Values determine the future…

A. Khachatryan

In the last century, as it was said, to protect humanity, the world’s great scientists created a supertechnology—the atomic bomb. Just eighty years later, as values changed and people ceased to trust their fellow humans, human beings are being replaced by artificial intelligence in all major areas of life for ‘convenience’, efficiency and the fight against human vices—corruption, deception, nepotism and so on. If this continues, the Human Being, as a person, will need protection from soulless supertechnology.

Journalists, acquaintances, friends and even some statesmen often ask me: ‘Why do people not listen to you? Everything you warn about always happens—conflicts, wars, catastrophes…’ I have already answered this once, but I will now try to formulate more clearly what I think about it. On Earth, and indeed in the Galaxy, the most uncontrollable, independent and unpredictable phenomenon is time, and all processes take place in time. When you warn of something in advance, time itself prevents people from hearing and perceiving it, as though it controls their minds… My forecasts are not some sort of ‘revelations’, but the result of analyzing the system, the current situation and the facts.

I will try to demonstrate this through examples from past years—twenty or thirty years is an instant in history—and also propose one possible way that, in my opinion, will help in the present situation. But first I want to state the main point: no path that is not based on fundamental human values and spirituality will save Humanity from collapse.

Can the Human Being, as a part of living nature oriented toward spiritual and moral values, coexist on Earth with artificial intelligence, the so-called result of ‘society’s technological development’? A soulless instrument in the hands of rulers becomes a weapon for controlling humanity.

‘The New “Prophet” of the Modern World’

‘Religion is no longer needed to control this “human” biomaterial. A new “prophet” must appear, one without a divine origin. According to all my calculations, Artificial Intelligence will be at its core.’

Can anyone point to global or state institutions, or legal instruments, that have protected these values, say, over the last hundred years? No. All of them, including religions, were created to safeguard power, material comfort and profit, and instead destroyed spirituality.

VALUES.

Universal human values associated with spirituality and morality must be distinguished from temporary values—‘Every era has its own values’. We are the generation that grew up in the USSR, brought up on Soviet ideology and universal human values. We were certain that things could not be otherwise…

‘The Soviet Person’

‘My generation and I grew up on humanistic ideals. Our parents, caregivers and teachers instilled in us universal human values—values of equal importance to all or almost all people in the world: human life, honor, love, respect, humanism, mutual assistance and so on. At the heart of our ideology was the human being with their joys and sorrows.’

But we did not notice how we almost lost them… When the Iron Curtain lifted, seeing a beautiful picture and abundance, we envied Western life and its values. Admittedly, we did not then know at what cost they had achieved ‘freedom of speech’, how they used Third World countries as their source of raw materials, what it is really like to live when money and consumption become paramount, or where this leads… Compare: today Israel is already bombing five states and the Gaza Strip, while certain European states and America’s leadership… they share common values—the omnipresent financial and banking system.

At the same time, China, marking the eightieth anniversary of the victory over Japanese militarism and the end of the Second World War, raised the USSR flag alongside its own flags in remembrance of and gratitude to Soviet soldiers who gave their lives fighting the Japanese invaders. Gratitude and remembrance are human values, an indication of a high level of moral development. But we are not now discussing who is right and who is guilty; we are talking about values…

As an Armenian, I cannot avoid speaking about a painful issue: Armenia. If a powerful state, say Turkey, attacks Armenia’s current leader, his home and his family, and says, ‘From now on you will live in a doghouse; this is now your homeland’, he will agree: ‘Yes. These are today’s realities.’ Where are honor and dignity, which for me form the basis of humanity?! If I had the opportunity, I would address Erdoğan: ‘You and Aliyev have received everything you wanted from Armenia’s leader, even more than you could have expected, even Karabakh… Return Mount Ararat to Armenia—a sacred place for all Armenians, a symbol of the Armenian people—because your “adopted brother” is removing it from the state coat of arms.

Everyone knows that history develops in a spiral. Great Byzantium once stood on your territory, and at least sixteen of its emperors were of Armenian origin… On the next turn of the spiral, people will remember your act, unprecedented in world history.’

Let us return to the global picture. Throughout its history, Russia has been distinguished by spirituality, but the Yeltsin–Gaidar period dealt a devastating blow.

‘When the USSR broke up, Yeltsin and his two accomplices from Ukraine and Belarus signed such an agreement concerning Sevastopol and Crimea that to this day the whole world is “turned upside down” and people are dying by the thousands in the region… Today’s leaders cannot find a “road map” to resolve this problem.’

The road to recovery is very long and painful… Yes, Russian schools are beginning to address children’s spiritual and moral education; a corresponding subject is being introduced next year, and activities for patriotic education are being held. This is very good. But will it save us? How can we fight for human values, and how can children understand and accept them, if in today’s realities, from interstate relations to citizens’ everyday lives, including the social sphere, people are forced to use the mechanisms of a matrix that has nothing to do with spirituality? Have you seen a clause about spirituality in any treaty, contract or law? Has anyone considered why the mass use of AI began specifically with banks? I will tell you: there is nothing human in precisely these institutions.

‘The Devil as a “Fledgling”’

‘The great Goethe worked on his immortal “Faust” for about sixty years. He was convinced that the Devil was the embodiment of the world’s evil, destroying the human soul and capable of destroying all humanity. Yet I am certain that had he worked for another 160 years, he would have seen how people’s values had changed and realized that the greatest danger in the modern world, leading to a global catastrophe, is the very “soul” of the modern “human”, whose cruelty has no equal on Earth. Compared with him, the Devil is an inexperienced fledgling. Believe me, Satan is not to blame for the defective mutation of the human “soul”.’

Neither the church, which has been trying to educate people for two thousand years, nor modern educational institutions can do anything… Only upbringing in the family, which is the foundation of the state, can. Therefore, the most important thing now is restoring the institution of Mother and Child.

‘Stop!’ (2023)

‘God created a supreme miracle: the MOTHER gives life through love and pain. There is your true Sacred Thing!!! Without her, humanity will pass into oblivion!’

Mothers engaged in raising children must be fully protected socially and provided for materially, and these years must count toward their pensionable service, and so on. Even if 30–40% prove unsuccessful, the remaining 60–70% will produce a new generation that will become the most precious capital, the foundation for the state and for all humanity.

THE PATH

All international organizations—the UN, the Red Cross, international courts and so on—fell into financial bondage. They were not only funded from the same sources but also led by representatives of those states—the Anglo-Saxons, America and England, then Israel joined through its banking system—which essentially allowed the latter to keep the entire world under control. This was the most destructive period for humanity. But time passed, the system outlived itself, and they easily abandoned it. It turns out that all these institutions and international norms were artificial, invented and needed by nobody.

How, and under what laws, can a person now defend themselves if in every territory each statesman adopts his own laws to protect his power and interprets values in his own way? Of course there may be an honest, fair politician among them, but that is more the exception than the rule, because they were all ‘cultivated’ by the financial and banking system. I blame nobody, not even Israel… I have already written that they will do anything, even start a war, to avoid losing the power that the banking system provided for almost seventy years.

They dictated and everyone obeyed; who would simply give that up?… Therefore catastrophe is inevitable… The financial and banking system is destroying humanity. Remember, during the Inquisition moneylenders were castrated, but they still spread like locusts… To this day I do not understand why these intermediaries between the state and citizens are not removed: they use the strength of the state and its apparatus, earn billions, and merely pay taxes to the state… In Moscow I saw bank advertisements on television—Turgenev, Ostrovsky and Dostoevsky distorted—and thought how good it was that VTB did not exist in the twentieth century, otherwise we would not have had the great Russian classics… And advertisements for children’s bank cards with ‘grown-up cashback’… What morality and spiritual education are we talking about here?!

‘Armenian Mothers and Intellectuals Challenge the Global Mafia That Is Destructive to All Countries’ (2023).

‘From time to time, people fought this corrupt system by inflicting a bloody “Black Friday” on its creators. During the Inquisition moneylenders were even castrated, yet they could not overcome this scourge. Something went wrong; the latter apparently liked it, quickly adapted and easily, one might even say happily, began changing their orientation. Today these defective people are called “bankers” and have seized the whole world.’

‘Only United Light Can Pierce the Darkness in Which We Have All Found Ourselves’ (2022).

‘Understand that banks are not simply buildings; they are metastases of the principal cancerous tumor, the institutions that use their sanctions to keep all states and the world community under control.’

Many people have already realized that the so-called international legal system—the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice of the UN, and the ECHR—does not work. More and more states are telling them to ‘go to hell’. Although, on reflection, their activity was more for show even before. For example, according to open sources, the ICC effectively began work in 2002; as of August 2023 it had considered thirty-one cases and issued forty arrest warrants. According to the Institute of Law and Public Policy, by the end of 2022 the ECHR had issued 24,555 judgments throughout its existence… Imagine: the Earth’s population is seven billion, so many states, so many crimes by state leaders and officials, yet so few cases were considered… But they were international, noisy, with showman lawyers and famous names; enormous sums were spent… Yet there was no help for humanity.

Now, rejecting international jurisprudence, many state leaders, oligarchs and bankers are temporarily kings in their own territories, but most of them do not know when crossing a border whether they will be arrested as criminals. International institutions and norms do not work. Chaos is spreading.

Foreseeing all this five years ago, during the pandemic, we addressed world leaders with a warning about the coming catastrophe and, with a group of specialists, began developing a new structural order and considering new mechanisms. I will not go into detail. I will only say that we made many mistakes in the course of the work, but the first and main conclusion we reached was that the Human Being and their spirituality must be the foundation of everything; technologies and services cannot govern their life.

Since the UN has exhausted itself, a new international institution must be created, consisting of ten to twenty interconnected centers working on a regional principle and located in different parts of the world. The main force of these centers will be young people who, relying on facts, the principle of justice and universal human values, will create fundamental laws and norms. These people must be not only talented and unconventional thinkers, but also courageous. They will represent their regions’ interests in the Centers and protect national values that do not contradict fundamental human ones, since the purpose of creating the institution is to protect Humanity. I am certain there are many young people who, while earning money in the modern world, have retained their spirituality and faith.

Our second conclusion: in today’s realities, the major nuclear powers must assume responsibility for the security of Earth and Humanity. History and God have ordained it this way today. Therefore, representatives of all these states must be present in every regional Center so that they can respond promptly to dangerous situations as they arise and resolve them. Furthermore, constant contact with representatives of the superpowers will bring real benefits to states in other matters too, including diplomatic ones. Embassies, foreign ministries and the State Department are good at sending notes to one another today, but the global situation shows that they can no longer fulfill their function. Every institution has its own span in history.

Three questions immediately arise concerning the proposed new structure.

The first is funding. The entire ‘world elite’ is in a difficult position; out of desperation, they will turn to the Centers and will finance them.

The second: what will happen if the local leadership opposes it? The new institution’s work is based on the Human Being and their spiritual and moral values; I think they will understand… And if not, pressure will be exerted on the government from different parts of the world, because the Centers are interconnected.

The third: what should the new law be if the previous world judicial system was mistaken and the law did not coincide with justice? How will the people representing justice work? Can they be called lawyers? All lawyers and related specialists currently practicing—of course, as with any rule, there are exceptions here; I am fortunate to know one—are graduates of the world’s universities, whatever academic degrees and awards they have, ‘trained’ and programmed according to a standard system. They are more like scribes who put international ‘norms’ on paper, from which today’s constitutions and local laws subsequently grew, directed mainly toward maintaining the power of the world’s puppeteers. This led to the loss of human spirituality and brought the world to chaos.

The new lawmakers will consider facts on the basis of the natural laws of the universe and the spiritual and moral rules of humanity’s life and activity, despite contradictions with existing laws. This principle must become fundamental and unchangeable for everyone, enshrined in law. Only then does Humanity have a chance at a future.

‘Catastrophe Is Inevitable… On What Scale?’

‘…There cannot be a standard program when the world has so many countries, each with its own characteristics and mentality. Of course every state matters in the global process, but in my conviction, at present the main responsibility rests on the shoulders of the leaders, if there are any, of the major powers. Understand that the old system of governance should not be “repaired”; it must be destroyed and a new one created, based on universal human values. Nobody opposes progress—artificial intelligence, an artificial womb, technologies and so on—but when the Creator made our planet, He did everything to ensure that the development of life proceeded in harmony with nature. There is no life without compassion, love and even pain.’

FACTS (The journalists selected several articles that resonate with today’s topic)

‘Forecasts Are Coming True’.

(From the archive of the newspaper AZG, no. 88, 16 May 2006; Arbak Khachatryan’s letters to Russian President Vladimir Putin are published unedited in Russian.

‘…In January 2003, I wrote to you about the actions of certain officials whose activities could cause a crisis in Moscow’s relations with some CIS countries. The letter contained a forecast concerning relations with Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Ukraine and, most painfully for me, Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. I placed all the blame on the local satraps and their guardians at the center. Still ahead are strategic problems such as the Caspian oil and gas pipelines. I think there will be similar problems with Ukraine, where anti-Russian sentiment is gradually growing… arms supplies to Syria, which will only have negative consequences for Russia in the future.’

A New Meeting with Arbak Khachatryan (‘The first interview after Lefortovo prison, eighteen years ago’). Newspaper AZG, no. 111, 16 June 2006; published 9 November 2008.

‘…A person from the “Karabakh clan” must not remain in power… But the current leadership has placed people from Artsakh, Karabakh, everywhere. This has caused outrage in the rest of Armenia, and if this group remains in power, it will simply lead to a split in Armenia and the Armenian people. This leadership had and has no strategy—neither state, financial nor communications.’

‘The Global Economic Crisis Continues Steadily’ (2013). (VIDEO)

‘“Puppet Diplomacy” in Vilnius’ (2013)

(A few days before the 2013 Vilnius conference, which became a trigger for the Orange Revolution in Ukraine)

‘Human rights defender Arbak Khachatryan believes that the presidents of Armenia and Ukraine should be hanged for treating their own peoples like laboratory rabbits.’

‘Ukraine: The Situation Must Be Considered as a Combination of Many Factors’ (2014)

‘The events in Ukraine may provide the impetus for a change in the world’s political and financial system. To understand the cause of these events, we must look more deeply. Let us set aside the time when, and the reasons why, Khrushchev gave away Crimea and instead consider our recent history. The Belovezha agreement was entirely criminal. To come to power, Yeltsin was prepared not only to give away Sevastopol but also to sell all the USSR’s wealth for pennies.’

‘Ukraine—Armenia—Russia—World War Three?’ (2015)

‘In January 2003, I wrote to you about the actions of certain officials whose activities could cause a crisis in Moscow’s relations with a number of CIS countries. The letter contained a forecast concerning relations with Georgia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Ukraine and, most painfully for me, Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. I placed all the blame on the local satraps and their guardians at the center. Still ahead are strategic problems such as the Caspian oil and gas pipelines. I think there will be similar problems with Ukraine, where anti-Russian sentiment is gradually growing…’

‘People’s Diplomacy’ (2015)

‘Crimea is a pivotal direction of change in the world legal order, when the actual expression of the people’s will comes to the fore rather than the business interests of the oligarchic upper tier of the world capitalist lobby.’

‘Will It Get Through or Not?’ (2016)

Journalist: Unfortunately, in our country one person makes the decisions. Our newspaper published your open letter, which millions of people read—in the newspaper, on the website and on social networks. Do you think it did not get through?

A. Khachatryan: I do not know. A time comes when a difficult decision must be made.

Imagine you are building a house, already finishing the roof, and suddenly you are told that a meteorite is heading directly toward your house. Will you continue building, or move your family farther away into an uncomfortable but safe tent? The situation now is the same. It is up to you to choose the world in which to live.’

‘Multipolarity Means Peoples, Not a System’ (2022)

‘—In interviews with Russian media, you always said and predicted, even when Trump was still a candidate, that he would be the last president of a strong America. Do you still think so?

—Understand that a huckster can never become a strategist. He sees only his people’s profit, not his country’s political and strategic influence. For him, the main values are money and property. That is why the United States has lost its influence and a multipolar world is becoming a reality.’

‘A Slave of Capital in the Service of a Malicious Jester’

‘In Mr. Khachatryan’s opinion, Trump alone cannot be blamed for everything. He is a product of the system, the result of a century of “genetic” changes; his forte is trade and public relations.’

‘The Geopolitical Pimp’

‘What is happening? Turbulence throughout the world. In the air—satellites and missiles; on Earth—fires, earthquakes and wars; underground—gas and oil… Will the Earth’s axis and humanity’s backbone withstand this? This is now the most important question…

‘Armenia Has Found Itself in Zugzwang’ (2020)

‘Journalist: In a recently published article, you spoke about Turkey’s excessive appetites, which have grown under conditions of impunity. You also mentioned that Erdoğan, who imagines himself a sultan, would, some time after success on the Artsakh front, claim supposedly historical Turkish territories—Batumi and Crimea. Statements of this kind were described as a provocation by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. What can you say about this?

—As a professional, Sergey Lavrov undoubtedly deserves respect. I am more than certain that while still in office he will see Turkey begin making territorial claims against Russia—for example, through Ukraine. Erdoğan will anger and disappoint Russia with his actions more than once again—and not only Russia, but all reasonable humanity. Lavrov, who was born in Georgia and has Armenian roots, still has many unfinished matters. It was precisely during his tenure as Russia’s foreign minister that the centuries-old diplomatic relations between Russia and Georgia suffered substantially, and Armenia lost Artsakh…’