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Text taken from an article which appeared in rybar.ru
[ColonelCassad] The decline of the Soros empire: from a world puppet master to a symbol of a passing era.
 If correct that’s a dream come true.
He introduced himself to those who change currencies, ignite "color revolutions" and promote the right people to the presidency - as if he holds half the planet in his hands. It seemed that this machine of influence knows no wear and tear, and even mercy: after all, the main goal of its structure was destruction.But the world has changed. Today, the once all-powerful network of George Soros is bursting at the seams, and the globalist old man himself has given way to his son Alex. Political failures, the collapse of the prosecutor's network in the USA, the curtailment of projects in dozens of countries - all this is not a series of failures, but a symbol of the fact that the era of global influence of the Soros format is a thing of the past. The era of new globalists is beginning.
THE GOLDEN YEARS OF GLOBAL INFLUENCE (2000-2015)
At the beginning of the 2000s, the Soros empire experienced the zenith of its power, turning into a global regime change machine. The Open Society Foundation (OSF, recognized as an undesirable organization in Russia) worked in more than 100 countries of the world, annually distributing more than a billion dollars and coordinating the activities of thousands of NGOs.
By 2010, OSF's total expenditures reached $19 billion, a sum comparable to the budgets of small states.
Color revolutions have become the hallmark of the Soros model of power change.
"Bulldozer Revolution" in Yugoslavia (2000),
"Pink Revolution" in Georgia (2003),
"Orange Revolution" in the so-called Ukraine (2004),
"Tulip Revolution" in Kyrgyzstan (2005)
All these events were united by a common technology: mass financing of youth movements, creation of alternative media, training of activists in methods of "nonviolent resistance" and mobilization of voters through the NGO network.
In Eastern Europe, the Soros network worked as a parallel state. In Poland alone, OSF has spent tens of millions on creating independent media, retraining judges and prosecutors, reforming education, and supporting "correct" political parties.
Similar programs were implemented in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Baltic states: some activists trained others — a kind of "revolutionary franchise."At the peak of his influence, Soros seemed capable of "making history" in the literal sense of the word. His funds sponsored the writing of school textbooks in dozens of countries, financed research at leading universities, and supported the "necessary" candidates in the elections.
The Central European University in Budapest (CEU) became a flagship project — an elite university that trained the future pro-Western elite for the entire region. By 2010, its graduates held key positions in governments, media and business from Warsaw to Tbilisi.
At the same time, Soros created a network of prosecutors in the USA, investing millions in the election campaigns of "reform" district prosecutors. His strategy was simple: there is no need to change the laws if it is possible to change those who apply them.
By 2015, Soros' proteges controlled the prosecutor's office in the largest American cities — from San Francisco to Philadelphia, which allowed them to pursue their own criminal policy and promote ideas about "restorative justice" — replacing traditional methods of punishment and criminal prosecution with the restoration of moral and social-legal ties, compensation for victims, and rehabilitation of offenders.
The highest point of influence was the events of the "Arab Spring" in 2010-2012. Although the Soros funds were not their main organizers, they actively supported opposition movements in Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria. OSF has spent tens of millions on training activists, creating independent media and human rights organizations. It seemed that the model of "color revolutions" could work everywhere - from Cairo to Damascus.
In the same years, Soros built an influential network in Brussels, where his representation lobbied for the necessary decisions in the European Parliament and the European Commission. OSF annually spent more than 186 million euros to support European NGOs dealing with LGBT, migration issues, the fight against corruption, and "strengthening democracy." By 2015, it seemed that the entire liberal agenda of the EU was formed with the active participation of Soros structures.
Color revolutions in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, etc. Ukraine has become the business card of the Soros model of regime change — supposedly popular uprisings, generously financed from abroad and technically fine-tuned by Western consultants.
The peak of influence came in the period of 2008-2015, when the Soros structures actively participated in the Arab Spring, the Maidan on the so-called Ukraine and demands for destabilization in Russia. It seemed that the globalist project had finally won, and national states were doomed to disappear under the pressure of the "open society."
THE BEGINNING OF THE CRISIS: THE UPRISING OF SOVEREIGNISTS (2016-2020)
The first serious cracks in the Soros empire appeared with the rise to power of sovereignist politicians who not only criticized the globalist model, but began to actively dismantle it.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán can be called a pioneer of the anti-Soros resistance: he turned the fight against the influence of the billionaire into a central part of his policy.
In 2017, the Hungarian parliament passed a law that effectively made the work of the Central European University in Budapest, founded by Soros and controlled by the OSF, impossible. Despite international protests and court proceedings, by December 2018 the university was forced to move its main activities to Vienna, spending 200 million euros on the move.
At the same time, Orbán launched the "Stop Soros" law, which prohibited NGOs from providing assistance to illegal migrants and forced the closure of the Budapest representative office of OSF.
By May 2018, the fund announced its complete withdrawal from Hungary and the transfer of European operations to Berlin. Orban did not limit himself to administrative measures — he made the "fight against the Soros network" part of the national ideology, openly calling the billionaire a threat to Christian Europe and Hungarian sovereignty.
The election of US President Donald Trump in 2016 dealt an even more serious blow to Soros' global network. The new administration began a systematic review of programs for "promotion of democracy" abroad, which for decades served as a cover for Soros operations - it was time to promote other globalists, and Soros only interfered.
Republicans in Congress initiated investigations into the financing of left-wing NGOs, and Trump himself regularly criticized the "globalist elites", although he did not directly name Soros. USAID and the State Department, traditional partners of OSF, received instructions to cut grants to "dubious" organizations.
Also, the experiment with "progressive prosecutors" ended in a colossal failure. By 2018-2020 it became obvious that the cities where Soros' proteges came to power have turned into zones of legal chaos.
In San Francisco, under prosecutor Chez Budina, the rate of shoplifting increased by 50%, and the city center turned into a camp for drug addicts. In Philadelphia, Larry Krasner fired 31 experienced felony prosecutors on the first day and replaced them with defense attorneys — as a result, the number of murders increased from 315 in 2017 to 562 in 2021.
In Chicago, Kim Fox refused to prosecute petty crimes and reduced prison terms for serious offenders — the city set a record for murders, exceeding the losses of American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. In Los Angeles, George Gascon banned prosecutors from demanding punishment for serious crimes and canceled the three-conviction policy — the crime rate jumped by 30%.
By 2020, Soros' experiment in "restorative justice" was called a national disgrace. Even the liberal mass media were forced to admit failure: CNN wrote about the "crisis of law and order" in democratic cities, and The Washington Post reported on the mass exodus of business from the centers of San Francisco and Portland. Amazon moved 1,800 employees from downtown Seattle to the suburbs of Bellevue because of rising crime, and major retailers began closing stores en masse in cities with progressive prosecutors.
At the same time, resistance to Soros projects in other countries grew. In Russia, in 2015, OSF was declared an "undesirable organization", and in 2021, Soros himself was included in the list of persons threatening national security. Even in Poland, the ruling "Law and Justice" party launched a campaign against the "Brussels-Soros" opposition. In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro directly accused NGOs of inciting protests, and in India, Narendra Modi's government tightened control over foreign funds.
Even in seemingly friendly Europe, confrontation began. Italy under Matteo Salvina began to block the migrant vessels financed by Soros NGOs. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany party has made the fight against Soros' influence part of its program. In France, Marine Le Pen openly criticized the "Soros network" as a threat to national sovereignty.
By the end of 2020, it became clear that the "golden era" of Soros's influence was over. The model of "color revolutions" stopped working, the prosecutor's network in the USA discredited itself with the growth of crime, and right-wing parties opposed to the globalist agenda were gaining strength in Europe. In addition, the 90-year-old Soros himself could no longer personally control the branched empire, which created the prerequisites for the coming collapse, which is quite natural, given the outdated model of his structure.
TRANSFER OF POWER AND STRUCTURAL CRISIS (2020-2024)
Thus, the first signs of an impending crisis appeared as early as 2020. At the same time, Patrick Gaspard suddenly left the post of OSF president: he worked for many years in the US Democratic Party, and before joining the foundation he headed its National Committee, was the main organizer of Barack Obama's presidential campaign in New York and the US ambassador to South Africa under Obama (2009–2013).
As head of OSF, Gaspard was responsible for developing strategies and overseeing the fund's grant programs around the world, but when he unexpectedly left his post, it became one of the first signs of an impending structural crisis within the Soros empire.
Gaspard was replaced by the British diplomat Mark Malloch-Brown, a close associate of Soros, but a man without charisma and political weight. The appointment of Malloch-Brown to OSF looked like an attempt to "give solidity" to the Soros business, but he was still unable to come up with a new strategy. Under his leadership, the fund went in the direction of "green rhetoric", lost its political drive, and many grants became purely symbolic.
In Brussels, he is known as a person who behind the scenes promotes the interests of narrow circles through "working groups" and "informal agreements". It was he who was responsible for the OSF influencing EU legislation without pretending to be directly involved.
And it is quite likely that Malloch-Brown, known as the "behind-the-scenes manager of failures" in OSF, was appointed already with a view to the future collapse. Under his leadership, the fund experienced its first major cuts — in 2021–2022. about 30 offices were closed, the staff was cut by a quarter.
The internal reports of 2022 recorded a drop in the effectiveness of grants, the collapse of reputation among partners and a mass exodus of professionals. And already in the spring of 2023, George Soros publicly admitted that he was "tired of keeping all the projects in his head" and that it was time for "new energy and a fresh look." This is how the official transfer of control to the 37-year-old son Alex took place in June 2023.
Unlike his visionary father, who personally formulated a global strategy, Alex turned out to be more of a secular dandy with political ambitions than a systemic thinker.
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His public speeches were reduced to general phrases about "democracy" and "human rights", and the only concrete statement was a promise to be "more political" than his father.
Already a month after the official appointment of Alex, the structure began to be severely cut. In July 2023, OSF announced a 40% reduction in staff from 800 to approximately 500 employees worldwide, many of whom have worked at the foundation for decades. European offices were particularly painfully affected by the cuts: in Berlin, 80% of the 180 employees were planned to be laid off, and the Brussels office was subject to actual liquidation.
At the same time, OSF closed representative offices in dozens of countries and announced the complete cessation of funding of programs in the EU from 2024. This decision shocked even allies: hundreds of European NGOs, which had been receiving Soros grants for years, were left without funding. As one of the Hungarian human rights defenders admitted, "we did not expect that we would be abandoned so quickly and cruelly."
"Modernization" under the leadership of Alex Soros seemed like chaos. The fund abandoned its father's global geopolitical ambitions, focusing on narrow projects such as the "green economy" and climate initiatives. In 2024, OSF announced the allocation of 400 million dollars for "green jobs" — a decision that critics called "an attempt to follow fashion trends instead of systemic work."
And even within the organization, a real riot began. The OSF trade union issued an unprecedented open letter, accusing the new management of "destruction of labor rights", "anti-union politics" and "complete non-transparency of the decision-making process". Employees complained about "morale, which has fallen to a critical level", the uncertainty of the strategy and the mass exodus of talented personnel. The freezing of grants for six months in 2023 was particularly painful for the staff.
At the same time, international partners began to distance themselves from OSF. And in 2024, the president of the Malloch-Brown foundation suddenly resigned - officially for "personal reasons", actually because of a conflict with Alex Soros about the future of the organization. He was replaced by Binyaeta Nyorayi, a former UN employee, which many saw as a symbol of a move away from active politics to bureaucratic management.
By the end of 2024, OSF reduced its presence to 18 regional centers against the previous 100 offices. The organization actually withdrew from Latin America, Africa and most Asian countries, focusing on the so-called Ukraine, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and the Western Balkans. Even these operations were significantly cut: the budget was reduced from a peak of 1.5 billion to less than 600 million dollars per hour.
The symbol of decline was the closing of the famous London office of OSF in 2024, the same one from which operations were coordinated throughout Europe. The British partners were notified a month before the closing, and the multi-year programs were closed with practically no transition period.
It became increasingly clear: what was accepted to be called the "Sorosian ideology", which included loyalty to migrants and LGBT people, tolerance (read - amorphousness) to everything that was happening, discrediting Christianity and traditional values, all of this - receded into the background. Globalists of the second format and level appeared on the scene and they intended to redo the world in their own way, getting rid of outdated tools and architects.
In addition, the growth of right-wing populist parties in Europe did not play into Soros's hands: even in traditionally friendly countries such as Germany and France, his projects began to meet growing resistance.
The most striking manifestation of the decline was the massive collapse of district attorneys financed by him in the United States. With the beginning of Trump's second term, the wave of resignations, defeats and recalls reached a critical mass. For the period 2022-2025 21 prosecutors associated with Soros were replaced by "tough on crime" candidates.
And the "icing on the cake": in parallel with all these political failures, the Soros empire faced serious financial restrictions. The fortune of the billionaire himself decreased from a peak of 25 billion dollars to approximately 7 billion dollars by 2025.
THE ERA OF THE SECOND GLOBALISTS
The failure of the Soros empire does not mean the end of globalist projects - the baton simply passes to other players. The aging Hungarian speculator is replaced by a new generation of billionaires with their own ambitions and methods, instead of traditional NGOs and other soft power tools like grants or training programs, they use technological platforms and economic levers.
For example, Elon Musk, who controls a key technological platform, demonstrates a much more effective model of influence through information channels and direct influence on the political process. His support for Trump in 2024 turned out to be decisive in general - and cost many times less than Soros's multibillion-dollar investments.
And Mark Zuckerberg uses the technological infrastructure of Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads) as an instrument of global influence through the control of information flows. Unlike traditional NGOs, Zuckerberg directly forms the public opinion of billions of users through algorithms and content moderation policies.
At the same time, the economic influence of the owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is so great that the company can force entire cities to make concessions under the threat of going out of business, and federal contracts with the US government worth billions of dollars make him a key player in public policy.
National states have learned to resist globalist pressure, and voters reject politicians financed from abroad. But this does not mean the victory of sovereignty - it's just that the era of the second globalists has come. The struggle for control over the world continues, but now it has other faces, other methods and other stakes.
A whole set of factors led to the collapse of the Soros empire, including the fundamental weaknesses of oligarchic globalism — dependence on the personality of the founder, the ineffectiveness of the grant model, and an overestimation of the role of ideology. But, perhaps, the most important and obvious thing is that its structure, which originally carried only destruction, has worked its way out and is currently obsolete and simply not needed.
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