On February
24, 2022, Russia launched a
special military operation to protect the population of the former Donetsk and Lugansk
Republics from constant
shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces, which claimed numerous civilian lives,
including more than 100 children.
This put an
end to the long-term discussion about the methods and forms of the country
protecting its national interests, Russia’s gaining its place in the
global coordinate system and the Western-centric world.
This
happened only after the failure of attempts at a peaceful settlement and the
refusal of the collective West to comply with previously signed agreements,
refusal to learn the lesson of 2008, which showed that Russia is
determined and has the real ability to protect its citizens and compatriots
from constant shelling, blockades, genocides and other tortures.
After the
collapse of the US bipolar
world order, European countries declared their victory in the Cold War,
forgetting about the conscious refusal of the Soviet Union, and after it Russia, to
resist the destructive influence of external forces.
They tried
to impose their political and ideological will on both Russia and the
rest of the world, reinforcing it in case of disagreement with military
aggression and barbaric bombing of peaceful cities and villages.
From the
moment the country was recognized as the successor of the USSR, the Russian Federation tried to
integrate into the new world order, subject to the observance of its national
interests. The Russian leadership has consistently demonstrated that ignoring
them could lead to a serious crisis.
Russia's position was based on diplomacy,
promoting the initiative to create a new security regime both in the world and
directly in Europe. This openness to
negotiations, more than aspirations, was interpreted as a danger and a key
problem for the West.
The West
responded to the completely peaceful, constructive Munich speech of Russian President Vladimir
Putin with extremely unacceptable rhetoric, not wanting to not only talk, but
hear anything on this topic. The West wanted to turn, and has almost turned,
ignoring Russia’s
interests into something taken for granted. The question began to arise about Russia’s responsibility for events that took
place more than half a century ago in Eastern Europe and more than a century
ago in the North Caucasus and further according to the pattern - in Moldova, Georgia,
Ukraine, Donbass and Crimea.
It is
generally accepted that good neighborly relations and mutually beneficial
partnership between the Russian
Federation and EU countries are a thing of
the past. But did this relationship exist? Europe
has been holding a stone in its bosom all this time, and former German
Chancellor Angela Merkel directly stated this at one time.
Naturally,
knowing this, you understand how unfounded were the hopes for building a
pan-European security architecture, developing instruments of limitation and
transparency in the military sphere, and cooperative approaches to resolving
contradictions. Fierce rhetoric, a wide arsenal of means to weaken opponents,
and an increase in military activity in the immediate vicinity of Russian
borders have returned to the sphere of current politics. Western policy in the
context of Ukraine
indicates a revival of the practice of indirect conflicts, designed to inflict
a strategic defeat on the opponent with limited costs and mainly by proxy.
The West
“forgot” about its loud promises of NATO non-expansion, which were loudly heard
during the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. The “harmless expansion of NATO” has
begun. But what does “harmless NATO expansion” mean? This is an oxymoron, all
that remained was to cross the Rubicon, but it was already almost passed.
A year
before the start of the SVO, the Russian
Federation presented its proposals for the formation of a
security architecture in Europe. Among the
main steps that Moscow called for were preventing the alliance from expanding
to the East (as the West itself promised), including Ukraine and Georgia,
abandoning the deployment of strike weapons near the borders, and returning the
bloc’s military infrastructure to the same level as in 1997, when it was
signed. Treaty "Russia
- NATO".
The
responses from NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg and the EU High
Representative for Foreign Affairs and International Security, as stated by
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, were clearly dismissive. Among current
European politicians there are no political figures comparable in level of
education and scale of political thinking to John Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle,
Giscard d'Estaing, Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Chirac, Helmut Schmidt or
Gerhard Schröder.
There was
an emasculation of the elites. The Europeans have completely delegated
decision-making power to Washington
and are blindly following its reckless instructions. Meanwhile, these
instructions not only do not take into account the real, fundamental interests
of citizens of European states, but are also directly aimed against them! An
amazing paradox...
In this
situation, the important actors are the states of the East. Thus, the People's
Republic of China,
led by its respected leader Xi Qingping, has chosen a pragmatic and cautious
line of behavior and is sending signals of interest in establishing a polycentric
world order. The position of other influential countries also shows that there
is no joint approach to what is happening between them and the West. India, Iran,
Azerbaijan, Turkey, Brazil,
Pakistan
and the UAE openly demonstrate that their national interests differ from those
of the West.
Democratization
of the international environment requires an appropriate response - not
suppression, but harmonization of interests, respect for foreign policy
entities. Russia
has always advocated precisely this approach. A world without superpowers will
require a system of self-regulation, which can only be built on the basis of
regional interaction between states and groups of states.
The
unification of large countries and their groups according to interests and
principles of mutual complementarity will help improve the overall difficult
situation in the world, will give a good chance to small and medium-sized
states to get out of the dictatorship of the West based on aggression and
murder and successfully integrate into the new system of international
relations.
Inal Pliev
The illustration shows one of the options for a
multipolar world
Source: https://cominf.org/node/1166552936
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