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The Dark Triad and Its Corollaries...
"You must remember, My children, when you accept the talkings and the words of an atheist: there is no honor in the atheist. There is no truth in the atheist. They will cajole you, and buy you, until you no longer are what is called a 'free nation,' but you will be enslaved-if they do not kill the multitudes before, My child. I say 'if,' because it is their plan to destroy your nation and rebuild it by themselves. The cost of life means nothing to them, as you can recognize in all of the countries around your world that have been invaded by Russia, or Russia is the secret agent giving over the firearms and the destructive missiles to destroy the United States and Canada." - Our Lady, September 14, 1985
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York. Read more
DailyWire.com reported on August 7, 2025:
By J R Nyquist
“In addition to NABM [National Anti-Ballistic Missile] and ABM [Anti-Ballistic Missile] systems for Moscow, the FSU [Former Soviet Union] devoted enormous resources to air defense, anti-submarine warfare, space defense, directed energy technologies for a variety of missions, and the nuclear war management system designed to enable the Party and Government nomenklatura to manage and survive a nuclear war, and then to direct post war recovery.”
William Lee[i]
“Passive defenses are assets for protecting forces, military and political leaders, key personnel, and the general population from the effects of nuclear detonations. Passive defenses include nuclear hardened missile silos, launch control facilities, command bunkers, civil defense shelters, and shelters for strategic material – food, machinery, and the necessaries for reconstruction. Passive defenses also include personnel specifically trained in nuclear civil defense who can be mobilized to monitor radiation levels, conduct evacuations, provide advice and medical help, and begin reconstruction.”
Peter Vincent Pry[ii]
Today’s military crisis in Europe should have been anticipated, but our strategists lacked foresight. And now the Kremlin appears to be preparing an invasion of the Baltic States, or the occupation of the Suwałki Gap (i.e., located on Polish and Lithuanian territory). Russia’s war preparations against NATO effectively bring pressure to bear on Europe and President Donald Trump. Will NATO stand up to Moscow if Russian forces move into Lithuania? Or will the alliance fall apart? A great deal is at stake. If direct threats against Europe can be used to leverage NATO out of supporting Ukraine, Russia might retake Ukraine and reconstitute the Union State (i.e., Soviet Union). In that event, China and the other communist states might come into play. A terrifying shift in the balance of power would begin.
NATO authorities are saying that Russia will be ready to attack Europe in 18 months (in 2027). I am told that the balance of power will shift in Russia and China’s favor through 2029. This is not happening by accident. It is happening by design. The public, however, does not seem troubled. Nearly everyone is focused on domestic political battles. The pro-Russian part of the MAGA movement thinks that President Vladimir Putin is a Christian and a nationalist. Dark Enlightenment theorists say that America is actually the communist motherland (instead of Russia). Here is a special kind of Russian joke, made funnier by jokers like Curtis Yarvin.[iii] But now we have grown so stupid that jokers can pull our ears and pinch our noses.
Is the Russian president a Christian? No. Vladimir Putin is a Dark Triad personality. His government is a criminal formation partaking of the rich heritage of the communist movement and its legendary mass murderers: Lenin and Stalin, Dzerzhinsky and Beria. Here we find a predisposition to commit crimes. As noted by Polish psychologist Andrzej Łobaczewski in Political Ponerology, the claims and promises of psychopaths do not matter. This kind of state is called a “pathocracy”; that is, rule by those who are pathological. Their system always inverts human values and massacres the innocent.
Since Łobaczewski’s insights were published there have been advances in the study of psychology which may be added to our understanding of totalitarian dictatorship. According to a paper published in 2002 by psychologists Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams, there is a “Dark Triad” of traits which characterize “socially averse” personalities. The Dark Triad consists of the following three traits: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. These traits can exist at a “subclinical” level in certain political leaders, and are all the more dangerous for going undetected.
According to Łobaczewski, something like Dark Triad traits permeate the top leadership strata of totalitarian states. As Russian GRU defector Stanislav Lunev told me, “These are not human beings, these are crazy persons.” Men of this type rule with a deceitful cynicism that appears formidable and successful. But underneath the surface there is dysfunction. These people are not supermen. In respect of this, the Dark Triad has its corollaries insofar as Machiavellianism gives rise to Incomprehension, while Narcissism gives rise to Incapacity even as Psychopathy leads to Credulity.
The energy of the Dark Triad regime is vibrant and ever flowing when murder and deceit are easy to bring off. Yet murder and deceit are not child’s play. As criminal ambition grows in complexity, the path forward becomes more difficult. Ever greater insights are needed to fuel a long-term plan of conquest. Yet insights of the highest order, which are necessary for strategic accomplishment, require a form of goodness belonging only to wisdom. The totalitarian mind is too cynical and untruthful for wisdom. The evil leader fails to comprehend what is ultimately good. Inevitably his deceitful methods backfire. The practice of deception degenerates into self-deception. Whenever strength is built upon murder and pillage, there is an attending madness which gradually leads to paralysis and incapacity.
Another weakness of the totalitarian is his tendency to believe in his own self-ascribed omniscience. People naturally tend to believe in their own cleverness, and wicked people are no exception. Philosophers have argued that evil is a special case of foolishness. Even while they are fooling other people, the wicked imagine themselves too clever to be deceived. But the subordinates of dictators are students at the foot of their master. As the dictator deceives, these subordinates are bound deceive as well.
Please note the following examples: As the Second World War went against Germany, Hitler realized that his military subordinates were deceiving him about their actions. To combat this problem, Hitler began making tape recordings and transcripts of all his military conferences. According to his valet, Heinz Linge, Hitler would send for the transcripts of past meetings when his generals began to contradict themselves. At one point Hitler sat down with his top commanders and admonished them for dishonesty. With the exception of Admiral Karl Doenitz, he said they were all dishonest.[iv] Joseph Stalin did not bother with such confrontations. He did not criticize those generals who misinformed him. Malfeasant generals were arrested and shot – as in the case of General Dimitry Pavlov, who commanded the Western Special Military District at the outset of the war with Germany. Stalin was responsible for executing or imprisoning a very large number of generals. According to some estimates, 81 of 103 Red Army generals and admirals were executed. Here we encounter the famous paranoia of Stalin. Why was Stalin paranoid? Because everyone was lying to him. Consider then, the example of Vladimir Putin. In the Ukraine War, Putin has taken an even more dysfunctional approach, preferring to blame his competent commanders while promoting loyal incompetents. A prominent example of this is Major General Ivan Popov, commander of the 58th Combined Arms Army, who was reportedly popular with his troops but was removed after he criticized the Russian Army’s leadership. In 2024 Putin ordered a significant crackdown, with several high-ranking officers, including a deputy defense minister arrested on bribery charges. Yet other criminals, belonging to Sergie Shoigu’s “clan,” escaped real punishment, and were given sinecures. Here we see the real meaning of de-Stalinization. You replace sanguinary paranoia with blind regard for treacherous toadies.
Dark Triad personalities, who organize regimes of networked psychopaths, typically succumb to the very unreality their regimes cultivate. Stalin was the most effective and successful of the Dark Triad dictators; but even his success must be qualified by the fact that he was only saved by massive economic and military assistance from the United States. If Putin is to be saved, the United States will have to turn against Ukraine and Europe and join Putin the way Roosevelt teamed up with Stalin. Trump is being pushed in this direction, though the mechanism for pushing is hidden.
Of course, the West also has problematic leaders operating under a completely different type of regime. Almost thirty years ago Christopher Lasch wrote of America’s “crisis of competence; the spread of apathy and a suffocating cynicism; the moral paralysis of those who value ‘openness’ above all.”[v] He was pointing to the left. Today this quote might be amended to describe the right; for MAGA also suffers a crisis of competence. Of course, it is not the moral paralysis of those who value “openness,” but the moral paralysis of those who cannot shut anything down. As G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “The whole modern world is divided into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent them from being corrected.”
Links and Notes
[i] William Lee, The ABM Treaty Charade: A Study in Elite Illusion and Delusion (Washington, DC: Council for Social and Economic Studies, 1997), p. 84.
[ii] Peter Vincent Pry, The Strategic Nuclear Balance and Why it Matters, Vol. 1 (New York: Taylor & Francis, 1990), p. 84.
[iii] In his Gray Mirror column at Substack, Yarvin recently posted a picture of Lenin arriving at Finland Station in 1917. The article curiously begins with the role played by Harvard’s intellectuals in the Salem witch trials. This ideologically frames everything in terms most amenable to Yarvin’s conflation of New England Puritanism and Protestantism with the woke left. This curious casting resolves into an attack on conservatism: “The truth about conservative ‘oligarchs’ is simple,” he writes: “they are not normal people. They are all autistic in some way. People with normal social instincts want power – viscerally. If they wanted power, viscerally, they would do what normal people do, when they become billionaires – and be liberals.” Then, weirdly, in the next paragraph, he adds: “Instead, these semi-autistic people are genuine anarchs in the Juengerian sense – their visceral mission is to be free of power. If Elon Musk could staff his empire entirely with AIs, he would. His mission is going to Mars. His mission is not commanding an army of men – that’s just a thing he needs to do to go to Mars.” Yarvin then brings this observation around to discussing McCarthyism, somehow associating McCarthy’s name with the persecution of anti-communists by “the progressive woke communist mind virus….” Having accused America of being THE communist power of the world, he then writes, “Imagine how great America would be if McCarthy didn’t just go after communists, but also the liberals too. California would consist entirely of surfer girls who get married off to stockbrokers. We would still be #1 in plastics.” To be sure, Yarvin is pulling our ears and pinching our noses.
[iv] Albert Speer also wrote of Hitler distrusting his generals. Speer’s book, Inside the Third Reich, outlined the reasons of Hitler’s growing paranoia and fury at what he perceived as disloyalty and incompetence. Of course, the generals who survived the war took revenge by heaping blame on Hitler.
[v] Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995), p. 90.
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the nations of the world. You do not know how close you are to being one of the
nations to be annihilated. I speak this of the United States of America, because
they are being deluded by Russia. Russia has in armaments six times the number
of missiles that we store. While they say they deploy them, and take them out of
existence--that is not true. They are increasing and increasing; for they have
only one thought in mind--that is to take over the whole world.”
– Our Lady, October 2, 1987
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