The main result of the year
2022
A comment read here https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/ukraine-open-thread-2022-235.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02af148ab1b1200c#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02af148ab1b1200c
“Crooke's thesis in "The EU's Lost the Plot" is confirmed by Sergei Lavrov's answer to a media question about what he thought is the main result of the year:
Through the diplomatic department, the results are formed by the results of our foreign policy, which is determined by the President of Russia. I think the main conclusion and conclusion is that the situation has finally and irrevocably become clearer. What is happening in the world, who is trying to act with what intentions and plans in the international arena, who is negotiable, and who can no longer be trusted. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly spoken about this in his recent speeches.
This is our fundamental conclusion from the history we are now witnessing. It is the result of a consistent long-term policy of the West to turn Ukraine into "anti-Russia" and not in isolation from everything else, but with the main goal of preventing Russia's participation in international affairs as an independent, strong, increasingly influential player.
The hysterical reaction of our Western colleagues, at the command of the United States, to the actions we are taking within the framework of a special military operation confirms our main conclusion. This means that it (we now have the supporting facts in our hands) was absolutely necessary in order to thwart plans to turn Ukraine into a constant threat to the security of the Russian Federation. This reaction reflected the West's understanding that our actions ensured the failure of their geopolitical games and plans.
We'll see. We have agreements with our closest allies, primarily with the Belarusians. Today, the two presidents confirmed the unshakable course to strengthen our independence, the sovereignty of Russia and Belarus, and the Union State. We have plans within the framework of the EAEU, CSTO, CIS, SCO, BRICS. Our relations are successfully developing with a number of countries and regional organizations in Africa, Asia (ASEAN in particular), and in Latin America. The overwhelming majority of countries in the world certainly do not share the attempts that we have seen in recent years, through military actions, illegitimate sanctions, ultimatums, blackmail and threats to assert the dominance of the United States and its Western allies on the world stage. Nobody likes that.
I am convinced that the historical process is already giving its verdict. Yes, it will be a long historical era of transition to true multipolarity. The West will resist strongly. We're seeing that. Our Western colleagues on all continents demand that the countries of the developing world join the anti-Russian sanctions and refuse contacts with Russia. These attempts are in vain. In addition to some results of votes achieved by unscrupulous methods in a number of international organizations, these "attempts" of our Western colleagues have not found any material embodiment.
I think this is the main conclusion: everything has become finally clear to everyone. For us, this is absolutely certain, as well as for Belarusian friends and allies, as well as for our other like-minded people. There was an epiphany to the vast majority of countries in the world. We will proceed from this, henceforth building our foreign policy, relying solely on partnerships that have proved that they consist of negotiable people who keep their word and who do not try to achieve any results in their favor at the expense of infringing on the interests of others. [My Emphasis]
Crooke writing from his European perspective says this:
The consequences to these EU high pretentions of having agency in respect to events in Ukraine are not trivial, but of a strategic order. The most immediate is that the EU’s fanatical support for Kiev has moved ethnically ‘anti-Russian Ukraine’ further and further away from any possibility of serving as a neutral or buffer state.
Pari passu for any EU role. It has burnt any bridges as mediator. Why would ethnically Russian Ukrainians trust the EU (when the Kremlin doesn’t)?
The fanning -- by Ukraine ‘activists’, inside the EU leadership class and at the highest level of the EU -- with toxic anti-Russian sentiments inevitably has plumbed a bitter fault line in Ukraine.
Yet, not one confined to Ukraine alone: It is both fracturing Europe, and creating a strategic fault line between the EU vs the rest of world.
President Macron said this week that he sees ‘resentment’ in President Putin's eyes. -- “a sort of resentment" directed at the Western world, including the EU and the US, and that it is fueled by “the feeling that our perspective was to destroy Russia”.
He is right. The resentment however, is not confined to Russians who have come to despise Europe; it is rather, that across the globe, resentment is bubbling up at all the destroyed lives strewn in the wake of the western hegemonic project. Even a high-ranking French Ambassador now describes the rules-based order as an unfair “Western order” based on “hegemony”. [My Emphasis]
Today, Putin is hosting the annual year-end informal CIS Summit where I doubt Ukraine will be much of a topic as an agenda of other items need to be discussed. IMO, Crooke's assessment jibes with Putin's remark about Galicia and his assessment of the EU and the massive hole it's dug for itself agrees with Lavrov's assessment of the overall global situation. The tide has certainly turned in a manner the Outlaw US Empire never considered possible, nor did any of its vassals. Its destruction of the Nord Stream pipes was THE most important action that has destroyed the last remaining threads of Western credibility.
Compared with the beginning of 2022, 2023 begins with a very different set of circumstances that very much favor the rising Multipolar World.”
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 26 2022 19:37 utc | 26
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https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/what-its-really-about/