Posted on 02/28/2023 11:36:48 AM PST by Vlad0
Russia has changed its paradigm from realism to the Theory of a Multipolar World, has directly rejected liberalism in all its forms, and has directly challenged modern Western civilization, openly denying it the right to be universal.
A year has passed since the start of Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine. It began precisely as a Special Military Operation, it is clear today that Russia has found itself in a full-fledged and difficult war. The war not so much with Ukraine - as a regime, not with a people (hence the demand for political denazification was put forward initially), but first of all with the "collective West", that is, in fact, with the NATO bloc (except for the special position of Turkey and Hungary, seeking to remain neutral in the conflict - the remaining NATO countries take part in the war on the side of Ukraine one way or another).
This year of war shattered many illusions that all sides of the conflict had.
The West was wrong in its calculations
The West, hoping for the effectiveness of an avalanche of sanctions against Russia and its almost complete cut-off from the part of the world economy, politics, and diplomacy controlled by the United States and its allies, did not succeed. The Russian economy has held its own, there have been no internal protests, and Putin's position has not only not wavered, but has only grown stronger. Russia could not be coerced into stopping military operations, attacking Ukraine's military-technical infrastructure, or withdrawing decisions to annex new entities. There was no uprising of the oligarchs, whose assets were seized in the West, either. Russia survived, even though the West seriously believed that it would fall.
From the very beginning of the conflict, Russia, realizing that relations with the West were crumbling, made a sharp turn toward non-Western countries - especially China, Iran, Islamic countries, but also India, Latin America and Africa - clearly and contrastingly declaring its determination to build a multipolar world. In part, Russia before tried already to strengthen its sovereignty, but with hesitation, not consistently, constantly returning to attempts to integrate itself into the global West. Now this illusion has finally dissipated, and Moscow simply has no way out but to plunge headlong into building a multipolar world order. It has already achieved certain results, but here we are at the very beginning of the way.
The ironic thing there is, that leads our boy Dugin into all sorts of absurd statements, some contradicted by his own gov’t.
If he’d bothered to check the Jan. 2023 Russian Gov’t revenue figures...
The author lost me with the usual nonsense of...
1. Russia attacks Ukraine
2. Ukrainians refuse to roll over and die for Russia
3. Ukrainians are therefore Nazis
I recall as well bringing it to peoples attention here - that Putins moves then should not be ignored as he was defiantly gaining old friends back again. Few understood and didn't take note.
That’s ridiculous. The US has already won the war by forcing Russia to expend massive amounts of tUnification of Europe and expansion of NATO (to the Finns) is also a win. It is also a win by showing the impotence of the Russian army. It’s a win for the US no matter where the dust settles in Ukraine.
The more critical questions are the implications for China. We are providing the chicoms with a roadmap of what will come in terms of sanctions and support if (when) they invade Taiwan. The danger is that China has a small window of time to act before the US rebuilds its military stocks and better unifies the alliance in Asia.
The USA/Russia is 100% the opposite of Vietnam here. Fund the enemy of your enemy and watch from afar.
This is a war where one can rightly suspect that China will win.
Ever watch a Russian movie? Blah, blah, blah - and very little action.
I think the only Russian movie I ever watched was “Stalker” but yeah, it’s pretty much a 3 hour philosophical debate set to visuals of 3 guys walking through some weird landscape.
Do you not know who Alexander Dugin is?
Your position is that if ABC News posted an article by Pat Buchanan that it's critically important to note that it's ABC News. Where as I am saying: "It's a Pat Buchanan article" and whether it's published on ABC News, or Human Events, or Fox News it still represents the thinking of the author.
It's a form of McCarthyism, what you are doing here. I guess that's to be expected these days, even on Free Republic.
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