Christian Heiens 🏛
So many on the Dissident Right in America were actually quite receptive towards Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine because they saw everything leading up to this conflict to be just a thinly veiled attempt to spread yet more gay race communism to another country on the periphery of a West which had been thoroughly hijacked by Progressives. “We helped topple the Ukrainian government and then incited a war with Russia so we could queer the Donbass” was the logic. And in contrast to this, Russia was seen as a countervailing force against Progressivism. It was the last European country to be insulated from the modern Neo-Marxist Left because, paradoxically, it had been dominated by the older Marxist Left for 80 years and thus was spared the corrosive social effects of Liberal modernity even as it suffered under the corrosive economic effects of Communism. This gave some on the Dissident Right the idea that Russia, having been spared from DEI, transgenderism, replacement migration, oikophobia, and anti-White hatred, could actually be the savior of the West by defeating it in Ukraine. A Russian victory on the battlefield would end the relentless foreign policy objective of the EU and NATO to export Wokeism abroad, and once that train had been halted, its aura of inevitability would crumble, leading to an unraveling of the entire project and a return to an older more traditional Europe that loved itself rather than the modern Europe that appears hell-bent on suicide. When you frame things this way, that the West is irredeemably captured by an ideology that seeks to weaponize the resources of the West to spread itself across the globe even as it dissolves the West itself from within, it’s easy to understand why so many in the DR were Russophiles in 2022. But what has happened since then? Right-wing Westerners found out that Russians on X are militantly anti-West, not merely anti-Progressive. Even worse, they’re pro-Third World and pro-Islam. Virtually without exception, Russian public figures are almost universally arrayed against the West as a concrete civilization with a concrete people. They’re not fighting an ideological war against race communism like so many on the Right originally thought, they are perpetuating one…just of a slightly different variation than our Progressive parasites here at home. They don’t see themselves as belonging to Western Civilization, despite being settled by Norse Vikings over a thousand years ago and adopting Orthodox Christianity in the early Middle Ages. They see themselves as a distinct Eurasian Civilization locked in a struggle with the West. Just listen to what Alexander Dugin has to say about the West, about Europe, and about America compared to what he says about India. It’s clear he views his role in politics and his home country’s place in history not as one to save the West from itself, but rather as one to defeat and ultimately destroy it. Well that’s great if the only thing you care about is ensuring that Progressives lose, but what about the rest of us who have nowhere else to call home? No other civilization or inheritance to call our own? That’s why so many on the Right have turned against the Russians over the last few years. Sometimes, the enemy of your enemy is just another enemy.