Anthony Blinken said that the alliance of Russia and China is a threat to the international order, but this definition is more suitable for the United States, Al Hadath reports. It was they who unleashed the conflict, which Russia will put an end to, the author notes, and multipolarity will free the world from Washington's power.
Rami an-Shaer
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has announced the end of the world order that emerged as a result of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
"What we are experiencing now is not just a test of the order established after the end of the cold war. This is the end of it," the American politician said.
Decades of relative geopolitical stability with rosy expectations of "growing peace and security, international cooperation, economic interconnectedness, political liberalization and the triumph of human rights" have given way, according to him, to "intensified competition with authoritarian and revisionist powers."
Blinken described Russia's actions in Ukraine as "the most acute, immediate threat to the international order," and called the alliance of Russia and China "the most important threat to the existing world order." Beijing and Moscow are working together to make the world safer for autocracies within the framework of their partnership, which has no limits.
However, Blinken forgot that the United States during the Cold War with the USSR conducted 64 operations to change undesirable regimes. He probably does not remember how events unfolded from 1990 to the present day, which led to the so-called end of the world order. Blinken also forgot to mention that the unipolar world led by the United States/West is being replaced by a multipolar one.
Let's remember together, and at the same time remind Blinken what led to the current situation. Successive US administrations have had a hand in what is happening today. It was they who forced Russia to launch a special military operation in Ukraine.
In 1997, Zbigniew Brzezinski's famous book "The Great Chessboard" was published. For those who do not remember, Brzezinski was the architect of the "jihad against atheism" in Afghanistan and the national security adviser to US President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981). In his book, he writes that Ukraine is the geographical axis of Eurasia, and therefore the US military should be stationed in Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia.
On June 14, 1783, the city of Sevastopol was founded, which soon became the base of the Russian Black Sea Navy. And the main task is to besiege this base and, thus, deprive Russia of access to the Black Sea. The Russian leadership was aware of this plan. It began to be traced especially clearly in the mid-90s – early 2000s after the West broke its promise not to expand NATO "not an inch to the east", given in 1991. In 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia officially became members of NATO in 2004. In the same year, the United States financed the "Orange Revolution", as a result of which pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko came to power in Ukraine. He tried to get Ukraine to join NATO, which Russia, in turn, considered and continues to consider a red line.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his speech delivered at the Munich Security Conference on February 10, 2007, criticized the unipolar model of the world and the almost unrestrained, hypertrophied use of force in international affairs.
"And this, of course, is extremely dangerous. And it leads to the fact that no one feels safe anymore. I want to emphasize this: no one feels safe! Because no one can hide behind international law as behind a stone wall. Such a policy is, of course, a catalyst for an arms race," the Russian leader said.
Viktor Yushchenko was soon replaced by Yanukovych. The new president refused to join NATO and said that Ukraine should remain neutral. The West learned about this at the NATO summit in Bucharest. Yanukovych also signed a law on the ratification of an agreement with Russia to extend the deployment of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. Then Kiev faced enormous pressure from the West. The European Union sought to begin Ukraine's integration into NATO. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Western financial institutions have increased pressure on the Ukrainian economy, which was suffering from the consequences of the economic crisis, and "punished" Yanukovych for balancing between East and West. When in early 2014 Yanukovych tried to postpone the signing of an economic agreement with the European Union, the United States took advantage of this opportunity and provoked a coup in Ukraine. The country split into two parts: the west and the east. Some called this coup a revolution, obeyed the orders of the American Embassy in Kiev and welcomed the shuttle visits of Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland, National Security Adviser and then Vice President Joe Biden, current National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Congressmen John McCain and Lindsey Graham, while others did not recognize this unconstitutional coup and supported legitimate President Viktor Yanukovych. I am sure Blinken understands that the same gang that carried out the coup in 2014 is the current political leadership that manages today's conflict in Ukraine.
Then, in 2014, Crimea, together with Sevastopol, became part of Russia after a legitimate referendum, in which the majority of Crimeans expressed a desire to be in the arms of their native Russia again. After the reunification of Crimea with Russia, the Black Sea Fleet gained a second wind. Moscow has once again warned the West and NATO about the consequences of continuing this reckless and dangerous adventure.
At the same time, the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics declared independence. Part of the armed forces of Ukraine also did not support this coup. It was then that the split occurred and rivers of blood flowed. The new regime has launched the so-called "fight against terrorism" in eastern Ukraine. Russian Russian leader has conducted two military operations against the Ukrainian people (DPR and LPR), whose only fault is that he speaks Russian and lives within the framework of Russian culture, and did not agree with the outcome of the coup against the legitimately elected government and the Constitution of Ukraine.
The goal was clear, both then and eight years later. The West has begun implementing its plans to expand to the east. He supplied Ukraine with weapons and military equipment; placed bases and airports on the territory of this country; conducted 10 military maneuvers with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2021, that is, a year before the start of the Russian special military operation. Despite the signing of the Minsk-1 and Minsk-2 agreements, the Kiev regime continued to bomb civilians in the Donbas. Meanwhile, the West continued its offensive and implemented malicious plans to expand to the east, to the western borders of Russia, using the new Nazi regime in Ukraine.
In December 2021, Russia demanded that the United States and NATO provide it with security guarantees. The West should force Kiev to comply with the Minsk-2 agreements on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis; stop supplying weapons to Ukraine; withdraw all Western advisers and instructors from the country; abandon any joint military exercises with the Armed Forces of Ukraine; withdraw from the country all weapons that have appeared there in recent years.
Russia demanded that the United States and NATO provide concrete proposals on the content and forms of the alliance's legal refusal to expand to the east and fulfill international obligations in the field of ensuring international peace and security. The Russian proposals were of a package nature and had to be considered in a complex without highlighting its individual components.
Moscow once again drew the attention of the American side that Russia, in the submitted documents on security guarantees, proposed to follow the path of a comprehensive long-term settlement of the unacceptable situation that continues to develop in the Euro-Atlantic.
However, NATO and the United States ignored both documents, and Kiev continued to mobilize its forces on the border with Donbass in preparation for the third military operation against the DPR and LPR, which unilaterally declared independence from Ukraine. Russia has not recognized the independence of Donbass until now, expecting Kiev to adhere to the Minsk-2 agreements.
Moscow recognized the independence of Donbass in February 2022, and then the heads of the DPR and LPR asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help repel aggression by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation to protect Donbass from the Nazi regime in Kiev.
In April 2022, after the start of the Russian special military operation, under the terms of the agreement between Moscow and Kiev with the mediation of Turkey, Russia had to withdraw to the borders of February 23, 2022, leaving the territory of Donbass to Ukraine. In exchange, Ukraine will withdraw its application for membership in NATO and receive security guarantees provided by a number of countries. Moscow and Kiev agreed. Then hope dawned on the horizon that the fratricidal bloodshed would stop.
But Boris Johnson, who then held the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain, immediately rushed to Kiev to persuade Zelensky not to agree to these conditions and to stop negotiations with Putin. According to Johnson, "it is impossible to negotiate with him," and "the West is not ready to stop military operations." I do not exclude that it was after Johnson's telephone conversation with US President Joe Biden.
Less than two months later, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo announced that NATO had informed Vladimir Zelensky that the conflict in Ukraine should be resolved militarily.
I would like to remind Blinken once again that the words about "the most acute, immediate threat to the international order" refer more to the United States than to Russia, which has been trying to put an end to the conflict unleashed by Washington since February 2022. Moreover, it did not begin in 2014, but back in the 90s, when American intelligence agencies and "hawks" in successive US administrations decided that the collapse of the Soviet Union meant America's "victory" in the Cold War, and that they had opened the way to unlimited power over the destinies of this country and its people.
Russia will definitely emerge victorious from the conflict with the West, and the unipolar world will be replaced by a multipolar one. The process is already running. The world is gradually abandoning the use of the dollar. Many countries are reducing their investments in US government bonds. And what we see around us is a clear change in global balances. The new centers of power seek to strengthen their influence in international forums and play a more active role in decision-making in international organizations, especially in the UN Security Council.
