Heracleum Persicum wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:12 am
Many countries prefer China over the US
Washington’s evangelical desire to re-create the world in its own image has hit a roadblock because not everyone wants to be converted
By Andrey Sushentsov, the program director of the Valdai Club
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Interesting, thanks for posting. Sushentsov illustrates what's wrong with current Russia: mental illness of the kleptocrat, delusional intelligentsia. Concocting stories and percepts that sound "Pravda" but are same old source and excuse eventually for violent transgressions against enemies of the state; i.e. its own citizenry. To focus on externals like the West is just a distraction. Only fools buy into it.
West has, on average, a healthy internal dialogue, reflections, criticisms, free press, dialogues in colorful "left-right" spectrum because free speech is still considered holy and corner stone of civilizational progress. Mostly absent in failed, primitive, repressive states.
This unimpressive Pinocchio Sushentsov, at least from the piece of him you posted, betrays himself creating a white-washed version of Russia and China who can do no harm, apparently. That is delusional. Everybody can do harm and
does harm in lifetime. Question is only: how much harm and what is nature of that harm. Even Jesus did harm: he left a mess behind.
Putin's Russia and current CCP China are known to be controlled by gangsters who call themselves "leaders" and feel entitled to throw others into prison, kill, poison, silence voices that are critical of them. We talk about
Internal voices within Russia and China. Sushi clearly knows what and how to write to appease his overlords, making it sound academically thorough.
Not surprised you post Russian drivel like this.
Look, all you need to do is pay attention to this little inconsequential forum of OTNOT; mostly Westerners (you are slowly becoming one, like it or not) who express various opinions, share ideas, agree, disagree a lot or some, freely. Who can say positive things about let's say Trump but at the same list negative things.
Mentioning what we like about the West and don't like especially on foreign policy. All agree that our West colonial past, slavery... are very dark pages in history. Here awareness exists: nobody is perfect and we all have blood on our hands, i.e. or our predecessors had. So have yours. Assholism is from all time and everywhere.
You however never once are critical of CCP China of Putin's gangsterism; all you do is telling Westerners geopolitical realities are changing bla-more-bla. West no longer center of Universe blabla and mad mullahs not stop laughing hahaha. You have same childish adolescent mindset as this Pravda Puffer Fish Sushi Sushenko.
Did Sushiboy anywhere condemn Putin sending Russian army into Ukraine society and territory? Did Sushiboy fight against, or just even mention, the repression of free speech and journalism within his own beloved Russia? I won’t hold my breath.
Bottom line is: don't care how people self-identify, as an individual or as a group. Look in mirror and see wonderful sin-free American, European type a/b/c/ or a Great Russian Soul...a Torch Bearer of Persian Carpet Fleets… as long as they do it within their own territory @home, leave me out of it. Any hobby is fine!
Idea of West: to each individual his own. Included the right to have delusions of grandeur as a personal hobby. Dream about the Great Persian Empire… all harmless.