INDEPENDENT DIPLOMACY AND GRASROOTS CITIZEN-LED COUNTER OPERATIONS TO IDENTIFY, COMBAT AND DISMANTLE FOREIGN DISINFORMATION AND GLOBAL ANTI-AMERICAN NARRATIVES
Amid war, I reflect as a Black American with no status or recognition equivalent to our political representatives that make decisions on our behalf, “Who speaks for me, an ordinary American citizen to the nations of the world?” The propaganda and interests of the government manipulate and drown out the voices of a nation, pushing citizens in nihilism, lack of spirit, and inability to understand the root of so many problems that fall on us. The Trump administration’s Russell Kirkian adaptations about the roots of the American Order through the Heritage Foundation are as bad as their boogeyman in Marxism and won’t save this country. We must peel the layers of propaganda from within and outside that perpetually circulate, agitate and cause political fatigue. To do this and reclaim republican virtue requires a form of independent diplomacy and grassroots citizen-led counter operations to identify, combat and dismantle foreign disinformation and global anti-American narratives, as well as the American imperialist action and narrative that fuels them.
People tend to forget the power of the citizen, and our power to operate of our own accord, and not under and through the constraints of other institutions. Citizens can form and develop operations of their own and attempt to give life to what can seem a “forlorn hope.”
William Q. Judge stated on Patriotism and a Nation’s Death’
“But you know, as any man who has read history, that patriots may burst their hearts in vain if circumstances are against them. Sometimes it has happened that no human power, not even the force and fury of the loftiest patriotism, has been able to bend an iron destiny aside from its fixed course, and nations have gone out like torches dropped into water, in the engulfing blackness of ruin. Thus, we who have the sense of our country’s fall, though not the power to lift her up at once, cannot do as we would…” (William Quan Judge, The Truth about the East and West, April 1895, p. 126)
I rather do something than nothing.
The most stupid and unqualified are presented as the representatives of my country to the world, going around telling the world that our country only puts Black people in power because of “DEI” laws, and as a Black American with deep roots to these lands, I am looked at through these lenses in regions my own voice is not heard and my own face is not seen, except through negative depictions or through entertainment like a zoo animal.
The Trump administration does not see that their very attitudes have presented to our enemies an opening to wound us in subtle ways, that have become obvious over the decade. Even the ideas this administration as Stephen Miller exhibits in The Conservative American Order of Stephen Miller: From Jerusalem to Philadelphia, which is that of the Heritage Foundation built on the ideas of Russell Kirk and his and other preceding thinkers on the roots of the West and the American Order, are not being adequately challenged by the popular political opposition.
In MAGA, Alt-Right and 4chan (or adjacent) spaces with convergences and divergences, civic nationalism was rejected early, because it wouldn’t save the decline of White birthrates (“The Great Replacement”) and solve the “immigration crisis.” The political Right uses puppets in other races who knowingly and unknowingly adopts their logic and defend their logic for what they think will solve the “problems of the West,” but these ideas are manipulated by politicians they support, and other influences injected into our politics.
I would go from the ends of Oregon to the ports of Maine to teach REPUBLICANISM to every American of every race and politic and teach them to reject the advances of the threat, appeal and varied fusions of retrograde Fascism, Nazism, oligarchy, evangelicalism, surveillance and authoritarianism that has risen, and I believe this idea is needed, far more than what “content” is providing our culture. Fighting these things is even more vital than focusing on the influence of Marxist theory. It is a dire and rightful reclamation of the word republican, to strip the U.S. political side under its name naked before not merely their political adversaries, but all citizens.
It is meant to show before the world what Americans can be if voices like mines are given the space to express and develop, rather than reliance and dependency on the “experts” or the gynocracy who clutch onto power, because they could not successfully condition the youth to support the schemes of the current corrupt and compromised political class.
However, it seems that for some in the world, though they decry the deceit of U.S. leadership in need the U.S. to be led by such shaytani. If you are in a committed hyper-information war built on deliberate disinformation against the “contemporary West,” bridge-building represents a threat. To disarm it, you flood the psyche of the people with perpetual rage-bait.
One of the other great dangers in the collapse of the post-war consensus that Jonathan Pageau does not explain is the replacement of the idea of the Liberal Internationalism and the U.S. as Liberators and promulgators of Democracy in a civilizing mission with the opposite and equally nauseous Eurasian narrative-propaganda against Western Europe, the U.S. or “The West” as representative of Satan, Baal, Moloch and Epsteinism. It is similar to equating the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and the Great Whore of Babylon.
In one sense, the particular narrative in, e.g., Dugin’s disinformation style is a critique grounded only in some facts, which Americans themselves are either aware of and fight against us, or others among us are engaged in like nearly every modern administration. The tactic in the Chinese, Iranian, Russian and other propagandists is to put all of us in the same boat, while spreading and blending in with internal critiques by Westerners themselves. The simplest thing to do is to critique the West with a long running list in our sleep, but we are replacing it in the Duginist view with narratives by those that consider themselves unblemished martyrs and victims of the West’s unipolar order.
The recent death of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei established him as a martyr against “Shaytan” in the narrative of this propaganda, and against the embodiment of materialism, of evil, etc, that leads humanity spiritually astray. American evangelicalism invading the Pentagon in G.W. Bush’s era and further entrenching in the era of Trump’s second administration believes that Iran is Satan and a spawn of the Antichrist, and the Islamic Republic of Iran thinks the U.S. is Satan. Such framing and belief can only lead to mutual destruction.
The framing and narrative imply that the solution to this evil is to destroy it, destroy its leaders, or even conquer it (or delight in its fall or accelerate it) to replace the evil. One way of doing this was through a hyper-information war, which has succeeded in its objectives.
It is true, that the leaders of U.S. itself live in contradiction to republican culture, and are hypocrites to the democratic legacy.
Aleksandr Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory (4PT) rejects the three modern ideologies (liberalism, communism, fascism) as exhausted, proposing a postmodern synthesis of traditionalism, multipolarity and Eurasian integration against Western (Atlanticist) hegemony. It draws on Heideggerian Dasein, esoteric traditionalism (e.g., Guénonian tradition), and geopolitics to advocate civilizations as actors, with Russia as a Eurasian pole opposing U.S.-led unipolarity. I do not see things this way, and for my own country propose a counter operation to revitalize the republican traditions against this framing that merely universalizes our own internal extreme political polarity on the global stage as a weapon against us.
This civilizational weaponizing of information and political-philosophical ideology constitutes an effective strategic attack, that has subtly blended into Americans’ own uncertainties, insecurities, lack of knowledge and critiques against our own corrupt political class.
So, my perspective differs from Dugin, Putin and Xi, and just as President Trump attempts to present his vision as the Americanist vision, the world believes it, because the U.S. has always operated dishonestly, without being as blunt and ignorant as this Trump administration. So, Americans are joining in on the critiques of the U.S. as is necessary and our right in our political system, but that is it. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Munich recently faced harsh criticism from many in the U.S. on her understanding of international relations, decrying Marxist-adjacent determinist explanations of history, while Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) and the rest of the Trump administration are promulgating their evangelical Americanist imperialism in West Europe as the alternative to globalism and leftist ideology.
Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory represents anti-Enlightenment ideology, viewing liberalism not as the end of history (or as final political theory), but as the ultimate enemy, seeking alliances with illiberal forces, but my views are neither pro-Enlightenment nor anti-Enlightenment. Instead, I champion and defend the highest ideals of Enlightenment republicanism (e.g., secularism), but critique superficial understanding that has led to and bred materialist habits, reframing, e.g., Western classics (Cicero, Petrarch) as positive to our development and against arbitrary power — directly opposing Dugin’s traditionalist critique of modernity.
Where perspectives like Dugin promote esoteric multipolarity (e.g., Eurasian vs. Atlantic), I propose eclectic American republicanism as an inherently unifying force for us, countering internal hegemonic political order with a factual, inclusive lineage that open American minds to the grander human migratory story that continues to shape nations and what we can do to improve beyond the superficialities of “multiculturalism.” This is not centered on the “Greatness of Whiteness,” Western Europeanism, anti-liberal zealotry, traditionalism, Americanism, the “return to European Paganism” nor “Christendom.”
We should support grassroots civic empowerment and expansions of mutualism against state-guided economies and traditional hierarchies, but socially, this multicultural republicanism (on the basis of pre-racist classical origins) is the strongest counter to the artificially divisive ethno-cultural essentialist exclusionism that has distracted and radicalized so many American men and youth.
Dugin might critique this as mere Atlanticist ideology, but Dugin’s multipolarity is not genuine. It is merely a mask for Russian imperialism and his own pain, hence, just changing brutal systems of domination for another mirroring brutal system of domination at its basis is a political machination republican theory warns and protects against. Republican theory depends on civic action processes. It depends on the People, of whom our political representatives are of and inseparable from; and not as some elite financial, business and political class, as exists now in the corruption of the system.
Anyone that would adopt any kind of nihilism (superficial, psychological, cultural or Nietzschean) towards this idea will fail to understand or live it. The system works, but it depends on humans, inclusiveness, spiritual regeneration, virtue and moral character, not machines. It needs true citizens of character to embody it, and those that would rebut that it is impossible to do so do not understand the system and should not be placed in positions of great influence. All fellow citizens (of every social class) choose those who rule and govern you. We still have much power and influence.
Do not delegate all action to politicians, to activists, the technocratic elite and so forth. It is the duty of every citizen to help curb political corruption that gnaw at the civic structure of the system through courageous radical love and solidarity in commitment against unjust systems.
This is the counter against the sweaty transhumanists, the nihilists and confused morass of self-caused and digital hyper-information invading and distracting Americans from seeing other possible futures. Those who believe that the system needs to be burned down are the most vulnerable to moving into ideologies and systems that have become hostile themselves to an ideal only salvageable through human clarity, resolve, moral development and ethical revolution. No change to any system will ever change that, and REPUBLICANISM recognizes that it is determined and cultivated by the citizen within, not machines or economic systems. The economic despair and generational nihilism must be fought against through solidarity, because our political class is aging. Their times will come, and we will be left with their decisions and the cycle of political struggles that have defined the last two centuries. This, we can break.
