The Will of Peter the Great" and was first published in October 1812, during the Napoleonic Wars, in Charles Louis-Lesur's much-read Des progrès de la puissance russe: this was at the behest of Napoleon I, who ordered a series of articles to be published showing that "Europe is inevitably in the process of becoming booty for Russia".[25][26] Subsequent to the Napoleonic wars, propaganda against Russia was continued by Napoleon's former confessor, Dominique Georges-Frédéric de Pradt, who in a series of books portrayed Russia as a power-grasping "barbaric" power hungry to conquer Europe.[27] With reference to Russia's new constitutional laws in 1811 the Savoyard philosopher Joseph de Maistre wrote the now famous statement: "Every nation gets the government it deserves" ("Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite").[28][29]
Beginning from 1815 and lasting roughly until 1840, British commentators began criticizing the perceived conservatism of the Russian state and its resistance to reform efforts.[30] In 1836, The Westminster Review attributed growth of British navy to "Ministers [that] are smitten with the epidemic disease of Russo-phobia".[31] However, Russophobia in Britain for the rest of the 19th century was primarily related to British fears that the Russian conquest of Central Asia was a precursor to an attack on British-colonized India. These fears led to the "Great Game", a series of political and diplomatic confrontations between Britain and Russia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[32]
In 1843 the Marquis de Custine published his hugely successful 1800-page, four-volume travelogue La Russie en 1839. Custine's scathing narrative reran what were by now clichés which presented Russia as a place where "the veneer of European civilization was too thin to be credible". Such was its huge success that several official and pirated editions quickly followed, as well as condensed versions and translations in German, Dutch, and English. By 1846 approximately 200 thousand copies had been sold.[33]
In 1867, Fyodor Tyutchev, a Russian poet, diplomat and member of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery, introduced the actual term of "russophobia" in a letter to his daughter Anna Aksakova on 20 September 1867,[citation needed] where he applied it to a number of pro-Western Russian liberals who, pretending that they were merely following their liberal principles, developed a negative attitude towards their own country and always stood on a pro-Western and anti-Russian position, regardless of any changes in the Russian society and having a blind eye on any violations of these principles in the West, "violations in the sphere of justice, morality, and even civilization". He put the emphasis on the irrationality of this sentiment.[34] Tyutchev saw Western anti-Russian sentiment as the result of misunderstanding caused by civilizational differences between East and West.[35] " -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Russian_sentiment
I think it is astonishingly the same as we see today. Revolution, communist party, socialism, Stalin, etc. have only been used as a propaganda tool, to cover the plain old GREED for Russia. Just like Zionists have been using "islamism", "hamas", "terrorism" to justify their greed for Palestine.
Not only has the Cold War not ended, but one can find this Russio-phobia in 19th century discussions of "the West." See The West: A History of an Idea. By Georgios Varouxakis. Harvard Press, 2025. Recent WWII history have also shown that the lines of the "Cold War" began before WWII was over. This uncomfortably puts North Atlantic societies on the side of the Nazi's -- as shown by the immigration policies in the intelligence communities in which defeated Nazi Germans were received as aids against the "eastern communist menace." It sets the NATO abuse of Ukraine with its neo-Nazi core into a broader historical anti-Russian tradition.
Interesting proposition. I don't usually think first of "vengeance" when I think of Anglo culture. It's a dignity culture and has been for centuries.
However, vengeance is prevalent in the *Zionist subculture* of Jewish culture[**]. There seems to have been a self-sorting of the psychologically vulnerable into the movement early on (cf Nietzsche and Zion, Golomb, introduction chapter), followed by relentless ingroup inculcation of the psychic wounds that lead to resentment.
In America, Trotskyist Zionist Jews gained significant influence in American government as neocons. I have already seen persuasive arguments that vengeance against Russia even for simply being Russia was a stable motivation among that crowd.
One might notice a similar resentment on the liberal left, and I think this has an origin in the subtexts of the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory, which was not economically Marxist but rather, neoliberal. Its so-called "cultural Marxism" is in fact the anti-class solidarity cultural weapon which Marx identified as serving the interests of the bourgeoisie: identity politics. All of that is intentional and CT is casually understood as a "social engineering project", by the way.
Foucault's most valuable idea, in my view, is the idea of assessing the genealogy of an idea (or zeitgeist). The genealogy of this "vengeance" is probably pretty important for understanding its ultimate goals and where--or if--it has a natural stopping point. I would say it does not have a natural stopping point where even the descendants of the original targets still exist, because that's how honor cultures and irrationalisms such as vengeance tend to work, especially when bolstered by intellectual habits of keeping resentments alive for several thousand years.
** I would _not_ say that about non-Zionist Jews, especially when acculturation into a dignity culture has occurred. I know of some it absolutely doesn't apply to, at least independently of whatever culture in which they make their permanent home--torahjews.com is where to find that group. Acculturation is of course "assimilation" and Zionism is intentionally highly resistant to that--regardless of location of residence--at the level of the core values which justify the ideology.
Example: Jewish-American professor giving the finger to the Arch of Titus in Rome as vengeance for the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. That is a long held grudge. https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1354711008900616192
Oh my.
Should we tell him that all humans have the same number of ancestors (with marriage patterns a "blink of an eye" in biological history)?
No it's an anthropological term. The Old American South is excluded--they are more an honor culture. A dignity culture doesn't hold generational grudges or seek vengeance; an honor culture does. There are many other differences.
Of course subcultures can have honor culture traits even in a dignity culture. Gangs for example. But one could analyze how deep it runs for a given subculture; it's not an unvarying property.
When we see the "Jewish terrorists" assassinating people because the people haven't jumped high enough when commanded, as happened in the 30s and still happens today, that's honor culture.
eta: "Jewish terror" is how it was described in the pre-1948 era.
Vengeance and arrogance and basically stupid stupid stupid foreign policy post WWII
And never will until we all wise up! 👇🏻
https://substack.com/@nelbonilla/note/c-183291967?r=3aajie
I can't read the article.
Keep in mind that the UK is constantly trying to stir up strife so that the Americans will step in and the British then can demonstrate their loyalty, shoulder to kneecap with the Americans all stirring and brave.
Some PM likened it to the Greeks relationship with Rome. A better example is that little yappy dog from Looney Tunes that follows Spike The Bulldog around, singing Spike's praises, getting slapped around by Spike, and getting Spike into stupid fights.
Anyway, without American power. the UK goes from America's Special Little Bitch to a flavor challenged backwater that won't shut up about Male Buggery and long past glories.
Yes, Russia could never been forgiven for her defiant Revolution and it’s definitely the vengeance that animates the Anglo empire. Vengeance and greed.
The desire to punish is an inherent part of the Protestant nature. Control above all. How dare you. . .
Too bad the Bolsheviks ruined the Revolution.
Dear Thomas, the article is paywalled. Is there a way to have the full version? Thank you.
Parts of Western elites were quite comfortable with the Bolshevik revolution and saw it a profit opportunity, for example Koch, Rockefeller or Rothschild working with the oil industry and extracting large profits.
Your lists of the “evil” Jews is too short. Try better, antisemitism is in style.
As far as I know Koch and Rockefeller are goyim