INDEPENDENT DIPLOMACY AND GRASROOTS CITIZEN-LED COUNTER OPERATIONS TO IDENTIFY, COMBAT AND DISMANTLE FOREIGN DISINFORMATION AND GLOBAL ANTI-AMERICAN NARRATIVES
Amid war, I reflect as a Black American with no status or recognition equivalent to our political representatives that make decisions on our behalf, “Who speaks for me, an ordinary American citizen to the nations of the world?” The propaganda and interests of the government manipulate and drown out the voices of a nation, pushing citizens in nihilism, lack of spirit, and inability to understand the root of the un-Americanism and anti-Americanism internally and externally. The Trump administration’s Russell Kirkian adaptations about the roots of the American Order through the Heritage Foundation are as bad as their boogeyman in Marxism and won’t save this country. We must peel the layers of propaganda from within and outside that perpetually circulate, agitate and cause political fatigue. To do this and reclaim republican virtue requires a form of independent diplomacy and grassroots citizen-led counter operations to identify, combat and dismantle foreign disinformation and global anti-American narratives, as well as the American imperialist action and narrative that fuels them.
A thing, that people tend to do is forget the power of the citizen; our power to operate of our own accord, and not under and through the rules and guidelines of other institutions. Citizens can form and develop operations of their own and attempt to give life to a “forlorn hope.” People need not be condescending to me, as I do not approach things with naivety, but in knowing that doing nothing does not help create. This world is a whirling fiery process always in friction, always grinding, and humans are not separate from the movement and work of nature. There is no time to rest against those who rule over us and make psychotic decisions, as judge-jury-executioner to all their political adversaries but themselves, on our behalf as a nation.
William Q. Judge stated on Patriotism and a Nation’s Death’
“But you know, as any man who has read history, that patriots may burst their hearts in vain if circumstances are against them. Sometimes it has happened that no human power, not even the force and fury of the loftiest patriotism, has been able to bend an iron destiny aside from its fixed course, and nations have gone out like torches dropped into water, in the engulfing blackness of ruin. Thus, we who have the sense of our country’s fall, though not the power to lift her up at once, cannot do as we would…” (William Quan Judge, The Truth about the East and West, April 1895, p. 126)
Still, I rather not be still and do nothing. The most stupid and unqualified are presented as the representatives of my country to the world, going around telling the world that our country only puts Black people in power because of “DEI” laws, and as a Black American with deep roots to these lands, I am looked at through these lenses in regions my own voice is not heard and my own face (race) is not seen, except through negative depictions.
The Trump administration does not see that their very attitudes have presented to our enemies an opening to wound us in subtle ways, that have become obvious over the decade. Even the ideas this administration (like Miller in From Jerusalem to Philadelphia!) represents, which is that of the Heritage Foundation which is built on the ideas of Russell Kirk on the roots of the American Order and not Benito Mussolini, are not being adequately challenged by the Left and Liberal elite.
The American Minervan is a platform I created for reviving and re-constructing civic republicanism as a regenerative force in American thought, politics, and culture within a framework beyond the limitations of Atlanticism and “White ethno-nationalism.” The term civic republicanism and civic nationalism get an eyeroll from those on the Right as much as it does on the Left. They sound too “multiculty” for those in whom extremist political ideas provide psychological pleasure. I have to deal with both sides eyerolling about something. Both political sides are each committed to visions and particular historical interpretations rooted in the drama of the last world wars and after, that I find limiting.
In MAGA, Alt-Right and 4chan (or adjacent) spaces with convergences and divergences, civic nationalism was long rejected, because it wouldn’t save the decline of White birthrates (“The Great Replacement”) and solve immigration crisis throughout the Anglosphere. The political Right uses puppets in other races who knowingly and unknowingly adopt their logic and defend their logic for what they think will solve the “problems of the West,” but I thought that their ideas were being manipulated by other underlying forces injected into our politics.
I would go from the ends of Oregon to the ports of Maine to teach REPUBLICANISM to every American of every race and politic and teach them to reject the advances of the threat, appeal and varied fusions of retrograde Fascism, Nazism, oligarchy, evangelicalism, surveillance and authoritarianism that has risen in this awfully confused country. Fighting these things are more vital than the perspective that thinks the problem with the U.S. is solely because the youth are being conditioned by Marxist theory. It is a dire and rightful reclamation of the word republican, to strip the U.S. political side under its name naked before not merely their political adversaries, but all Americans and the world.
It is meant to show before the world what Americans can be, if voices like mines are given the space to express and develop, not our tech transhumanists, our bigots and those who portray the standard of the American People through White Identity or through any political leader with the underlying typical U.S. imperialist thinking.
It seems, that for some in the world, though they decry the evils of Shaytan in political leadership need the U.S. to be led by those same “shaytani!” If you are in a committed hyper-information war built on deliberate disinformation against the “contemporary West,” bridge-building represents a threat. To disarm it, you flood the psyche of the people with perpetual rage-bait.
One of the other great dangers in the collapse of the Post-War consensus that Jonathan Pageau does not explain is the replacement of the idea of the Liberal Internationalism and the U.S. as Liberators and promulgators of Democracy in a civilizing mission with the opposite and equally nauseous Eurasian narrative-propaganda, etc., of Europe, the U.S. or “The West” as representative of Satan, Baal, Moloch and Epsteinism. Blavatsky, Jamal al-Din and the individual (considered an adept) that went by the title “Turkish Effendi” (published in 1880 in “Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,” No. DCCLXXI Jan. Vol CXXVII) exhibited early examples of this perspective of the West as Moloch, Ahriman, etc. It is similar to equating the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and the Great Whore of Babylon, or saying “the White Man” is Evil, Edomite, Esau, Neanderthal or the Devil.
The thing about the lack of Theosophy in our world today, with the disinformation models of those like Dugin is the obvious distortions and predictable limitations there for American understanding of Eurasia, of the “Islamic world” and the complexities of Middle Eastern cultures within the human story and its relation to the Americas, as opposed to through the lens of Zionist Israel and American Christian Zionist evangelicals.
To the ignorant, that say Theosophy is obsolete because so many other organizations are founded on their principles, I tell you that the world is in the condition it is in, because the kind of institution, synthesis, cultural knowledge and attitudes Theosophy sought to inspire does not yet exist. Blavatsky still loved her motherland (Russia/Ukraine) and spoke positively about the Orthodox Church in her letters to family. The Orthodox Church synod, who became state weapons however made her and Theosophy a scapegoat by instigating against them. The Bolsheviks that would replace them then also further suppressed Theosophy in Russia. Instead of their modern propagandist spearheads like Dugin speaking of “Jewish-Masonic” conspiracies as the tsarists did, it is words like “Baalism,” “Epsteinism,” “Satanism” used to define “The West” in our day.
The ideological roots of Putin’s Russia are different from the Soviets, but his government continues its legacies and tactics by encouraging and introducing all kinds of divisions in internal American activity.
I know Dugin does not like Blavatsky and prefers Guenon and Heidegger for obvious reasons. Why do I as Heidegger believe also in a total “overcoming” of the modern world, in both its liberal-democratic and communist forms, but do not think like Dugin? The mission is different and the influences are different. The reflection is different. The psychology is different. What intellectual and cultural developments we envision are different.
It is through Blavatsky that I developed an interest about Russia, and her upbringing and views were rooted in the Eastern Slavic cultural world, forcing me, as a Black person to reflect on the world outside of my environment and Americanism. A broader Slavic cultural milieu, including folklore and mysticism common in nineteenth‑century Russia in her time is forgotten within a strictly Western-concentrated historical focus on Theosophy and categorization of Blavatsky.
There are other avenues through which we can challenge the barriers between the Islamic world and Europe and America, that is affecting other relationship between other cultures and the West. During Blavatsky’s time, Russia saw itself not as Western, but a bridge between Europe and Asia. She was (1) born in the Russian Empire and shaped by a world that was neither Western European nor colonial in the same way as Britain or France; and (2) the Russian Empire bordered Buddhist regions (Kalmykia, Buryatia, Tuva), making Buddhism a local, familiar tradition, not an exotic foreign one. Her engagement with Buddhism and Hinduism is thus not merely a Western fascination with the “mystical East.” Buddhism was geographically and historically close to the Russian Empire, Russian Oriental studies were well developed in her time, Buddhist monasteries existed within imperial borders, and Eastern Slavic folklore and mysticism already blended Christian, ancestral and esoteric elements, making her attraction to non‑Christian traditions not unusual.
Through the Theosophical Movement, there was an attempt to form a bridge between cultures and civilizations, and Russia formed a spiritual, cultural and geographical bridge between Asia and Europe. We have not seen the flourishing of this bridge, which Internationalism and Globalism cannot achieve as political manipulations, rather than genuine philosophical and cultural synthesis, especially as old ways have died.
There is a strong Slavonian connection to the early Theosophical Movement that is pertinent to this history and shared ancestry particularly in relation to early Vedic and Iranian peoples, and of Russian mysticism and Freemasonry, that have been distorted or deliberately ignored by Christians. Blavatsky (born in the Ukrainian city of Ekaterinoslav later called Dnipropetrovsk) represented the “Soul of Russia” and Ukraine through her Slavophile spirit. The Russophobia and other critiques that usually accompany perceptions about her are unfounded. Her critiques of the West merely provide a window into the deeper histories of Europe and Asia, and challenge narratives and pathologies exhibited by modern political thinking, as it is guided by principles and ideas about the world preceding them.
This cultural and philosophical current represented something very different from what Dugin or Putin think constitutes “Soul of Russia,” and is an antidote to their propaganda tactics and to our own limitations in the West. Conservatives attacked Dugin’s politics as “occult,” which is typical of their ignorance, even using Blavatsky to tie into their American right-wing propaganda about “heretical” and foreign ideas, but evidences have proven otherwise, and my work discredits those who still use these tactics. Dugin is an Orthodox traditionalist, who does not engage in Theosophy, but with the Guenonian tradition which is often hostile and dismissive of Blavatsky to save themselves and the schools of Perennialism. There has been no researcher besides Maria Carlson that I have found thus far who does not sensationalize or define the relation and influence of Blavatsky and Theosophy on Russia through accusations that she was a spy working for Russian Imperialism and for actors in the Great Game. This is all nonsense, and we should eliminate this framing.
In one sense, the particular narrative in Dugin’s disinformation style is a critique grounded only in some facts, which Americans themselves are either aware of and fight against us, or others among us excuse as with the Trump administration. The tactic in the Chinese, Iranian, Russian and other propagandists is to put all of us in the same boat, while spreading and blending in with internal critiques by Westerners themselves. The simplest thing to do is to critique the West with a long running list in our sleep, but we are replacing it in the Duginist view with narratives by those that consider themselves unblemished martyrs and victims of the West’s unipolar order.
The recent death of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei establishes him as a martyr against Shaytan in the narrative of this propaganda — against the embodiment of materialism, of evil, etc, that leads humanity spiritually astray. American evangelicalism invading the Pentagon in G.W. Bush’s era and further entrenching in the era of Trump’s second administration believes that Iran is Satan and a spawn of the Antichrist, and the Islamic Republic of Iran thinks the U.S. is Satan. Such framing and belief can only lead to mutual destruction.
Surely, it is true, that U.S. civilization itself is an obvious self-contradiction that embodies anti-republican traits (e.g. a perverted superficial culture of hyper-consumerist materialism incompatible with the essential wisdom of all religions and everything sacred man has held dear), and this is an example of factors leading people to various types of SOCIALISM to solve the inequalities created by a condescending political class that make excuses for, generate then gaslight us and their voters about those inequalities. Do they want to fix the problem, or are they accelerating the problems as a clever tactic to gain and maintain power over their own narrative about what is at the core of our societal problems?
“From another perspective, however, secular or anti-religious socialism is exceptional, and religious socialism common. The vast majority of the socialist predecessors of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were acutely religious. Especially in France, socialists found religion integral to their political vision. After the mid-19th century, socialists even became founders of new spiritualist occultist religious movements. The role of socialism as a secularising force in the 19th and 20th centuries was coincidental, and not inherent to socialism itself. In fact, socialists had a vital and productive relationship with religion.” (Julian Strube, How Socialism helped to seed the Landscape of Modern Religion)
The culture — the entire U.S. society is built on a false dream to inspire “competition” and ingenuity, that American liberty and freedom is based upon giving the illusion to every citizen that they too could enter an ever-imaginary Middle-Class or Upper-Class and climb the ladders of the social and economic class and prove the haters in our egotistical lives wrong. It is a society built on an unsustainable and unattainable ideal, that as Americans we should be more honest about. All this constitutes what became American Greatness; and some will say, this is an essential attitude of the Atlanticist and of the Anglosphere, as opposed to the spiritual Orient. The kind of romanticizations of the Occident become believed in by philosophers of the Orient, which they have incorporated in their propaganda!
The narrative implies that the solution to this evil is to destroy it, destroy its leaders, or even conquer it (or delight in its fall or accelerate it) to replace the evil. One way of doing this was through a hyper-information war, which has succeeded in its objectives.
Aleksandr Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory (4PT) rejects the three modern ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism) as exhausted, proposing a postmodern synthesis of traditionalism, multipolarity and Eurasian integration against Western (Atlanticist) hegemony. It draws on Heideggerian Dasein, esoteric traditionalism (e.g., Guénonian tradition), and geopolitics to advocate civilizations as actors, with Russia as a Eurasian pole opposing U.S.-led unipolarity. I do not see things this way, and for my own country propose a counter operation to revitalize republican traditions as a bulwark against anti-American propaganda that merely universalizes our own internal extreme political polarity on the global stage as a weapon against us.
This civilizational weaponizing of information and political-philosophical ideology constitutes an effective strategic attack, that has subtly blended into Americans’ own uncertainties, insecurities, lack of knowledge and critiques against our own corrupt political class.
People like Dugin are not from the West and do not care for its fate, except to see it decline and subordinate. Like Dugin, I reject U.S. led unipolarity and world military surveillance and find our foreign policy and affairs to exhibit extremely poor style of leadership. It exhibits a particular Western attitude that has characterized political leadership that Alan Watts on “Ecology and Religion” dissected well. However, the difference is that this analysis and critique of the West by someone from the West does not covet a hatred for the U.S. and would not suggest destabilizing the unipolar order out of hatred for the West or the U.S., but because I know the great history, value and potential of other nations and peoples who also deserve greatness.
So, my perspective differs from Dugin, Putin and Xi, and just as President Trump attempts to present his vision as the Americanist vision, the world believes it, because the U.S. has always operated dishonestly, without being as blunt and ignorant as this Trump administration. So, Americans are joining in on the critiques of the U.S. as is necessary and our right in our political system, but that is it. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Munich recently faced harsh criticism from many in the U.S. on her understanding of international relations, decrying Marxist-adjacent determinist explanations of history, while Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) and the rest of the Trump administration are promulgating their evangelical Americanist imperialism in West Europe as the alternative to globalism and leftist ideology.
Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory represents anti-Enlightenment ideology, viewing liberalism not as the end of history (or as final political theory), but as the ultimate enemy, seeking alliances with illiberal forces, but my views are neither pro-Enlightenment nor anti-Enlightenment. Instead, I champion and defend the highest ideals of Enlightenment republicanism (e.g., secularism), but critique superficial understanding that has led to and bred materialist habits, reframing, e.g., Western classics (Cicero, Petrarch) as positive to our development and against arbitrary power — directly opposing Dugin’s traditionalist critique of modernity.
Where perspectives like Dugin promote esoteric multipolarity (e.g., Eurasian vs. Atlantic), I propose eclectic American republicanism as an inherently unifying force for the U.S., countering internal hegemonic political order with a factual, inclusive lineage that open American minds to the grander human migratory story that continues to shape our nations and what we can do to improve beyond the superficialities of “multiculturalism.” This is not centered on the “Greatness of Whiteness,” Western Europeanism, anti-liberal zealotry, traditionalism, Americanism, the “return to European Paganism” nor “Christendom.” All these are maladjusted ideals of the psychotic.
We should support grassroots civic empowerment and expansions of mutualism against state-guided economies and traditional hierarchies, but socially, this multicultural republicanism (on the basis of pre-racist classical origins) is the strongest counter to the artificially divisive ethno-cultural essentialist exclusionism that has distracted and radicalized so many American men and youth.
Dugin might critique this as mere Atlanticist ideology, but Dugin’s multipolarity is not genuine. It is merely a mask for Russian imperialism and his own pain, hence, just changing brutal systems of domination for another mirroring brutal system of domination at its basis is a political machination republican theory warns and protects against. Republican theory depends on civic action processes. It depends on the People, of whom our political representatives are of and inseparable from; and not as some elite financial, business and political class, as exists now in the corruption of the system.
Anyone that would adopt any kind of nihilism (superficial, psychological, cultural or Nietzschean) towards the latter statement do not understand the roots of the American system, which is REPUBLICANISM, that many of you seek to burn to the ground and expose it more to those who are starving to wean off the great blot. The system works, but it depends on humans, inclusiveness, spiritual regeneration, virtue and moral character, not machines. It needs true citizens of character to embody it, and those that would rebut that it is impossible to do so do not understand the system and should not be placed in positions of social commentative, intellectual and political influence. You — all of you (of every social class) choose those who rule and govern you, or work for you. You still indeed do have power on all local levels, which affects everything else!
Understanding REPUBLICANISM, particularly as a philosophy of moderation (financially, morally, etc) and with good measures to determine civic knowledge and attitude toward the People and our relation to the world by our elected leaders, it is the best complementary aid and defense in detecting corrupt populists (or false political prophets) and aspiring despots among us. Do not delegate all action to politicians, to activists, to intellectuals and so forth. It is also the duty of every citizen to help curb political poisons that gnaw at the civic structure of the system in the psyche of their fellow citizens through the light of knowledge, courageous radical love and solidarity in commitment against unjust systems.
This is the counter against the sweaty transhumanists, the nihilists and confused morass of self-caused and digital hyper-information invading and distracting Americans from seeing other possible futures for themselves besides “burning the whole system down” or giving into technocratic feudalism. I’ve noticed that those especially who fall into the rationale, that the system needs to be burned down are the most vulnerable to moving into ideologies and systems that have become hostile themselves to an order only salvageable through human clarity, resolve, moral development and ethical revolution. No change to any system will ever change that, and REPUBLICANISM recognizes that it is determined and cultivated by the citizen within, not machines or economic systems. The economic despair and generational nihilism must be fought against through solidarity, because our political class is aging. Their times will come, and we will be left with their decisions and the cycle of political struggles that have defined the last two centuries, which we can break.
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