The anniversary of the " Alas, a significant number of them contain superficial, if not completely incorrect assessments.. Many use Russian narratives and proposals for “peace”, which simply create the illusion that it is possible to appease the aggressor based on the acceptance by Ukraine of some kind of “reality”.

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The deterioration of the quality of political analytics has occurred over the past ten (if not more) years on both sides of the collapsed " This process was especially pronounced during the war.. In a rather strange way, it turned out that one can afford the luxury of saying things that directly contradict reality, and at the same time remain among the intellectual " Noam Chomsky, Mearsheimer, Sharap, Sachs are just a few examples of apparent intellectual decline on the part of the " Karaganov, Surkov, Lukyanov, Borodachev, Trenin are bright representatives of the cohort of myth-makers from the side of the " Dugin is an obvious classic of this genre, but to evaluate Putin's contribution, the category should be determined by an international tribunal.

An erroneous assessment of the results of the Cold War and the inability to clearly explain the essence of the processes taking place in the post-Soviet space in the early 90s led to a series of incorrect political decisions on the part of the " Today, even there, the rotten core of the Russian mentality has become quite obvious, as well as the underestimation of the national liberation movements in the republics of the former USSR. And then the significant nuclear potential, which was inherited by the three independent republics at once, overshadowed the purity of consciousness. Instead of creating a balanced security space, excluding a new nuclear confrontation with another monster, a decision was made to “reset” relations with Russia, integrate it into international structures and support Putin at the time of the change of power in 1999.

When the errors of analysis and political decisions became apparent, attempts appeared to explain what was happening by constructing new theories, which were also created by “Eastern” analysts such as Russian military intelligence colonel Dmitry Trenin, who for some unknown reason headed the Carnegie Moscow Center until 2022, when it was dissolved. Few Moscow foreign policy and defense experts had more serious connections than this character, now expelled from the Royal Swedish Academy of Military Sciences "

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Among others (and at his suggestion, too), such terms as “collective West”, “global South” appeared and became fixed in the lexicon of political analysis at the same time, and here is a very recent invention by Lukyanov-Karaganov under the code “world majority”. However, new theories, if you remove the verbiage and get to the bottom of their essence, could not explain either the causes or the consequences of the destruction of the established world order, although they sounded convincing. As Albert Einstein said, “A theory is when everything is known, but nothing works…”. This definition may well be considered the slogan of the current historical moment..

It must be admitted that the " " Faithful Leninists, they perfectly mastered the teachings of the leader of the world proletariat, who said that “there is no more erroneous and more harmful idea than separating foreign from domestic policy.. Just during the war,” wrote Lenin in his inimitable tongue-tied style, “the monstrous untruth of such a separation becomes even more monstrous.”. The regime built by them rests on the myth of an external threat and the most severe control over any streams of alternative information.. Many times the puppeteers of modern Russia have tried to formulate a certain national idea, eventually called by Surkov the “Russian world”.

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Here is how one of the inveterate ideologists of rashism Karaganov talked about this in September 2022, at the height of the war: “he wrote many times about the need to put forward a new “Russian idea”, a nationwide state ideology. Now it is especially urgently needed - not only to mobilize the spiritual forces of society, but also as a practical tool for domestic and foreign policy.. “The Russian idea for the world is even more obvious. We are a civilization of civilizations, a stronghold of opposition to neo-colonialism, the free development of civilizations and cultures. ... Our current struggle against the expansion of the West, against the worst in it, concentrated on Ukraine - the struggle for a new fair world order. Almost all of these ideas have already been mentioned in one way or another by President Vladimir Putin.. It remains to line them up in a single line and purposefully promote"

Leaving aside the inimitable hypocrisy of such verbal constructions, it is extremely curious to see what the “collective Putin” is now promoting.. These are, mostly not new in essence, but somewhat changed in terminology, the ideas of confrontation between the “collective West” and the “world majority”, in the center of which is the “fortress of Russia”. In the West, instead of " The problem is that everyone brings their own personal vision to these definitions, which only confuses the situation.. Let's try to understand the terminology, it's important.

" Or the same as " In short, according to Fyodor Lukyanov, 85% of the world's population. It goes without saying that these include India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and other densely populated countries.. The ex-ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United States, and now Putin’s assistant, Yury Ushakov, spoke very curiously about this:. Moreover, these approaches and principles are quite compatible with the interests of such huge regions as Africa and Latin America, which also do not accept modern forms of neo-colonialism or a world order based on “rules determined by who knows” (we are talking about the Western concept of rules-based order). Here it is, the criterion of belonging to the "

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A kind of synonym for the " There are many attempts to give this concept some legitimacy by drawing maps, dividing lines on the globe, and listing the countries of the advanced industrial " But here's the problem. Of the G20 countries currently chaired by Global South member India, nine fall into this politico-geographical category.. Japan and South Korea are excluded from it, but for some reason not a prosperous Singapore, Israel is excluded, but not the monarchies of the Persian Gulf. The stock market value of Saudi Aramco alone exceeds $2 trillion. , which is more than the total GDP of Russia and its current satellites. And, of course, the actual verdict on both concepts is the vote for UNGA resolutions, where two-thirds of the UN members regularly support a rules-based world, and two-thirds of them are the votes of the “global South”. The world majority is not “non-West”, but “non-Russia”, therefore, the ideologists of rashism should be more careful with theories - they do not work in their interpretation.

However, the concept of the “world majority”, which, as it were, supports Moscow’s position, is obviously designed for domestic consumption.. Like Putin's theory that the West wants to dismember Russia. He spoke about this in 1999 during the Balkan crisis, and in 2004 during the Beslan tragedy, and now he doesn’t stop even more. It's actually complete nonsense.. China, India and other countries, which in the Russian Federation are attributed to the “majority”, really need order, and they participate in its creation. It is undeniable that globalization has opened up unprecedented growth opportunities for the nations of East and Southeast Asia.. In terms of GDP growth, even in the covid 2022, the first nine places in the world are occupied by the states of the “global South”. The best growth rates from the states of the " There is nothing to say about the USA. Even the global distribution of wealth, like the number of billionaires and multimillionaires, is shifting towards China and India with great speed.. These two countries, together with Russia and Brazil, are in the top 10 countries in terms of the number of rich people..

Caution Should Be Approached to the “Collective West”. Especially considering that it includes Japan with South Korea, and Australia with New Zealand. We have repeatedly heard from European experts that the frivolous use of this term is counterproductive. It creates the illusion that the individual countries of the democratic camp do not have their own point of view and differences, which should be taken into account in order to achieve real unity..

As one of Murphy's laws says, complex problems often have simple, easy-to-understand, wrong solutions.. The confrontation between the “collective West” and the “global majority” or the “global South” as one of the explanations for the causes of the war as a tool for changing the world order is too simple and, at the same time, an incorrect formula.. In Japanese, the word \? One means " It is very important to combine concepts correctly. That's the only way to get to the bottom of it..

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