What Could Iran’s Defeat Mean for Us?
Author: Andrey Fursov, Director of the Center for Russian Studies at the Institute of Fundamental and Applied Research, Moscow Humanities University
Original article: Клинок, направленный в сердце Евразии
When the focus of power shifts from politics to religion, the Middle East will become an unstable zone. This instability will benefit the United States of America. First, it creates problems for the European Union, Russia, China, and India. Second, the United States in this situation becomes an island of stability, because the pressure on Europe and China will also generate instability there, at least in western China. I won’t even mention Europe; Europe will be overwhelmed with refugees from the Arab world to an unbearable degree, at least as long as the European Union exists.
But problems await Russia as well. We may find ourselves on the wrong side of history altogether. After Iran, it will be our turn. So one can say: they are striking at Iran, but aiming at Russia. Iran is close to our borders and to our “soft underbelly”—the South Caucasus and Central (Middle) Asia. If the current regime in Tehran falls, a continuous zone of managed chaos controlled by Atlanticists will automatically extend to Kyrgyzstan and Kashmir. The arc of instability will thrust like a blade into Central Eurasia, from where the Atlanticists can directly threaten Russia and China. It is no coincidence that Kissinger openly declared: “Iran is the last nail in the coffin of China and Russia, which America will hammer in.”
A global systemic crisis is approaching, which sharply increases the importance of control over resources. This importance increases by an order of magnitude amid the anticipated geoclimatic and geophysical catastrophe. I mean the weakening of the Gulf Stream, the restructuring of the world ocean’s food chains, and the cyclical (once every 11.5–12.5 millennia) planetary restructuring, which began at the start of the 20th century and will end—if no global catastrophe occurs—in the first three decades of the 22nd century. In the conditions of a crisis and post-crisis world, the only stable and resource-rich zone for the coming centuries will be Northern Eurasia, primarily the geospace of Russia. Almost all analysts agree on this. This makes our territory the main geohistorical prize of the 21st century and the subsequent centuries.
To establish control over Northern Eurasia, a bridgehead is needed—Central Asia. Central Asia is separated from the controlled Middle East by Iran. Without its destruction, the Atlanticists cannot begin the battle for Northern Eurasia. Russia is viewed by Atlanticists as a raw material appendage, China as a source of labor force—that is, something secondary. And these “secondary” powers dare to obstruct the globalists’ plans, driving them mad.
The West plans to resolve the Russian and Chinese issues through Islam. At the same time, however, true to their tradition of pitting major states and peoples against each other to weaken or even destroy them (the model is Germany and Russia twice in the 20th century), the Anglo-Saxons will try to destroy Islam itself. By radically radicalizing it through Wahhabism, depriving it of internal economic and demographic strength during Eurasian wars, and then turning the Muslim world into a non-traditional ghetto, deprived of resources and technology.
Those who played “Dungeons and Dragons” as children remember the variant “Dark Sun.” Dark Sun (The World of the Dark Sun). The action takes place in the desert world of Athas. This world was once a blue planet full of life but is now deprived of its fertility due to uncontrolled use of magic. It is a sun-scorched land without gods, water, or hope. Another feature of Athas is the lack of useful minerals, resulting in the use of wood, obsidian, and bone as the only materials for making weapons, tools, and other items. In the endless desert, only isolated oases and city-states are inhabited. The rulers of these isolated city-states are called Sorcerer-Kings; in most cases, they are secretly in some stage of transformation into dragons. Power in the city is held by the Templars. The Templars serve and worship the Sorcerer-Kings, who are the source of their spells.
The globalist planners intend to fragment the Muslim world into many small parts that can be managed by private military companies or mercenaries of transnational corporations, squeeze out the remaining resources from these parts, and throw them onto the historical scrapheap. The West will control only the resource concentration points and communication zones (for example, nearly 1800 km of Libya’s Mediterranean coast); the rest will be left to tribes, clans, and criminal syndicates controlling their pieces and fragments. Such “pieces” may become parts of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan (with the allocation of Balochistan), and Iran—a Muslim mosaic.
At the same time, the West will need an overseer in the region, and that could well become Greater Kurdistan. The only state that might be allowed to be large. The headwaters of all the largest rivers of the region will lie within Greater Kurdistan, if it is created. This means that in the upcoming era of water scarcity and consequently “water wars,” the Kurds, this ancient people, will hold the most important levers of influence in the region, as they did in the time of Assyria. Kurdistan can become the main controller of the zone.
The world is undergoing a process of archaization. Outwardly, the world appears to be becoming increasingly mechanized: computers, robotics, but internally, there is a serious simplification. States in Africa are collapsing and being replaced by quasi-tribal formations. The world is moving toward a structure that existed in the 14th–15th centuries. This is even evident in military affairs. We are entering a new era, and in this sense, it is very important to preserve zones where it is clean and bright, where the heritage of the modern era is preserved, where we can wait out the storm and invent our own project.
