Arbak Khachatryan: Delay is tantamount to death

Today, we continue our series of conversations with the well-known independent human rights advocate and political scientist, author of “Ukraine–Armenia–Russia—Third World War?” and “On the Threshold of Nuclear Winter.” His assessments and forecasts are remarkably accurate. So what must national leaders and the international community do to emerge from the large-scale geopolitical crisis?

This and other current topics are the subject of today’s conversation with Arbak Khachatryan.

— In your open letters to Russia’s leader from Lefortovo 20 years ago, you wrote about the false values imposed on the world that lead humanity toward destruction and the corrupt global financial and banking system, and condemned serving the dollar. In your articles, you repeatedly warned about events in Georgia, Syria, Ukraine, and Nagorno-Karabakh. In “You Must Choose What World to Live In,” published six months ago in the Russian newspaper Argumenty Nedeli, you urgently asked people to take Putin’s words seriously: “Why do we need a world in which there is no Russia?” You warned that Russia would be forced to launch a nuclear strike for its survival. Your words, regarded with disbelief in some Moscow circles, are becoming reality again today…

— You see what is happening on Armenia’s borders, in Ukraine, Central Asia, China, and Taiwan: humanity is following a path of self-destruction. Look how far people with today’s values have sunk in pursuit of easy money. As soon as Russia’s head announced mobilization, all tickets became fabulously expensive. These creatures will object that demand creates supply, the market dictates its conditions, and so on. But that is precisely the substitution of values. Profiting from human grief is unacceptable.

Let us not judge people who, for their own reasons and convictions, may be ready to give their lives for their homeland but not to die for such values. When human grief becomes a source of profit, when countries and populations earn this miserable money without a pang of conscience, appealing to morality and universal human values will no longer stop it. All this filth can be stopped by a universal catastrophe or by the four most powerful nuclear states with modern nuclear arsenals recognizing the critical hour.

The most dangerous thing is that this recognition may come late and the situation reach the point of no return. God forbid those powers should strike each other, even with one small missile. If that happens, the world will collapse like a house of cards and our entire planet will be destroyed. Today, we should not rely on the Russian ‘perhaps it will work out’; even without an explosion, everything is already heading toward destruction. It follows that saving humanity requires four major powers to sit together at the negotiating table and take responsibility for all humanity’s security.

During this period, it is essential that they do not repeat old fatal mistakes, give in to dwarf states, or again start carving up the world according to interests. It is important to create no blocs or alliances such as BRICS, the SCO, or NATO. These superpowers must make human capital, not money, oil, and gas, the world’s main value. They must assume real responsibility for the security of other states and peoples without infringing their national interests, guaranteeing preservation of their culture, language, identity, national traditions, and so on.

Every people has and cherishes its values, influenced even by its region’s climate. All peoples should not be forced to accept constitutions, banking systems, customs, and invented bibles and religions alien to them. However, the scenario described above can occur only under the threat of Armageddon. And I fear it will happen only after a repetition of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Among the powers that could launch a nuclear strike today is Russia, which has been driven into a dead end. Various arguments can be offered about who is to blame, Russia or America, but the fact is plain.

It turns out that reason cannot save humanity from destruction today because of distorted values. I have already written: “Money destroys humanity, while people seek money to save themselves—such is the paradox.”

— Mr. Khachatryan, Armenia is a sensitive subject for you, but I will ask nevertheless: what is happening in Armenia today?

— Having lost its values and traditions, the country took the path toward disappearance. After 100 years of hostility with Turkey and more than 30 with Azerbaijan, when Azerbaijan already encroaches on Armenia’s sovereign territory, tortures Armenian women and cuts them to pieces, Armenia’s leader simultaneously speaks of the notorious peace treaty. For that alone, he should be shot. Peace does not come by order. Today, Armenia has sunk so low that mothers were beaten at the graves of soldiers who died for their homeland. The question arises: what do you pay bank interest and taxes for? So that the cops beat you again? That is why Armenia’s mothers now intend to appeal to the people to stop payments to the state.

— Mr. Khachatryan, Russia has submitted a bill to the State Duma to launch interest-free Islamic banking in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chechnya, and Dagestan. For 20 years, meanwhile, you have tirelessly called on Russia’s leadership to reject and destroy the entire global banking system together with the dollar…

— The mechanisms of a new system are very difficult to launch. Until the world’s citizens understand that they must reject the cult of money, restore genuine values, and stop the global scum who created and spread this dollar plague 200–300 years ago, turning everyone into slaves, humanity will not be saved. In any event, the new system will replace the old, perhaps through wars, economic hunger, or civil discontent. But sooner or later, it will happen. Back in 2013, ordinary human fear made me say that the faster we understand and begin preparing, the less painful the transition will be.

Otherwise, this system, like stage-four cancer, will destroy all humanity. Today, only Russia can put the situation right. We would appeal to other countries too, but they are powerless while under the narcotic stupor of the World Bank and the dollar. Taking this opportunity through your respected publication, I wish to address Russia’s leader and recommend: disregard the dollar and the global banking system; abandon this corrupt system completely before every country becomes Russia’s sworn enemy.

Security cannot be Russian while the banks are Western. Otherwise, every country, including Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and so on, with its Western banks and financial systems, will betray Russia. Delay is akin to death.

— Mr. Khachatryan, in your article “You Must Choose What World to Live In,” published in Argumenty Nedeli, you said that saving humanity requires creating a new system of governance worldwide: authoritative Think Tanks with spiritual and intellectual potential. I know your team even has a program for this structure ready.

— This is a very broad field, and one cannot say everything in an article, but the main point is one thing: banks must serve the people and the country’s development, nourish the state’s minds, and encourage science and innovative projects. I am glad that an experiment in launching interest-free Islamic banking has begun in Russia. At the foundation of our proposed Think Tanks’ program, human capital comes first, based on traditional universal human values. The financial policy mishandled by the global banking system’s leaders brought about the collapse of human values and states as a whole.

Essentially, this is the failure of every country’s policy where state leaders gradually become managers of this system and provide the same domestic bank lending conditions that bankrupt people. In doing so, leaders enrich themselves and disregard the human individual altogether. But every system eventually exhausts itself and malfunctions. Politicians decided to conceal this system’s collapse behind wars. One could, of course, say they found a solution in some sense. But now the superpowers have driven one another into a dead end, and the world faces nuclear war.

As I have said repeatedly, radical changes can save the world. The first step must be abandoning the global banking system. We have repeatedly substantiated the correctness of our ideas. But the time has come for real action.

Today, I call on national leaders and citizens to rise against the international banking system.

I call on leaders to reject monetary dependence. Every state must independently build its financial policy. The national banking system must move away from the global plague imposed on us.

I appeal to the world’s citizens: if the state keeps drowning you with its banking system, you must protest against the domestic financial system. Heads of state must decide to abolish interest payments to banks and financial organizations on loans. The state must provide citizens with finance from its own funds, thereby ensuring its independence. Our structure’s program is extensive and covers several directions in detail. I have briefly presented one of its priority areas. But I wish to repeat that the situation has reached a dangerous boundary where only radical steps can halt the spread of this corrupt system’s metastases and stop every kind of war and confrontation.