A British woman in Ukraine and an observer of Putin’s war

Posted by Guessedworker on Monday, 14 April 2025 00:04.

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Kharkiv, where Putin pursues his regional goals

In central Kharkiv, amid the frequent Russian missile attacks, lives a young British woman with a sharp mind and a clear geopolitical understanding. Her name is Jade McGlynn. She has a PhD from Oxford in Russian, and today she is a researcher and lecturer producing academic work, books and journalism on the Russo-Ukrainian war since 2014, particularly through the filters of identity and memory. She has a substack which holds her already copious body of work. At the beginning of April she published there a long and detailed piece titled Blueprints, from which I will quote. It begins:

In 2021, the Russian Federation released its National Security Strategy, followed in 2023 by its Foreign Policy Concept. At the time—especially in 2021—one might have dismissed these documents as paranoid, backward-looking, or self-aggrandising. But they were not relics. They were roadmaps—not only for how Russia intended to act, but for the kind of world it imagined was coming: a world where might makes right, where transactionalism reigns, and where the last of the three big ideologies—liberalism—finally falls.

This world is no longer speculative. It is reality. The Trump administration is gleefully dismantling the last scaffolding of U.S. global leadership. Europe is fragmented, fatigued, and fearful. Many pretend that American leadership is merely going through a rough patch. It isn’t. A new world order is upon us. And we can either fight for the right to live as we choose—or prepare to live under the terms of a new, illiberal order. Since Western Europe appears unwilling to do the former, what follows may prove useful: a guide to the world we now inhabit, through the lens of the Russian doctrine that foresaw it.

So this is a writer after my own heart. She knows that not just the western rules-based order but the liberalism which underpins it is falling. This is not something the European political class, or Kiev, have yet grasped. They know that the world is changing in dangerous ways. But Dr Glynn has gone beyond that, and is only too aware that the philosophical ground on which the west stands, and on which America is wholly constructed, has been cut away.

Her essay then addresses the delusion much fostered by Vladimir Putin and the Russian intellectual, media, and security cadres – and let it be said, shamefully and uncritically internalised by dissenters in the west. That delusion is that traditional living and the general good is returning in the wake of Russia’s painful advance on the ground in Ukraine:

These [ie, Russian] values are closely tied to patriotism, religion, family, and historical identity. Liberal ideals—such as gender equality, LGBTQ rights, secularism, and multiculturalism—are not just viewed as policy disagreements, but as threats to civilisational integrity. Yet the reality behind this rhetoric is deeply contradictory. Just as Donald Trump—so often cast as a defender of Christian America—is far removed from the Christian values he claims to uphold, Russia’s invocation of traditionalism is hollow. Divorce and abortion rates remain among the highest in the world. The Russian Orthodox Church, far from being a moral guide, glorifies war and incites murder. Minority faiths, particularly Protestants, are harassed and repressed.

Russia’s so-called values are not principles—they are instruments. They serve as political weapons, used to stir up illiberal sentiment among those fearful of modernity and globalism. This moral framing is not about shaping Russia’s domestic future; it is about presenting an alternative global pole to liberalism, designed to appeal to like-minded governments and disillusioned publics. It is not moral renewal, but ideological realignment, grounded in authoritarian control.

All of this leads naturally to the rejection of universal rights in favour of power-based legitimacy. Russia explicitly opposes the liberal conception of human rights as defined by the UN and Western democracies. Instead, it calls for a return to the Westphalian model: a world in which states set their own rules, and legitimacy is derived not from moral claims, but from strength.

Thus Dr McGlynn finds for the position I have argued for the last three years, long before we knew that Donald Trump would be re-elected, let alone that he would support Putin so actively. True, there are too many ways in which the post-1945 rules-based order has been manipulated against the interests of Europeans. But that is a separate issue from the order as such, which – as Dr McGlynn makes clear – is the alternative to Great Power predation:

… I would rather live in a world of hypocrites than nihilists. If norms and law are stripped of moral weight, then force becomes the final arbiter. At its core, Russia’s doctrine is unapologetically militarised. It sees power—not treaties—as the guarantor of sovereignty, identity, and survival.

I, too, would rather fight within a system I know, against weak, predictable men bound by its moral and historical conventions … a system, moreover, that cannot for long accommodate within itself the arbitrary power it came into being to banish. For liberalism is the mortal enemy of all entrenched or concentrated power. Obviously, there is the unwelcome complication that as a secularised form of Christianity it stands in the Judaic line. It apprehends the “sovereignty, identity, and survival” of Europe’s peoples as just such a concentration.

I would not, of course, expect Dr McGlynn to share that understanding. She abides within the historical and intellectual constraints of the western academy, not in our domain of profound separation, and the freedom of mind which that bestows. She does not think as a nationalist thinks. She very likely subscribes to the view that the dead politics of National Socialism and Italian fascism … forms of expansionist nationalism … speak reliably for nationalists today. She then assumes, or appears to assume, that socialism/communism is separate from liberalism. This is a chiefly American view which I do not accept because, as practised in the 20th century, socialism functioned as an extension of, and massification within, the liberal system. It pursued the same unfettered will and, ultimately, genuflected before the same Judaic G-d.

I would very much prefer that decent, thinking people like Dr McGlynn understand how and why we Europeans are still waiting for a nationalism of our life and rights and interests, and that one small part of making the space for it is to order history accordingly.

Tags: Russian Politics, World Affairs

Comments:

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 22 Apr 2025 23:30 | #

“These [ie, Russian] values are closely tied to patriotism, religion, family, and historical identity. Liberal ideals—such as gender equality, LGBTQ rights, secularism, and multiculturalism—are not just viewed as policy disagreements, but as threats to civilisational integrity.”

Russian leadership has it exactly right.

“Yet the reality behind this rhetoric is deeply contradictory. Just as Donald Trump—so often cast as a defender of Christian America—is far removed from the Christian values he claims to uphold, Russia’s invocation of traditionalism is hollow. Divorce and abortion rates remain among the highest in the world. The Russian Orthodox Church, far from being a moral guide, glorifies war and incites murder.”

Spoken like a true leftist tard. The Putin administration is trying to lead the Russian populace out of the anti-Christian culture back into the pro-Christian culture so as to make sure the Russian people survive. Moral and intellectual degenerates such as Jade McGlynn will never accept the truth about why they are so wrong. Afterall, she is a leftist. Leftist are divorced from reality.

Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 23 Apr 2025 07:20 | #

I very much agree with McGlynn that the Kremlin elites are not remotely concerned for the moral and social welfare of the vast panoply of ethnic groups under their control. Their sole concern is oligarchic elitism. The Moscow Patriarch likewise. Russia, as an internal empire, has never been ordered by its elites for the genuine good of the people, not in Tzarist times, nor Soviet times, nor now. It is weak in the head for western dissidents from liberalism to confuse the beaten-down state of Russia’s ethnic societies with some traditionalist or nationalist ideal. Only the power principle holds sway, as McGlynn says, and accordingly life is held cheap. The elites don’t invite the people’s corruption, as has occurred in the west since 1945, because they do not have to in order to maintain their power. Were it otherwise, they would not hesitate to corrupt the people (they have, btw, no objection to diluting their blood, as the moves to replace labour lost to the war by importing Pakistanis shows.)

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 27 Apr 2025 11:04 | #

The Awakening – Look Carefully at This Picture

All of the western government systems, the “new democracy” as it is called, stem from a radically different construct. The intelligence services control the government; the government does not control the intelligence services.

The conflict in Ukraine exists because western intelligence services are controlling it. The reality is this “war” is not the Russian government -vs- the governments of various western nations in support of Ukraine. The true conflict is the western intelligence community vs the Russian government.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/04/26/the-awakening-look-carefully-at-this-picture/

Posted by Guessedworker on Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:14 | #

Another take on inverted self-hatred, then; projected this time on the “western intelligence services”. At least they are not berating white men for “racism”. There is that. But the impulse is the same, and it is pathological ... one of the many pathologies of the racially European mind, after fifteen centuries of the Christ cult and three of liberalism.

Posted by Thorn on Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:54 | #

“European mind, after fifteen centuries of the Christ cult and three of liberalism.”

Fifteen years of ascension; three hundred years of moral decline. Now here we are.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:13 | #

Europeans benefited from fifteen centuries of ascension under Christianity.

Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:18 | #

Ascension (as a cognitive term for a state of presence to the world) has never been got from churches.

The Christ cult raised up Jews by raising (in the other sense, with a z) Europe’s tribes. Faith as a faculty of the higher emotions persists. But Europeans lost their naturally arising faith expression all those centuries ago, and it cannot be got back.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:34 | #

We are living in the era of The Great Apostasy, and it coincides with the steep decline of Europe and its native populations.

Posted by Thorn on Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:50 | #

Bork is spot-on in his analysis on what went wrong in the West.

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
by Robert H. Bork (Author)

In this New York Times bestselling book, Robert H. Bork, our country’s most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling: a nation that slouches not towards the Bethlehem envisioned by the poet Yeats in 1919, but towards Gomorrah.

Slouching Towards Gomorrah is a penetrating, devastatingly insightful exposé of a country in crisis at the end of the millennium, where the rise of modern liberalism, which stresses the dual forces of radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification), has undermined our culture, our intellect, and our morality.

In a new Afterword, the author highlights recent disturbing trends in our laws and society, with special attention to matters of sex and censorship, race relations, and the relentless erosion of American moral values. The alarm he sounds is more sobering than ever: we can accept our fate and try to insulate ourselves from the effects of a degenerating culture, or we can choose to halt the beast, to oppose modern liberalism in every arena. The will to resist, he warns, remains our only hope.

https://www.amazon.com/Slouching-Towards-Gomorrah-Liberalism-American/dp/0060573112

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:21 | #

Humans’ attempts to come to terms with their place in the physical world are as old as the evolution of faith itself. Gods are properly tribal and particular. Europe’s tribes had perfectly serviceable religious forms for thousands of years. Now they are gone and lost to memory, killed by late-Roman political and military power and the will of tyrant kings in subsequent centuries. There is said to have been three thousands gods created by men. Why, then, is one tribe’s deity held up by other tribes as the one god and universal creator? Because universalism, predicated on Yahweh’s seven-day wonder, is a Judaic tribal strategy for the gentile, signalling his as well as his own gods’ conquest. I guess the One God must be the ultimate proto-Marxist. As a European, to worship it to lose self and kind.

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:34 | #

“Why, then, is one tribe’s deity held up by other tribes as the one god and universal creator? Because universalism, predicated on Yahweh’s seven-day wonder, is a Judaic tribal strategy for the gentile, signalling his as well as his own gods’ conquest.”

The problem with that is in Christianity Jesus is God and, of course, most Jews absolutely despise Jesus.

Reminds me of what Fred Scrooby often asserted (paraphrasing): “There has been a 2,000-year war waged by Jews against Euro-Christians / Christendom.”

As I see it, the “Synagogue of Satan” Jews’ most effective weapon lies in the subversion European moral values.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:12 | #

It’s not a problem, my friend. Accepting that Jeshua existed, he was sent to Calvary by a crowd of Pharisees and, probably, members of the other sects scrambling to take over the mantle of Judaism at the end of the Second Temple period. In fact, it was the Pharisees who would go on to win the contest, and from them, of course, the Judaism of modern Orthodoxy emerged some three centuries later. The Christ cult was one of the scramblers, and the only one offering an affirmation of Jewish Chosen-ness and, thereby, Jewish destiny via the universalisation of the “gentile”.

Fred was a treasure, and the living proof that a half-Jew can be one and half times European! If the hyper-ethnocentrism happens to fall that way.

Posted by Thorn on Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:15 | #

Fred also frequently emphasized that organized Jewry was making concerted efforts to “pry open” the borders of European nations allowing masses of third-worlders to unceasingly flood in. What motive could they have for taking such actions, if not to create demographic conditions that most likely will lead to the eventual extinction of native populations? Sarah Maid of Albion aptly referred to it as “Genocide by Stealth.” Moreover, many corrupt traitorous elected pols and leaders of Europe, USA, Canada, Australia ... facilitated the execution of such a widespread genocide through their willing complicity.

Will White people wake up in time to stop their planned demise? Doubtful. They’ve been brainwashed by the 20th-century anti-white ideology called “anti-racism.” Apparently “anti-racism” is the prevailing religion of a significant majority of people of European descent. Mindboggling, I’d say.