ACADEMY OF DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT – INSTITUTE OF SKY POLITICS On the factor of time in current politics When world projects in the "Great Game" sit at the card table of history, where moves are made in turn, and the outcome of the struggle takes shape in combinations of three forces, the Kremlin adheres to the model of the Great Chessboard and conducts a session of simultaneous play on several boards. This model (white moves first and wins) has been called the "multipolar world." At the same time, the outcome of the chess game (for example, in the Special Military Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine) is influenced both by the ability to make correct moves and by the factor of time allotted for making the next move and the entire game. Expired time while maintaining a favorable position means a loss. A loss leads to an inevitable change of regime. Sky Politics is a doctrine of time. That is why the delay with Russia's next move on the Great Chessboard of the Third World War of a new hybrid type compels us to express deep concern about the Kremlin's prospect of losing the game in Ukraine not on the battlefield, but on the clock of the Universal Law of Change. The red flag on the chess clock for the Russian Federation will fall in 2024. In our assessment, the current game is being played for a worthy place in the new currency world, which, according to the design of those behind the scenes, will take shape by the end of 2025. In the vanguard of the process is "managed competition" between the PRC and the USA. Since 1979, Chinese-American relations have been called "constructive cooperation." In 2022, trade turnover between the USA and the PRC reached a record level of 760 billion USD. And the number of direct flights between the USA and the PRC exceeded 70 per week. For comparison: Chinese-Russian relations are called "strategic interaction of good neighbors." Trade turnover is approaching the 200 billion USD per year mark. In 2022, Russia, having fallen into the ambush of the SMO, is late with its deployment into the new currency world. The first move of the Russian Federation in the current game was the "Ryabkov Ultimatum" of 15.12.21 addressed to the USA. To ensure strategic stability, Moscow demanded that Washington push the NATO bloc back to the 1997 borders. Otherwise, Russia threatened to respond with military and military-technical means. Such a response was the Special Military Operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (SMO), launched by Russia on 24.02.22 The true reason for the SMO is probably hidden in the agreement between Putin and Biden at their personal meeting on 16.06.21 in Geneva. See Biden's remark at the press conference: "We will see the result of the agreement in six months." Exactly six months later came the Ryabkov Ultimatum. In our assessment, the agreement is connected with preserving the usd as the unit of account of wealth by deflating the financial bubble of the debt economy into the real sector of production of ammunition, armaments and combat equipment. The design of the SMO envisaged a rapid victory of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, but everything went not as planned, the landings failed, the cruiser Moskva sank, and the combat actions in the Ukrainian theater of operations gradually took the form of a protracted positional war of attrition. As of the end of 2023, the offensive capabilities of the sides, without regrouping, rearmament and replenishment of the ground forces with assault infantry, are exhausted. Objective conditions have been created for ending the armed conflict politically. One option could be the partition of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, the last move in the "Great Game" WWIII was made on 07.10.23 by a strike on Israel by the HAMAS grouping in the Gaza Strip. This is not so much about the Arab-Israeli confessional confrontation, but also about an auxiliary operation within the framework of the clash of civilizations of the World of the West (heirs of Rome) and the World of Islam (heirs of the Caliphate). But even there, the planner behind the scenes fails to spin up a force majeure WWIII as a way to enter the new currency world; the combat actions have also taken on a protracted positional character. Now the Kremlin must make a move. However, the move is clearly late. The "march of justice" from the Ukrainian front to Moscow on 23-24.06.23 by Prigozhin (PMC "Wagner") can be considered a push for the Kremlin to make a decisive move. However, the "mutiny that never was" was stopped by a world agreement with the participation of Belarusian President Lukashenko. "Wagner" went to Belarus. Since no obvious military solution to the conflict in Ukraine is in sight (the use of nuclear weapons is not being considered), the Kremlin's next move may be political. According to intelligence indications that have appeared in various sources, both behind the scenes and among acting politicians (Lukashenko), a political solution to the Ukrainian conflict can be achieved by a maneuver upward – through the re-establishment of the Union State of Russia and Belarus to admit into the new state all peoples-heirs of the USSR Union, including all the historical territories of Ukraine. This concerns first of all the (cherished "Jewish, Soviet Socialist") Republic of Crimea. According to the Solomon Plan, the existing statehood of the Republic of Crimea must become the core of the future New Khazaria. If, however, in the foreseeable future the Kremlin does not make a political move in the game, then the time of the project of the Great Conservative Power will be lost. World projects will replace the model of the game from chess to cards. And victory in the transition to the new currency world will go to the combination of masters of money affairs, the Jewish Kabbalists (the Solomon Plan), with the Chinese (the Community of Shared Future for Mankind). Executed by Andrey Devyatov No928 of 06.12.23