When I first saw this – Click to watch – Pause and turn on sound – it’s only 16 seconds – I thought, ‘Brilliant, Mr Putin, just brilliant!’. Aside: and it is of course brilliant.
But then, having ceased chortling, I began to realise – Hey, this isn’t at all what Putin is about. He doesn’t want Russia to replace the US. That would just make Russia the next hegemon. Not at all what Russia wants to achieve. Russia would prefer to just get on with the US and, in fact, all western nations. Conflict and dominance are just not Russia’s bag. Peaceful cooperation, which allows humanity to simply get on with living and enjoying prosperity and collegiate advancement are what they would prefer to see. But of course, that is just a pipedream until such time as the west, chiefly the US (the other sheep would simply follow), is ready – not only to accept that they are merely equal, not superior, to everybody else, but that this is the only way for the world to work together. The world does not need a ‘Top Dog’ to lead the way. Especially not one that argues ‘It’s my way or the highway’. Much better to have several nations (since there are vast differences in size among the nations of man), none of them dominant but acting collegiately (which I am sure is a word containing, among its many synonyms, some form of acting together in agreement) with the backing, input, and fairly considered acceptance of all other nations. ’Several nations’ may also include ‘all nations’, as in the UN, but in the factionally dominated world of today we have seen that does not satisfactorily work for the benefit of all. Although what we are talking about here is a ‘non-factionally dominated’ world of the future. Which probably means scrapping the UN (if it cannot be reworked) to be superceded by a more fittingly organised forum.
Assuming the west can be persuaded to bear more than grudging acceptance of their new and much reduced role in world affairs – the alternative is complete isolation until such time as they are ready. The current concept of ‘annhilation’, which seems to be the west’s preferred current solution to disagreement with neighbours, would no longer be an acceptable option – leaving either isolation or incarceration as the only available ways forward. Simple non-participation in what the rest of the world is doing – if they are allowed periodic glimpses of that – would, I think, generate the correct response from them in due time. Incarceration is at the same time messy, punitive, and costly. Leaving them to their own devices and to enjoy their only own company for a while, would soon produce the desired results.
So, what else must happen, what other changes need to be made, to ensure the mutual prosperity of all who participate in this brave new world we are looking expectantly toward?
Primarily, it must be a completely new start. All participating nations [I need to add here that these are simply personal thoughts that have arisen from my own contemplations over time on just this problem. I am no expert on such matters but really it is simply just a matter of common sense driven by good will, is it not? More qualified people than I will surely take part in the reformation of the governings and laws of mankind, but if each of us holds in their own mind an image of how it might coalesce into a workable reality, we are unlikely to accept or be trapped into the kind of world which developed after 1945 and has held the world back with such cruel and punitive rules and unfair judgements for the almost 80 years since that time. Are we not?] I repeat that now broken sentence – All participating nations must be seen to be operating on a level playing field, with equal rights, no matter their size. This means that all debt must be forgiven. And that, I firmly believe, must be a non-exclusive precondition to the establishment of the new order. An imperative.
Have you recovered from that shock top the system? Think of it this way. It will matter little that such huge debts will disappear, since all the organisations to whom the debts are were owed, will be dismantled as well. That is also an imperative, at least for those organisations set up for and operating as part of the western dominated regime of the past. The World Bank, the IMF, banking and finance institutions at all levels. They will, in any case, have no basis for continuing to operate under the new system.
OK, finance is not the only area where currently operating organisations will need to disappear. I’m thinking of the various Kangaroo Courts set up by the west, the military alliances (no more need for such will be found), the business cartels, the harmful agricultural, pharmaceutical and chemical production lines as well.
I’m getting bored with this already, but I think you see what I am getting at. Much more could be said, but not by me, at least here and now.
Think about it. But please do not ascribe to Putin what Putin does not have in mind. Rather listen more intently to what he, and others like him, says.
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