The New Cold War

This is excellent. Furthermore, if these new weapons really are to defend us all against Iran, then why are they not in Turkey or on Cyprus? If they are to defend us all against North Korea, then why are they not in South Korea or Japan? Of course, it would be physically impossible for North Korea to launch a missile strike against Europe. But then, it would have been physically impossible for Iraq to launch a missile strike against the US, or even Britain.

No doubt on both sides, but certainly in the West, we are dealing with people to whom the world only made sense in terms of the Cold War, and who have therefore been beside themselves ever since the Cold War came to an end. The likes of Noriega, Aideed, and for that matter Saddam Hussein have been held up as serious threats to the West, just because there had to be one, there just had to be. Exhausted, the old Cold Warriors have now turned their attentions back to Russia. They must feel like they have come home.

They are even backing the ghastly regime in Uzbekistan, and the laughable but not funny regime in Georgia (which claims to have received ninety-nine per cent of the vote last time - contrast the reaction to that with the reaction to the vastly more credible Ukrainian result), because those regimes do what is required against Russia. Russia is blamed, on absolutely no evidence whatever, for various murders both on her own soil and elsewhere (including in Britain). Britain welcomes a man of fabulous and highly dubious wealth to use this country as his base from which to demand the overthrow of Russia's elected government. And so forth.

Of course, Putin's Russia is not without serious faults. But Russia needs to be encouraged to think of herself as an integral part of the Biblical and Classical civilisation that is the West, and as that civilisation's bridge both to the world as defined by Islam, and to the world of the Far East, linking them to the West and to each other precisely by reference to the Biblical-Classical synthesis, and so overcoming anything in them that might ever give rise to any "clash of civilisations" such as is absurdly held to be happening at present. The Russian ethnic group, now both within and beyond the Russian Federation, is at once descended (as its mythology has it) from forest-dwellers in Scandinavia and the Baltic, and tied by blood to every people of the former Soviet Union or Tsarist Empire: European, Central Asian, and East Asian.

To that extent, Russia is the West's gatekeeper against subjugation to Islam or to anything Far Eastern, and such has indeed been her historic role, shared with all the Slavs, and not least with the Serbs, so that, among very many other things, Russia is absolutely right to oppose the ridiculous theory of Kosovo as a sovereign state.