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Yana Matviychuk about the All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Politics

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What is the All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Policy “Security. Values. Welfare” 2024?

The return of conservatism is the main trend in Western countries in 2024. Moreover, this trend will only intensify in 2025. A powerful impetus to the return to conservatism was given by Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election in 2024. Ukrainian traditional conservatives are hopeful about the conservative renaissance in the United States. Yana Matviychuk and other partners, conservative organizations have decided to strengthen cooperation with their American counterparts on Ukrainian soil. Therefore, to establish better cooperation between Ukrainian and American conservatives, the All-Ukrainian Conservative Policy Forum “Security. Values. Welfare” was organized.

All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Politics
All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Policy “Security. Values. Welfare”

The forum was organized by conservative activists and organizations from Ukraine and the United States. Among the organizers were organizations such as the Brotherhood and the Christian Patriotic Platform. These organizations were represented at the Forum by Yana Matviychuk. Ukrainian and American conservatives join forces with the assistance of the Christian Patriotic Platform. Yana Matviychuk about the All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Politics On December 6, the All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Politics “Security. Values. Welfare” was held in Kyiv. This event brought together more than 400 Ukrainian conservatives, as well as representatives of leading American think tanks The Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute. The forum was aimed at strengthening cooperation between conservative movements in Ukraine and the United States, as well as defining a common vision of conservative values.

Mission of the Conservative Policy Forum:

Donald Trump’s victory in the US election has changed the political landscape, putting values such as faith, family traditions, individualism, and free economics in the spotlight. Ukraine, as one of the most conservative countries in Europe, is eager to demonstrate to its strategic ally that its principles are in line with those of the United States. The Forum’s organizers, representatives of Ukrainian communities, worked to strengthen ties with key American institutions. Yana Matviychuk at the All-Ukrainian Conservative Policy Forum “Security. Values. Welfare” represented the interests of the Christian Patriotic Platform. Yana Matviychuk not only took an active part in organizing the Forum, but also expressed the position that uniting the efforts of conservatives is the key to protecting common values and emphasized the importance of economic development based on the principles of the Austrian School of Economics (freedom, private property, minimal government intervention in business).

Video report from the Conservative Forum by Yana Matviychuk:

Main topics of discussion
During the All-Ukrainian Forum of Conservative Politics “Security. Values. Welfare” participants discussed the following:

  • conservative values of Ukrainians;
  • the role of family, community, and church;
  • economic challenges of the war and prospects for recovery;
  • deepening allied relations between Ukraine and the United States.

Yana Matviychuk moderated the panel discussion “Economics of War and Recovery”. In her speech, she emphasized that the main value of the economy is the freedom of entrepreneurship, which ensures prosperity for every family. Yana Matviychuk invited the speakers to participate in the discussion on behalf of the Christian Patriotic Platform. The participants of the discussion unanimously noted that the war is the main threat to Ukraine, but economic problems also have a significant impact.

Preparations for Ukrainian Week in the United States
The forum was an important step in the preparations for Ukrainian Week in Washington, D.C., scheduled for February 2025. This initiative is intended to further develop the partnership between Ukraine and the United States and demonstrate the unity of the two nations. The forum has become not only a platform for the exchange of ideas, but also an important step towards the global unification of conservative movements.

Sergey Ivanov on the natural and the surrogate. Why is the world “shifting to the right”.

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Today, the phrase “the world is shifting to the right” is heard more and more often. While it`s not entirely certain that this observation can be stated as a fact, one cannot ignore the evident “right-wing” trends prevailing in most countries of the so called free world. Freedom is very important, because this shift can be seen as a natural response to the numerous totalitarian manifestations of neoliberal society, which many perceive as a threat to their personal freedom and identity.

At the same time, people are not always able to clearly define or articulate these threats for themselves, which is quite understandable within context of semantic disorientation characteristic of the postmodern era. However, the absence of clear definitions does not negate the ability of a person to feel threatened at other levels of perception and respond accordingly. Therefore, a person who is quite loyal to the external surrogate values that are offered to him or her or inculcated by propaganda unconsciously rejects them as soon as they come into conflict with his or her natural values. And it doesn’t matter how long this “loyalty regime” lasted. What comes from nature cannot be replaced by a surrogate. The immanent always wins.

Modern man is a homo mediaticus, a product shaped largely by the consumption of narratives dominating the media space. Their worldview is a syncretic plateau, littered with the secondary. Many of these narratives are in sharp conflict with human nature. The most famous are anti-natalism, perversion, censorship of political correctness, cultivation of intersectionality, secularization, and relativism. Rejection or insufficiently inspired approval of most of them involves repression-condemnation, bullying, “undoing,” etc. These practices are increasingly perceived as totalitarian and raise a fair question: “Why do I have to obey these laws if they are not?” The moment this question arises is also the moment when a person falls out of the narrative frame, followed by a period of conscious observation, critical analysis, then selective acceptance, and finally sabotage or open protest. Hundreds of millions of such pointed “epiphanies” form the ground on which worldview and, consequently, political changes, including the ones in question, grow. In parallel, there is a realization that liberal concentration camps are no different from illiberal ones. All concentration camps look alike and serve the same practical function: to hold and exterminate those who do not please their owners. It also becomes obvious that escaping from conditional loneliness into all-encompassing nothingness is not a good solution.

The world’s most sensitive organism, the market, has already realized this, and in addition to right-wing political outbursts, we are witnessing a gradual reformatting of the mainstream, from the blogosphere to Netflix, which no longer seems to see the evil in normativity and is not so picky about intersectional quotas. And this is also evidence of the victory of the natural over the surrogate.

So, strange as it may seem, killing the human in a human has proven to be much more difficult, despite the enormous global impact on it. And it is clear why: a person is not a demographic unit, but the result of continuity. Continuity is ensured by processes that are not subject to revision, and revision with obvious lethal consequences is even more so. The attack on the immanent has failed. There is not a lot of good news these days, but this is it.

Sergey Ivanov

Publicist and interviewer.