Theme: Governance

THE WISDOM OF RUSSIAN TOLERANCE: BUYING TIME.

Russian tolerance for judaism and islam is the same as christian monarchic tolerance for judaism and Islam: when minorities have no access to political power, and you have a state-sponsored, state-owned church, and you have democracy in name only, then it’s possible to USE minorities but not be threatened by them – they have no access to power. And as we saw with the oligarchs, if they obtain it, they can easily lose it. The strong rule.

Now, whether this remains true over time is something else. It’s doubtful Russians will tolerate islamic levels of ignorance spreading into in their society. They will continue to contain it. And it’s possible Russian leadership is just buying time – from what I understand, that’s the case. Because in twenty years, at current rates of reform – especially reforming rule of law in matters commercial and personal – despite the sanctions, Russia will be a major power again – at least in military, petroleum, and resources. And she will have an advantage: a small population. Which is not something that other nations understand. In a post-market economy, where technology has been equilibrated around the world, then a large territory, lots of resources, and a small population and an exemplary military are the most valuable assets.

Why? Population – especially below 90IQ – has become a burden again. Whether russian leadership and thought leadership understands this or not is not something I am privy to. However, *it is the right strategy for them, and for Christendom*.

The Intermarium may choose to go west to the germanic, or east to the finno-russian, or remain lithuanian-polish-ukrainian-czech. I would suggest that latin, germanic, intermarium, and russian civilizations would be more powerful as separate cultures than homogenized.

The only problem is “how do we import german police and judges?” Because that is, largely, the world’s problem with modernity. They cannot create rule of law. Because they cannot evolve a militia into a judiciary, sheriff and police force without even greater risk of instability. This is the only way to end corruption: the ‘economic privilege’ of the military, judicial, sheriff, and police class must be maintained in order to suppress corruption. And this requires a smaller ‘professional’ military, judicial training via the military ethic, and staffing of sheriff (of the court) and police (of the region), and a large militia ‘reserve’ (of the nation). As long as that hierarchy polices its members, and as long as they are well paid, then corruption can be suppressed. But without it – it can’t.

The military protects the people from outsiders. the judiciary and the sheriffs protect the people from the state, and the police protect the people from each other. Russia will succeed because like the japanese, they do not place the market about the nation. Which is the opposite westerners, who place the market above the nation – causing their own demise.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute