For as long as many of us can remember, one thing has been consistent: Russia is the enemy. That idea has shaped American foreign policy, public opinion, and even popular culture for decades. Whether it was the Soviet Union during the Cold War or Putin’s modern-day Russia, the narrative has remained mostly unchanged. But lately, I’ve found myself wondering, what if we’ve been looking at it all wrong?
To be clear, the Soviet Union was no friend of freedom. It was a brutal regime that suppressed dissent, censored speech, and sought to expand its influence wherever possible. It was authoritarian, ideologically rigid, and, in many ways, the embodiment of tyranny. But here’s the twist: in its aggressive resistance to Western liberalism and capitalism, could it have unintentionally acted as a barrier to something else, something that has only become more visible in recent years?
That “something” is globalism.
While the USSR wasn’t fighting to protect national sovereignty or individual rights, it also wasn’t interested in being absorbed into a one-world system governed by unelected elites or corporate interests. The Iron Curtain may have divided Europe ideologically, but it also kept globalist institutions like the IMF, the EU, and Open Society-affiliated organizations from moving freely across the region.
Fast forward to today. Russia is no longer communist. It’s a nationalist, authoritarian state, yes, but one that openly rejects globalist ideals. It’s critical of open-border policies, hostile toward Western cultural exportation, and deeply resistant to the kind of international governance promoted by groups like the World Economic Forum. Whether out of principle or self-interest, modern Russia has positioned itself as a thorn in the side of the globalist agenda.
That doesn’t excuse its actions or elevate its leadership to sainthood. But it does raise an important question: are we still being told Russia is the enemy because of what it’s done, or because it refuses to fall in line?
It’s worth considering the pattern. Countries that resist globalist influence: Hungary, Poland, Brazil under Bolsonaro, now Argentina under Milei and Italy under Meloni often find themselves painted as threats to democracy. Yet many of them are simply asserting national sovereignty and rejecting top-down control from outside forces.
Russia, of course, goes further. Its methods are often aggressive and its leadership undeniably authoritarian. But in opposing organizations like the Open Society Foundation or resisting Western-style “democracy promotion,” it challenges a system that increasingly seems more interested in control than freedom.
We’ve seen how globalist agendas work: soft power through NGOs, cultural influence, economic pressure, and political manipulation. Increasingly, this agenda includes forcing mass migration, promoting Islamization, and imposing radical gender ideology on Western nations often without the consent of the people. All of this is done under the banner of “progress,” while dissent is quickly labeled as extremism.
But maybe the truth is more complicated.
Maybe Russia’s role on the world stage has evolved, not into that of a hero, but into something else entirely: A GEOPOLITICAL RESISTOR. Maybe not by design, and certainly not by moral high ground, but because its survival instinct runs counter to the globalist vision of a borderless, centralized, and ideologically uniform world.
That doesn’t mean we should embrace everything Russia does, nor ignore its very real faults. But it does mean we should be willing to ask tough questions. For example, is the war in Ukraine really about territorial conquest, or is Russia trying to prevent another globalist hotbed from forming on its border? Have we been conditioned to see certain nations as enemies because they truly are? Or because they refuse to go along with a broader, more hidden and possibly sinister agenda?
The Cold War may be over, but a new kind of war has quietly taken its place; not one waged with missiles or competing political ideologies, but with culture and identity as the battleground. Today’s conflict is driven by woke culture and radical gender ideology designed to undermine masculinity, and by Islamization aimed at eroding the foundations of Judeo-Christian values. It’s not about nations anymore, it’s about sovereignty versus submission. And in this new struggle, the old lines between good and evil are far less clear than we were led to believe.
Because when narratives are crafted by a media funded and influenced by global elites and powerful NGOs, the simple act of questioning may be one of the last true freedoms we still possess.
