Saving the Global Right

Although I have never self-identified as being on the political right, it falls to me to try to re-orientate the Right away from continuing its terrible identification with MAGA and Russian right-wing Disinfolklore. Let’s, then, use my concept of Archetyping-Through-Disinfolklore to understand how the (political) Right was hacked by usurpers who managed to identify “Right” with “Conservative” and policy positions, like Trumps, which are anything but Conservative or Right (see my “Battling Disinfolklore Archetypes” speech delivered during the Munich Security Conference in 2025 where I first explained how Druidey Don and Duncey Putin are using Archetyping to wrap us up inside a Disinfolklore Universe:

Let’s model the relative hierarchy of terms “Right,” “Conservative,” and “Make America Great Again (MAGA) / Reagan/Thatcher Right manifestations thus:

Right

<—->

Conservative

<—->

MAGA or Reagan/Thatcher model.

Here, for reasons which will become clearer later in this piece “Right” is, of the three, the primary Archetypal identity. Conservative comes next. While specific temporal and epochal manifestations of these Archetypal identities, like MAGA or Reagan/Thatcher archetypal models of Right-wing Conservatism come last.

There is a reciprocal flow between these three hierarchical components of our own dimensions of political and self/social-identity. Sometimes a professed adherence to the MAGA or Reagan/Thatcher model of policies will define what is “Conservative” and what is “Right.”

In such cases the upstream manifestation of “Rightness” (in this example the MAGA or Reagan/Thatcher models of Conservatism) determines the content of the downstream and primary meaning of the primal concept of “Rightness.” Nefarious manipulators like Russian combat propaganda practitioners or the originators of MAGA use this bottom-up method/trick to transform the archetypal identity of what is Right, using disorientating and reorienting Disinfolklore.

Re-Archetyping what is “Right” or “Conservative” by manipulating adherents to, say, the Reagan/Thatcher or MAGA archetypal models works within communities.

The American Breitbart.com website set out “the Breitbart Doctrine” (note the two coincidental(?) “Reit” sounds in the moniker of the right-wing aggregating news service established by the late Andrew Breitbart in 2005).

According to this “doctrine,” “Politics flows from culture, and if conservatives wanted to successfully dam up progressive ideas in America, they would have to first challenge the culture. And so Breitbart was founded to be not only a media platform but also a tool for reversing the flow of American culture.” (Excerpt from “Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America” by Christopher Wylie).

Similar to the insight that politics is upstream from culture and if you can transform the culture you can manipulate the politics arising from that culture, what is “Right” or “Conservative” is also fluid. “Rightness” can be carefully and sensitively manipulated in an analogous manner to how Breitbart set out to “dam” so-called “progressive ideas” by reversing the flow of American Culture. This work, as well as Steve Bannon and Chris Wylie’s work on Cambridge Analytica led to the founding of the MAGA manifestation of the American Right. MAGA has now led to America halting support for Ukraine becoming part of Right-wing American orthodoxy, a few short years after Druidey Don was impeached for halting arms exports to Ukraine during his first presidency. This MAGA manifestation of “Right-wing” Conservatism now has colonised almost the whole meaning of what it means today to be on the political “Right” or “Conservative” in America today. Italy’s prime minister Meloni and Merz, Germany’s likely incoming Chancellor, self-identify as being on the political “Right” yet both are resolutely anti-MAGA. So far, both politicians have supported Ukraine’s right to defend its sovereignty, security, territorial integrity, prosperity and fertility (note the “Rt” sound in six of the seven words preceding this note). They are therefore acting like a dam for those on the political right who have become susceptible to MAGA Sirens’ songs. Merz and Meloni (so far!) refuse to allow MAGA to monopolise, dominate, hack pervert or wholly define what is or is not “Right,” in our world today. This is why I characterise both Meloni and Merz, whether one sympathises with right-wing policies or not, as the potential saviours of what is right in the global right today.

Given the near ubiquity and stability of the sound “Right” and associated meanings in important Indo-European vocabularies across time and space since at least 4,000 BCE, it is clear that despite the flow between these three levels in the hierarchy, “Right” is, among the three ideas of “Right,” “Conservatism” and different eras’ manifestations of Right-wing movements (e.g. MAGA or Reagan/Thatcher archetypal identities of such manifestations) indeed the primal and primary node in the interrelationship between Right/Conservative/MAGA.

A whole plethora of sounds/words and associated meanings - including Writ, Sovereignty, Security, Prosperity/Fertility, Rex, Rix, droit, Roi, Rg, Rí, merit, right, correct, etc. all contain the “Right” sound and have powerful associated Archetypal identities.

Here, as an example is some considerations by renowned Austrian Celticist Wolfgang Meid on the instances and meanings of “Right” in Celtic and Germanic languages and governance cultures. Similar commentary could be provided for the “Rt” sound and meaning in other Indo-European cultures:

“The corresponding Gaulish word for "king" was rix… As Irish tradition shows, the monarch who ritually [note how “ritually also includes the Rt sound] united with the goddess of the land was conceived of as the intermediary between their people and the superhuman powers. Their reign should ensure prosperity; failing this they could be deposed [impeached]. Gaulish personal names such as Biturix, Dumnorix, Albiorix, all meaning “king of the world,” may point to such a metaphysical connection… the Germanic people took over the word-concept 'rich', Germanic *rikja- (from Celtic *rigios "regal") and also (from *rigiom "regnum") the related substantive *rikja- in German Reich, English -ric (as in bishop-ric), and imitated numerous Celtic personal names such as Gaulish Catu-rix "Battle-King" whose Germanic equivalent appears as Old High German Hadu-rih.” (Meid, Wolfgang. The Celts. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, Bereich Sprachwissenschaft, 2010. Print).

In the language of Ancient Iranian emperor Darius's inscriptions, drauga, the "lie," is essentially the attitude of rebels, of usurpers or potential usurpers who, like the Jan 6 insurrectionists and DOGE, deceive the people by pretending to be "monarch" in place of Darius himself. Darius I (522–486 BCE) founded the Iranian Achmenaid Empire that ruled Judea, Greece, Türkiye, Armenia and other lands and since it lasted for longer than American democracy -300 years- it’s worth listening to his idea of Right.

That struggle to define what's "Right" (rta in Sanskrit (i.e. truth/what is), art, tru (th), reich, -rch (in monarch), reign (in sovereignty, foreigner)) in Indo-European cultures is THE struggle.

One of the earliest texts in Irish Fir Flathainn/Audach Morainn/Truth of the Prince (700 CE) warns that when a Sovereign tells untruths, great plagues, pestilence, invasions, coalesce to ruin that Monarch’s land, and turn it into a Waste Land.

In “Sovereignty” is the element *Reg, which is a term that appears in every Indo-European language and culture - in English the Mana of *Reg is these sounds: “Right,” “Reign,” “Writ,” “Authority,” “Regime,” “Foreigner,” “Realm,” “Reich,” the “Rch” of “Monarchy,” “Security,” and “Regulation." This means that these sounds are cognate with the *reign element in the English word “Sovereignty. “Dieu et mon droit” is the French-language motto on the English monarch’s Coat of Arms - the “droit” in French signifies both “Law” and “Right.” If you say “Roi” (“King” in French), “Right,” and the “roit” in “Droit” you might notice that despite the different spellings they all sound similar. *Reg means “Rod” in the earliest Indo-European language that we know. Because of this, we know that monarchy was symbolised as the monarch stretching out a straight rod that signified the right of the king (Rex in Latin, Rí in old Irish, and Raja in the ancient Indian language Sanskrit are cognates meaning they come from the same Common Source among the Ancient Ukrainian Yamna community who created the ancestor of all living Indo-European languages) to rule. In the most recent coronation of a monarch in England, its sovereign is photographed holding, in his right hand, a straight rod symbolising sovereignty. Likewise, contemporary Ukraine’s rightful ruler/head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyy also held a sceptre in his right-hand upon his inauguration as president of Ukraine. "Rtá" is opposed to "drúh" in the ancient Indian Vedic language. “Arta” is opposed to “druj” in the ancient Iranian Avestan language. King Arthur in English lore embodies this idea of rightful ruler according to what is truthful and not illusory in the “Art” component of his moniker. The idea and form of the signifier "Art" as that which is created which reveals truth stems from this.

I have written elsewhere about the meaning of the mantic mantra-like hypnotic effects of the sound and associated meanings of Rg / Rt / Reg / Rch / Rit / Rd across Indo-European cultures: see ‘What Meaning Means’

https://www.disinfolklore.net/p/what-meaning-means. Suffice it to say for our purposes here, those who possess control of who gets to be branded with the moniker “Right” in any political community in any Indo-European society between 4,000 BCE and today has a comparative advantage over every other group competing for control of that community’s people, resources, and territory. This advantage operates at a sub-conscious level which is why in “What Meaning Means” I reveal that Rg / Rt / Reg / Rch / Rit / Rd is one of the two main cryptotypic signalling systems in Indo-European communities.

Since these Rg / Rt / Reg / Rch / Rit / Rd words/sounds are present in almost every Indo-European language we know that this association of sound/meaning is extremely ancient and probably goes back as far as the time and place when the first Indo-European languages were spoken by the Yamna community in the river valleys of Ancient Ukraine between 4,000 and 2,500 BCE (see https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08372-2 published in Nature on 5 February 2025).

It’s clear, therefore, that the Archetypal signifier and meaning of “Right” is very powerful and is indeed the primary Archetypal Identity by comparison to the “Conservative” or “MAGA” / Reagan/Thatcher” manifestations of Conservatism or Rightism in our era.

Not long ago, those who identified with the political right supported the political ideologies of rule of law, personal and fiscal responsibility. Let’s call this the “Reagan/Thatcher” archetypal model of political conservatism and the political right.

The content of what was (morally) right for those who identified with the political right had, according to the Reagan/Thatcher archetypal model, become synonymous with political conservatism. Those who self-identified with conservatism as conservatives felt comfortable with and conventional by voting for this agenda.

In many cases, political candidates and newspaper opinion writers who dressed their policy prescriptions defending the Rule of Law, of fiscal and personal responsibility within the archetypal clothes of the political right and political conservatism would be frictionlessly followed by the community of those who self-identified as politically conservative and politically right.

In fact, political parties like England’s Conservatives or the US’s Republican Party were able to change radically the content of their policy prescriptions – to abandon observance of the Rule of Law (see UK Supreme Court’s judgments in the two Miller cases related to Brexit), fiscal and personal responsibility - without their most fervent adherents among the general public even noticing. The archetypal frame of political conservatism and political right was being so strongly signaled by repetition mainly of their identity with one or more of the aforementioned hierarchical levels that those voting for its policy prescriptions weren’t attentively watching while the content of the policy prescriptions being presented by these alleged political conservatives and political rightists was transformed.

Within a relatively short period of time (since 2015?), the essential tenets of this Reagan/Thatcher archetypal model of political conservatism and the political right were completely swopped out – MAGA, which was created as a result of work initiated by Andrew Breitbart, Steve Bannon and Chris Wylie, is a manifestation of this transformation. Personal and fiscal responsibility were still used for Archetypal Signalling purposes to situate those who were utilising the Right’s monikers. But vast campaigns of tax credits for the very wealthy, the printing of vast amounts of money, undermining the rule of law by allowing Druidey Don and his accomplices to get away with election and other crimes, as well as an epidemic of scapegoating others as a means of creating the Right’s in-groups were not consistent with the Reagan/Thatcher model of personal and fiscal responsibility. The Cultural War political strategy that was invented by Pat Buchanan for Nixon (see his “Dividing the Democrats” memo for Nixon) became the Right’s main means of dividing its political opponents and winning power through promoting social and mental divisions across our community.

The monikers “right” and “conservative” were and are conserved, frequently by rhetorically attacking the “sinister” left (the “left” has been identified with being “sinister” and not Right at least since Roman times). Such attacks continued to Archetype the Left as “Bad,” or “Sinister,” a troll that is at least two-thousand-years old – we note that “ad sinistram” in Latin means “on the left.” Their true purpose though is to embed and archetype the identities of its Disinfolklore propagations as “Right” (within the long Indo-European tradition mentioned above), since it’s easy to portray yourself as Right-wing if you’re always banging on about “the left.”

Instead of the Reagan/Thatcher archetypal model of political conservatism and political right, the MAGA or indeed Putinist ideology of grievance-mining, scapegoating (migrants, Trans, Nazis, NATO, Europeans, liberals, Democrats, woke,…), unlawfulness (justifying doing nothing to defend Ukraine by referring to “corruption” is a favourite trope of the Russian and Trumpist self-declared Right) became mainstreamed across the political conservative and political right globally. People who had paid their taxes for decades in the expectation that the welfare state (Medicaid, social security) could no longer rely on the contractual duty of the State/government to help them during different stages of their lives being honoured – their “Rights” were transgressed whether or not they voted for the MAGA Archetypal identity of Right-wing policy prescriptions.

Today, Druidey Don Disinfolklore promotes his identity as a “Conservative,” while destroying what was “Conservative,” according to the Reagan/Thatcher Consensus. U.S. MAGA Conservatives, in the main, follow his lead and Archetype through constant Disinfolklore the content of Conservatism as the opposite of what they said they believed under the Reagan/Thatcher Conservative consensus.

Druidey Don and Duncey Putin (let’s illustrate the power of Archetyping through showing, not just telling!) are masters of the art of re-Archetyping fundamental concepts in our culture as a means of transforming cultures without us even noticing. While we’re being dismayed by their Disinfolklore, by altering our moods, we’re being brainwashed into surrendering our civilisation to the anti-Right. We must get better at identifying in real time and In Real Life how such manipulations work and countering them, through executing our own Archetyping campaigns.

Much of the democratic mandate for those who support this transformation of the modern political right and conservatives’ programme has been earned by this deception delivered directly into our Inner Minds through MAGA, Russian and other manifestations of Disinfolklore.

It’s important for us to understand how many who genuinely identify as politically conservative and politically right could, within a short period of few years, also genuinely support a political project that, for example, put an adjudicated rapist with 34 criminal convictions into the White House without their brains breaking under the weight of the contradiction between the Right’s adherence under the Reagan/Thatcher model to Rule of Law, and MAGA’s disdain for the law and what is right.

I believe this explanation reveals something very important about the power of Archetyping on our moods, attitudes, motivations and intentions. When Elmo Musk - Robin to Don Disinfolklore’s Batman - tells a CPAC Conservative conference “I am become meme,” he’s not joking; he’s revealing how conscious re-Archetyping is re-engineering our minds.

MAGA’s achievement also demonstrates that with the right tools (owning for example the means of Archetyping at scale) those who control Mass Media (Disinfolklore propagators like X/Twitter or frightening other oligarch-owned media outlets into enabling Druidey Don to capture news cycle after news cycle) can Archetype our cognitive frameworks in ways that, for me, are eerily reminiscent of what I witnessed as a diplomat working in Russia-occupied Ukraine between 2015 and 2018.

In Russia-occupied Luhansk, a new entirely controlled media environment encompassing television, online, radio combined with Russian state imposed violence at population scale wrought significant changes quite quickly within the minds of Ukrainians living inside the occupation.

At that time (between 2015 and 2018) I did not understand to what ends this Disinfolklore apparatus’s hacking of the minds of Ukrainians living inside the occupation’s Disinfolklore Universe was being mobilised to produce. After Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine, and the brutal attacks by the Ukrainians Russia had been brainwashing for eight years on their fellow Ukrainians, it was clear to me what Russia was up to (see my Stealth Genocide I (https://www.disinfolklore.net/p/disinfolklore-2) and European Football Championships pieces (https://www.disinfolklore.net/p/european-football-championships-episode) at https://www.Disinfolklore.net).

MAGA Disinfolklore operates by identical means as Russian Disinfolklore operated in Russia-occupied Ukraine inside closed loop media spaces for MAGA cult followers. We may think that MAGA Disinfolklore is undirected, somewhat quaint or something that will only happen to the American Right, while we look on cooly, as superior-feeling and resilient-minded Europeans.

Such complacency in the face of cutting edge communications techniques like Archetyping through mass amplification of trolls is not consistent with the data. The data suggests population scale brainwashing is as easily achieved as has been the hacking of the right’s minds by MAGA Disinfolklore since 2015. I observed in Russia-occupied Ukraine (as we have all observed in MAGA-occupied American Conservatism) a complete identity-hacking of MAGA and Conservative adherents’ minds over the course of a few years. MAGA, Russia and Don Disinfolklore’s ambition is to do the same trick across our entire civilisation and lead our world into a similar place as Russia is in today.

Inside Russia the mind-hacking Disinfolklore brought ordinary Russians from a place where they condescended to Ukrainians in 2009 to a situation in which they cheer on the mass murder, rape and forcible transfer of millions of Ukrainians. While I was monitoring closely the emergence and peculiarities of the identity-hacking Disinfolklore apparatus in Russia-occupied Ukraine, every single Russian news bulletin was re-Archetyping the idea of “Ukraineness,” inside the brains of virtually every Russian.

Russian news (Disinfolklore) carried reports of entirely fictitious attacks by entirely mythical characters called “Ukrainian Nazis” on native Russian-language speaking Ukrainians. These reports of mythological events (in places at times I was physically located where these mythological attacks had supposedly occurred. So I knew they never happened in Russia-occupied Ukraine) had an aggregated impact of transforming the Archetypal identity of Ukraine inside the minds of the ordinary Russians who today support genocidal activities against Ukraine.

Today, too, the United States President and his MAGA Disinfolklore apparatus uses a wholly manufactured Archetypal character of Ukraine as deserving the coercive control punishment being meted out to it in Russian Disinfolklore and the physical battle space as a means of recruiting more MAGA supporters into his own death cult. Disinfolklore Don is using his bogus efforts to bring peace to Ukraine to coerce Ukraine into surrendering to the Big Bad Wolf Russia. Don is copying the Soviet and Putinist Archetyping trick of using the moniker “Peace” to troll us into thinking he’s against war. Russki Mir for example is an imperialist ideology whose purpose is to occupy territories which are not part of Russia militarily under the pretext of bringing “Peace.” “Mir” in the Russian language means “peace,” yet Russki Mir is about implementing an endless genocidal war against our civilisation. The stakes could not be higher as Druidey Don is using all the warlike tropes that history’s mass murderers have used to troll nation states into wars which cost millions of lives.

This is why understanding how we got from a political idea of the “Right” that could be argued at least aspired to identify itself with what was morally right has become completely divorced from reality. MAGA and the Russian state both use Disinfolklore to create illusory realities that change mental archetypal identities in the minds of many (most?) who are exposed to it. Rightness as previously defined according to the Reagan/Thatcher model of the Right is re-Archeyped according to MAGA Disinfolklore’s idea of what is “Right.” It is never moral to be an adjudicated rapist or to usurp power in the manner which the Federal indictment of Druidey Don’s Jan 6 conspiracy to defraud the United States of its rightful government set out.

We began with an archetypal identity of conservatives. This evolved into the Reagan/Thatcher Model of fiscal and personal responsibility Conservatism. It’s important to note that the fiscal and personal responsibility archetype of Conservatism was itself a corruption of what was rightful Conservatism – and Rightism meaning: identity of secular law with what is right and opposition of rightful sovereign with usurper (see how Darius defined what is Right in his inscriptions mentioned above).

Nevertheless, despite its corruption from the ideal Archetype of what is Right, this Reagan/Thatcher model reinforced, reproduced and enacted through a billion different means as it was, often through pre-Disinfolklore memes in our communities’ information and policy spaces, was for all its faults less harmful than today’s corruption of what is Right by the Far Right regimes of MAGA America, or the Axis of Misogyny (China, Iran and Russia) acting in concert to bring about a Handmaid’s Tale society. A Unified Reich as Don Disinfolklore’s election manifesto promises to transform America into.

Many people who identified with that Reagan/Thatcher archetype of conservatism were politicians who promised to implement policies consistent with this archetypal identity of conservatism. Many people without even looking at the content of the policies or indeed assessing the track record of the conservatives voted and continue to vote along with those political entities characterised by the archetypal identity of conservatives.

The identity of conservatism itself with the right is another archetypal relationship that is part of this explanation. The idea of right is inherent in our Indo-European minds (as evidenced by the recurrence of the sound and associated meaning outlined above). The Right has a certain manifestation in the political sphere and indeed it is manifested also in the legal order (droit).

In a healthy community, the identity of right with law and rule of law with conservatism (and indeed with any political party) in a democracy is perfect or at least aspiring, in good faith, to be perfect.

What has been happening of late to an extent that even the laziest person on the right must at least in some moments suspect is a tribe of people who understand that if you can hack the archetypal identity of the right attach it to their own lawless/amoral political vehicles then you can win elections and implement policies which are the exact opposite of what is right, what is lawful, what is truthful and what is morally correct.

So, going forward, let’s look a bit more deeply when Druidey Don, Elmo Musk or Russia’s attempt, through Disinfolklore, to detach ordinary meanings from archetype-bearing words/sounds imprinted in our minds. Disinfolklorists like Duncey Putin, Druidey Don and MAGA achieve their diabolical success through endless repetition of Disinfolklore. This Disinfolklore is used to negatively impact our moods, motivations, intentions and attitudes in ways which make such imprinting less detectable.

It is a fundamental feature of our cognition that we aggregate through our perception lots of different phenomena into what I call archetypal identities. This saves a lot of time. It saves a lot of computing time. This short-cut helps us make Good Enough assessments that prevent us falling over or making errors of perception.

If we were to base all our decisions on the actual characteristics of matter (which is at a quantum level empty and full of air and water), we would never have the courage to sit down on aggregated quantum particles in the form of chairs - Matter, after all, is merely air and water. This view from the standpoint of ultimate reality, while philosophically or religiously correct, is not much cop when you just want to find a seat to sit upon. If the actual material content of the seat or of what is Right, Conservative or MAGA at a quantum level is no different from the material of the air beside the chair then distinguishing between the illusory and the real becomes extremely tedious and not very practical.

Therefore, we see “chairs” (what is Right) and we see “tables” (Conservatism) which are collections of matter (analogous to what, say, Druidey Don is trying to archetype as Right in our minds) aggregated into an entity that we have archetype as a table (Conservative/Not Left) or a chair (say, MAGA) and we sit down (vote for MAGA). We sit down to eat our dinner (get entertained by the Disinfolklore) all the while unbeknownst to us, Druidey Don, Duncey Putin and MAGA Disinfolklore is taking advantage of our mental shortcut taking. Their Disinfolklore re-engineers our brains and imprints new Archetypal identities inside our minds.

Everything I saw in Russia-occupied Ukraine’s information space is present today in MAGA and Disinfolklore Don’s architected information warfare operations. The Archetyping as “Right” what is, in reality, wrong and illusory is precisely what Druidey Don is doing when he hypnotises us with lies masquerading as truthiness about crowd sizes and whether or not The Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a dictator.

The Archetyping of “brutal Russian occupation” as “Peace” is just the latest in a long line of clues that Disinfolklore Don’s following a Russian playbook. This brainwashing at population scale so that, for example, democratically elected leaders like President Zelenskyy are being re-Archetyped as Dictators while Ukraine which is winning the war against Russia is being re-Archetyped as “weak” and in need of a Minsk-like peace is recurring.

Russia specialises in offering the executioners of its Disinfolklore-dependent strategies like Disinfolklore Don offers they can’t refuse. They’re compelling and designed for the psychological vulnerabilities Donald wears on his sleeve. He wants to be world king and the political technology of re-Archetyping at population-scale is a potent means offered to Druidey Don by Russia to achieve his goal.

In return for sharing its methods of hacking archetypes like “Right,” “Conservative,” and lawfulness with Don Disinfolklore, Russia hopes to win Ukraine. We must not allow this to happen. Our communities and our minds’ health depends on us harnessing the power of Archetyping to bring “Right” and the political right back into sync. Ruschist ideologue admitting Trenin recently wrote in RT (note the Rt sound in the moniker of the Russian State’s main Disinfolklire distribution apparatus - they’re not subtle, if you know what to look for, and my job is to help you know what to look for) of the “Invisible Revolution” which is taking place inside Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. According to Trenin Russia is the first right-wing state that has “re-established the supremacy of national legislation over international treaties…” What unites self-declared “Conservatives Traditionalists” like American MAGA, English Brexiteers, Oligarchs, Anti-Woke, and Ruschists?

They all want to destroy the post-WWII legal architecture, including explicit commitments in domestic/municipal law to honour the supremacy of international law over municipal/national law. Human Rights protected, universally, as a matter of law is one form this post-WWII supremacy of International Law over domestic/municipal law takes.

States’ rights to territorial integrity is another form of international law’s supremacy over, for example, Russia’s attempt to use domestic law to usurp Ukraine’s sovereignty over Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts.

We are extremely fortunate that Russia’s attempt to use law to usurp Ukraine’s right and Ukrainians human rights is a function of its failure on the battlefield. Its current attempt to coerce, through Druidey Don’s intervention, Ukraine to surrender its legal right to areas Russia has failed to capture according to the age-old law of Might is Right/Reich is almost comical. Yet the deadly serious Comedian, himself educated (like me) in international law, President Zelenskyy, Italy’s current leader Meloni and Germany’s incoming Chancellor Merz understand exactly what is at stake.

On multiple occasions these three rightful leaders have spoken about the consequence of allowing Russia any victory in Ukraine being the collapse of the international legal order established after World War II. So President Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Meloni and likely incoming chancellor Merz are therefore the Right’s (and indeed humanity’s) main chance to achieve the collective goal of preserving the post-World War Two conception of what is right. If they don’t retrieve right from Druidey Don, Duncey Putin and MAGA, then we’re done for as a species.