BBC's handpicked Russophobic guest today (adviser to defense): To get to peace we need more weapons. Peter Klevius: So should West also give more weapons to Hamas?

Peter Klevius history lesson with a "winology" update: West started its series of unprovoked attacks on Russia 1609 when it was weak after multiple Mongol attacks. This two-front threat resulted in the world's largest country - and a Russophobic "mongol complex".

 

Understanding the threat from US nukes on Russia's border (starting 2013) is precisely why Putin* in the first place, but in vain (until Trump 2.0), has asked for negotiations about the threat West has escalated on Russia. 


* Before US nuke threat on Crimea 2013 and US 2014 toppling of Ukraine's president, sanctions against Russia, and support for Ukraine's Nazi militia's attacks on Russian speakers in Donbas, Putin had made every effort to build peaceful trade relations with EU. And even after 2014 Russia still offered Nord Stream, i.e. the first pipeline that bypassed Ukraine and Poland to deliver cheap high quality Russian natural gas directly to West Europe. 

Most of Europe is now following the military path of Hitler's Nazi-Germany which biggest arms company Rheinmetall now has seen a similar upbeat and has surpassed VW.

Western "Winology" Sinophobia, together with classic Russophobia constitute the knot that keeps Ukrainians and Russians unnecessarily dying while UK/EU constitute the main obstacles for peace, and instead promote arms production instead of EVs and green energy with the help of world leader China. 

The “Winology” theory combined with Peter Klevius' analysis of the consequences of US' 1971 dollar theft against the background of China's rise, puts bare two possibilities to avoid US total economic and social bankruptcy because of the buildup of debt US embezzlement since 1971 has created. One is to contain China by weakening its most powerful ally Russia, and the other is to join Russia so to weaken its ties with China. However, although both are doomed to fail, the second one gives peace a chance and possibly - with some help from China - a softer landing for US. 

China’s economy is often downplayed or framed as a threat rather than a legitimate global force. A growing body of thought, dubbed “winology,” suggests this isn’t accidental, but a symptom of deeply ingrained Western biases that systematically undervalue China’s economic and technological advancements. This theory, originating with Chinese academics, proposes that the West maintains a hierarchical worldview, hindering fair recognition of China’s achievements and potential.

Coined by Chinese scholars, winology isn’t simply about China wanting to “win” against the West. It’s a framework for understanding how nations can simultaneously achieve global leadership in specific domains and gain appropriate recognition for those achievements. The core argument is that a historical power dynamic, rooted in two centuries of UK and later US dominance, has created a mental model where China is automatically relegated to a lower tier. This isn’t necessarily about direct malice, but a subconscious adherence to a pre-existing global hierarchy.

Peter Klevius comment: It rests both on pure ignorance due to medial and political brainwashing, as well as on actually understanding China's real strength and potential but for various reasons not willing to admit it but rather to continue blocking (using the empty "China threat" ranting) cooperation that would benefit both sides.

Some interpretations of winology, particularly circulating on social media, have sparked controversy, with claims of a perceived ranking of global citizens based on ethnicity – Germanic peoples as “first-class,” Latins and Slavs as “second or third-class,” and Chinese as “fourth-class.” While these interpretations are contentious and not universally endorsed even within the winology framework, they highlight the sensitivity surrounding perceptions of global power and cultural bias. It’s crucial to understand that the academic theory focuses on national positioning, not individual worth.

Peter Klevius comment: Interestingly black/colored people are lacking from this analysis, perhaps because they are somehow put on top (or bottom if you like) due to the senseless and scientifically completely unfounded "out-of-Africa" mantra that is in fact a racist pity "compensation". Africa's previous backwardness in development was due to "Abrahamic" slave trade during 1400 years - not due to lack of talent. 

Trump's peace plan addresses the root cause (US/NATO meddling, incitement, aggression, and 2022 ultimate nuke (US/NATO) provocation posing an existential threat to Russia's security)* to the Ukraine civil war against Russian speakers, while UK/EU want to continue the slaughtering by blocking any resolve with the imposible "no territorial change". Compare occupied West Bank and Gaza where no Palestinian have had any say!

* As Trump 2.0 seems to have realized that US cannot beat China even if Russia is crippled, he instead tries to commercially tie up Russia with US. That's why he in early 2025 admitted that US (Obama/Biden) incited the Ukraine war. Since Obama, US aim has been weakening Russia and demonizing its leader. While Putin worked hard for peaceful trading with EU, Obama instead planned to attack Russia's rented naval base on Crimea 2013. And for that purpose Obama ordered a poll about Crimeans. However, when that poll showed overwhelming anti-Ukrainian and pro-Russian sentiments, Obama changed his plan. And when Putin, inspired by Obama's poll, later let the Crimeans decide in an official referendum, they overwhelmingly voted for belonging to Russia. However, US/Obama/CIA then started supporting the neo-Nazi militia's civil war against Russian speakers in Donetsk and Luhansk, which led to them voting for autonomy and belonging to Russia, which Putin approved 2022. 


Finland's president Alexander Stubb, who - like Peter Klevius (although clearly lacking Peter Klevius intelligence - just follow Stubb's meaningless and empty opportunistic ranting), belongs to the tiny Finland-Swedish minority which has rights Russians in Ukraine and the Baltic states can only dream about - stubbornly follows a path that is detrimental for both Finns and Ukrainians.    

Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk were mainly Russian speaking parts which Ukraine's Russophobic leadership from 2013-14 on not only oppressed and denied their Russian identity, but on top of it after 2014 also militarily attacked them with neo-Nazi militia. On 30 September 2022, Putin signed accession treaties with the four leaders of the regions, Leonid Pasechnik, Head of the Luhansk People's Republic; Denis Pushilin, Head of the Donetsk People's Republic; Yevgeny Balitsky, governor of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast; and Volodymyr Saldo, governor of the Kherson Oblast.

* Compare China's peaceful de-radicalization of Islamic State Uyghur jihadism lmported from Syria to commit similar terrorist acts as Sunni islamist (al-Aqsa Brigades etc.) did in Israel, with the Jewish theocracy Israel's response.

Zelensky is a corrupt war criminal by any standard - so what does it tell about his supporters?

When Zelensky became president 2019 he did nothing to stop the genocide* and miltary attacks against Russians speakers, and 2022 refused to negotiate a peace plan and how to stop the genocide and the NATO expansion of US nukes on Russian border in Ukraine.

Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin liberated Moscow from the first Western attacks.

 

Early 17th century both Sweden and Polish-Lithwenian Commonwealth attacked Russia, hence staring the long Western history of anti-Russian Russophobic state propaganda, where the last example is US campaign from 2013 on which unashamedly utilized a Ukrainian fascist Nazi movement with roots in WW2. US toppled the elected president and encouraged and supported the civil war against majority Russian speaking populations in Ukraine. 

Polish-Lithuanian Sigismund III was the first Westerner to invade Russia in 1609 when it was plagued by a civil war known as the Time of Troubles. Millions of Russians died because of Sigismund's unprovoked full scale invasion. Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin liberated Moscow from the aggressor. 

The Russian army, led by Prince Pozharsky, was credited with clearing the Moscow Kremlin of Polish forces on November 1, 1612. Minin distinguished himself as a skilled commander and was made a nobleman and member of the boyar duma under the newly elected tsar of Russia Michael Romanov. He died in 1616 and was interred in the Archangel Cathedral of Nizhny Novgorod. A central square of that city is named after him and Prince Pozharsky. 

How Russia stopped the Crimean slave trade

8 January 1784 Crimea was formally incorporated into the Russian Empire as Taurida Oblast. Catherine the Great visited her newly-claimed territories in an elaborate tour during 1787.
The annexation brought an end to the Jewish/muslim Crimean slave trade.

The muslim Ottomans attempted to reclaim Crimea in the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792, but were defeated and forced to again acknowledge Russian rule in the Treaty of Jassy. 

Stopping the ugly but profitable slave trade spurred a mass exodus of Tatars from Crimea; an estimate by Arsenii Markevich suggests that the Tatar population declined from approximately 300,000 at the time of the annexation to 170,000–180,000 in the aftermath of the 1792 treaty.

Russophobia is a mix* of racist Yellow Peril and Red Scare propaganda, and rests on the diversity* of the mongol complex* that Peter Klevius was the first to address on the web more than 20 years ago.

* After WW2 Finland was targeted by US because of it bordering Russia. US (+allies like UK and France) arranged the 1952 Olympics to Helsinki. US also arranged that the first Miss Universe title was given to 17-year old Armi Kuusela who then, as the only Miss Universe, to be crowned with the Russian Romanov Imperial Nuptial Crown that was previously owned by the Russian monarchy. This as an anti-Communist message.


Peter Klevius (see below) has for long pointed out how Mongol attacks and invasions in Europe came to both create the greater Russia as a defensive measure, as well as how they also, as a consequence, came to create the Western Russophobic view of Russians as a dangerous mix with Mongols. In Finland this culminated in what Peter Klevius calls the "mongol complex" which mixed anti-Saami sentiments with anti-Russia sentiment after WW2.

The Mongol attacks, primarily during the 13th and 14th centuries, involved a series of military campaigns that led to the creation of the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire. These invasions resulted in significant devastation across Eurasia, including the conquest of parts of China, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, with many cities destroyed and populations decimated.

Carl Gustav Mannerheim, who rode a (coward?) tightrope between Hitler and Churchill, had to redo a year in school at age 16 - just like Peter Klevius, but due to a very different background. As a militaristic aristocrat Mannerheim was securely embedded at the top anyway, while an abused foster boy like Peter Klevius who had been kidnapped at age two, was told that his foreign citizenship excluded him from free higher education. So Peter Klevius used much of his school time on library where he studied his beloved science etc. topics, well knowing that at home he would have almost no time for it because of all works he had to do there. And at the age of 17 he was told to go back to his country of birth because the foster family would no longer get paid for him.

Finland's war on the Nazi side against Russia

In July 1941 the Finnish Army of Karelia was strengthened by the German 163rd Infantry Division. They retook the Finnish territories annexed by the Soviet Union after the Winter War, and went further, occupying East Karelia. Finnish troops took part in the Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin pressured Churchill to declare war against Finland, a decision that was particularly difficult for Churchill due to his close acquaintance with Mannerheim. Churchill delayed the declaration and sent a personal note to Mannerheim, in which he recalled their past encounters and warned Mannerheim about the impending declaration. Mannerheim thanked Churchill for his thoughtfulness and responded that his mission was to ensure Finland's security.

While Russia payed  a heavy toll when liberating Europe from Nazism, US and UK firte-bombed sivilians far from the frontline.

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