ACADEMY OF DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT – INSTITUTE OF SKY POLITICS

Duplicity and hypocrisy: "We've been deceived again"!

In the art of war, stratagems occupy first place, while diplomacy occupies second. This is explained by the fact that the cunning of stratagems is aimed primarily at deceiving diplomats specifically.

In the theory of international relations, the concept of multipolarity amid the clash of civilizations was introduced by Western intellectuals after the USSR's defeat in the Cold War (1946-1991) and the collapse of the worldview built on the principle of nature-likeness, where the poles of power were two "superpowers": the USSR and the USA.

The clash of civilizations in the 1993 concept of the Planner from the US National Security Council, Samuel Huntington, is the juxtaposition against the World of the West, in place of the socialist camp led by the USSR that collapsed in 1991, of a new active adversary – the World of Islam.

However, due to the fact that in the World of Islam there is no superpower uniting it, the worldview became seemingly unipolar, where there is only one pole of power – the USA and its allied countries.

In reality, however, the tilted banner of socialism was picked up from the hands of the USSR by China, which had been in the shadows – a country-civilization that had already then adopted the doctrine of shifting strategic borders beyond the national territory on land, in the world ocean, at the poles and in space, with the aim of transforming the country by the middle of the 21st century into a mighty "world power of the first order."

And the Kremlin, which fell for the Planner's stratagem under the banner of "Moscow – the Third Rome," miraculously found itself in the vanguard of the West and in 2015 struck in Syria at the heirs of the World Caliphate who had raised the black banner of "Holy War" (jihad).

Thereby the Russian Federation replaced the USA in the clash of civilizations between the World of the West and the World of Islam foretold by the Planner behind the scenes. And, as the heir of Rome, it turned out to be a party to the biblical Battle of the End, doomed by the prophets to strategic defeat: "the king of the north" will lose "and no one will help him" (Daniel 11:45).

The Russian thinker A. Dugin also fell for the stratagem of the Western concept of the clash of interconnected centers of power, having in 2012 substantiated a non-Western Theory of a Multipolar World.

This homegrown theory of a multipolar world was adopted by Russian diplomacy under Lavrov – Ushakov.

The essence of the theory: civilizations are independent, self-sufficient, not bound by relations of corporate discipline, absolutely sovereign, and have their own civilizational interests, values and forms of power.

A. Dugin's theory of a multipolar world continues the political concept of "sovereign democracy" of the creator of Kremlin meanings, V. Surkov, and, relying on traditionalism, substantiates the external facade of "Putin's Long State."

As a result of relying on the theory of a multipolar world, Sovereign Conservative Russia found itself in strategic isolation and, under China's enticing stratagems, by the natural course of things is moving toward a deal with the "again great" USA on the question of Ukraine.

The embarrassment of Russian diplomacy began with the "Ryabkov Ultimatum" to the USA of 15.12.21 demanding legal security guarantees. The draft treaties were immediately published.

Thus, in the draft Treaty handed to the American side personally by V. Putin, the following was envisaged: "The USA's commitment to exclude further NATO expansion eastward and to refuse admission to the Alliance of former USSR states" (Ukraine and Georgia). And in the draft Agreement on security assurance measures with NATO, Russia demanded from the Alliance: "Withdrawal from the territory of countries that became NATO members after 1997 of all armed forces and military infrastructure of foreign states that appeared there in subsequent years."

On 26.01.22 the Russian Federation's demands were rejected as unacceptable, with a counter-demand to "immediately withdraw armed forces from the border of Ukraine."

A month later, on 24.02.22, Russia fulfilled its threat to respond to the West's refusal with military and military-technical means, launching the Special Military Operation (SMO) in the Ukrainian theater of operations.

In Moscow, "they wanted the best, but it turned out" worse than ever.

The calculation for swift, maneuverable, network-centric combat operations by tactical groups to force Kyiv to change its regime did not pan out. On the battlefield, over three years the conflict grew into a positional, protracted war of attrition.

On 04.04.2023 Finland joined NATO. On 07.03.2024 Sweden joined the Alliance. For both countries this marked a rejection of the policy of military neutrality that they had maintained for many decades. The Russian Federation refrained from sharp statements on this matter. The reaction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was resentfully negative.

The price of diplomacy to ensure the Russian Federation's long-term security relying only on its own forces, in captivity to the ideological chimera of a multipolar world, became Moscow's obstruction in culture, science, and sports, with increased sanctions by unfriendly countries and covert pressure from the group of "Friends of Peace" led by China and Brazil, which were supported at the UN by 110 countries of the Global South.

On 08.12.24 the Assad regime in Syria fell. He lost the Battle of the End on the mountains of Israel, "Gog from the confines of the north with a horde of Persians with him."

From 20.01.25, the newly elected US President D. Trump sharply, rudely, and firmly intervened in Russian foreign policy on the Ukraine question, promising to quickly end the conflict with peace.

And yet, under Lavrov's diplomacy with his friend Kerry, everything was fine.

Written in connection with the speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov at the ambassadorial round table on Ukraine in Moscow on 05.02.25

Performed by Andrey Devyatov No. 996 of 06.02.25

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