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For the West, the battle for Ukraine has become the battle for Russia. The battle for Russia is only the first phase of the battle against China For the West, Russia’s actions in Ukraine have revealed and confirmed the true face of Russia and its leadership. For much of the global East and South, the West’s policy from the mid-1990s right up to its gross overreaction to the situation ...
... precisely as an antagonistic one, to be responded to not merely by economic means but also by military means, namely the biggest build-up of an armada in recent history through the Indo-Pacific strategy. Ivan Timofeev: A New Anarchy? Scenarios for World Order Dynamics The irony is a dual one, because it was China that first cautioned the USSR about the idealistic and utopian nature of the project of “peaceful economic competition” with the West, but later pursued it with greater zeal and success than the USSR ever did or could. In the 1960s and 1970s, China had established a methodology of identifying the contradictions in the world at any given period and went on to hierarchize those contradictions....
... the intention of the Western side was not merely to end it even on favorable terms, but to win it. There were elements in the West, who were satisfied with the way the Cold War seemingly ended, because it looked like the Russian side had unilaterally surrendered. Even then, there was no attempt to implement the Kissingerian formula of drawing in Russia and China into co-managing a world order that was unstable because of the emergence of or transition to multipolarity. The evidence was in 1991 itself, when ...
... persistent violations thereof in latest history. twitter.com/KoerberIP 160th Bergerdorf Roundtable Held in Beijing Not only was Westphalia a paradigm that was predicted to enjoy continuity, it was heralded to do so, not to the least by Chinese participants. They insisted that changing the world order was not Beijing’s intention. Partial reform and an adjustment of sorts was definitely desired, but the guiding principles and the overall structure was to remain the same. China is a product of the world we live in and it continues to extract enormous benefits from how the world economy and political ...
What is the main dividing line in the modern global politics? The flavor of the season is “the West vs the Rest” paradigm. The declining West is trying to preserve its global domination, while the rising Rest is fighting for an alternative world order denying the universalism of the Western institutions, principles and values. Russia and China are leading the rebellion of the Rest with Moscow questioning the US security hegemony and Beijing challenging the West-centered economic and financial system. The epic fight between the West and the Rest will define the new world order to come....
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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