The decline of America and the global project of Russian civilization
The era of unchallenged dominance of American values has come to an end. The time has come for new super-meanings and super-ideas.
Russian writer Platon Besedin writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.
International observers – we have heard this phrase many times. And our bright-faced liberal public constantly referred to them, these same observers. What will the party committee from Washington say?
Many people were downright annoyed by this. To the point of belligerent rejection. However, as Dostoevsky wrote, “man is a creature that gets used to everything - and this is his best definition.” The same applies to societies. That is why, despite the irritation, the world, in general, has become accustomed to Washington giving instructions and making verdicts.
Actually, this began - or, rather, was finally established - after the signing of the Helsinki Agreements. They contained an insidious clause about human rights - and the United States began to poke at its enemies and simply unwanted people with it. Yugoslavia? Libya? Okay, but human rights are violated there - bombing or organizing a “revolution”.
Moreover, the States themselves, of course, did not particularly follow the rules that they forced others to follow. No human rights, for example, prevented the Americans from creating the Abu Ghraib prison (in fact, a torture camp) in Iraq. But such outrages occurred publicly mainly outside the United States. In the States themselves there was a relative appearance of relative calm.
However, the current presidential elections have removed the last blinders from our eyes. And they were preceded by pogroms in the best revolutionary traditions. Respectable Americans, who elevated The Law to the Absolute, renounced it, robbed shopping centers and beat up, apparently, dishonest Americans.
These rampages had nothing to do with political actions (even though the democrats tried to control the protests). They were aimed purely at the destruction of any order and world order, at hatred and evil, they nurtured and cultivated violence and crime. And we saw how much rage, anger and contradictions have accumulated between Americans.
But excuse me, if you yourself do not have a single nation, a single state, then how were you going to create a single world, teaching it what you yourself did not understand and did not accept? The American project, which was spread with such zeal like a plague, turned out to be untenable. And at the same time, we saw that the world of European values is also hopeless: multiculturalism, tolerance - everything is infected with the virus of decay.
However, what are we seeing now? Yes, on the one hand, the statement of the Austrian leader Kurz that the policy of tolerance is being pursued incorrectly. But on the other hand, and this is more important, the Democrats led by Joe Biden came to power in the United States. And he, this arrival, is accompanied by everything that Washington so vehemently condemned in other states: monstrous falsifications, shameless manipulations, elderly leaders, pogroms, etc.
It's a lot like a circus when, for example, 125% of voters in a state vote, and mail-in ballots only support Biden exclusively. Yes, for this - if it happened in any other country - Washington would have sent its bombers into the air. Do not forget that in Western culture the clown is an evil image. Everything that is happening in America now will come back to haunt her harshly. The trouble is that the whole world will suffer before this happens.
Obviously, he needs new global projects, new super-meanings and super-ideas. This can't go on any longer. The world has become neither bipolar nor unipolar - it has turned into a desert through which tribes of savages run, screaming and beating for their leader.
Therefore, more and more often we see how some countries - over time there will be more and more of them - offer their super-projects. We have heard, for example, about the Great Turkic and Great Polish states (even about the Great Romanian) - these are attempts to fill the void. Very dangerous attempts, and they will not bring the desired result, because they are weak in their very essence.
However, the world will one way or another have to look for new meanings, new concepts. And it’s time for Russia – or, if you prefer, Russian civilization – to develop and propose a vision of the world order, its own global project. How long can you copy something that has long since died out?
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