Solidarity, Lighthouses and Leadership

Understanding the peril of becoming that which one opposes.

Jun 11, 2025

Published: 2025-06-11

Preface

Years ago, as funding was drying up, I asked a professor how he was maintaining his research topics. "The lighthouse approach", he replied.

He was shining a light towards knowledge which he knew we would need.

Leadership

The US half of CI6's mission to rip Russia asunder is nicknamed the "Russia House". It, according to every informed source this newsletter has consulted, was behind the attacks on Russia's nuclear defense, its nuclear capable bombers. The sources unanimously fingered the British side of CI6 for the recent bridge demolitions in Kursk and Bryansk that caused civilian deaths and injuries from train derailments.

There are two bases for the lack of a telegraphed Russian kinetic response to the train/bridge attacks. Russia’s planned summer offensive in Ukraine will in themselves respond sufficiently. Reactionary responses to minor provocations are immature.

The US and British attack on Russia's nuclear triad are an entirely different class of escalation. Russia will, indeed must, respond.

The recent excellent article by Bernard from Moon of Alabama on the attacks, and hints towards ongoing escalations and responses from both sides, refers to an article from RT. It suggests a response pathway which this newsletter considered most likely. Bernard emphasized the key term in bold:

asymmetrical

More specifically, Russia's responses will be "symmetrically asymmetric". This is the phrase which Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin used when CI6 + Ukraine began their terror operations beyond the Russian oblasts bordering Ukraine, as exemplified by the Crocus Hall massacre, 15 months ago.

Russia follows its political rhetoric and international norms for its benefit.

As this newsletter has been conveying for 4 years now, the locus of geopolitical power is shifting back to Asia, or more broadly, away from the north Atlantic colonial alliance. European complicity in US led attacks on Russia's statehood have forced Russian intellectuals culturally aligned with Europe to abandon that cultural allegiance in favour of a world pluralist "Global Majority" philosophy. Russia, with China, are the leading nations building this new world pluralist order.

Leadership is direction. One's political rhetoric provides the direction. Aligning one's actions with one's rhetoric validates and reinforces one's leadership. The Russian Federation has built its leadership upon this consistency.

A second benefit which Russia gains from adhering to international norms and its political rhetoric is contained in a warning issued by Barbara Lee in an historic speech to which this newsletter has oft referred. Standing alone in both US houses of congress in voting against the bill to authorize the US military to implement revenge as a foreign policy, she warned that the US would become the terrorists it claimed it was attempting to defeat.

Russia understands this peril. It cannot descend into lawless brutality, as to do so would undermine its global leadership and worse, its morality. Russia refuses to be provoked into immoral, reckless depravity. The Political West owns the folly of its immoral course.

Enfolding

During CI6 + Ukraine's attack on airfields hosting Russia's airforce component of its nuclear triad, only the Irkutsk airfield suffered major damage to a few airframes. It is not the scale of the damage which demands Russia's response.

All 5 airfields, which host the airforce leg of Russia's nuclear triad, were attacked by the Political West. It is the universality of the attack demanding Russia's response.

The first sign of that response was folded into the summer offensives of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.

Larry Johnson noted the significance of Russia's rhetorical response to the dual attacks. Only mentioning the bridge/train attacks, Putin evoked "counter-terrorism". This legal term releases Russia from restraints on targeting civilians "aiding or abetting" terrorism. Those civilians are CI6's and Ukraine's covert operatives.

Russia destroyed a British "visa processing facility" in Kiev. This was legally authorized by this new anti-terrorism classification. The CIA/US State Department understood the language before the attack. It issued a warning to US citizens to leave Ukraine.

Russia's escalations have been careful and pre-announced. An example has been its attacks on military training centers which it knew were staffed by foreign military trainers. A few months back, one in Poltava was targeted. The new anti-terror classification warned covert operatives as opposed to military trainers.

One can expect a broad, incremental increase in targeting, in Ukraine, of "civilian" facilities which Russian foreign intelligence (SVR) is confident are being used by western intelligence operatives. One can also expect that one will not learn anything of this in Western narrative media. Instead, one will receive the usual misrepresentations symbolized by this Washington Post headline:

Ukrainian cities pounded by Russia in retaliation for Sunday drone strike

[Washington Post drivel identified by Moon of Alabama]

World War III started years ago. When one draws the start-line is preference. 2014 seems reasonable. CIA Operation Timbre Sycamore to overthrow al Assad in Syria was under way. The coup in Kiev had just been achieved. Libya had been destroyed in 2011. Iraq and Afghanistan were still under coup'd government control. China had just announced the Belt and Road Initiative.

Russia's responses to the universal attack on the airforce arm of its nuclear triad will be enfolded into its responses to the wars being created by the increasing isolated Political West. The responses may not be directly performed by Russia, but by proxies. This is the symmentry in the asmymetrical. We may learn of Russia's responses in a decade or two. More astute international commentators may spot them, here and there, more rapidly.

Visible now is the level of desperation displayed in the Political West's attack on Russia's nuclear triad.

Solidarity and Lighthouses

Within the West's centrifugal displays of norm destroying violence is a shining example of their antidote, solidarity.

That light shines from within Gaza, against the crushing, organized immorality of the state of Israel and its political, financial and military backers from a reality-dislocated West.

Israel is funding and arming criminal networks in Gaza, attempting to undermine the political authority of Hamas. Using thieves for political objectives merely adds to the Zionists' ledger of immorality. Gazans understand that their internal solidarity is foundational to their survival.

International norms of reciprocity, proportionality, compliance with international treaties, like the laws of war, and the cordial engagement in diplomacy are a form of solidarity in international relations. Abandoning these norms leaves one vulnerable and isolated. Outside of the geopolitical analysis of persons like Mearsheimer who view international relations as a zero-sum game, nations are gathering under a banner of peaceful co-existence facilitated by adherence to international norms.

The Political West's abrogation of its commitments to these international principles and norms is hastening its downfall and may exacerbate its crash. To which court or political institution can nations of the West run to hear future grievances? Who would wish listen?

The geopolitical corollary of Newton's third law is that international behaviour creates a response. The global majority understands the Western supported genocide in Gaza for what it is. They have been the victims of colonial oppression themselves. Yemen’s Ansar Allah stand tall with their principled response to Israel’s reprehensible illegal behaviour. Western soft power narratives rain on barren ground outside of their captive European and US audiences.

Western propaganda is fueling international policies from within, rather than influencing opinion without. The consequences of these actions are not even ignored, but unconsidered. Western exceptionalism has been infused with a dislocation from reality and time.

The West has been painting its exceptionalist picture in clearer and clearer outline, with every war, sanctions regime, theft of central bank assets, and now a total attack on nuclear defense, for over a decade. The Global Majority understand the policies of division issed by their former colonial masters. They refuse to be provoked into disarray and moral ruin.

Exemplary, brave, Gazan solidarity shines like a lighthouse on the world, a guide to safe harbour from Western engineered, racist, violent domination.

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