The Sun and the Wind against Russia and Dixie

There are two ways to attempt to break a nation; though there might be thousands of different tactics involved, all boil down to what you might call sun methods and wind methods. For those of us who were fortunate enough to get all or most of our education from outside of the Yankee-born public school system, the Aesop fable of the contest between the sun and the wind is likely familiar. In it, those two forces of nature attempt to get a traveler to lose his cloak, the wind going first: blowing with all his might, he succeeded only in getting the man to clutch his cloak far more tightly than he had before. Then the sun went to work, intensifying its warming rays on him until he instinctively let his cloak fall limply to his side as he walked. Such is an utterly profound lesson to take to heart, though the child who intuitively understands it might not realize just how profound it is until he becomes an adult: there are forces far more powerful than brute force.



Looking around me well into adulthood, I’ve come to appreciate that tale more than I’d ever thought possible in my youth—at least after awakening to the lying nature of the regime and its media and educational allies. Looking around in the current year, we can see perfect embodiments of those two approaches, both used by the Empire, both at home and abroad. In Europe there is a line that divides the Empire’s use of the two, as clear as the old iron curtain, though a bit further to the east. West of it, Rome on the Potomac applied the sun method, using a combination of providing American money for cooperative European leaders (either legal bribes, called “aid,” or the more old-fashioned kind delivered in suitcases), American markets for European businessmen, and American products and consumerism for the European masses—plus American psyops and false flags (e.g., Operation Gladio) for all!



One can see the results most intensely in the homeland of Aldous Huxley, the writer whose dystopian Brave New World has proven even more prophetic than Orwell’s 1984 about how one of the major “victors” in WWII would be brought down. While the Brits did get something of the surveillance state of the latter novel, their post-war existence had nothing of the brutal poverty of Oceania but rather the hedonist delights of the World State city of London: all the drugs, decadence, promiscuity, and instilled conformity of the novel was brought to merry old England, the only thing missing to make it complete being artificial wombs and a drug with the literal name of soma. If the cloak were a metaphor for a people’s freedoms and bloodlines, we can see clearly the sun method’s power in the too-little-too-late resistance that the Brits have put up to the mass immigration that threatens to make them minorities in their own homelands. And the same is true for most of Western Europe (save perhaps for Germany, which being a militarily defeated nation was given the boot-stamping-on-its-face method far more than the others).



For Russia and Belarus, on the other hand, the wind method was used almost exclusively: although there appeared to be a time in the ‘90s when the US seem poised to try the sun approach, the rise of Putin and his successful resurrection of Russian Christianity (not that he alone deserves credit for that, but he aided it rather than opposed it) and Russian nationalism. At that point, the US—rather foolishly from a strategic perspective—ditched any pretense of persuasion and went into full demonize/undermine/destroy mode. They had already abandoned their promise not to move NATO one inch to the east, but following Putin’s rise and attempt to repel the US-backed oligarchs, the Empire began striking back with as much ferocity as could be safely used against a nuclear power: they had aided the Chechen insurgents from the later ‘90s, and in the later parts of the 2000s they used Georgia to attack the Bear, followed in the 2010s by the Maidan Revolution and the arming of Ukraine in an attempt to—according to a publicly available Rand Corporation white paper—provoke Russia, destroy its economy with sanctions, and break it up into several states that, like those in Europe, would be vassals to the Empire. Even beyond publicly available white papers, there was the continuous demonization of all things Russian in American culture.



Dixie is a bit of a mix, at least at first. In the days following the end of Reconstruction there was some attempt at letting sun shine on Dixie—a bit of it out of genuine affection and sense of brotherhood from a people who shared a common history with them (not all of it antagonistic) since before the Revolution, but much of it (and all of it coming from the DC Yankees) to keep the South pacified and willing to commit a disproportionate number of its sons to the service of the Empire’s military machine. But even that much sun was thoroughly cut off after the so-called Civil Rights era, when the winds of popular culture began blowing with frigid force at Dixie, rising to hurricane strength during the 2010s, especially after the Dylann Roof shooting, and reaching the level of a Category 5 during the George Floyd riots.



Like Russia, Dixie now knows there is no going back: though many in the north (I included) will long admire her and wish her people well, the elites will never stop trying to break her as they appear to have broken Britain, will never stop hating her. And perhaps as with Russia, a goodly amount of that hatred stems from her refusal to give up her Christian faith and worship mammon and power, as do many of the Empire’s subjects and virtually all (hat tip here to Ron Paul, Thomas Massie, et al) of its elites, respectively.



And like Russia, which spent the time between the Maidan Revolution and the war with US-puppet Ukraine sanction-proofing its economy and improving its military, Dixie should realize that nonresistance is futile and begin to (peacefully, in its case) prepare itself for conflict with the imperial elites on the Potomac. While it might not be able to equip an army to confront the DC elites, it can, like Russia, prepare its economy to be so self-sufficient, especially in foodstuffs, that a collapse of the imperial currency—which is coming, likely sooner rather than later, and there’s nothing the elites can do about it—would empower it rather than hurt it (as Padraig Martin has pointed out, unlike Mexifornia, Florida has both massive exports and surpluses to boast). Dixie can also culturally look inside itself and to its heroic past for strength; psychologically severing the ties is a prerequisite to eventual political independence in the time of the Empire’s death throes. And if that self-pride (in the good sense) and self-confidence can be made strong enough fast enough, Dixie could likely find the resolve to begin the process—which even the elites’ media admits has overwhelmingly backing of most of the US citizenry—of tightening the screws on illegal immigration.



If Dixie’s citizenry can show itself to be wholeheartedly dedicated to undoing the demographic damage of the Biden years and before, through every peaceful means possible, Southerners could force even the usually sycophantic and sniveling Republican pols to take the effort which Trump is now losing in the elite-packed courts to victory on the state and local level. Get the native Southern labor force to walk out on any businesses greedy enough to sacrifice their own people for cheap labor and simultaneously have Southern consumers boycott them until they turn out the illegals, and then keep the pressure on by preventing any welfare agencies in the South to allow them to live on the dole - make the sun of native Dixie shine so bright on them that, without using any force against them, they find the heat so intolerable that they scurry back over the border to their own native lands. Such an effort by a people who can’t be demonized more than they already are would even benefit those outside of Dixie: like the St. Andrew’s Cross that could sometimes be seen flying in the newly freed former Soviet Bloc states, so Southern self-deportation efforts could inspire northern (non-Yankee) efforts to rid their own lands of those who only desire to recreate (if unwittingly) the worlds they fled from and who have no love for any people besides their own.

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Trump’s underling’s returning Fort Bragg to its original name while not even being able to bring himself to rededicate it to the Confederate general (though, to be fair, Bragg wasn’t exactly the worthiest of the South’s soldiers—perhaps they should have renamed it Fort Forrest) shows the winds of hostility will never stop blowing out of the former and current swamp of DC. Let Dixie thank God for having been made, like Russia, to endure the less pernicious and effective form of attack and, taking the lesson to heart, begin brightening her own sun to warm her native people and persuade her antagonists to leave her in peace.