Balanced Perspectives

For an expert take on what is perhaps the official Russian narrative or perspective, I often turn to Andrei Martyanov in addition to keeping an open ear to what actual Kremlin officials and Russian media have to say. Martyanov is an authoritative source on the official Russian narrative and perspective and an expert military strategist as well. And in a nutshell, Martyanov states that the American worldview or weltanschauung is one that is founded on sheer ignorance, especially when it comes to the Cold War with Russia and in terms of conflict and war in general. Martyanov wrote:

“Conflict is a part of human nature, with war being the apogee of conflict, which then becomes armed, and really has defined human life since the dawn of civilization. Humans become violent under some conditions and this leads to a fight for life by those who are weaker against the violence applied by those stronger. The American political science class has spent and continues to spend significant time and resources allegedly studying the nature of conflict, that is to say the nature of war, but bar some very few exceptions, remains remarkably ignorant on the extreme nature of that conflict – that it involves life and death for large numbers of persons under usually horrific circumstances whose impact then shapes both societies, the victor as well as the loser.”

In the Russian view, America is entirely ignorant of the fact that American actions have determined and shaped the current Cold War climate. American actions are the impetus for the Russian onslaught in places like Ukraine, according to the Russian narrative or perspective. As an insulated country with no direct threat of survival facing it, the United States is entirely ignorant of the realities facing other countries, and in turn, this ignorance impacts and influences its perspective on matters pertaining to conflict and war.

In a sense, the Russian narrative or perspective consists of two basic components: a deconstruction of the liberal worldview or weltanschauung on one hand, and on the other hand, the “reconstruction” of technological and military power aimed towards “the necessary formation of a global military balance” which would then enable “the survival of the human civilization.”

Anglo-Zionism and its liberalism, according to the official Russian narrative and perspective, is a grave threat to the very basic survival of world civilization, which then prompts the Russian narrative and perspective at-large and writ-large that is of course based on the deconstruction of Anglo-Zionist liberalism on one hand and the necessary formation of a global military balance aimed at the very basic survival of world civilization on the other hand. In terms of the necessity of both the deconstruction of the liberal Anglo-Zionist worldview on one hand and the formation of a global military balance on one hand, Martyanov wrote: “This struggle is not for glory and the sword for forestalling evil has been forged.”

And arguably, the deconstruction of the liberal worldview and the view that the formation of a global military and technological balance against Washington is necessary extends well beyond Russia itself. It is a view that permeates even the Western world itself, as we see with both current events and the history of the politics and social life of the Western world. Arguably, the ‘Cold War’ between Washington and Moscow was very much a conflict and a war that has been decided by the poison pill of a third party which did not work out in Washington’s favor, which then explains the tumult and turmoil in American affairs as well as Western affairs in general.