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Putin To Western Elites: Play-Time Is Over
Most people in the English-speaking parts of the world missed Putin's speech at the Valdai conference in Sochi a few days ago, and, chances are, those of you who have heard of the speech didn't get a chance to read it, and missed its importance. Western media did their best to ignore it or to twist its meaning. Regardless of what you think or don't think of Putin (like the sun and the moon, he does not exist for you to cultivate an opinion) this is probably the most important political speech since Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech of March 5, 1946.
In this speech, Putin abruptly changed the rules of the game. Previously, the game of international politics was played as follows: politicians made public pronouncements, for the sake of maintaining a pleasant fiction of national sovereignty, but they were strictly for show and had nothing to do with the substance of international politics; in the meantime, they engaged in secret back-room negotiations, in which the actual deals were hammered out. Previously, Putin tried to play this game, expecting only that Russia be treated as an equal. But these hopes have been dashed, and at this conference he declared the game to be over, explicitly violating Western taboo by speaking directly to the people over the heads of elite clans and political leaders.
The Russian blogger chipstone summarized the most salient points from Putin speech as follows:
1. Russia will no longer play games and engage in back-room negotiations over trifles. But Russia is prepared for serious conversations and agreements, if these are conducive to collective security, are based on fairness and take into account the interests of each side.
2. All systems of global collective security now lie in ruins. There are no longer any international security guarantees at all. And the entity that destroyed them has a name: The United States of America.
3. The builders of the New World Order have failed, having built a sand castle. Whether or not a new world order of any sort is to be built is not just Russia's decision, but it is a decision that will not be made without Russia.
4. Russia favors a conservative approach to introducing innovations into the social order, but is not opposed to investigating and discussing such innovations, to see if introducing any of them might be justified.
5. Russia has no intention of going fishing in the murky waters created by America's ever-expanding “empire of chaos,” and has no interest in building a new empire of her own (this is unnecessary; Russia's challenges lie in developing her already vast territory). Neither is Russia willing to act as a savior of the world, as she had in the past.
6. Russia will not attempt to reformat the world in her own image, but neither will she allow anyone to reformat her in their image. Russia will not close herself off from the world, but anyone who tries to close her off from the world will be sure to reap a whirlwind.
7. Russia does not wish for the chaos to spread, does not want war, and has no intention of starting one. However, today Russia sees the outbreak of global war as almost inevitable, is prepared for it, and is continuing to prepare for it. Russia does not war—nor does she fear it.
8. Russia does not intend to take an active role in thwarting those who are still attempting to construct their New World Order - until their efforts start to impinge on Russia's key interests. Russia would prefer to stand by and watch them give themselves as many lumps as their poor heads can take. But those who manage to drag Russia into this process, through disregard for her interests, will be taught the true meaning of pain.
9. In her external, and, even more so, internal politics, Russia's power will rely not on the elites and their back-room dealing, but on the will of the people.
To these nine points I would like to add a tenth:
10. There is still a chance to construct a new world order that will avoid a world war. This new world order must of necessity include the United States—but can only do so on the same terms as everyone else: subject to international law and international agreements; refraining from all unilateral action; in full respect of the sovereignty of other nations.
To sum it all up:
play-time is over. Children, put away your toys. Now is the time for the adults to make decisions. Russia is ready for this; is the world?
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Dear uninformed Latvian, The Atlantic is today what Pravda was then, useless propaganda. I know, I used to have a subscription.
Nice speech.
Obama stirred up the dreamers with his too.
It's actions, not words, that tell the story and Obama's actions render his words as cynical lies meant only to dupe ignorant voters.
Let's see what Putin does. Granted, he has an interest what happens on his borders, but armed troops in a neighboring country doesn't bode well for a peaceful intent.
Maybe the fact that Ukrainian membership in the EU has the potential for NATO missiles to find their way on his doorstep is a bit troubling for him, given Americas hostile stance towards Russia and despite Washinton's and NATO's promise they won't.
Perhaps Putin is not as gullible as the majority of America's voters.
In the meanwhile, Russian gas flows through Ukraine to Europe and he gets paid cash at his price for past due and cash up front for future delivery.
Someone blinked and it wasn't Putin.
"Leadership" among the western powers is hopelessly corrupt. That is an obvious given.
Consequently though, too many think of Russia, and particularly Putin,
as potential rescuers from the certain ruin the world will face at the hands of these ridiculous western monsters.
Reading the actual speech introduces us to various whoppers that may disabuse honest people of such naivete:
"this system’s ‘founding fathers’ had respect for each other, did not try to put the squeeze on others, but attempted to reach agreements."
This would refer to Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt/Truman?!? Bwaaaahahahaha!
"The main thing is that this system needs to develop, and despite its various shortcomings, needs to at least be capable of keeping the world’s current problems within certain limits and regulating the intensity of the natural competition between countries."
The need for a World Government is accepted as a given. Are you up for that?
"I never cease to be amazed by the way that our partners just keep stepping on the same rake, "
Actually, that's just a great line.
However, it does assume an accidental ineptitude - and I'm not as sure of that.
"Let me remind you that we were the first country to support the American people back then, the first to react as friends and partners to the terrible tragedy of September 11."
So does he actually buy this crap about 911, or is he in on the joke? Surely it is the latter.
"At the same time, the formation of a so-called polycentric world (I would also like to draw attention to this, colleagues) in and of itself does not improve stability; in fact, it is more likely to be the opposite."
Unicentric, global government means peace? Not for the soulless when there are profits to be made and power to be gained and asserted.
Putin's Russia knows that global government is a virtual certainly, and are willing to work toward that as long as their elite gets a seat at the table along with currently over-assertive western elites.
No seat at the table for you, proles.
What is happening now is the "errors of Russia spread throughout the world" predicted in Fatima and now being played out by western elites, while a temporarily retracted USSR watches the auto-destruct it help initiate.
Did Communism Fake Its Own Death in 1991?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/did_communism_fake_its_own_dea.html
1978 Golitsyn Memo: Long-Range Objectives of the Soviet Leaders from "The Perestroika Deception"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/213346777/1978-Golitsyn-Memo-Long-Range-Objectives-of-the-Soviet-Leaders-from-The-Perestroika-Deception
You raise some good points. Let me address some of them.
First, one doesn't have to love everything about Putin and Russia to enjoy seeing some serious and capable competition take the field against the bankster cabal that has destroyed the West. Syria would be gone by now, for example w/o Russia. More importantly, the banksters would be even more audacious if Russia was in the bag and the whole world would be covered in bankster stink.
Next, the mutual respect issue is relative. The parties did deals and stuck to them, leading to, for example the resolution of the Cuban/ Turkish Missle Crisis. Now we have sureal propaganda storms around tragedies like the two cases of downed / disappeared Malaysian airliners.
World government. Putin did not say that. He said we need a system to resolve conflicts and frankly, we do. We live in a world now with hydrogen bombs, advanced bio and chemy weapons. Maybe plague warfare. Nuclear power stations all over the place, the destruction of even one leading to a wide spread catastrophe, let alone several. In Ukraine, this is already a potential factor. So yes, obviously, with the death-dealing tech available today, we need a system to manage conflict and competition to some extent so that we don't turn the world into a smoking cinder. Imo, anyone who denies this is deluded or a mad man.
9/11 - good point, but an open question at this point. I've said this before. Because he is dealing with mad men. [Look at what the Soros crowd has done to Ukraine.] maybe he's pulling some punches for now? RT did have an interesting story about The Fed flooding NYC with FRNs in the days prior to 9-11 and then firing the Fed researcher who stumbled upon and made the very unusual event known, as it implies foreknowledge. Something to watch is what I would label this for now.
To the communist issue, I would just say that today's Russia is not a communist country. And I do not accept as a given that the US is more free than Russia. In fact, I think once you get past the wall of propaganda, the opposite is now true.
The main point for me about Putin is that if nobody braced the banksters,what freedom there is in the world would disappear, as the banksters insatiable appitites got around to devouring everyone. The trolls here in typical Western fashion, want to present this as a binary issue, you either love him or hate him. And that's not the only way to look at it.
Do I have this right?
Yesterday Russia, Ukraine, and the EU agreed to gas deal that Russia would have signed two months ago.
But the EU (and NATO) thought by holding out and intercepting Russian flights over international waters of the Baltic and North Seas, accusing Russia of violating Estonian and Finnish air space, locating a Russian submarine in the waters near Stockholm, AND ACCUSING PUTIN OF OFFERING TO SPLIT UKRAINE WITH POLAND TO THE POLISH PRIME MINISTER, DONALD RUSK, they would shame Russia into a better gas deal for Ukrine.
I'm sure Victoria Nuland is back the drawing board right now trying to figure out what went wrong.
How ironic that the once Communist Russia is the only one to stand up against the banking family syndicate that created the initial communists takeover.
And here sits the USA, once the bulkward of freedom, completely overrun by the syndicate and all their billionaire minions, in a near-police state.
I honestly don't know if today's Russia is a fascist state, but I sure know that ours is. What a turnabout.
There is a real NWO that Putin, erm, failed to acknowledge. People don't realize the change that has happened in this country. over the last fifty or so years. If the KGB comes knocking at my door, as a weak male, I honestly have to say come on in. I'd like to join.
you are a wise bunch, you know that. through your rigid commentary holding tight to the garters of liberty while exploiting anyone who comes on this site, you really make the silent majority still seem to "exist". Well, guess what. It's coming.
Its very simple; Vladimir Putin is the greatest leader Russia has ever had.
After Gorbachev and the embarrassment of Yeltsin, Russia was on its knees, the Mafia ruled Moscow and no one paid taxes.
Foreign companies were frightened to do business in Moscow so they concentrated on stealing assets outside of Moscow - Oil, Gas in siberia etc.
Russia was so poor it could not feed its people or pay the wages of its army or afford the fuel to fly its planes.
Into all of this came Vladimir Putin. The mafia shrunk into the shadows the foreign companies handed back their plunder and Russia became strong once again. It is now safe to do business in Russia. It is now safe to walk the streets. Business men now pay their taxes and foreign companies pay a fair price for Russian resources.
Under the Putin administration , the economy made real gains of an average 7% per year, making it the 7th largest economy in the world in purchasing power. Russia's nominal (GDP) increased 6 fold, climbing from 22nd to 10th largest in the world. During Putin's years in office, industry grew substantially, as did production, construction, real incomes, credit, and the middle class.
So be careful of those who speak falsely of "freedom" - freedom from good men like Putin means freedom for Wall St. gangsters and foreign companies that do not have Russian interests at heart. Vladimir Putin is Russian through and through, he would bleed for Russia.
No wonder the Russians are erecting statues to this man.