Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on how the tectonic civilizational rift can and should be resolved.
(This article was originally published on Rossiyskaya Gazeta in Russian and appears here by machine translation).
In the West, they once again raised white noise and with all their might continue to pour accusations against Russia. Everyone is trying - from senile patients with severe Russophobia in the US Senate to unstable old people in the White House.
It would seem that everything has been said and done for a long time. Why are Western politicians again carrying all sorts of nonsense about the need for a "powerful signal" about the participation of the Kyiv protectorate in the North Atlantic Alliance?
Why do they continue to conjure peace for Ukraine only on the terms of the Nazi Kyiv regime? Why so much rage after almost a year and a half of NWO?
Of course, our enemies - both external and internal - were hardly pleased with the result of the recent armed rebellion .
The authorities in Russia have convincingly proved their strength and stability, and the people of the country have demonstrated their readiness to rally around Supreme Commander Vladimir Putin to defend the Motherland.
On the other hand, our opponents were hardly so upset by Artemovsk , finally taken by us , aka Bakhmut. The defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on this front was a foregone conclusion.
Another thing is that the start of the counter-offensive for Western political morons was unexpected. They firmly believed in the genius of their instructors, the omnipotence of unlimited dough and the power of the vaunted NATO technology.
Nevertheless, here and there, Western official and not very, but no less nasty faces are talking about this: Russia has already lost, we have won.
Why did they suddenly play such bravura songs? Facts are stubborn things, there is no place for illusions. First, let's look at their arguments.
The tectonic fault that has formed in the understanding of the future in different parts of the world will only get worse. The fight will be very long.
1. "Russia is in isolation"
Not at all. Political contacts with Asia, Africa and Latin America are developing very actively. Their markets are open, their companies are working with us with might and main, despite the sanctions . The end of the era of the almighty dollar loomed. The transition to national and digital currencies is on the agenda.
Yes, ties with Europe have significantly decreased (but have not disappeared, to put it bluntly). But with the global South and no less global East, they have grown significantly. Goods from Europe that we needed were replaced by others.
The Europeans lost our market for a very long time, their investments burned down, although the production itself remained. Thanks to them for free or much cheaper capacity, which became the property of Russian companies.
Their firms bite their senile elbows, clean their balance sheets from losses, but based on the notorious political correctness and, what to hide, cowardices are silent in front of the overseas overlord, swallowing tears of lost income.
2. "The Russian economy is falling apart"
In no way. Production growth is much higher than in Europe. Even Reuters admitted that in April 2023, activity in the manufacturing sector in Russia showed growth for the 12th month in a row.
At the same time, inflation in our country is significantly lower than in many Western countries. It is close to the historical minimum and is 2.9 percent. By the end of the year will not rise above 5 percent.
Whereas, according to the forecast of the European Commission, inflation in the euro area in 2023 will be close to 6 percent. At the lowest historical level, we have unemployment - 3.3 percent.
There is development in all sectors of the economy. According to Rosstat, in March of this year, industrial production increased by 1.2 percent compared to last March. In April, their growth was already 5.2 percent. Impressive progress in construction.
In 2022 alone, the volume of construction work increased by 5.2 percent. The growth of agricultural production over the past year was more than 10 percent.
And for all commodity items in this sector, we actually close our needs, we are actively working for export. By the way, the dependence on agricultural products and foodstuffs from our country was recognized everywhere, hence the endless rituals on the topic of the grain deal.
Although it is already clear to everyone that in its current form it is not needed and must be terminated without fail.. We will be able to help our partners anyway, but feeding the fat-faced European burghers is not our task.
To do this, they have their own old and bald "liver sausage" there, as well as a mass of highly educated gynecologists who brilliantly rule the European economy.
3. "Russia wanted to contain NATO, but the alliance expanded to include Sweden and Finland . "
This is a pure lie. We have never tried to contain NATO. This is not in our power and capabilities, and these two Scandinavian countries were already associated with the alliance.
We have always asked only one thing - to take into account our concerns and not invite the former parts of our country to NATO . Especially those with whom we have territorial disputes.
Therefore, our goal is simple - to eliminate the threat of Ukraine's membership in NATO. And we will achieve it. Anyway. Today, even the stoned leaders of the Kyiv regime have admitted that in a state of conflict, Banderokraina (or as it is now customary to call her 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,this means that the conflict will be permanent , because this is a question of the existence of Russia.
So the reasons for their indignation are obvious. Russia could not be broken, the anti-Russian front failed. And it's not about politics, it's not about strategy, it's not even about tactics. It's just that the end is near. The hour has struck.
Our eternal ideological opponents are one step away from losing what they value most. First of all, their global dominance, on which their well-being has been based for centuries.
That is why Western politicians are trying to whip up fear. But in fact, the Orwellian characters of the barnyard - impudent English pigs and other cattle subordinate to them - are themselves in complete animal horror.
They want, as they always did before, to demonstrate their strength to the world. But this time they are only signing their own impotence.
They create information noise, but there is practically no content in it. It's obvious: their time is up. They don't even own today. Tomorrow, even more so.
I will name three things that it is time for the Anglo-Saxon world to finally realize.
First. Opposition to the collective West has become global.
The years 2022-2023 will go down in history as the time of the most powerful civilizational break, the peak of the existential crisis of humanity in the 21st century .
Its direct consequence was the beginning of a special military operation in Ukraine . Russia was forced to carry it out for the sake of protecting its sovereignty and territorial integrity, the security of millions of citizens.
Our country, as you know, has exercised its right to self-defense, based on Art. 51 of the UN Charter.
What is happening now in Ukraine and Donbass is not just a "regional conflict", but something completely different. This is total confrontation.conditional collective West and the rest of the world.
It is caused by the diametrical opposition of views on the further development of mankind. On one side are Western countries that are unwilling to admit that the world has changed radically and lose their dominance.
The hybrid war that they are now waging with us is their last chance to maintain the status quo that is beneficial to them, not to lose their weakened power and influence. On the other side is not only Russia, but also the global East and South.
Their population is almost two-thirds of the globe. These are countries that continue to gain strength, gradually overcoming the economic and political consequences of the colonial past. They stand for the equal development of all states.
Without senior and junior partners. Without cynical division into historically developed and underdeveloped countries.
Their desire for independence is very disliked by the former colonizers. They cling to the past with all their might. The new conflict has already caused an order of magnitude greater tension than during the previous Cold War and extremely negative consequences.
In fact, put the world on the brink of a third world. Moreover, with the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, at the suggestion of the United States, a full package of "double standards" was again launched.
Nothing new, everything is as usual: independence and territorial integrity, in the opinion of the collective West, can only be defended by those to whom this is the highest permission.
The rest must be pacified, crushed, and preferably smeared across their own territory with bloody lumps. Russia did not want to recognize such logic. Someone else's will did not obey. And she fought back - hard and unequivocal.
Now the 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 our response will be if the provocations go too far.
Fortunately, while in some places, like last year's snow, common sense in the minds of some of them is still preserved. God forbid, it will not melt completely, because then it really is the end.
Second. The confrontation will be very long, and it is too late to tame the obstinate (that is, us).
That tectonic fault , which was formed in the understanding of the future in different parts of the world, will only get worse. You don't have to be a visionary to understand that the confrontation phase will be very long.
The standoff will last decades. One way to resolve it is the third world war. But it is obviously bad, because the victors are not at all guaranteed further prosperity, as was the case after previous world wars. Most likely, there will simply be no winners.
After all, it is impossible to consider as a victory the world in which nuclear winter has come, million-plus cities lie in ruins, there is no electricity due to the transcendent electromagnetic impulse, and a huge number of people died from the shock wave, light radiation, penetrating radiation and radioactive contamination. Where terrible epidemics and famine reign.
There should be no more Anti-Russia in principle, otherwise everything will end very badly sooner or later. Kyiv Nazi regime must be annihilated
And here I will note 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 much worse than during the Caribbean crisis, because our opponents have decided to really defeat the largest nuclear power - Russia.
They are, no doubt, down-and-out jerks, but that's just the way it is. And the second reason is quite prosaic - nuclear weapons have already been used by whom and where, which means that there is no taboo!
The second way to resolve this total contradiction is to search for the most difficult compromises over a long period of time. Formation of a new respectful world order, which will be based on the balance of interests of all countries.
Moreover, this, of course, is not the notorious "rule-based order", which can cause nothing but a gag reflex in any country independent of the United States.
Yes, we will have to communicate a lot, endure, show restraint, leave negotiations and return to them again, but in the end we will create international contours of an equal and secure world of the 21st century. This will likely take years, possibly decades. But it's definitely better than ditching all together on the day of the Apocalypse.
And so - the third. What are we ready 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 should be taken into account to the maximum extent: there should be no more Anti-Russia in principle, otherwise everything will end very badly sooner or later. The Kyiv Nazi regime must be annihilated. Legislatively banned in civilized Europe as a fascist.
Thrown away, like a rotten piece of lard, to the dustbin of world history. What will replace him, we do not know, as well as what will remain of the former Square. But the West will have 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 consolidated in a new document like the Helsinki Act, which ended the well-known 1975 Conference. Only Helsinki itself, alas, is not suitable for obvious reasons. Now, for us, Finland is a hostile country, once created out of thoughtlessness by Lenin and today joined NATO.
With Finland and others like it (like Poland, the Baltic countries and, of course, Britain), it would be better to temporarily suspend diplomatic relations altogether, or at least for the time being to lower their level.
Thirdly, it is quite likely that a careful reassembly of the UN and other international organizations will be required. It is possible only with full respect for the rights of the permanent members of the Security Council, otherwise it will turn out to be completely ineffective.
And then the UN will sink into oblivion as an institution that has not justified the hopes of free peoples. I'm not talking about the fate of the current international freaks like the ICC, the Council of Europe or the OSCE. They are already in the stinking garbage heap of world development.
Whether it will be possible to reach the path of compromises, I do not know. Not sure. So far, the finally degenerate Western political class is trying to raise the stakes in bloody clown horror. In a state of persistent dementia pushes our little world to the third world. The stoned Kiev regime is inciting the war to the last Ukrainian.
In other words, I am not an optimist. No wonder Anton Pavlovich once remarked that "life, in fact, is a very simple thing, and a person needs to make a lot of efforts to spoil it . "
But there is always hope.