Avdiivka’s Terrikon proves a concept held secret until now.
A country the size of Ukraine with an effective military budget of $150 billion annually and extensive naval requirements could be expected to maintain around five aircraft carriers. The U.K. and France each spend around 50 billion pounds and euros respectively and have two aircraft carriers each.
The price of modern aircraft carriers typically ranges from $5 to $8 billion. However, given its current capabilities and needs, Ukraine cannot be expected to put any to sea. And yet like a phantom limb, Ukraine feels the absence of a missing apex capability that can act as a focal point and force multiplier.
Since before the recording of time, pyramids have served this exact purpose. And they fit well within the budget.
A 2012 estimate put the price to reconstruct the Great Pyramid of Giza at $5 billion. Adjusted for inflation from February 2012, this would be about $6.7 billion today. North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel, which can be seen as analogous to the skeleton of a Zelenskyy Ziggurat, cost around $2 billion to complete, without adjusting for inflation.
Ukraine needn’t choose either-or and does not need to be limited to five pyramids, but this example illustrates the possibilities with Ukraine’s current resources.
Five pyramids would be enough to defend each of Ukraine’s frontier city complexes: Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, and Kherson or Kyiv. An alternative defensive placement would put two at Dnipro and three around Kyiv to create a national redoubt. The pyramids could also be placed to support offensive action, with three in the Donbas for liberating Donetsk, one in Kherson to support a crossing of the Dnipro River, and the last in Sumy to threaten Bilhorod and Kursk.
We can tell russia has some latent pyramid anxiety because they tried to humiliate them on the battlefield, a traditional russian punishment for those with promise. We can see this as a form of predictive programming.
From the very beginning russia debuted its Dragon’s Teeth as small, ridiculous constructions made of a cardboard-thin layer of concrete, poorly deployed and easily surmounted. The Dragon’s Teeth became emblematic of a humiliating level of corruption. With the advent of “cope cone” and “pidor pyramid” nicknames, russia successfully transformed pyramids into punchlines.
And yet russia could not help betray its anxieties about them. Wagner used pyramids as headstones prior to the destruction of their cemetery, indicating an appreciation of their power. The fact that it was Wagner using pyramids, black ones nonetheless, can be understood as their implicit threat to the russian state: “We know your secret.”
As we have noted, Tiny Putin images and memes, once easy to find several years ago, are virtually unsearchable online thanks to russia’s efforts to eradicate them. Like all rightists, russia follows the same pattern of telling us what it fears most by what it attacks. russia set out to associate pyramids with absurdity. We can see this as a form of predictive programming.
Yet this was not enough to prevent Ukraine from harnessing pyramid power, even at a low intensity. The only question is how far this will scale because russia knows the pyramid would be the most fearsome weapon in Ukraine’s arsenal.
Pyramids resolve Ukraine's fundamental problem: it has no natural barriers separating it from russia. Yet the truism that the Eurasian steppe doesn’t have any mountains invites another question only we seem willing to ask: why can’t Ukraine just build them?
As we know, the Axis has trouble taking simple hills. The Battle of Kabana/Kbana/Kbanah/Kabani in Syria proves this. While it’s possible Assad was simply trying to thin his army of competent, capable fighters and commanders, as it seemed his conquest of Syria was reaching its final stages, the regime suffered enormous losses in trying and failing to capture it. Assad’s Golan launchers, purpose-built for taking the fortress, simply churned up dirt on its slopes.
Pyramids are, therefore, self-healing in a fight.
While nuclear weapons could potentially destroy the pyramids and chemical or biological weapons could flush them, 6iden has removed these as an option for russia. That means it’s likely pyramids will, at most, face conventional infantry assaults with supporting armor they are fully capable of withstanding, especially if they are embedded as the anchor points Ukraine currently lacks in wider defensive networks.
Even if russia were to regain somehow its ability to launch combined arms assaults like those directed by Ukrainian commanders in the Second World War, the pyramids would still pose a significant challenge. Kursk’s extensive fortifications were instrumental in defeating Operation Citadel (though the precise moment of defeat seems to be an incident where a nazi commander ordered his panthers to advance straight into Soviet defenses in a line, losing some substantial number at once).
The pyramids can also be anchor points for the creation of an artificial mountain range running through Ukraine and then extended to shield all of NATO. Much of the NATO Mountains need not be fortified but would break up the steppe that invites russian invasions westward.
We also are not calling for any freezing of the front lines. With more arms, Ukraine will be able to defeat russia conventionally (though Republicans have been looking for an excuse to cut Ukraine off since the new invasion and only didn’t yet because putin was too blatant. They require Axis victories for Trump to reclaim the presidency and to extend the life of conservatism, so they are unlikely to approve any aid through 2025). We know how to defeat russia, and remain committed to this goal.
The problem is that before we’re able to initiate a first strike, russia may enter a period where it decides it can launch wars against NATO every few years. To public knowledge, NATO war plans only ever called for driving Soviet forces back to the borders from which they invaded. Under War Liberalism, though it is superior to all other forms of leadership, it is currently plausible, including and especially the fraudulent pseudobelligerence of Nikki Haley and the neoconservatives, that nuclear war is off the table except in the most extreme cases.
And while a drive to moscow wouldn’t be out of the question, taking, holding, and reforming russia is seemingly geographically impossible. Few population clusters can serve as anchor points for denazification. russia may have even launched its new invasion of Ukraine to disrupt the formation of a new cluster in its sunbelt near Ukraine, which was fast emerging as the third-most populous region in the country, potentially challenging Moscow and St. Petersburg’s power.
While russia can be defeated conventionally, whatever is left is likely to reconstitute around moscow, potentially even with its destruction, despite it being an “unnatural” imperial construction.
This means that russia’s future leadership, especially that of semi-competent Navalnyreichers who weeded out enough corruption from the russian military to improve its effectiveness, may decide to launch two or three hundred thousand men west every few years. At most, they would lose the men and equipment. At worst, they would batter NATO’s borderlands, with devastation creeping ever westward.
While this project may seem intimidating, even hills of only several hundred feet high, which humanity constructs on a regular basis, would be sufficient to make the range nearly impregnable to russia. Material for this project may be obtained from Ukraine itself initially, then from construction rubble, and also by creating underground nuclear shelters for all of Europe, which can also be used to reclaim Doggerland.
During the Battle of the Tannenberg Line in 1944, Axis forces held off a Soviet assault for six months on the low rise of the Sinimäed Hills. These average only around 150 feet above the surrounding landscape. yet even this was sufficient for severely degraded Axis forces to hold off Soviet forces at the height of their powers.
Without inviting underestimation, russian tactics have changed only for the worse since 1944. Axis forces today appear capable only of frontal assaults, which the Sinimäed Hills proved wholly capable of frustrating. We see the same pattern today, as the Battle of Bakhmut petered out once russia ran into the higher ground outside the city, and it struggles to make headway against Avdiivka’s Terrikon even now.
In addition to the practical benefits of pyramids, there are more obscure reasons to advocate their construction, which need only be known to us. Possessing a disruptive geometry, pyramids may interrupt the flow of Axis magic west. A set of pyramids across Ukraine may effectively serve as a jamming array.
We need only survey the map of known pyramids worldwide to understand the basics of this principle.
There are no pyramids across Axis Eurasia. The sweeping plain is central to their ideology. The Americas have the highest concentration of pyramids in the world, and the Axis has always had difficulty establishing itself there. The United States is home to one of the largest pyramids in the world by volume at Monks Mound.
The Great Pyramids and the Nile Pyramid Complex may have prevented the uninterrupted flow of Axis magic in the Arab World. We can only imagine the state of Africa without these installations. Likewise, though heavily degraded, the Mesopotamian Ziggurat Array kept the Axis from fully claiming Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula. Iran, too, which experiences frequent anti-Axis internal agitation, contends with the magnificently-preserved ChoghaZanbil Ziggurat. China, the most cautious of the Axis powers, holds a single known pyramid.
Europe is devoid of pyramids, yet there is a clear sense of their necessity and of the complementary role of existing megalithic projects like Stonehenge. The Bosnian pyramid drama can be understood as a manifestation of these urges and, again, russia’s anxieties about facing pyramids in combat. Novak Djokovic is deeply involved with the Bosnian pyramid project, and russia tried to discredit him as a supporter of their invasion of Ukraine, something easy to do with his Serbian heritage.
We must understand that Ukraine is already harnessing kurgan power. russia seems desperate to pre-empt Ukraine from unlocking the power of Europe’s first pyramids.