Western intellectuals are freaking out over Russia

Editor's note: Considering Japan's continuing subservience (more so after Abe Shinzo's assassination) to the US including sanctions against Russia, this explains why the editor allowed this hit piece to be published in the The Japan Times. Slavoj Žižek the author of this article, is a British asset as the international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London. The Japan Times lifted this article from Project Syndicate. Project Syndicate is touted as "the world's smartest op-ed page." Anything that slanders, falsifies and fabricates anything about Russia under the rubric of "opinion" gets published at Project Syndicate. George Soros's Open Society Foundation and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation partially fund this propaganda operation. There is no "ideological madness" running the US government, their intelligence agencies and military, the media, NGOs and think tanks?

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Source: The Japan Times

Death, glory and warlordism in Vladimir Putin's Russia

There is a sort of religious fundamentalism behind the Russian state's ideological madness

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony on Victory Day in Moscow on May 9, the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. | SPUTNIK / POOL / VIA REUTERS

BY SLAVOJ ZIZEK | February 6, 2023

LJUBLJANA – Rumors are flying about veiled jockeying within Russia over who will replace President Vladimir Putin, now that his war of aggression in Ukraine has gone so disastrously wrong.

Such a struggle cannot fail to expose the morbid pathologies of Russian politics. The key players are not organized political parties but rather gangs of oligarchs who preside over various informal nodes of power.

This explains why Russia's most effective military force on the front line in Ukraine, the mercenary Wagner Group, is not even a part of the Russian Army. Russia is now a land of warlords, something one generally associates with rogue and failed states. Its current and aspiring leaders are trafficking in fever dreams of battlefield glory. Implicit in this martial culture is a Hobbesian view of life as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short — and increasingly cheap.

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