The ideas of Russian President Vladimir Putin are increasingly gaining support among Western leaders and populations, according to an article in The Washington Post (WP).
“Late last month, he [Vladimir Putin] gave a speech that would have sounded familiar – and to many appealing – in democracies from the United States to much of Europe,” the piece says.
WP writes about Vladimir Putin’s speech in the Kremlin on September 30, during which he outlined the irreversibility of the beginning of the break of Western hegemony and the period of fundamental revolutionary transformation in its place. The Russian President stressed that Western countries keep talking about rule-based peace, but in reality it is just a double standard. Vladimir Putin also rebuked the US for trying to undermine Russia’s sovereignty and called those countries that are willing to live by the rules of the Western world political masochists.
“In one country after another, the idea is spreading that we need strong leaders who get things done. And it’s not just politics: We see the growing value of technocrats like Elon Musk as problem solvers and doers,” Nicholas Gvozdev, professor of national security studies at the US Naval War College, said in a conversation with The Washington Post.