See DK post. As he says, P Putin makes some good points indeed. I thought this was exceptionally well phrased:
"Today, we already see a sharp increase in the likelihood of a whole set of violent conflicts with either direct or indirect participation by the world’s major powers. And the risk factors include not just traditional multinational conflicts, but also the internal instability in separate states, especially when we talk about nations located at the intersections of major states’ geopolitical interests, or on the border of cultural, historical, and economic civilizational continents."
However, re this passage below, see my comments below
"Sanctions are already undermining the foundations of world trade, the WTO rules and the principle of inviolability of private property. They are dealing a blow to liberal model of globalisation based on markets, freedom and competition, which, let me note, is a model that has primarily benefited precisely the Western countries." P Putin
This, the part which I have underlined, has only seemed to have primarily benefited the Western countries.
This has been the great tragedy of the Cold War, for the West.
President Putin apparently considers his realm, more or less, outside the West, because of that war, and because of antecedent Eurasian history, although he does at one point deny appearing to be turning away from the West.
Stalin, of course, had been able to play off Asia against the West, and vice versa, in World War II. because of its size and expanse, Russia can well and is doing the same now.
This is why we, ' the West ', should have broken Russia up, in 1918, after Lenin came to power, when we had the chance. Not so much to be mean to Russia, but to orient this giant area into differing, and not overbearing, political and civilizational orientations, so to speak.
A Westernized, Western oriented, western area of Russia has been there, on the periphery, or semi periphery, of what has been called Western Civilization, for centuries.
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