On the strategic defeat of "those holding now"

ACADEMY OF DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT – INSTITUTE OF SKY POLITICS

Sky Politics never tires of repeating: it is time for Russia to occupy summits, not niches. It is time to advance, not hide in the cracks of security.

History of wars and the art of war shows that only the offensive and meeting engagement lead directly to victory, but not defense and retreat.

A well-known saying of the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu states: "Strategy without tactics is the slowest path to victory. Tactics without strategy is merely fuss before defeat." 

On 07.10.25, in a conversation with military personnel, V. Putin publicly stated that in combat operations on the Ukrainian theater of war "the strategic initiative belongs to Russia."

At the level of strategy, this initiative looks like global defense against the onslaught of the USA and NATO (see Ryabkov's Ultimatum of 15.12.21), while the offensive in Ukraine concerns the tactics of slowly recapturing populated areas with the aim of bringing Russian troops to the administrative borders of the new territories inscribed in the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

In essence, the strategy and tactics of the Russian Federation in Europe have turned out to be multidirectional.

At the same time: "The impulse toward a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, which appeared after the meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA in Alaska, has been exhausted." This was publicly stated on 08.10.25 by the same Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, S. Ryabkov.

In essence, the SMO will continue "until the unconditional achievement by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of the set goals (but not as in Ryabkov's Ultimatum)."

But the goals – to push NATO back to the west of the Russian Federation to the 1997 border – turned out to be unrealistic. Border Finland joined NATO.

Whereas three and a half years of the tactics of squeezing the AFU out of the new territories of the Russian Federation look like purely local fuss.

So what must be done to correct the growing defect of the war of weapons in the still not understood WWIII of a new hybrid type?

Sky Politics sees the answer to this important question in the following:

First, it must be acknowledged that the root causes of the conflict lie in the mental makeup of Ukrainians (the will of personal rights and freedoms – mine) and Russians (leveling collectivism of the share – ours), and therefore are irremovable. Ukraine is Europe, and the Muscovites are the Horde.

This difference was correctly noted by the great Russian artist I. Repin:

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The image of Russia is the barge haulers. The image of Ukraine is the Zaporozhian Cossacks.</span>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The image of Russia is the barge haulers. The image of Ukraine is the Zaporozhian Cossacks.</span>

Second, in WWIII of a new hybrid type, victory must be won not in the old way, in the war of weapons and on the front of economics and finance, but in the war of meanings of the new era of the information society.

But the trouble of Putin's Long State is that neither an image of victory for Rus' on a global scale, nor a system of knowledge of the new era adopted for service in the war of meanings (although such a system was developed by Sky Politics) exists among the persons in power.

Third, the historical goal – the worldwide character of Russia's portion in the new era – is consistently conjoined with the messianism of the Jews and the dream of the Chinese of a Community of Shared Future for Mankind. Together this can constitute a stable ternary harmony of the world.

However, everyday anti-Semitism and the dogmatic wariness of Orthodox Christians toward Jews ("they crucified God") repel an sincere bond of Russians with Jewry (even with the masters of money matters), while the "yellow peril" instilled by Westernizers into the consciousness of Russians undermines sincere partnership with the Chinese.

Sky Politics in its published books shows how to remove these three obstacles standing before Russia to seizing the future, yet "a prophet is not honored in his own country."

If, however, the aforementioned three obstacles are not removed, then World War III of a new hybrid type, which has been going on since 2013, will end for Russia approximately as, at the global level in 1989, the war in Afghanistan ended for the USSR. 

As for the rhetoric of threats of escalation of combat operations on the Ukrainian theater of WWIII with their growing into a full-scale nuclear war between the Russian Federation and NATO, this is nothing other than scarecrows of the mentality of the industrial society of the 60s–70s of the 20th century.

In the new era of digitalization, AI, robotics, quantum-resonance technologies and the genetically modified human of the information society, nuclear war is not needed, for a world nuclear war (which "those holding" await) has no political goals. After all, war is the continuation of politics.

Let us emphasize – the goal of WWIII of a new hybrid type is the transition from the old world order of the industrial society, which has hit the "limits to growth," to a new one. This transition is being pushed along by the COVID-19 pandemic and local wars of weapons, including the SMO in Ukraine. The outcome of WWIII will be a new currency world of digital money.

Executed by Andrey Devyatov  N 1054 of 09.10.25

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