... Europe away from Russia, as it has done for at least the last two hundred years, and is currently doing, along with US-controlled NATO. Morality and regard for human life have little to do with geopolitics, whose proponents tend to suffer from inconsistency ... ... in the run-up to the illegal destruction of Iraq reduces him to an arrogant puppet propagandist. Given what has happened to western diplomacy in the age of digitalised globalism, this not surprising.
Death of Western Diplomacy
Not all western diplomacy has succumbed ...
... will survive or experience a crash and depletion of confidence worse than 2009. Western voices say that “Russia has brought NATO together”. Well—after the current Western songs and hymns are replaced with realism or despair (or a new US President Trump in 2024), we are actually curious whether ... ... is good. We see different things. Dr. Andrey Kortunov started a post-24-February debate with a very eloquent
piece
“End of Diplomacy? Seven Glimpses of the New Normal”. I glimpse a more positive new normal for Russia and should therefore like to address ...
Numerous visits of Western leaders to Moscow on the eve of the crisis are among the foreign policy failures, and the Russian side failed to persuade ... ... rise of Beijing’s global influence, nor the coronavirus pandemic—nothing prevented these preparations.
Igor Ivanov:
Russia-NATO: On the History of the Current Crisis
Russia proceeded with a rapid modernization of its armed forces, pursuing programs ...
... Russian side, the Center for the Support and Development of Public Initiatives
Creative Diplomacy
(
PICREADI
) promotes public diplomacy: for the second time it conducts the international forum
Meeting Russia
in Moscow, which brings together experts, researchers and journalists from Western countries. This creates the environment of trust.
However, politicians from both sides also need to overcome the lack ... ... they have to stop pursuing imagined enemies and threats and, instead, fight with the real ones. They need to understand that NATO is not a threat to Russia, Russia is a not a threat to NATO. Suspicion and mutual distrust pose the main danger to their ...
... «Hypocrisy vs Democracy: Insincerity Destroying the Global Order after the Cold War». About forty experts, journalists and diplomats from Russia, the USA, Bulgaria, Greece, the UK, and Turkey took part in the conference.
The participants discussed the Western and Russian approach to the history of NATO expansion, the promotion of democracy as a geopolitical tool, «Color Revolutions» and «Arab Spring», Ukrainian crisis narrative clash, diplomacy and public policy interaction, the role of hacking in discovering secret agendas, and hypocrisy issues in the world politics in terms of Donald Trump’s accession to power in the USA.
The speakers included: Alexander Aksenyonok, Ambassador ...
