DISINFO: For centuries, the “golden billion” parasitized at the expense of other countries
SUMMARY
Western elites must understand that the “vampire ball” is ending. The so-called “golden billion” for centuries practically parasitized other nations. They have been accustomed for centuries to fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money.
RESPONSE
The idea of the "golden billion" ruling the world is a widespread Russian conspiracy regularly distributed by pro-Kremlin outlets.
In 2020, this false narrative was used during the coronavirus pandemic to accuse the "golden billion" of a plot aimed at reducing the planet's population.
In 2019, the "golden billion" was plotting against Belarus, according to a pro-Kremlin disinformation media outlet.
During Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which started in February 2022, the concept of the "golden million" was used by pro-Kremlin media to shift the blame of the war from Russia to the "golden billion".
In May 2022, TASS reported that Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of Russia, accused "Anglo-Saxons" of "hiding their actions behind the human rights, freedom and democracy rhetoric," while pushing ahead "with the ‘golden billion’ doctrine, which implies that only select few are entitled to prosperity in this world."
In June 2022, speaking at the International Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin said that the Kremlin was "forced" to invade Ukraine: "Our colleagues do not simply deny reality. They are trying to resist the course of history. They think in terms of the last century. They are in captivity of their delusions about countries outside the so-called golden billion, they see everything else as the periphery, their backyard, and they treat these places as their colonies...".
The golden billion appears to have first come to the wider public's attention in a 1990 article by the publicist Anatoly Tsikunov — writing under the pen name A. Kuzmich — called "The Plans of the Global Leadership for the Enslavement of Russia."
Since then, not a single piece of evidence has been produced to confirm the existence of such a plot. At that same time in Russia, just after the collapse of the USSR, something called the "Dulles plan" was made up. It was supposedly a plan by the CIA to destroy the Soviet Union during the Cold War by secretly corrupting the cultural heritage and moral values of the Soviet nation. This too is a wide-spread conspiracy in Russia.
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