Calistrat Marvin Atudorei, a Romanian political scientist with a pronounced interest in the societal comparison of civilisations and eras on a broad scale, speaks to Alex Thomson first about his book America's Plans for World Hegemony (the only one of his books so far translated from the Romanian), and in the latter half of the interview about his understanding of the nature of consciousness and mental warfare.
Why hegemony?
The book discussion is itself divided into two halves, following the book itself. The first half is a consideration of the nature of hegemony (from precedents such as the Roman and British Empires) and a review of Washington's efforts to gain hyperpower status in the decades after 1945. There is a particular focus here on Operation GLADIO (Chapters 3 to 5 of the book), on which Atudorei insists that he has turned up "very little-known facts" from the public record of several countries' parliamentary inquiries. Indeed, Atudorei on principle uses only open sources throughout his book.
Mind wars
In the second half of the book discussion, Atudorei addresses the unipolar moment achieved by America after the dubious collapse of Communism by 1991, including the fall of Romania's Nicolae Ceaușescu (who Atudorei argues had sincere motives compared with his successors) in 1989. In this Mindspace phase of hegemony, the focus is on psychological warfare and propaganda over kinetic attacks. This "battle for the mind" (as discussed by William Sargant) took its rise in Sigmund Freud and Edward Bernays’ day but became central to the Anglo-American Establishment's hegemonic strategy only after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Atudorei takes note of Yuri Bezmenov's emphasis on the importance of the induction of cognitive dissonance in the target population and discusses gaslighting during the 2020 "plandemic", as well as recommending the works of the Estonian-Swedish historian of the Bolshevik Revolution, Jüri Lina, and Lina's film, Under the Sign of the Scorpion.
Societies behind banks behind revolutions
Atudorei explains that his book was meant to be an ABC of a vast subject, and to substantiate his conclusion that "the world is ruled by transnational secret societies". This being so, Atudorei argues, the prime error committed in the academic field of International Relations is the premise that the main actors on the world stage are states. On the contrary, the dominant forces are well-documented fraternities sworn to "get rid of God, kings and aristocrats to cut the connections" between peoples and their heritage.
The new paradigm that Atudorei proposes to teach "the real version of history" must include Mackinderist geopolitics, whose rabid obsession is driving a wedge between Germany and Russia: this explains such bizarre phenomena as Anglo-American pipeline destruction in the Baltic Sea, the vatic utterances of George Friedman and the Anglo-Polish besottedness with the Intermarium of Eastern Europe.
Yet the unipolar moment is over. Atudorei argues that Russia managed to become a superpower in the decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union: politically, and (in 2015) militarily. Russia now lacks only the economic aspect of superpower status, whereas China has that but for the time being lacks the military aspect.
Forbidden history
In the second half of the interview, Atudorei discusses his native Romania’s failed transition from communism to capitalism, arguing that George Soros knew in advance that the Bucharest régime was to be decapitated and that he co-opted the nation's intellectual leaders, Gabriel Liiceanu and Horia-Roman Patapievici, to remould the country as an Open Society. Atudorei provides his analysis of why Ceaușescu's relations with Brezhnev's USSR as well as with the International Monetary Fund soured as the Balkans underwent a nationalist reawakening.
The rest of this section of the interview considers more esoteric matters, commencing with the phenomenon of out-of-place artefacts (OOPARTs), Cremo and Thompson's Forbidden Archeology and Atudorei's own work on the subject, The Forbidden History of Mankind (published pseudonymously as Marvin White and only available in Romanian so far). The now-submerged Yonaguni complex by itself is sufficient to awaken serious interest in the subject.
Romanian intelligence defector Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was the first to tell the world about the strategy of disinformation, and Polish academic defector Andrzej Łobaczewski (Political Ponerology), are the best-known Eastern European dissidents (both hounded in the United States until their dying days) to have inquired into the issue of theodicy—the problem of evil. Atudorei argues that what makes man susceptible to the tyranny of evil found in hegemonies is his egotism: false representations of reality in the mind. The cure is an awakening of the soul and corporate prayer.
In this regard, Atudorei highly regards the work of Cathy O'Brien, an extremely rare example of an escaped mind-controlled slave, for the light it sheds on what is being done more subtly with the rest of the Western world's population: the manipulation of consciousness. An egregore has emerged that is noxious to human thriving. Atudorei also discusses the work of Rupert Sheldrake and Semyon Kirlian in this regard, and the concept of morphogenetics.
Sources
Calistrat Marvin Atudorei maintains the Geopolitika.ro website, which has an English section as well as sections in other languages. He also has an active Telegram channel in Romanian. He is also President of the Non-Aligned Countries Forum in Romania and a prolific television producer.