Russia, from top to bottom

I’m cross with Gen. Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia’s Security Council and by some accounts second only to Putin in the government.

You see, realising that most of my readers are fed up with stories about Russia, I usually try to ration them in this space. Hence, since I pondered the fine aspects of Russian religiosity yesterday, I was going to write about something else today.

But Patrushev has made it impossible. The interview he gave yesterday to a Russian newspaper is so full of fascinating titbits that all other news has to recede into the background.

No turn was left unstoned: the Rothschilds, Soros, the West’s decadence – and especially the global corporations, Russia’s real adversary in the on-going war. These have total control not just of the Ukraine but of the West in general, including the US, that notorious colossus with feet of clay.

“Transnational corporations are nervous about the divergence in philosophies and ideas between Russia and the countries controlled by Western capital,” explained Gen. Patrushev, former director of the FSB. “These corporations only pursue wealth and a growing consumer society. Russia, on the other hand, stands for a sensible balance between spiritual and moral values, and socioeconomic development.”

The good general then directly blamed those dastardly concerns for committing aggression against Russia, using the Ukraine and Nato as their proxies or, to be more exact, puppets.

He didn’t bother to explain why and how those corporations’ pursuit of wealth would benefit from their vicarious war on Russia’s moral and spiritual values. That went without saying.

However, what does seem to require some commentary is the way those values manifest themselves in practice. An important disclaimer is in order: left outside the discussion must be the bombing of Ukrainian cities, along with the murdering, looting and raping of civilians en masse.

For Russia isn’t to blame for any of that, it’s those global corporations what done it. Otherwise one might think Russians hate Ukrainians, which can’t be the case.

After all, Patrushev invariably refers to them as “our fraternal people”. So it’s not really Ukrainians who are being murdered, looted and raped. It’s Soros, the Rothschilds and directors of transnational corporations.

I get it, the Russians and the Ukrainians are brothers. That, however, doesn’t mean the former can’t chastise the latter – the Bible says so, and that’s the book all Russians, including Gen. Patrushev, live by. And that book tells a few stories about some siblings being beastly to others. Cain and Able? Joseph and his brothers? So there’s no contradiction there.

But let’s look at a few international indices unrelated to warfare but related to things moral, spiritual and socioeconomic. Once we’ve done that, we’ll know how Russia strikes a perfect balance among them all.

So here are the most recent available data divided in several rubrics.

Abortion Rate is one unfailing indicator of Christian, and generally moral, virtue. And there Russia, at 53.7 per 1,000 women per annum, comfortably leads the world, leaving the nearest competitors Vietnam (35.2) and Kazakhstan (35.0) in her wake.

Russia’s Public Sector Corruption Index stands at 86, as opposed to 3 in Britain, 2 in Germany and 7 in France, all of them materialistic and decadent. That’s another proof of Gen. Patrushev’s assertions: Russia refuses to abide by the materialistic bourgeois rules fostered by global corporations.

Britain, with her runaway Crime Rate, has 131 prisoners per 100,000. Russia boasts 329, which proves her intolerance of illegal activities and the sterling standards of her law enforcement.

In Divorce Rate Russia narrowly misses the medals position – she comes in at Europe’s Number 4. However, she gets the bronze in Opiate Addiction Rate: third in the world, behind only Afghanistan and Iran.

So much for the spiritual and moral values. Alas, though it pains me to say so, one has to take issue with Gen. Patrushev’s claim on that score, if only on the basis of the data cited.

He is, however, on much safer ground in his second claim, one about Russia’s disdain for socioeconomic development, that obsession imposed by the transnational corporations on the world they’ve created in their image.

In Quality of Life Index, Russia comes in at Number 70 of the 79 countries listed, finding herself between Colombia and Pakistan. And in Health Index Score, measuring the efficacy of the healthcare system, Russia is second from the bottom, between Morocco and Tajikistan.

Now, juxtaposing Gen. Patrushev’s view of the world with the cold facts, one has to reach an unavoidable conclusion: Russia is a hellhole unfit for human habitation. But her people have been brainwashed by centuries of propaganda to believe in their own innate superiority.

That phenomenon, when exhibited by individuals, is amply described in psychiatric literature. When exhibited by a large country, especially one led by the likes of Gen. Patrushev, that psychosis creates a predator pouncing on everyone within reach and committing midnight horrors along the way.

Such individuals must be forced into a straitjacket and committed. And such countries must be stopped in their tracks before they blow up the world. Then and only then could we discuss the possible therapy and course of treatment.

For we don’t want Russia to impose her moral and spiritual values, along with her socioeconomic development, on us. Gen. Patrushev and his jolly friends must be made to practise their virtues within Russia’s own borders.