About the main thesis and the current moment
Today it is especially important to remind that the main thesis of independent researchers of the political situation in the United States and in the West as a whole (for some reason we were called Russian Trumpists) since 2016 was not that Trump will necessarily win in 2020 and this victory of his will finally break the neck of liberal-globalism
The main thesis was different. The fact that transformational changes are taking place in the West, the struggle around them will be long and in places very desperate and dirty, so that after several years we will not recognize the world in which we live. This is, in short.
In fact, we have numerous confirmations of this thesis. And these confirmations came not only when in the USA, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Hungary, etc. there were electoral events that were not predicted by mainstream Western analysts. But practically they happened every day.
No matter how the post-election struggle in the United States ends, Trumpism will not go anywhere. He proved that he is alive and is not going to be “blown away”. The battle for the fate of the West is becoming more intense, no matter what the liberal press writes about it.
The task of the researchers of these events in the West, and above all, in the United States, was not to make Trump an idol, and Trumpism – Russian ideology. It consisted in preparing Russia for a completely new international environment that has emerged as a result of the destruction of globalization.
We still warn that the matter is far from over. No, not personally for Trump and dozens of other contemporary populist leaders in the West. The process of destruction of the old world order and the emergence of the contours of the new world order, which is still barely guessed behind the smoke of transformation, requires the most close attention and daily careful study.
Everything is happening as we predicted. And the fact that at some point the global leadership decided to completely break the rules of the game and hold elections in the United States, like in some banana republic, not only does not change anything, but only confirms our theses. Further it will be even more “fun”.
The return of the Democratic establishment to the White House does not mean that “everything will be the same”. As before, it will no longer be. Each turn in the extremely complex process of the world transformation, each year and month of it, poses new challenges for Russia. And it depends only on us how our country will live in the 21st century. In my opinion, it will be able to survive and remain among the great powers only by preserving its military, industrial-technological, cultural and, I’m not afraid of the word, ideological sovereignty.
It is from the preservation of such sovereignty that they will now begin to dissuade us. This is an important local consequence of what happened in the United States after the closure of polling stations. Other consequences will appear for more than one year. And the struggle in the West is unlikely to end in the next five years.
Philosophically speaking, we can say the following. Without Trump’s victory in 2016, few would have believed that the world is truly undergoing transformational change. And without his defeat in 2020, in the course of a desperate struggle that goes far beyond the law, everyone would still say that “nothing special” happened in 2016. And we might not have realized how great the stakes are in the worldwide brawl that is unfolding before our very eyes.
Dmitry Drobnitsky