No, the author is NOT right; this is Russian propaganda; not to mention hyperbolic drivel!
While fully aware that Pravda is the propaganda arm of the Russian Government, the author made some points me thinks, that is worth to ponder upon. Let's see...
The author states that the Western civilizations us included, using all kinds of methods "imposed" more or less the Western style of democracy from political stand point to the economical one.
Also the author said that the Western policies over the years all over the Globe will come back and haunt us.
Best case scenario...So called Palestine issue; we strong armed Israel to cede Gaza and other territories, to bring democracy and stability to the region. What we have got is a Democratic election of who?...Hamas, the number one terrorist group on the State Department list.
We were miffed and stunned of the outcome. How could that happened?
Remember Haiti?...it is still a mess nobody can understand.Let's hop over to Europe...
The Europeans in their desire to please every loud mouthed group with an agenda, have bent backwards and passed a plethora of asinine laws just to please everybody and be politically correct in the offending department.
Lo and behold they have been clobbered by the same group of people they tried extra hard to please and they are also stunned and miffed!What went wrong?
Me thinks that not every nation on the face of the Earth is ready and capable for a true democratic process not to mention full freedom of the common man, like we enjoy here in the good ol' USofA.
Total freedom and full democratic political process comes at a price; not every nation on Earth can handle it!...when imposed it can wreak havoc in a society not ready for the big step.
The Arab dominated world, is still ruled by religious believes and tribe chiefs/rulers; it has been like that for centuries. The West riding on a white horse saying to them..."now you are free of "oppressors" and do as we do. It will never happened; they are way to deep entrenched in their century's old customs to change overnight.
So, why I am not surprised that Russia, France, Spain and Venezuela invited Hamas at the dinner table to talk. They were dully, democratically and openly elected(as we wished) to be the leaders of Palestine.
The Russians are not stupid, just different in the way they are looking and analyzing current events.Maybe at times we should pause for a second or two and look at things thru a Russian mind.