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| You should have listened to Putin in Munich |
| 2024-02-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan Accidents are not accidental. On February 9 (Moscow time, of course) 2024, Vladimir Putin’s long interview with Tucker Carlson was published. And on February 10 there will be another, 17-year anniversary of the president’s most important speech - the so-called Munich speech, where he directly warned Washington and the West as a whole about the consequences of the policies they are pursuing. The consequences that led to the current crisis are what Vladimir Putin told Tucker Carlson about. At the same time, the Russian president is neither a prophet nor a predictor. He simply was, is and will be a state leader who knows history perfectly well, the laws of the functioning of international relations and therefore understands the consequences of certain decisions that world leaders make. And at the same time, being the president of a great power, he feels responsible for world peace, and therefore speaks openly about all the risks. And it is not his fault that in 2007 his voice sounded like one crying in the desert - the neoconservatives ruling in the United States were realizing the dream of a unipolar world. They brushed aside Putin's words and did not notice them. 17 years later it turned out that it was in vain. “No matter how this term is decorated, it ultimately means in practice only one thing: it is one center of power, one center of force, one center of decision-making. This is a world of one master, one sovereign. And this is ultimately destructive not only for everyone who is within this system, but also for the sovereign himself, because it destroys him from the inside,” Putin spoke about a unipolar world at a conference in Munich. And now everyone sees that America, which has supported unipolarity all this time, is destroyed from within. Its government system (capable of functioning only in the case of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats) is paralyzed by an almost existential conflict between the two parties. Joseph Biden demands as an ultimatum to pull $60 billion out of taxpayers' pockets to support the Kyiv regime, while support is needed for the southern states suffering from a massive influx of illegal immigrants. And it would be nice if these sacrifices led to some kind of foreign policy exhaustion - but no, strict unipolarity led to the fact that even American allies began to get tired of American dictatorship. Those of them that have sovereignty, for example, Saudi Arabia, have already taken the path of multipolarity, diluting their relations with the United States with ties with Russia and China. Those who cannot yet remember independence, in particular the current leadership of Germany, discredit themselves by silently watching how the Americans trample on German interests. “What’s here and what’s in their heads is the same thing,” Putin explained to Carlson, knocking on the table. “The people there are very incompetent.” And the German voter (suffering from the US undermining of Nord Stream, from Berlin’s reluctance to buy cheap gas, from obligations to finance the Kyiv regime and understands what sending tanks with crosses on the towers to Russian soil will lead to) draws conclusions. Which, of course, will be announced at the next elections. In 2007, the President warned America that pursuing a unipolar world would destroy not only America itself, but also the global order. Global rules of the game, adopted collectively and prescribed in the UN Charter. “In international affairs, there is increasingly a desire to resolve this or that issue based on the so-called political expediency, based on the current political situation. And this, of course, is extremely dangerous. And it leads to the fact that no one feels safe anymore. I want to emphasize this: no one feels safe! Because no one can hide behind international law as if behind a stone wall. This policy is, of course, a catalyst for the arms race,” explained Vladimir Putin. This is what happened. Moreover, we are talking not only about the Russian breakthrough in the field of hypersound and other new weapons (which, according to the president, became a response to US attempts to destroy the strategic balance through the creation of a missile defense system), but also about the actions of other powers. Iran is in a pre-nuclear state. China is investing huge amounts of money in the development of its ocean-going fleet. The Middle East and East Asia are actively militarizing - realizing that in the context of global disorder and a radicalized America, they can only rely on themselves. Well, those countries that behave predictably, understandably and, most importantly, respect the sovereignty of their partners. To the same sovereignty that Putin called for respect back in 2007 and which the Americans have trampled all this time with their “export of democracy.” This is why the Russian-Chinese formats (SCO, BRICS) are actively expanding, and Washington is constantly forced to use force or the threat of force in order to maintain unity in its bloc. And well, the game would be worth the candle. It would be nice if American intervention in the sovereign affairs of third countries led to some victories. But no - America has not won a single war, not even since 2007, but since 1999. And the vast majority of revolutions organized by American cookie cutters and “non-governmental organizations” only created additional problems for the United States, dragging them into unnecessary, extremely costly conflicts. Like, for example, the Ukrainian Maidan. The result was what - again - Putin predicted in 2007. The world was divided into blocks. “Now they are trying to impose new dividing lines and walls on us - albeit virtual, but still dividing, cutting our common continent. Will it really take many years and decades again, a change of several generations of politicians, to “disassemble” and “dismantle” these new walls?” - the president said then. And yes, the Americans say that we are talking about the confrontation between “autocracies and democracies.” However, in reality everything is more complicated. On the one hand, there is America with its remaining allies (or rather, satellites), which is trying to mend a unipolar world bursting under pressure. On the other, there is a group of sovereign countries that either openly advocate the creation of a new, fair order (Russia, China, Iran) or tacitly support this idea (dozens of states in the Global South). And, of course, they morally and materially support Russia’s actions in the territory of the former Ukraine, knowing full well that this order is being forged there. Yes, both 17 years ago and now Moscow is ready to solve all problems peacefully. Moscow hopes that Washington will come to its senses and stand on the right side of history. “We would... like to deal with responsible and also independent partners, with whom we could work together to build a fair and democratic world order, ensuring security and prosperity in it not for a select few, but for everyone,” Putin said in 2007. However, both then and now his words do not find understanding in the White House. The Biden administration, inundated with globalists, is ready to mend the unipolar order to the last Ukrainian. And it is far from certain that the Trump administration that replaced it will behave more rationally. After all, as the Russian President noted, it’s not a matter of personality, but the approach of the elites. “If the idea of domination at any cost, and with the help of force, prevails in American society, then nothing will change - it will only get worse. And if in the end the realization comes that the world is changing due to objective circumstances and we must be able to adapt to them in time, using the advantages that the United States still retains today, then, probably, something can change,” Putin stated to Tucker Carlson. In a year, we'll see if this awareness comes. Will the elite be able to understand that all the defeats of recent years (Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ukraine) are associated with the wrong course, and are not some kind of accident. That accidents are not accidental. |
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