It is not an exaggeration to say that the global geopolitical scene is changing at a speed and with a violence that we have not seen since the early 1990s. In eras past, people were fortunate to see one landscape-changing redrawing of the global order in a lifetime, and usually perhaps once a century. Most of my readers and I, on the other hand, have witnessed no less than THREE such epoch-defining events in our lifetimes – the Fall of the Soviet Union, the launch of the Global War on “Terror”, and now the Fall of the American Empire.

For that is precisely where we are now heading. This is entirely obvious and clear to anyone paying even a modicum of attention.

Grandmaster Vladimir

The interesting stuff started late last week, when the Neo-Tsar offered up a concrete basis for a lasting peace between Russia and the West. I analysed his offer, and pointed out that it was a very clever move that completely took the air out of that ridiculous “piss summit” the Ukrainians organised in Switzerland over the weekend.

I also pointed out that The Putin’s offer was not an ultimatum, but a starting point – with, however, some serious teeth behind it. The Putin clearly articulated the fact that the next offer would NOT be so generous – and rightly so.

We have since heard from a slew of very senior Russian figures, including CHADrov, Speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, Duma Deputy Pyotr Tolstoy (direct descendant of Lev Tolstoy), head of Russia’s foreign security service Sergei Naryshkin,and plenty of others, all saying the same thing – that the next proposal will be for the complete and unconditional surrender of Ukraine.

That one proposal did much more than put down a marker from the Russian side. It also took the wind completely out of the sails of that stupid “piss summit” in Lucerne. In every way, and at every level, it was a brilliant move.

As Pepe Escobar pointed out in his excellent analysis of the proposal, and what it did to that summit, the proposal was the actual topic of discussion over the past weekend:

Mr. Escobar’s masterful discussion goes far beyond the proposal itself, and points out that The Putin is playing a much broader and more potent game than most people understand. The Neo-Tsar is playing multi-dimensional chess, while the West cannot even seem to figure out how to play checkers.

Indeed, a more apt analogy may be that The Putin is playing a hybrid form of the Chinese game, go, which is vastly more difficult than chess, and much more complicated, because unlike chess, which focuses on the elimination of an opponent’s pieces, go focuses on the acquisition and closing off of territory.

If you think about it, the tactical and operational situation on the ground in Banderastan is a form of chess, in which the Russian Army slaughters the Banderites by the thousands, every single day, wiping out key pieces on the board. But the strategic game, at the global level, is a game of go, in which The Putin, working directly with his Chinese counterpart, the New Huangdi, and others around the world, are staking out and closing off territory and markets.

Western Failures of Comprehension

The West does not even seem to understand what is happening. Everything we see coming out of the West is reactive – not proactive. There is self-evidently zero strategic thinking, no long-term planning, and absolutely nothing approaching any understanding of serious military art, at ANY level of ANY Western government (except probably Hungary’s).

As I pointed out last week, the West no longer has a serious industrial base. It no longer has the economic power to impose its will on everyone else. Clown World does not have the ability to outproduce the rest of the world any longer – and has not had it for decades now.

The sum and substance of the Western response to this global game of geopolitics, is to resort to threats of MUH SANKSHUNS!!!!11!!!! and bluster. This is amazingly stupid, because the Russians have now proven, beyond any shadow of doubt, that sanctions no longer work.

In essence, the West simply does not understand the game it is playing. Moreover, it has not the slightest clue what it is doing – there is NO sense of coordination, let alone comprehension, among the actors in the West.

The Great Game

This seems surprising, to say the least, because one of the signature features of evil, is that it appears to operate in a hive mind fashion. However, it is critically important to remember that evil operates on the basis of imperfect and incomplete information.

That is a term from game theory, and I use it deliberately here. In a game of imperfect information, the moves you make, depend on the moves your opponent has already made, because you do not know with certainty what his next moves might be. In a game of incomplete information, however, you do not even know what game you are playing, until someone makes a move.

The worst of all possible situations, is to find yourself in a game where both things are true.

We know evil cannot comprehend or truly overcome the good – see John 1:5, it says so right there. We also know that evil tried to tempt Our Lord, not knowing who He was, and failed – but still did its level best to kill Him. It was only when the forces of evil witnessed Him risen in glory, that they realised just how badly they had failed – and what kind of a game they were in.

That same evil is now seeking to inflict maximum pain and casualties, because it understands full well its time is short. However, as I have also pointed out before, evil has factions to it, not just one monolithic hive mind. Those factions are now engaged in a desperate struggle for survival, because at least some of them can figure out what is happening. They understand where short-term thought and action have taken them, and they are horrified by the results.

Even Neoclowns Can Learn… Sort Of

We now see the first glimmers of understanding, the barest sense that even the insane neoclowns who have done so much damage to us all, are beginning to comprehend the gin-trap they have falled into. First up is Sir Niall Ferguson – who, as neoclowns go, is not that insane, but is still pretty bad – writing for Bari Weiss’s The Free Press about the very clear parallels between the FUSA and the old USSR in its dying days:

In the Soviet Union, the great lies were that the Party and the state existed to serve the interests of the workers and peasants, and that the United States and its allies were imperialists little better than the Nazis had been in “the great Patriotic War.” The truth was that the nomenklatura (i.e., the elite members) of the Party had rapidly formed a new class with its own often hereditary privileges, consigning the workers and peasants to poverty and servitude, while Stalin, who had started World War II on the same side as Hitler, utterly failed to foresee the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and then became the most brutal imperialist in his own right.

The equivalent falsehoods in late Soviet America are that the institutions controlled by the (Democratic) Party—the federal bureaucracy, the universities, the major foundations, and most of the big corporations—are devoted to advancing hitherto marginalized racial and sexual minorities, and that the principal goals of U.S. foreign policy are to combat climate change and (as Jake Sullivan puts it) to help other countries defend themselves “without sending U.S. troops to war.”

In reality, policies to promote “diversity, equity, and inclusion” do nothing to help poor minorities. Instead, the sole beneficiaries appear to be a horde of apparatchik DEI “officers.” In the meantime, these initiatives are clearly undermining educational standards, even at elite medical schools, and encouraging the mutilation of thousands of teenagers in the name of “gender-affirming surgery.”

As for the current direction of U.S. foreign policy, it is not so much to help other countries defend themselves as to egg on others to fight our adversaries as proxies without supplying them with sufficient weaponry to stand much chance of winning. This strategy—most visible in Ukraine—makes some sense for the United States, which discovered in the “global war on terror” that its much-vaunted military could not defeat even the ragtag Taliban after twenty years of effort. But believing American blandishments may ultimately doom Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan to follow South Vietnam and Afghanistan into oblivion.

He identifies several parallels, including a growing government deficit, a bloated military, ineffective bureaucracy, and declining public trust in institutions. Sir Ferguson highlights issues such as declining life expectancy, economic inefficiencies, and increasing political polarisation. He also discusses the ideological divide between the elite and the general population. Ultimately, he suggests that the U.S. might be repeating the mistakes of the Soviet Union, particularly in its approach to governance and foreign policy.

Everywhere in the West, we see the collapse of morality, the loss of hope and faith, the deepening cynicism in what is clearly a totally failing enterprise, and the turning away from the rigged and stupid game that is dumbocracy. What, after all, is the point of VOOOOOOOOTEE HARRRRDURRRRRRRR, if literally nothing changes, and the leading candidates all say and believe in the same exact things?

The Colossus with Feet of Clay

Then we have this eye-opener from none other than Ben Rhodes, a former speechwriter for Odumbass himself, who did so much to put the FUSA on track to total collapse:

A Biden victory in this fall’s election would offer reassurance that the particular risk of another Trump presidency has passed, but that will not vanquish the forces of disorder. To date, Washington has failed to do the necessary audit of the ways its post–Cold War foreign policy discredited U.S. leadership. The “war on terror” emboldened autocrats, misallocated resources, fueled a global migration crisis, and contributed to an arc of instability from South Asia through North Africa. The free-market prescriptions of the so-called Washington consensus ended in a financial crisis that opened the door to populists railing against out-of-touch elites. The overuse of sanctions led to increased workarounds and global fatigue with Washington’s weaponization of the dollar’s dominance. Over the last two decades, American lectures on democracy have increasingly been tuned out.

Mr. Rhodes goes on to explain that Brandon’s Fake Administration faces significant hurdles with ongoing military and economic support for Ukraine, amidst increasing Republican opposition and potential aid shortfalls. In the Middle East, Brandon’s efforts focus on supporting Israel while preventing the Gaza conflict from escalating, particularly against Iranian and Hezbollah actions – though Mr. Rhodes fails to mention that it is precisely BECAUSE of American support for Israel, that the crisis is rapidly escalating. Additionally, the Taiwan presidential elections could provoke Chinese “aggression”, posing another major challenge for U.S. foreign policy – never mind that China has never shown any true interest in the past 50 years of any kind of imperial expansion or acquisition of foreign territory.

That is a level of self-awareness I would NOT expect from your typical DiCkocrat. Amerikhastan’s increasingly ridiculous lectures on freedumb and dumbocracy long ago wore out their welcome.

Even that particularly odious exemplar of the pond-slime produced by the Washington, Ned Price – or, as I like to call him, Count Dickula – got caught out, BADLY, by a reporter who evidently actually DID HIS DAMN JOB for a change, and asked him a hard question:

This is the reality. The world is SICK AND TIRED of listening to endless wind-bagging and hypocrisy from American “leaders”, most of whom do not even understand how to change a tire on a car, let alone run a country. And the same is true about the rest of the West – everyone is fed up of listening to this ridiculous nonsense of a “rules-based international order”, where no one can define what the rules, and where the West breaks its own rules repeatedly.

The key quote here from the article is as follows:

If Biden does win a second term, he should use it to build on those of his policies that have accounted for shifting global realities, while pivoting away from the political considerations, maximalism, and Western-centric view that have caused his administration to make some of the same mistakes as its predecessors. The stakes are high. Whoever is president in the coming years will have to avoid global war, respond to the escalating climate crisis, and grapple with the rise of new technologies such as artificial intelligence. Meeting the moment requires abandoning a mindset of American primacy and recognizing that the world will be a turbulent place for years to come. Above all, it requires building a bridge to the future—not the past.

Imagine that – the FUSA needs to move to a multipolar world order, in which its point of view is but one of many. Sounds an awful lot like multipolarity to me.

Conclusion – The Assured Fall of the West

As if these power games were not enough, The Putin then visited North Korea, and signed a security agreement with the Norks that is, for all intents and purposes, a security alliance. Much has been made of the mutual defence clause inserted into the treaty, but as the Neo-Tsar himself pointed out, it merely restates language that existed in previous Soviet-DPRK pacts of the past.

More importantly, however, the Sino-Russian approach to the world presents a clear alternative model, which is winning friends and goodwill, while the American approach is failing.

Consider: the Russians have approached the Norks, and the Taliban ragheads, with sincere offers of trade, military assistance, and economic development. Critically, however, they have made NO demands of either government to conform to a Russian vision of what good government looks like.

This, despite the FACT that ordinary Russians – and most Russian diplomats – find the cultural practices of the Afghans to be anywhere from disturbing to disgusting. And this, despite the FACT that the Norks have severe problems with their economy and culture, and are seriously brainwashed, as Russians themselves recognise full well.

That is the way of the future – a world in which the Russians, Chinese, and everyone else, make friends based on trade and mutual self-interest. The old world, in which the West could simply tell people to do whatever it wanted, or face the threat of bomb attacks launched from aircraft carriers, and crippling financial and economic sanctions, is ending.

And well past time, too.

Not too long ago, the Neo-Tsar stated bluntly that the West’s “vampire-ball”, as he called it, is at an end. He was right. The speed of the West’s collapse is astonishing to behold, but it is also necessary. The Western powers have become sclerotic, weak, old, and hollowed-out, and have done little to nothing to avoid repeating the stupidest and most calamitous mistakes of past civilisations.

The West’s fall is richly deserved. It is inevitable. All those of us who live in the West can do, is prepare as best we can, and hope that the Western nations will arise once again, return to Christian nationalist values, and take their place in a world that desperately needs all the good things that once came out of Western civilisation.