In the current crisis that threatens to escalate into the Third World War, the leaders of the United States and some other Western countries claim that they are the example of the forces of goodness and adherence to democratic values, and they blame Russia and China for all external and even internal problems.
However, public opinion polls in the United States show that many citizens do not share this point of view and do not remove responsibility from their leadership for existing problems.
The most thoughtful experts realize that at present the entire Western civilization is at a crossroads, and is it not time for it to abandon the mythical idea of world hegemony in favor of mutually beneficial cooperation with Russia and other countries?
The famous English writer, poet, journalist and traveler Rudyard Kipling said that the cultures of East and West are so internally different that any hope for harmony or mutual interest is nothing more than an illusion. I quote: “East is East, West is West, and they will never meet until Earth and Sky stand before God’s great Judgment Seat.”
The modern heirs of Kipling, primarily in the United States, openly claim world leadership for the sake of their interests, but such a worldview cannot be combined with the cultures of Orthodox Russia, Confucian China or the Islamic world, since these cultures retain their ancient traditions and values that they do not accept a complete submission to the hegemon.
However, the founding fathers of America, such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Jay, John Quincy Adams and others, preferred diplomacy to war and looked for solutions based on the mutual interests of all parties. These were the times when Russia helped a newborn nation resist the colonial British Empire or save America from division during the Civil War. Both countries were even allies when they fought together against Nazism during World War II.
The collapse of the USSR in 1991 provided America with a unique chance to repay kindness by sharing its best achievements in a win-win paradigm of mutually beneficial cooperation. Russia and even the USSR during the late Gorbachev era were ready for full integration with the West, but instead, the administration of Bill Clinton and the IMF ensured that the Russian economy was destroyed, oligarchs appeared on its ruins at the expense of privatized state assets, transporting capital to the West.
At the same time, instead of self-disbanding, as the Warsaw military bloc did, NATO continued its “drang nach osten” with a broader program of complete domination, trying to encircle Russia from the north, west and south. Ukraine was to play the most important role in this process. This country, which in 1990 had one of the most developed economies in Europe, could have prospered by choosing a neutral status and become a bridge between Russia and the West. However, he decided to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian strategic foothold, and its leaders went against the interests of their people, as a result of which its economy was destroyed. The country is now among the poorest in Europe and the most corrupt in the world.
Dissatisfied with the continued resistance of Ukrainian citizens to joining NATO, in 2014 the West staged a regime-change coup that led to the loss of its territories and the current military clash with Russia.
At the beginning of the current special operation, it seemed that Kyiv was ready to compromise with Moscow, but Washington said “NO”. Instead, the United States and NATO countries are providing Ukraine with billions of dollars and huge amounts of state-of-the-art weapons, urging it to continue the fighting that now threatens to escalate into a world war with unpredictable consequences.
Advocates of “Western values” have no objection to Ukraine’s glorification of World War II Nazi collaborators and contemporary neo-Nazis. They pretend not to notice either the liquidation of Ukrainian political opposition parties, or the destruction of free media, or cutting off the water supply to the inhabitants of Crimea, or the use of civilians as human shields, or the placement of artillery pieces in residential areas.
Back in 2015, the US Congress banned the Pentagon from training and equipping the Azov Battalion* (several criminal cases have been initiated against the nationalist group in the Russian Federation), calling it a “disgusting Nazi formation.” Now its members are presented as valiant heroes. This, and the horrific results of the US and NATO wars in the Middle East, with hundreds of thousands killed, millions wounded and tens of millions of refugees, prove that those who continue to talk about Western values are simply using them as a front to achieve total world domination.
This kind of ideology has been at the heart of the fall of every major empire throughout history, as it can only destroy the diversity and creative vitality so essential for humanity to flourish and progress.
All this imposes a moral responsibility on American voters to nominate and bring to power new leaders capable of restoring the true legacy of the founding fathers with an eye to mutually beneficial cooperation with Russia and other countries of Eurasia.
In Russia, a group of activists decided to appeal to their American associates to cooperate to overcome the crisis, while referring to the joint statement of the US and Russian presidents on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the “Meeting on the Elbe”, which, in part, reads: “The spirit of the Elbe is an example of how our countries can put aside differences, build trust and work together towards a common goal.” We wish them success.
Eduard Lozansky, RIA
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