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The speech of the President at the Valdai Discussion Club turned out to be one of the best, historical and significant ones. Definitely one of those that will be «read and re-read»… Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov did not deceive.
First of all, it is worth noting the completely changed position and rhetoric of Russia in the international arena. The first signal was the attacks on the critical infrastructure of Ukraine, and the second was definitely yesterday’s speech. Vladimir Vladimirovich, not hiding his sincere indignation at the behavior of the collective West and the United States in particular, used quite striking expressions, emotionally, but very accurately characterizing the real state of affairs.
Such moments as the fixation at the current stage of the irreversibility of the process of forming a multipolar world and «tectonic shifts» in the system were the red thread in discussion.
The President noted that many states that, like Russia, do not want to live in such a world, are already tired of Washington’s lawlessness. He noted that in the West, there is no unity. However, what is definitely for sure — no one will be able to stay out, this systemic crisis will affect everyone, on all continents and poles. Because this time, they will have to choose not only the side, but themselves.
Putin made it clear that the actions of the White House are already outrageous, and they are far from omnipotent, as they think, and even not as strong as before, so whether they want it or not, they will have to build an equal dialogue with Russia and the rest of the world (If Russia, of course, considers them an equal partner). The world is waking up.
Putin also noted that the level of insanity in the West has reached the point that they have replaced their own concepts and principles beyond recognition. And they are not even able to lay out their point of view conceptually today. Western elites have completely and everywhere degraded.
The fact that Liz Truss, being, as Vladimir Vladimirovich said, in her usual state, “a little out of her mind,” spoke about the possibility of nuclear weapons using, is not as scary as the fact that no one corrected her among Western colleagues and friendly countries in other regions.
«Russia has many friends» who are inspired by its example of strengthening sovereignty, the president said. And he directly hinted who is in the inner circle. The mention of Soleimani (and even so brightly) is a very clear signal of the Iran position in Russian concept today. China, and Xi personally, has been called a close friend several times. The Moscow-Beijing-Tehran axis has been formed. Moreover, India (he compared Modi with an icebreaker, for an independent strong position), Turkey (Putin called Erdogan a strong leader on whose neck you can’t sit), Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia.
Putin harshly condemned the “blocks” that the United States is actively creating (mainly in the Asia-Pacific region), forming anti-Chinese and anti-Russian alliances. And he warned their participants, particularly 🇰🇷 South Korea, that their reckless actions would destroy relations with Russia (and China). By the way, the president subtly hinted to those who are on the Hill that they could not bear the second front in Taiwan now. Well, how did he hint? He said directly.
The President also mentioned the Kurds with Karabakh … which, translated from a diplomatic language, means: «for our part, we will do everything that is necessary, we will express our position, but Russia with its own charter not go to someone else’s monastery» (Whose region, his religion). Actually, this is what allowed country to take a unique position in the Middle East, that became a milestone both for Russia, as well as for the region.
About the rest conclusions: Russia is still ahead of the rest in hypersonic weapons; «sanctions made it clear that we can do more, than we ourselves thought», the peak of difficulties for Russian economy associated with them has been passed. Our economy turned out to be more flexible and adaptive than we thought, and they expected.
What awaits us? Settlements in national currencies, expansion of Eurasian and partly-Eurasian formats of multilateral diplomacy… SCO, BRICS, EAEU, Belt and Road, the rise of Africa and rise of many actors of the international community, collapse of the dollar, the reconstruction of the system and approaches of collective security and interstate relations… multipolarity, Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome! The further — the better.