What unites Anders Breivik, Kanye West, and Nikolai Patrushev?
Bingo, they all believe in conspiracy theories.
In January, the Arguments and Facts newspaper ran an interview with Nikolai Patrushev.
He was very detailed in his world order insinuations, based on conspiracies. It’s a very difficult read for a sane person.
I won't make you suffer through it and, instead, offer you a summary later.
But our topic is not Patrushev and his mind games.
We're going to talk about conspiracy theories getting grip on top Russian brass, turning into a smokescreen hiding the reality.
Patrushev’s interview is unique as it’s the first-ever complete collection of conspiracy theories.
It unites the ones found in speeches of Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Medvedev; Nebenzya,
Russia’s UN representative; and Putin himself.
For the first time, you won’t need to build a jigsaw puzzle out of those theories — you could read them in full, no matter
how incoherent and illogical.
So, what is the belief system of the Russian government?
Let me give you a quick summary of Patrushev’s interview, so that we are on the same page.
To make it more fun, let’s gamify it and play conspiracy bingo as you follow me.
The rules of bingo apply: check an appropriate square as soon as you hear its content being talked about.
Let’s see. Western politicians are puppets to corporations.
Soros-led Open Society Foundations are the HQ for color revolutions. America is the front for the rule of corporations.
Those corporations have assassinated four U.S. presidents and are forcing NATO’s hand toward aggressive policies.
The U.S. is planning to send $45bn to Ukraine to keep the war going.
All that despite the mounting sovereign debt, which they never plan to repay, of the U.S., the U.K.,
and Japan, and their impending insolvency.
Corporations are hard at work with colonial wars. They are running a brainwashing system to keep people in check.
Those corporations are investing in other countries, bringing in new technologies and siphoning off the profits.
Those corporations are headed by influential businesspeople with a “golden billion” behind them.
There’s no place for Russia in such a system, since Russia is rich in resources, territory, and smart people.
Corporations are shaping the consumer-based society, whereas Russia is supporting traditional moral and spiritual values.
That’s the reason for the West to want to destroy the Russian language as well as the Russian world, or Pax Russica.
Washington has planned to sic Ukraine on Russia.
The West is annihilating Ukraine, forcing Ukrainians to die on the battlefield.
There’s a war between Russia, the U.S., and the U.K. on Ukrainian territory. Russia isn’t fighting Ukraine.
The U.S. has pulled its troops out of Afghanistan to arm Ukraine.
Corporations are developing biological warfare, like viruses and pathogens. They are zombifying people.
They force LGBTQ+ values to as part of the depopulation agenda. They advertise GM foods and urge women not to have kids.
They assess the humankind the way Nazis were measuring skulls.
We need UN, SCO, BRICS, ASEAN to defeat the corporations. Anglo-Saxons do not like it.
But they, as well as other Western countries, are in the minority.
Russia needs its economic and technological sovereignty.
We’ve got plenty of Lomonosovs (Russia’s first “Renaissance man”) and Kulibins (famous Russian inventor).
It makes me want to add, "But we'll definitely put them in jail!"
Bingo! I’ve got a dozen lizard humans out of twelve.
I’m sorry you’ve had to hear all that, but it was worth it. We can’t underestimate the importance of Patrushev’s revelations.
We’re seeing here the real plan to develop Russia.
That’s the BS people running Russia use as a decision-making guide.
Everything done is based on that: the decision to attack Ukraine, laws against LGBTQ+, Russia’s foreign policy.
Even the search for a national ideology is rooted in it. We’ve finally got a distinct and proper explanation of everything going on.
There’s finally an understanding where Nebenzya’s “genetically modified battle mosquito” theory comes from
(he detailed it to the UN Security Council).
Lavrov’s statements about Hitler being a Jew suddenly make sense. We get an insight into Medvedev’s fight with grunting gilts.
Importantly, it’s pretty clear now why we couldn’t see it earlier.
LOGIC BEHIND A CONSPIRACY THEORY
I’m not going to dissect Patrushev’s fakes.
I think you've had enough of it
The Insider has done that for us. Instead, I will show you a simple method to tell real analytics from conspiracy theories.
After all, there is a place for espionage, secret accords, and covert operations in politics.
A good example would be Watergate,
The rule of thumb is that all those secret governments, Judeo-Masons, aliens,
and the Open Societies Foundation are always oppressing conspiracy theorists or the societal group they identify with.
You can, in theory, encounter a Hungarian believing that the whole world is plotting against Hungary.
You’d be hard-pressed though finding a Hungarian, though, who believes that the World Government
is scheming to wipe France off the face of the Earth. And vice versa.
Furthermore, consipracy theorists portray their alleged collusion targets as demonic, supernatural, avaricious, cunning,
and depraved beings.
They are dehumanized to the full.
Those are not just politicians from another country who are guided by the interests of that very country or by personal ones,
but agents of Satan, whose goal is pure Evil with no purpose beyond that.
Even Disney has dropped operetta-style villains and replaced them with tricksters.
WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THAT
Alright, enough with the introduction. Why do people oftentimes believe in those absurd and ridiculous theories?
Those theories play the deepest strings of people’s souls.
Conspiracy theories make people fear for their own safety, safety of their loved ones, and the future.
Those fears are very hard to ignore. It takes a serious effort to arm yourself with Occam’s razor and a healthy dose of skepticism.
One needs a lot of courage to face the truth, without trying to fit it into their worldview.
When situation gets tougher, people have less and less energy to carry out that tiny act of heroism.
Keeping your mind and psyche clear, whilst working out the logic is not an easy feat in today’s Russia.
Back in 2018, there was a study by the Vedomosti newspaper and Medialogia, Russian developer.
It found that there was a six- to ninefold increase in various conspiracy theory mentions in the media over
the past seven years.
I imagine the results would be even more impressive if we did that study today.
We all see how a demand in snake oil salesmen grew in Russia lately:
fortune telling, horoscopes, psychics, conspiracy theories, etc. That demand was pretty high to begin with, even before 2018.
There’s nothing odd about Russians seeking the arcane.
A societal turn to the supernatural is a clear indication of fear for the future taking hold in that society.
The time of great turmoil and crises, both personal and global, is the best for conspiracy theories to get a hold of people.
Those are the conditions when even a mentally healthy person would be looking for some sense in all of it,
for some evil external power.
It is telling that Kashpirovsky, the famous Russian psychic, was most popular
at a troubling time when the Soviet Union was cracking at the seams.
Good news is that in most cases, conspiracy theories are symbolic crutches for our mind to weather the difficult times.
Please don’t turn away from your loved ones if they are consumed by the belief in supernatural or some world-wide
plot to bring Russia down.
They are just scared and are trying to find answers to why it all happened.
When will it end? How do we live with all that?
When turmoil ends, the attractiveness of the supernatural will be left behind, too.
Then, Russians would go on talking about pie recipes, and not NATO biolabs.
That being said, the propensity to believe conspiracy theories doesn’t automatically equal the approval of the authorities or belief
in the official narrative, in fact, some conspiracy theories have them as targets.
This indicates anxiety in society.
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS IN KREMLIN
While Russia’s devotion to conspiracy theories stems from the crisis, Putin’s belief in same is the cause for it.
The main upholders of the Global Conspiracy are Putin, Patrushev, Lavrov, Nebenzya, and Medvedev.
The latter is the prime example of how demonizing and dehumanizing the opponent works.
The others, meanwhile, just regurgitate the same narratives and the same scenario over and over.
Russia’s enemies are always some mythical “them.”
They are the “collective West,” which can include countries ranging from Belarus to Mexico.
They are Anglo-Saxons, some strange-to-describe group, which consists of the U.K. and the U.S.,
but might also extend to include Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Aussies’ and Kiwis’ membership in that group is very difficult to explain from a geographical standpoint,
but they easily fit the Anglo-Saxon umbrella. That’s pretty convenient.
The “enemy” countries whose government can be classified neither as “Western” nor as “Anglo-Saxon” can still fit the third category:
the secret government with the “golden billion” project behind them.
For those not in the know, the golden billion conspiracy theory postulates that there are some “rich elites”
that want to whittle the world population down to a billion people, destroying everyone else.
The theory’s protagonists change all the time.
There was a viral TikTok video in 2021 where Margaret Thatcher was calling for that cleansing to begin.
It turned out to be a clip from The Iron Lady movie starring Meryl Streep with a redacted audio stream.
Those are the “trustworthy” sources the Russian top echelon is basing their theories on.
To give you another example: Patrushev in 2015 and Putin in 2021 were referring to Madeleine Albright’s,
the former U.S. Secretary of State, words that Russia owning Siberia is unfair.
The thing is, Albright never said that. The first mention of those words was in 2006, in an interview with the FPS
(Federal Protective Service) general Boris Ratnikov.
He told a journalist that his department was working with psychic abilities and could read Western politicians’ thoughts.
The words of Albright came up during one of the mind-reading sessions they held.
If you are curious about who Boris Ratnikov is whether he is a real general or a local fool impersonating an official in the media,
he is the real McCoy.
He did work for the president’s security service and then went on to work for the FPS. He also wrote books.
Ratnikov died in December of 2020. It seems he’s left a legacy or a following, or just left his books near all of Kremlin’s cans.
There is no telling now.
There were no collective West, Anglo-Saxons, or the golden billion on the public agenda before 2013.
The U.S. was called a partner for real, not in the passive-aggressive “our Western partners” way.
In his 2009 interview, Lavrov said that there are no countries in the world that could resolve their issues alone,
with no support from allies and partners and that the future lies with cooperation.
The 2022 upgrade of Lavrov is using prison slang, doesn’t keep his gob shut, and tells tall,
conspiracy-inspired tales about the golden billion.
In 2007, Patrushev was talking about the importance of human rights and freedoms.
We have already discussed what Patrushev has turned into in 2023.
The most interesting, though, is to watch Putin’s agenda change.
During his first two presidential terms, Putin was talking about global relations and economic growth.
He even talked about a partnership with NATO. His rhetoric has changed starting in 2007, after his notorious Munich speech.
An important nod to the “collective West” being a hostile entity was given in 2013. It talked about some “centers of influence”
which were monitoring strengthening of Russia and imposing foreign-to-Russia tolerance.
2015 was the year of chastising the U.S. Putin shifted from his usual stone-faced politeness to airing his grudges.
In 2017, Russia Today, a state-owned TV channel, started a conspiracy theory about the anti-Slavic biowarfare.
Its popularity grew after Putin himself had referenced it.
Putin has been consistently threatening the West, Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe in the years thereafter.
Well done. He started the war. Now he complains that there are German battle tanks threatening him.
Almost like a chav who met with a right hook, he started to yell about the world being unfair.
All his conspiracy theories are shattered by the very first, and the most obvious, question:
Why do you, Putin, assist the West in destroying Russia by killing its people?
You have been exterminating the male population of your own country for a year!
If you are as smart as you say, why do you send people to the front lines in droves instead of protecting their precious lives?
You also pay propagandists to shout on TV about how overrated the lives of Russians are.
After saying that, maybe you're an agent of Western corporations yourself.
According to your logic, some Anglo-Saxons, regardless of who they are, have pitted Ukrainians against Russians.
Why did you fall for that ruse?
Why did you become their puppet and start a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, dooming your country to political, economic,
and social isolation?
Which team’s roster are you on?
If there are battle psychics on your payroll and you ardently believe that they can read minds of presidents
and secretaries of states of other countries, why didn’t they tell you that your plan to capture Kyiv in three days would fail miserably?
That your army wouldn’t be met with flowers. Why didn’t they tell you that your gold and currency reserves would be frozen?
That you would become a political buffoon for the whole world, bar probably Kim Jong-un, as opposed to a leader of a great country.
If those shamans of yours were incapable of foretelling all that, could it be that they are sham?
Could it be that nobody has done more for destruction of Russia in the past 20 years than you?
Is it possible that starting a war is a more serious crime against Russians than some wrong values?
None of those values have killed a single Russian as opposed to your laws.
I’m sorry nobody is asking Putin those questions to his face.
SUGARCOATING THE DEFEAT
You can’t help but notice that all that conspiracy rhetoric is shot through with defeatism.
That’s not even a concept but whining: everyone is bad, everyone is against us, all the world billionaires came together to destroy us.
How can one expect victory if all countries and corporations, bar a couple, are against us?
It was presented with a notion of bravado a year ago: let’s show the world who the daddy is. We are not puppets here.
We wanted to take Crimea and did it — now all of Ukraine will follow suit.
Now, though, Putin’s entourage, if not Putin himself, has realized that there’s going to be no victory.
In any sense of that word. No one is talking about capturing Kyiv.
They’re getting ready to defend Moscow, just like in the Napoleonic Wars.
That’s where the desire of Patrushev, Lavrov, or Medvedev to justify their future defeat comes from.
Like, we did all we could, you see, but secret government and transnational corporations have overpowered us.
By the way, he didn’t say which transnational corporations are the ones Russia is fighting against. Is it Coca-Cola or Walmart?
We will keep an eye on his future interviews: maybe he’ll clarify that point.
That blatant defeatism tells us that conspiracy theories in public speeches is not just another brainchild
of the Kremlin’s spin doctors. Putin’s entourage does believe in all that BS.
It is detrimental to your image to complain about powerful opponents. Those complains sap optimism.
They discourage soldiers and subordinates and hurt their future projections.
They are far from previous imperialist bravado and pompous stately slogans.
Here we see the rhetoric of a losing party which has nothing else
left but to blame its failures on some abstract secret government, corporations, or global conspiracy.
If there are more failures to come, they still got lizard people and Myc Cellium left. Oops, let’s not give them ideas.
Let me tell you another theory instead, probably the funniest one.
It is called “bold-not bold” and claims that all Russian rulers for the past 200 years have been alternating between being bold or not.
If that theory has any merit, Russia’s next president after Putin will be an owner of a lush and beautiful mane.
See you tomorrow.