By Independent News Roundup
By Independent News Roundup | Investigative Opinion | June 2025
In a world that pretends history is irrelevant, memory has become the sharpest weapon.
As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine and Western powers unleashed an arsenal of economic warfare, few paused to ask: Why this conflict, and why now? Beyond headlines about democracy, oil, or border integrity, a deeper civilizational struggle is unfolding—one that echoes a thousand years into the past.
This isn’t just war. This is a reckoning.
Long before the nation-states we know today, the Eurasian steppes were ruled by a power that few modern schoolbooks bother to mention: the Khazar Empire.
Between the 7th and 10th centuries, Khazaria was a commercial powerhouse—a buffer state between the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphate. But the Khazars were unique: their ruling elite converted to Judaism, forming a mysterious Talmudic aristocracy that mixed religious autonomy with absolute commercial control.
Khazaria didn’t fall through slow decay. It was destroyed—crushed militarily by the Rus, the ancestors of modern Russians, and pressured from the east by Turkic rivals like the Tartars. Slavic legends speak of Khazarian betrayal, slave raids, and ritual atrocities. A final ultimatum was issued by the Rus: end the trafficking, end the sacrifices, or perish.
The Khazars perished—or so we’re told.
No royal tombs. No epics. No genealogies. The Khazar elite disappeared without a trace—a vanishing act that would make any intelligence service proud.
But perhaps they didn’t vanish. Perhaps they migrated west, rebranding themselves in Europe’s emerging financial centers: Venice, Genoa, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London. The gold didn’t disappear—it was reinvested. The influence didn’t fade—it evolved.
What began as the Khazarian model of control through commerce, secrecy, and supranational identity has become the very essence of modern globalism. Call it coincidence—or continuity.
Today, we live under a network of unelected power: private central banks, transnational institutions, NGOs with hidden funders, tech giants that shape consciousness, and intelligence-linked blackmail systems like the Epstein operation—a digital update of ancient systems of coercion, compromise, and silence.
This global web promotes “freedom” while punishing dissent. It speaks of “democracy” while toppling governments. It preaches human rights while enabling trafficking, surveillance, and technocratic feudalism.
The methods are new. The template is old.
And in this structure, Russia represents a threat—not because of what it does, but because of what it remembers
Vladimir Putin may be a flawed man, but he leads a nation that refuses to dissolve into the globalist broth of post-identity governance. Russia insists on sovereignty, culture, and multipolarity—words that globalist power cannot tolerate.
The BRICS+ alliance, the push for de-dollarization, and resistance to Western ideological export are not just political acts. They are civilizational uprisings.
This is not East vs. West. It is empire vs. resistance.
And for the heirs—cultural, financial, or symbolic—of Khazaria, Russia’s defiance may feel personal. In their mythic imagination, this is unfinished business. The Rus destroyed them once. Now they aim to return the favor.
What we are witnessing is not merely geopolitical tension. It is a metaphysical war. A war over truth, over memory, over who gets to define the future.
One side offers technocratic utopia, synthetic culture, borderless governance, and eternal surveillance. The other—flawed, yes—defends the ancient right of peoples to live in accordance with their history, their land, and their God.
Whether Russia knows it or not, it is fighting the shadow of Khazaria—a resurrected empire that wears the mask of progress, but speaks the language of eternal domination.
History doesn’t repeat itself. It returns, wearing a different face. The Khazar Empire never truly died. It just changed addresses.
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