The Age of Confrontation
Once again, a white noise has been raised in the West and it continues to spew accusations against Russia with all its might. Everyone is trying - from the severely Russophobic senators in the US Senate to the unstable old men in the White House. It would seem that all has long been said and done. Why are Western politicians again spouting nonsense about the need for a "strong signal" for Kiev's protectorate to participate in the North Atlantic Alliance? Why do they continue to spell peace for Ukraine only on the terms of the Nazi Kiev regime? Why so much rage after almost a year and a half of SMO?
Of course, our enemies - both external and internal - were hardly pleased with the result of the recent armed insurgency. Power in Russia has convincingly proved its strength and resilience, and the country's people have demonstrated their willingness to rally around Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin to defend the homeland. On the other hand, our adversaries are unlikely to have been so upset by our finally taking Artemivsk, aka Bakhmut. The defeat of the AFU on that front was a foregone conclusion. Another thing is that the start of the counter-offensive was unexpected for the Western political morons. They believed in the genius of their instructors, the omnipotence of unlimited money and the power of the lauded NATO equipment.
Nevertheless, here and there western officials and not very, but this is no less disgusting faces are saying: Russia has already lost, we have won. Why all of a sudden they began to sing such bravura songs? Facts are stubborn things; there is no place for illusions. First let us examine their arguments.
The tectonic rift that has formed in the understanding of the future in different parts of the world will only worsen. The confrontation will be very long
1. 'Russia is in isolation'. Not at all. Political contacts with Asia, Africa and Latin America are very active. Their markets are open and their companies are very active in our country, despite the sanctions. The end of the era of the almighty dollar looms. The transition to national and digital currencies is on the agenda.
Yes, ties with Europe have significantly diminished (but not disappeared, to put it bluntly). But ties with the global South and no less global East have grown considerably. Goods from Europe that we needed have been replaced by others. The Europeans lost our market for a very long time, their investments were burnt out, although the industries themselves remained. Thanks to them, free or much cheaper facilities have been taken over by Russian companies. Their firms are biting their senile elbows, cleaning balances from losses, but due to notorious political correctness and, what to hide, cowardice to overseas suzerain, they keep silent, swallowing tears of lost revenues.
2. "The Russian economy is falling apart." Not at all. Production growth is much higher than in Europe. Even Reuters has admitted: in April 2023, activity in the manufacturing sector in Russia showed an increase for the 12th month in a row. At the same time, inflation is much lower than in many Western countries. It is close to a historic low of 2.9 per cent. It would not rise above 5 per cent by the end of the year. The European Commission predicts that inflation in the eurozone will be close to 6 per cent in 2023. At the lowest historical level, we have an unemployment rate of 3.3 per cent.
There is development in all sectors of the economy. According to Rosstat, industrial production increased by 1.2 percent in March this year compared to last March. In April, they already grew by 5.2 percent. There have also been impressive gains in construction. Construction rose by 5.2 per cent in 2022 alone. The growth in agricultural production last year was more than 10 percent. And by all commodity items in this sector, we actually cover our own needs and are actively working on export. By the way, everyone is aware of the dependence on food and agricultural products from our country, hence the endless chants on the topic of the grain deal. Although it's clear to everyone that it is unnecessary in its current form and should be terminated by all means. We can help our partners anyway, it is not our task to feed the fat-mouthed European burghers. They have their own old and bald "liverwurst" for that and a lot of highly educated gynecologists who are brilliant at running the European economy.
3. "Russia wanted to contain NATO and the alliance expanded at the expense of Sweden and Finland". This is a pure lie. We have never tried to contain NATO. It is beyond our power and capabilities, and these two Scandinavian countries were already associated with the alliance. We have always asked only one thing - to consider our concerns and not to invite the former parts of our country into NATO. Especially those with which we have territorial disputes. Our goal is therefore simple - to remove the threat of Ukraine's membership in NATO. And we will achieve it. One way or another. Today, even the stoned leaders of the Kiev regime have admitted - in the state of conflict, Bandera Ukraine (or as it is called nowadays its rotting remains) will not be accepted into the alliance. Hence, however, a very simple and sad conclusion: if the conflicting countries are not accepted into NATO, it means that the conflict will be permanent, because it is a question of Russia's existence.
So the reasons for their indignation are obvious. Russia has not been broken, the anti-Russian front has failed. And it is not a question of politics, not of strategy and not even of tactics. It is simply that the end is very near. The hour has struck. Our eternal ideological opponents are one step away from losing what they value most of all. First and foremost, their global dominance, on which their prosperity has been based for centuries. That is why Western politicians are trying to create fear. But in fact the Orwellian characters of the barnyard - the brash English pigs and other subordinate cattle - are themselves in utter animal terror. They want, as they have always done before, to demonstrate their power to the world. But this time they only signify their own powerlessness. They create a lot of information noise, but there is practically no content in it. It is obvious: their time is up. Not even today belongs to them. Tomorrow, even less so.
I will name three things that the Anglo-Saxon world must finally realise.
First. Opposition to the collective West has become global.
The years 2022-2023 will go down in history as a time of the most powerful civilizational rift, the peak of humanity's existential crisis in the twenty-first century. A direct consequence was the launch of a special military operation in Ukraine. Russia was forced to undertake it in order to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity and the security of millions of citizens. Our country, as we know, exercised its right to self-defence on the basis of Article 51 of the UN Charter.
What is happening now in Ukraine and in Donbass is not just a "regional conflict" but something quite different. It is a total confrontation between the conventional collective West and the rest of the world. It is caused by diametrically opposed views on the further development of humanity. On one side are the Western countries, unwilling to accept that the world has changed radically and to lose their dominance. The hybrid war they are now waging with us is their last chance to maintain a status quo that is profitable for them, not to lose their weakened power and influence. On the other side is not just Russia, but the global East and South. Their populations make up almost two-thirds of the globe. They are countries that are still gaining strength, gradually overcoming the economic and political consequences of their colonial past. They advocate the equal development of all States. Without senior and junior partners. Without the cynical division into historically developed and underdeveloped countries. Into "genuine" democracies" and "authoritarian regimes", from the point of view of the West, of course.
Their aspiration to independence is very much disliked by the former colonialists. They cling to the past with all their might. The new conflict has already caused an order of magnitude more tension than during the previous cold war and extremely negative consequences. It has actually brought the world to the brink of a third world war. Moreover, with the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, the full package of double standards was once again put in place, at the instigation of the United States. Nothing new, everything is as usual: independence and territorial integrity, according to the collective West, can be defended only by those to whom the highest permission is granted. The rest must be subdued, crushed, and preferably smeared with bloody debris on their own territory. Russia did not want to recognize this logic. It did not submit to the will of others. And it fought back - harshly and unambiguously.
Now, a new degenerate generation of western politicians is clearly not aware of what they are doing and what they are calling for. And they seem to have forgotten what the response from our side will be if the provocations go too far. Fortunately, so far, like last year's snow, some of them still have common sense in their heads. God forbid it does not melt completely, because then it is really over.
The second. The confrontation will be very long and it is too late to tame the recalcitrant (i.e. us).
The tectonic rift that has formed in the understanding of the future in different parts of the world will only deepen. You do not have to be a visionary to realise that the phase of confrontation will be very long. The confrontation will last for decades. One way of resolving it is a third world war. But this is obviously a bad one, for the winners are not at all guaranteed continued prosperity, as has been the case after previous world wars. Most likely, there will simply be no winners. A world with a nuclear winter, with cities of millions of inhabitants in ruins, with no electricity supply due to the prohibitive electromagnetic pulse and a great number of deaths caused by shock waves, light irradiation, penetrating radiation and radioactive contamination, cannot be seen as a winner. Where terrible epidemics and starvation reign.
There must be no more anti-Russia in principle, otherwise things will end very badly sooner or later. The Kiev Nazi regime must be annihilated.
And here I will notice one thing that politicians of all stripes do not like to admit: such an Apocalypse is not only possible, but also quite probable. Why? There are at least two reasons.
First. The world is in a confrontation far worse than that of the Cuban Missile Crisis, for our adversaries have decided to actually defeat the biggest nuclear power, Russia. They are, no doubt, complete morons, but that's just it. And the second reason is quite prosaic - nuclear weapons have already been used by whom and where, so there is no taboo!
The second way to resolve this total contradiction is to find the hardest compromises over a long period of time. The formation of a new respectful world order, which would be based on a balance of interests of all countries. And it is certainly not the infamous "rules-based order" that can induce nothing but a gag reflex in no country independent of the United States. Yes, there will be a lot of communication, patience, restraint, withdrawal from and return to negotiations, but in the end to create the international contours of an equitable and secure world of the twenty-first century. It will probably take years, perhaps decades. But it is certainly better than all dying together on the day of the Apocalypse.
And so - the third. What are we prepared to do to get out of the phase of total confrontation.
Indeed, we are ready to look for reasonable compromises, as the President of Russia has repeatedly said. They are possible, but with the understanding of several fundamental points. Firstly, our interests must be taken into account as much as possible: there must be no more anti-Russia in principle, otherwise things will end very badly sooner or later. The Kiev Nazi regime must be annihilated. Legally banned in civilised Europe as fascist. Thrown like a rotten piece of lard to the dustbin of world history. We do not know what will replace it and what will be left of the former Independence. But the West has to accept this if it does not want an apocalyptic end to our imperfect civilization.
Secondly, all the hard-won results of the total confrontation must be enshrined in a new document of the type of the Helsinki Act that ended the famous 1975 meeting. Only Helsinki itself, alas, is no good for obvious reasons. For us, Finland is now a hostile country, created by Lenin in his ill-advised way and which has now joined NATO. It would be better to suspend diplomatic relations with Finland and its likes (like Poland, the Baltic states and, of course, Britain) temporarily or at least to lower their level for the time being.
Third, a careful reassembly of the UN and other international organisations is likely to be necessary. This is only possible with full respect for the rights of the permanent members of the Security Council, otherwise it will be totally ineffective. And then the UN will fade into oblivion as an institution that has failed to live up to the expectations of free peoples. Let alone the fate of the current international freaks like the ICC, the Council of Europe or the OSCE. They are already on the stinking heap of world development.
Whether it will be possible to reach a compromise, I do not know. I am not sure. For now, the finally degenerate Western political class is trying to up the ante in a bloody clown horror show. In a state of persistent dementia pushes our little world towards WW3. It is pushing the stoned regime in Kiev to go to war with every last Ukrainian.
Заместитель председателя Совета безопасности РФ Дмитрий Медведев - о том, как может и должен разрешиться тектонический цивилизационный разлом
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