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Kirill Strelnikov #racist #conspiracy #psycho meduza.io

Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti published an inflammatory column Wednesday titled There’s No Other Option: No One Should Remain Alive in Ukraine by columnist Kirill Strelnikov. The piece argues that Western assessments portraying Ukraine’s military favorably are mere propaganda designed to keep Ukrainians fighting as “laboratory rats” for Western military research

The column contrasts Western praise for Ukrainian military capabilities with Kyiv’s growing setbacks on the battlefield. Strelnikov quotes American think tanks, such as the Atlantic Council, which recently published an article stating that Ukraine is “one of Europe’s leading military powers”[…]
A former editor at Politrussia.com and a regular guest on Russian state television, Kirill Strelnikov is typically introduced as a political analyst. The state-run news outlet RIA Novosti featured his No One Should Remain Alive column [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250730165139/https://ria.ru/prominently[/url] on its homepage. The op-ed concludes that Ukrainians have chosen to “die for their Western masters” and that Russia will no longer try to win their hearts and minds:

The time for coming to one’s senses has passed, and we will no longer make appeals or try to convince anyone. If people are consciously and willingly prepared to die for their masters, that is their choice

Sergey Karaganov #wingnut #conspiracy meduza.io

Sergey Karaganov is one of Russia’s most prominent political scientists and a founding member of the Valdai Discussion Club, which Vladimir Putin has attended regularly for more than two decades. In a recent report, subtitled “The Ideological Foundations of Russia as a Civilizational State,” Karaganov lays out his argument for introducing a state ideology and indoctrinating Russians from childhood in a new “Citizen’s Code”[…]
In 2023, Karaganov published an article proposing a preemptive tactical nuclear strike on a NATO member, such as Poland[…]
At the heart of Karaganov’s new report is a clear assertion: Russia needs a national ideology. “We need a guide”[…]This forward-looking ideology should be backed by the state. It should be instilled in children[…]Without a unifying idea[…]the nation and its people face inevitable stagnation and eventual decline

Russia’s constitution explicitly prohibits state ideology. Article 13 asserts that “no ideology may be established as official or mandatory”[…]Karaganov proposes a workaround. Rather than rewriting the law, he argues, the government could simply rebrand a state ideology as a “living dream for the country”[…]
Karaganov’s report describes Russia as a “civilizational state”[…]
Karaganov goes further than his fellow ideologues. He casts Russia as an “Asian empire,” in the company of China and India, and argues that classical electoral democracy is harmful to Russia’s political system[…]
According to Karaganov, Russia’s optimal governance model is “strong leadership democracy,” supported by a “powerful leader” and backed by a strong and patriotic meritocratic elite[…]
Karaganov criticizes Westerners for “individualism” and a “cult of consumerism” that he claims is imposed by “globalist elites”[…]
In Karaganov’s view, Russia can oppose this “cult” with the “sobornost” (collectivism) its citizens who serve “the people, the country, the state, its embodiment — the leader — and God, if a person believes in him”