"Russians once worried about becoming a colony of the West. In fact, because of Putins war in Ukraine, Russia is becoming a colony of China."
- Michael McFaul‬

#Russia #theWest #China

Russia under attack by 56 nations in spy war – security chief

“In effect, a huge system of more than 50 nations – 56 to be exact – is using the entire experience of their special services in conducting sabotage and terrorist attacks against critical infrastructure to target our nation,” the former defense minister said."

https://www.rt.com/russia/635311-shoigu-western-sabotage-operations/

#Russia, #Sabotage, #WesternNations, #TheWest, #TerroristAttacks.

Het is niet in Westerse belangen om Israël een haar in de weg te leggen. Alana Lentin:

'Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”'

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/#comments

@[email protected] @palestine

#Israel #antisemitism #fascism #racism #CedricRobinson #AntiRacism #TheWest #capitalism #RacialRegime

Bit of an off-the-wall connection, but the point of #Scifi IS to explore ideas through a lens of fiction...

I've been watching #StarTrek #Enterprise lately, with episodes like "Dear Doctor", "#Cogenitor", "North Star", and "Observer Effect" going into the realm of "why we don't interfere with other cultures, no matter what".

I've also been watching the #IranWar, with absurd projections of impossibly wishful scenarios of an instant transition to pro-US democracy with the low-cost application of a few hundred bombs, contrasted with the reality of an #Iran now galvanized against "#TheWest" by the completely unprovoked and sudden attack by the #US and #Israel alone against the will of all allies.

I don't think even Crazy Captain Archer would approve, and it seems to me like most of us should've learned this lesson the hard way by 2004, to the point where scifi writers were putting it on UPN.

#USpol #war #ENT

Reclaiming the West

There are moments when it feels as though the twin cults of Marx and Islam, each with its own absolutist creed, each hostile to the foundations of Western civilisation, are poised to overwhelm the cultural, moral, and institutional inheritance that made the modern world possible.

What follows is not a master‑plan or manifesto, but a set of practical strategies for halting the erosion and beginning the long work of recovery.

Understand the Tactics of the Cults

Both Marxist and Islamist movements rely on a simple but devastating principle: manipulate the reaction, then weaponise it.

As the activist manual Beautiful Trouble puts it:

The real action is your target’s reaction.

We’ve seen this pattern repeatedly:

• provoke outrage,
• frame the response as oppression,
• leverage the manufactured crisis for more power.

Recognising this tactic is the first step in neutralising it.

Reclaim the Storytelling Space

Andrew Klavan is right: one of the most powerful tools we have is storytelling.

And the opportunity has never been greater. The cultural Left has hollowed out its own creative well, leaving us with the Woke Hero, the Girl Boss, and the Mary Sue — archetypes so thin and predictable that audiences have simply walked away. Hollywood’s box‑office collapse is not a mystery; it’s a verdict.

This vacuum is a gift. If we write compelling stories — stories with moral weight, human complexity, and genuine heroism — people will come. They are starving for it.

Rebuild Popular Culture from the Ground Up

The battlefield is not just film. It’s everything:

• video games,
• comics,
• novels,
• tabletop RPGs,
• online worlds,
• indie animation,
• podcasts.

The cults have been doing a catastrophically poor job of late. Their ideological constraints make good storytelling almost impossible. The bar is low. We can step over it simply by being competent, imaginative, and honest.

This is how cultures are reclaimed: one story, one world, one character at a time.

Remind People What the West Actually Is

We must remind people, especially the young, that Western civilisation exists, that it is theirs, and that it has made their lives immeasurably better.

It is not a vague abstraction. It is:

• the rule of law,
• individual rights,
• scientific inquiry,
• free speech,
• religious liberty,
• the dignity of the person,
• the separation of church and state,
• the idea that rulers are accountable.

To surrender this inheritance to the ideological barbarians of Marxism and Islam would be an act of civilisational self‑harm.

Build Parallel Institutions

The long march through the institutions has been underway for decades. Universities, in particular, may already be lost. But nothing prevents us from building alternatives.

We can create:

• independent universities that reject Critical Theory,
• classical academies,
• online institutions with rigorous standards,
• apprenticeship‑based professional pathways.

Similarly, homeschooling, charter schools, and partnership schools offer ways to bypass the machinery of critical pedagogy entirely.

The point is not to reform captured institutions; it is to outgrow them.

Expose the Public Sector

In the public sector, sunlight is often the most effective disinfectant.

• Use Official Information Requests.
• Document incompetence.
• Expose ideological capture.
• Publicise the absurdities.

Bureaucracies fear humiliation more than anything else. They can ignore criticism, but they cannot ignore ridicule.

Reclaim the Culture, Not Just the Politics

Politics is downstream from culture, and culture is downstream from imagination.

If we want to reclaim the West, we must:

• tell better stories,
• build better institutions,
• model better values,
• create better art,
• cultivate better citizens.

This is not a short project. It is generational work. But every civilisation that has ever recovered itself has done so by remembering what it is, why it matters, and what it refuses to become.

Shada Islam

'Racial logic is woven into our laws as well as our political, economic and social systems. It shapes access to jobs, housing, education and justice. It informs policing practices, border controls and foreign policy choices. Racialised biases are being stamped into our AI tools'

#euPol #racism #policy #europe #theWest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/27/orban-europe-eu-racism-migration-border

Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly