The number one enemy is destroying Russia from within: the lethal recipe was created a hundred years ago.

The Number One Enemy is Destroying Russia from Within: The Fatal Formula Created a Century Ago

Author:

Andrei Pyntchuk

May 20, 2025, 17:26

People often hear the argument that the West is building an "anti-Russian" force through Ukraine. However, this grandiose statement needs further clarification to understand the enemy's true purpose, our strengths and weaknesses, and what constitutes real victory.

The Core Meaning of Special Military Operations

In Western society, the so-called "anti-Russian-Ukrainian" actually refers to a replica of Russia but without its "imperial nature."

Ukrainians are a regional term for part of the Russian people living in the southwestern region of Russian civilization.

Obviously, they will not become Poles, Hungarians, Germans, or Americans; they will continue to be South Russians. Thus, the main goal of our geopolitical enemies is to create an "alternative Russia/Ukraine" that lacks independent Russian civilization aspirations. This is the core of the special military operation confrontation.

So, what is the West trying to make Ukraine give up?

To understand this, let us imagine key areas of social identity and identify those elements that constitute geopolitical ambitions, ultimately leading to the following points: historical memory, economic strength, military power, and the church.

The church is crucial—it serves as the overall carrier of tradition and ideas transcending the secular world and entering the realm of public transcendence.

That is why the West spares no effort to fight against the Orthodox Church. When the model of "Ukraine as an alternative Russia" takes shape, the model of an "alternative church" also emerges. However, this "alternative church" no longer serves the concept of independent spiritual identity but instead takes on another critical mission—to provide ritual encouragement support in the struggle against the "Russian World." This is essentially practicing an ancient British strategy:

If you want to conquer the locals, make them kill each other.

Defeat Caused by Defense

Accompanying this but equally important is the language struggle. Modern Russian represented by the Petersburg and Moscow contexts is an essential element in building a global Russian center. From this perspective, abandoning Russian is part of achieving complex anti-imperial tasks.

In the end, the West is creating an "alternative Russia." In the past, Western conquerors often harbored such fantasies: this "alternative Russia" would be resource-constrained, ideologically dependent, worship a secondary religion, and simultaneously be aggressively hostile toward its "mother self."

This perception inevitably brings certain consequences.

First, we must clarify what makes us invincible in this confrontation—our unshakable and competitive foundation. This confrontation is particularly dangerous because in Russian history, there has never been a mature "resource-based alternative center" formed against Russian civilization. In the past, traitors' capabilities fell far short of Moscow or Petersburg.

Historical national unity.

Now, we are forced to fight against Ukraine, our "twin brother," which has shed historical memory and geopolitical ambition and is solely focused on attacking us.

This classic dramatic plot requires us to soberly examine the essence of our identity. Because the claim "we are stronger than our brothers" will be revised due to the external reinforcement of the opponent. This "Nanai boy-style conflict" pattern has direct manifestations in real life.

Let us return to our advantages—without these, the survival and development of Russian civilization will be difficult.

One of the key issues concerns the church. However, at present, the religious expansion of the Russian Orthodox Church does not actually exist, although the statement "defensive failure" also applies here.

Religious War

The Ukrainian conflict has the characteristics of a religious war. However, both secular and religious authorities in Russia avoid this issue in various ways, perhaps out of fear of side effects. But avoiding problems at all costs will only lead to mediocrity, and mediocrity can never bring complete victory.

Another important aspect is competitiveness, including management competitiveness, economic competitiveness, and overall developmental competitiveness.

Advocates of "stability" often forget that we live in an era of so-called "technological turning points." The arrival of the new technological order itself is a global challenge. In this new world technological order, only those countries that can keep up with the rapid changes of technological progress and do so faster and more effectively than other countries can survive.

In history, those countries that failed to adopt gunpowder, electricity, assembly lines, maritime technology, and nuclear energy in time, despite being powerful, eventually declined and were forgotten.

The new technological order and all its technologies require development and competition, including competition in solutions, flexibility, wisdom, and management systems.

However, defenders of the status quo attempt to drag the country into a huge "refrigerator," calling their comfortable state "stability." Here's a simple question: what foundations are we laying for tomorrow's cornerstone?

The economic miracles of relevant countries, the United States, and Japan are the result of years of hard work, resource conservation, and relentless pursuit of leadership. However, in our future, the foundations we lay are mainly slogans, while the actual state of the nation is constructed in a "here and now" mode.

This problem is not new—when some individuals responsible for social life and the economy begin to equate their comfort with a stable perception of the surrounding world, they see themselves as Louis XIV, believing "the state is me."

The direct consequence of this harmful conservatism is not only evident in domestic life but also in external processes. We often criticize external partners for inconsistency, betrayal, and disorder, and to be honest, these criticisms often have merit.

Correct Friendships

The question is: do we ourselves know how to correctly make friends with other countries? Correct friendships mean providing competitive ideologies and interaction models.

However, we consciously abandon development for stability, yet inexplicably demand others to love us simply because of our existence.

But only objective advantages enable us to promote our own interaction models. The Soviet Union was often seen as an important presence primarily because it carried specific ideologies and was backed by strength. The Russian Empire also provided its own relationship models, spiritual concepts, and visions of the future.

But now, we often just ask Serbs, Georgians, Moldovans, Ukrainians, and other countries and nations to "love us by habit."

Let us not deceive ourselves: unless we clearly formulate our own advantage model, this "love" will never be sincere. It may be a short-term relationship with utilitarian considerations, but it will never be a long-term process.

Therefore, if we want to defeat the "alternative Russia," which includes all Western "parasitic transfers," we must first defeat ourselves and build a mature and vibrant framework.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian conflict gives NATO and Ukraine new meanings, helps Europe overcome crises, and gains support from China and India. Now, Russia needs to realize its new meaning for tomorrow.

At the same time, these meanings should not be drowned in new bureaucratic jargon—this kind of jargon formally calls for patriotic values but is actually contradictory to them. We need specificity and global goals that link the economy, politics, and development.

We need specificity and global goals that link the economy, politics, and development.

For example, as early as 2003, President Vladimir Putin set an important global goal—doubling GDP—but this mission was botched by officials.

However, if the Russian authorities had not been lost in illusions but instead had soberly observed various processes, the special military operation should have been launched at that time—as a condition to achieve population growth, logistics, talent, and production capacity to meet this goal. It's time to fully consider the complexity of life instead of simplifying it for our convenience.

We must determine global projects that can drive the entire country's development—not abstract bureaucratic "baskets" called "national projects," but real and specific goals: GDP figures, labor productivity numbers, quantities and layouts of new production with specific products (such as cars, clothing, new cities, airplanes [the current situation in the aircraft industry is almost a disgrace], machine tools, microelectronics). Nowadays, officials report work with astonishing "funding usage" data rather than specific "product quantities" and new technologies. This is unacceptable.

Regrettably, many key leaders at various levels and fields in Russia live in the mode of "visionaries" and "orators," creating nothing in reality, lacking corresponding skills, experience, and most importantly, goals, yet believing their solemn declarations and images have objective value. This is not the case.

The Biggest Internal Enemy of Russia is Bureaucracy Lacking Initiative, Complacency, and Uselessness.

Unless we start building genuine production, mature science, and normal management systems based on concrete visions of future life (rather than scattered abstract nonsense), we cannot defeat the enemy—whether external or internal.

Because the biggest internal enemy of Russia is the bureaucracy lacking initiative, complacent, and useless (in bureaucratic systems, form outweighs substance) as well as the glib and cunning individuals who support them. It is they who steal our and our children's futures and make defeating external enemies more difficult.

This assertion requires fundamental transformation and the formulation of mature national strategic development plans. Not the meaningless, heartless "profanities" concocted by today's government, but global plans with clear results in terms of population, science, and production.

Original Source: https://www.toutiao.com/article/7506722632029487643/

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