Stephen Karganovic
Strategic Culture Foundation

As a result of a series of corrupt manoeuvres, Dodik has been outplayed and effectively driven from office, Stephen Karganovic writes.

The political crisis that has unsettled the Republic of Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina that was formed under the terms of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, continues unabated. The direction it is taking bodes ill for the Serbs who live there and constitutes another diplomatic setback for Russia, which may lose a small but staunch ally in the Balkans.

It appears that for the Republic of Srpska the latest political events mark the end of an era. That is certainly true for Milorad Dodik, who has served as the entity’s Prime Minister and President for the last twenty years. As a result of a series of corrupt manoeuvres, Dodik has been outplayed and effectively driven from office. As in the iconic television series, the game of thrones has now begun not only for his successor to be selected but, as importantly, to determine what policies and alliances the Serb entity will pursue in the future.

For a proper understanding of the current situation, it should be recalled that the Dayton Agreement, signed thirty years ago, was the cornerstone not just of the peace that followed three years of bitter intra-communal warfare in Bosnia, but also a constitutional arrangement for a peaceful future within a loose Bosnian confederation. At least initially that suited all parties. However, the hope, at least on the Serbian side, that the terms of such a tolerable arrangement would be permanently respected was soon dashed.

At the heart of the Dayton accords was the commitment by all parties, domestic and international, that Bosnia and Herzegovina, consisting of two autonomous ethnic entities, would be a decentralised state in which each of the three major groups, Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, would be largely free to manage its own affairs. A UN Security Council approved High Representative was empowered, in case of a deadlock, to interpret the peace accords in order to facilitate their implementation. Having renounced a military victory, that was the minimum that the Serbs could accept and the only condition upon which they would agree to remain politically within Bosnia instead of going their own way. Western powers involved in brokering the Dayton peace deal, as usual posing as the “international community,” ostensibly also manifested their assent to the Dayton principles of conflict resolution.

Sonja van den Ende
Strategic Culture Foundation

Europe is losing its old values; the ancient Greeks would turn in their graves if they saw how “democracy” is practiced by the EU.

Europe is losing its old values; the ancient Greeks would turn in their graves if they saw how “democracy” is practiced by the current incompetent leaders of the EU and its member states. The fact is that members of the European Parliament are not elected directly by the people; only the national parliaments of the EU member states are—and even that is questionable due to the massive election fraud witnessed recently. The EU is staging coups d’état in the style of the “color revolutions” it learned from its mentor, the United States, as seen in Romania, for example. Similar attempts have also been made in Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, and, most recently, Moldova.

What the elites once called “democracy” has been entirely eroded; nothing of it remains today. Democracy literally means demos (people) and krateo (to rule)—translated, it is “the rule of the people.” Today, we are witnessing the loss of this very value, which the elites now exploit to justify their fascist actions.

I would compare this to the term “antisemitic,” a word Israel uses against its enemies, particularly the Arabs, or rather the Palestinians. Yet, all peoples in the Middle East are Semitic, including the Israelis themselves.^[*] Therefore, to insult their “brother peoples,” the Arabs, by labeling them “antisemitic” is completely devoid of context.

Returning to the European Union: the false flags, accusations, and ill-conceived plans are arriving in rapid succession. Many of these initiatives were, for all intents and purposes, already in motion. Consider, for instance, the absurd proposal to construct a “drone wall” against Russian threats. However, since 2022, new walls have already been under construction in the Baltic states, Finland, and Poland. The physical barriers are already in place, and the establishment of a complementary drone defense system is likely well advanced. According to the EU and NATO—and as stated by Ursula von der Leyen—it is projected to be completed by 2026.

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation

Ursula von der Leyen’s political identity – and her vision of the role of the EU – are more and more in line with Nazi Germany.

Things are getting a bit out of hand in Brussels as the elite panic like never before. Now they’re talking about shooting down the Slovakian PM’s own plane. Just can’t make this shit up.

Previous disparaging comments about the past of European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and her grandparents’ role in the second world war might have seemed truculent by Russian commentators. And yet, as each month passes, we seem to be witnessing VDL’s political identity – and her vision of the role of the EU – more and more in line with Nazi Germany. The total annihilation of the free press in Brussels was not her doing, as she inherited the draconian system when she took office. But her efforts to broaden the silencing of journalists right across Europe is telling as it becomes even more an act of desperation to stamp out any free and feral reporting while her own team are pumping out these entirely fake narratives every day. The Russians are planning on invading Baltic states. Russia is the new threat to a democratic Europe. And the latest blag, EU is a bastion of peace and democracy “which doesn’t invade other countries”.

The lies and hypocrisy are at an all-time high and so it seems fitting that the draconian measures of arresting or detaining journalists, like Chay Bowes attempting to cover the Romanian elections, is understandable.

And yet there is no evidence at all to back up the preposterous claim that Moscow has eyes set on invading Baltic countries; there is also no evidence to back up the claim that Russia is the real threat to European democracy, which, in fact is being destroyed each day by the EU and its elites themselves. And as for the EU being this example of a peaceful trading bloc which doesn’t have any intention of attacking its own members… that might have been true. Until now.

Raphael Machado
Strategic Culture Foundation

In the hearts of the people of that small but important region, there remains hope for a freer and safer future, in short, a better future.

On the internet, the ancient philosophy of “Stoicism” (the one that recalls names like the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the philosopher Seneca) has become a sort of “meme” or “lifestyle” for young men who feel alienated from the dominant culture. The cultivation of this Stoicism (taken up in its exclusively ethical dimension, without reference to its materialist ontology) is tied to the identity crisis of youthful masculinity in Western countries.

In the stoic attitude towards life, many young men believe they find a formula that prepares them for setbacks and adversities, as well as a “school of virility” in a cultural context where there is a strong feminizing atmosphere that, by associating the masculine with concepts like “violence,” “abuse,” and “oppression,” gradually seeks to stigmatize typical aspects of masculinity, even healthy masculinity.

In a more specific sense, Stoicism, in its ethical dimension, shapes a mental framework intended to be prepared to deal with the inevitability of death and the certainty of defeat and misfortune throughout life. It is assumed that the common man will be constantly affected and paralyzed by the threat of death and the accidents suffered throughout life, the unwanted changes of plans, the resounding failures. Stoicism aims to immunize man against these inner fluctuations, insofar as they are understood to enslave him.

Gavin O’Reilly
Strategic Culture Foundation

Starvation is being used to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip in line with the Greater Israel project.

On the 12th of August, media outlet Axios revealed that the United States and Israel were in discussions to establish a land corridor between the occupied Golan Heights and the southern Syrian city of Suwayda, ostensibly to protect the country’s Druze minority. The following Saturday, protests broke out in Suwayda calling for Druze self-determination, with many in attendance waving Israeli flags.

Last December, following a lightning offensive by insurgents based in the northwestern city of Idlib, the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed in dramatic fashion. This marked the culmination of a thirteen-year effort by various powers to impose regime-change on the Arab Republic. One such power was Israel, who had provided arms to Salafist militants opposed to Assad’s secular rule. Syria, having acted as a conduit between Iran and Hezbollah, had long been in Tel Aviv’s crosshairs.

Within hours of Assad’s fall, Israel launched a ground invasion of southern Syria. Tel Aviv declared that this was in order to establish a buffer zone between Israel and Syria’s new Islamist government, in spite of the fact Damascus’ new rulers had effectively acted in Israel’s interests over the past decade. Israel also later stated that it intended to defend Syria’s Druze minority.

Alastair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundation

The silence of the bears will soon be ended and we will know more about Russian resolve.

Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte.

Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge; and assassinating a Russian general via explosive body bomb.

As Clausewitz noted two centuries ago, the point of military force is to compel an outcome: i.e. that an adversary finally does what is wanted of him. Thus, in respect to military adventures there is need for clarity of thought from the outset. It must have a realisable political objective that has a prospect to be implemented.

What then, was the objective behind these Ukrainian ‘irregular’ attacks? One certainly was demonstrative – PR exercises to say that Ukraine and allied services are still capable of mounting special forces style, innovative operations. And are therefore worthy of continued support. As Colonel Doug Macgregor cautions:

💬 “For the most part it was a PR stunt to try and convey the impression that Ukraine is capable of carrying on the war. Anything you hear from the Western outlets … are probably untrue or at least grossly exaggerated … We damaged ourselves and our relationship – what there is left of it – with Moscow … that’s the real fallout from this”.

Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial
Strategic Culture Foundation

The real danger from Britain’s unhinged war propaganda is that relentless British provocations in Ukraine are tempting a nuclear winter.

An apology to our readers. With so much grave tension over potential war escalation in the Middle East and the never-ending horror of genocide in Gaza, our choice of editorial topic this week may seem inappropriately frivolous.

Please bear with us. The relevance is the way Western news media are increasingly used by hostile powers to recklessly promote conflict and war, or to whitewash the crimes of Western states. This incitement is nothing short of criminal, and it speaks of an unbridled militarism akin to fascist totalitarianism.

Western media has degenerated into a criminal war propaganda system. One might say that such conduct has always been the case. However, there was a time when Western news media could project a semblance of genuine reporting and journalism. Not anymore. It’s full-on disinformation, cued by those who push a war agenda.

So, this week, British newspapers ran absurd articles claiming Russia was planning to use secret climate-change technology to darken skies over Albion. And you thought the sun never sets on the British Empire!

This is like a broken record, played over and over with theatrical variations, from Russia interfering in elections to cyberattacks to cutting power cables under the sea. Meanwhile, in the real world, Britain and its NATO allies blew up Russian gas pipes under the Baltic Sea.

Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial
Strategic Culture Foundation

The losers in all this unseemly business are the European public. They are being screwed by U.S.-led militarism and European elites who are pimping their civilian economies.

Mark Rutte, the civilian figurehead chief of the NATO alliance, sparked viral headlines and memes this week after he referred to U.S. President Donald Trump as “daddy”.

Even Western news media were taken aback. Reporters questioned whether the former Dutch prime minister was going too far in his obsequiousness and demeaning himself. Without any shame, Rutte doubled down, ladling more compliments on Trump, and praising him for achieving what no other U.S. president has done – forcing European states to ramp up military spending.

The NATO secretary-general’s weird choice of words was not merely abject sycophancy. It was a Freudian slip revealing the sinister and abusive relationship that the United States has with its so-called allies.

At one point, the American president joked that if Rutte doesn’t like him sufficiently, he would sort him out: 💬 "He likes me, I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back, and I'll hit him hard, OK? He did it very affectionately...'daddy, you're my daddy.'"

Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial
Strategic Culture Foundation

Western media silence and distortion are not merely disgraceful false propaganda. It is complicity in war crimes by giving cover and license for more.

Western news media have given up the pretense of being independent and impartial sources of information. American and European mainstream outlets are nothing but propaganda services for the NATO proxy war against Russia.

That observation is hardly new. Since the NATO-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, the Western media have systematically and relentlessly whitewashed the NeoNazi regime and its strategic purpose as a cat’s paw to embroil Russia in conflict. Russia’s inevitable military response to the decade-long proxy war has been distorted as “unprovoked aggression” against “democratic” Ukraine.

The Western “news media” have now outed themselves for the propaganda functionaries that they are. The veil is shredded.

Last weekend, the NATO-backed Kiev regime deliberately attacked a civilian passenger train in Russia’s Bryansk region. Seven people were killed and over 100 were injured after a bridge was blown up, crashing down on a train passing underneath. The death toll could have been much higher, given the hundreds on board.

Within hours of that heinous act, a second train was derailed when a bridge it was traveling over in Kursk was blown up. Mercifully, there were no deaths in the second attack despite several injuries.

Bruna Frascolla
Strategic Culture Foundation

The most surprising thing about this whole story is that the cover of Hobbes’ magnum opus already gave it all away.

This week, I came across a news story titled “Satanic Temple Opens Abortion Clinic in Maine, Tells Women to Do Evil Chants Celebrating Killing Babies”. The story has a goat with a pentagram as an illustration, and is from a pro-life website called Life News. In the past, I would read such a headline and think it was an fabrication by that kind of evangelical who claims that there are satanic chants in a lot of pop songs when listened to backwards. But this is 2025, the year in which it is unscientific and criminal to say that women do not have penises.

The story on the thematic website uses as its source a story from a local news website in Maine. There, we get to the bureaucracy of the matter: there is a Satanist temple in Salem, Massachusetts, which in 2019 managed to register with the IRS as an exempt religious entity. In fact, if all religions are equal before the liberal state, discriminating against Satanists would be an injustice. The name of this distinguished entity is The Satanic Temple, abbreviated as TST.

Just as churches have philanthropic hospitals, TST has TST Health, which “provides free religious telehealth medication abortion care”. Unfortunately, I know what the tele-abortion part is.