We must do a thought experiment and imagine: what else - other than a nuclear attack - could the West do to us that is at war with us? What sanctions to impose? Who to expel? How to humiliate us? Kick us out of where? Deprive us of what? (We are not considering a nuclear attack, because they won't do it, and if they do, it won't matter, because we will do it too).

Well, he will do anything and nothing will stop him. There is no need to be under any illusions: in reality, the West does not depend on us for almost anything substantial, and if it does, it looks hard for a substitute, which it more often than not finds. Trying to block it with some natural resource or other is unlikely to have any effect. It is good that we have stopped reassuring ourselves with the 'harsh European winter, which Europe will not survive without us'. It has survived the last one and will survive the next one, and Ukraine will not collapse and surrender on its own, as long as we do not make it collapse and force it to surrender. With will, with strength and relying on ourselves, only ourselves.

We ourselves must learn to live without the West. Totally without it. We must throw away everything that binds us to it, radically cut off all contact, all forms of dependence, stop all transactions, all cooperation in the technical, economic and humanitarian fields.

No grain and no fertiliser. No publication in Western scientific journals, withdrawal from Scopus, revision of the RINC criteria, without waiting for Russian scientists to be given an ultimatum: either you betray your homeland or you are no longer scientists 3 it is already practically like that. In sport it is like that. In politics it is much more so. In economics and finance, everything is going in the same direction.

The West is cutting us off from itself and setting conditions not to cut us off any further: betray the country, the people, society, Russia, betray Putin. Then we will see if you are still an oligarch or no longer an oligarch, a scientist or no longer a scientist, a politician or no longer a politician.

The West will hit us with everything it can hit. With something it already has and with what it does not yet have, it will gradually hit us.

It is easy to imagine. And if we imagine it, we must prepare ourselves.

We are condemned to live without the West from now on.

This is completely unexpected, but equally completely logical.

Everything Western is now deeply toxic (frankly, it always was). It is, after all, an addiction to that which we do not control, but which controls the enemy. Any hint of liberalism, any acknowledgement of Western universalism, any acceptance of the normativity of anything from the West, any acceptance of Western rules, criteria, practices, anywhere and in anything, is a step towards betrayal, if not betrayal itself.

This is what it means to be a civilised state. To be dependent in nothing and in no way on another civilisation, and especially on the one that is waging ruthless war against us.

Once we have completely severed relations with this global model (of degeneration and dehumanisation) called the modern 'collective West', we can focus on building our own civilised bases.

Frankly, we have not looked in this direction yet. Everyone has tried to integrate into the West while preserving sovereignty. It is impossible, unrealistic and unnecessary, and right away, that is exactly what it was. The West does not need any 'Russian corporations', even if they are loyal to the West. The good Russia for them is the absent Russia, it is not even Yeltsin's Russia, it simply does not exist.

It is very costly to prolong this process, it is time to cut this thread, because it is about civil fetters, not the desire to enter the 'mainstream of development'. The West is a dead end, but that is its business, for us it is only an enemy, death and the end.

Russia will only live in a world where the West does not decide and means nothing. At least for us. In any other case, it will be the torture of the Etruscan bride, when the criminal was tied alive to a rotting corpse. There is nothing more horrible than such torture. A man dies slowly, necrosis enters his body cell by cell: thus the modern West is a rotting corpse tied to humanity. It is not enough for it to perish, it wants to drag everyone else with it into the abyss.

Look at Ukraine, what they have done to it.... A poisoned, twisted, psychologically destroyed nation. A destroyed state. Slaughtered en masse on the fronts of a senseless and deliberately lost war or fleeing the country from a society gone mad. The dead bride of Western control is firmly bolted to the country still breathing (barely), but death in Ukraine is winning. Staring from the eyes of its rabid rulers, already passed over to the other side, already dead but still outwardly alive.

Complete liberation from the West is the only way to salvation. Everything bad in modern Russia comes from it. Its miasmas have corroded our politics, economy, culture, science, psychology, daily life, youth. It is a cancerous process and the faster and harder we cut out the affected cells, the greater will be the chances of salvation and rebirth of our Motherland, the great Russia.

Translation by Lorenzo Maria Pacini