Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of continuing to impose its values and expanding markets in its exclusive interest. And he has claimed that the behavior of Western countries is "racist" and "colonial." According to the Russian leader, the Western is a "dangerous, bloody and dirty game."
The head of the Kremlin has thus pronounced himself in Moscow in a debate forum of the Valdái Discussion Club, the main think tank in the country, aligned with official policies. The forum was entitled "The world after hegemony: justice and security for all", and was dedicated to the end of Western hegemony.
The approach coincides with the position of the Kremlin, which maintains that the world is changing and the preponderance of a superpower, that is, the United States, will be replaced by a multipolar world with several centers of power.
Putin has accused the West, blinded by its colonialism, of inciting conflict in Ukraine and seeking to stoke a crisis in Taiwan just to bolster its global dominance.
Russia sent its troops to Ukraine on February 24, sparking the biggest confrontation with the West since the 1962 missile crisis.
In one of the passages of his speech, Putin has remembered the writer and Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In a 1978 Harvard lecture, he "pointed out that the West is characterized by, and I quote, 'the continual blinding of superiority'. This is what is happening now… the year 1978. Nothing has changed!”
Putin has assured that the West has been openly racist, because it has despised other peoples. According to him, in the last fifty years the racist and neo-colonial behavior of the West has taken on “ugly forms”. "Especially after the so-called unipolar world emerged," added the Russian president.
The arrival of a multipolar world is already a classic in the interventions of the Russian president. One of the most remembered speeches on this subject, which already had repercussions then, was the one he gave at the Munich security conference in 2007. More recently, last September in Samarkand at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, He assured that Russia intends to lead with China a changing world that represents the interests of developing countries against the unipolar Washington.
According to him, the world is changing although Western countries do not realize it. The Russian military campaign in Ukraine, which has lasted more than eight months, will be, with its security consequences, a trigger for the appearance of a new world order that, according to the Russian leader, will be fairer. But the struggle of Western elites to stave off the inevitable unraveling of their global dominance will spark the "most dangerous and unpredictable" decade since World War II, he has predicted.
Putin also assured in yesterday's forum that it was the fall of the USSR that broke the global balance, and "the West felt the winner."
Russia does not intend to replace the US as the hegemonic country, he has said, and has advocated a multipolar world where there is "freedom of development" based on law and order. Russia is not challenging the West, she pointed out. The only thing that her country seeks is to maintain its right to development. And she has accused the United States of discrediting the financial system by using its national currency, the dollar, as a weapon. According to Vladimir Putin, the West imposes sanctions on those who refuse to accept its rules.
"The unipolar world has come to an end," Putin said. “I have always believed and believe in common sense, which is why I am convinced that sooner or later the new centers of the multipolar world order and the West will have to start an equal conversation about the common future. And the sooner they do it, the better”, he has sentenced.
