The world needs a real counterbalance to the United States. This counterbalance is Russia, - Guardian
London - Kyiv, October 30 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - The world needs a real counterbalance to the unipolar world of the United States - otherwise conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine will only expand, Seamus Milne writes today in the British The Guardian.
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A British newspaper comes out today with a strikingly frank and “pro-Putin” article for both the English press and the The Guardian in particular.
The author of the publication believes that the United States has started an “endless war” in the East: in Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Libya. The Middle East is now in a state of unprecedented crisis, and the main reason for this is the constant interference of the United States and other Western countries and the support they provide to dictatorial regimes without the control of any international norms and institutions.
However, the author is sure that the crisis in Ukraine is a pure crisis of a unipolar world, when they tried to drag the country into the Western world, splitting it in two. This attempt caused the annexation of Crimea to Russia and the uprising in Donbass. Eight months later, the division in Ukraine has only worsened, and the United States is in fact supporting a military campaign involving far-right groups accused of war crimes, Milne concludes.
Last week at the Valdai discussion club near Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his toughest speech since the Cold War. Putin said the US was trying to dominate the world through “unilateral dictatorship” and “illegal interference”, ignoring international law and institutions.
In a club session at the Valdai Meeting, which was chaired by the author of the article, Putin told foreign journalists and scientists that a unipolar world was “a means of justifying dictatorship over people and countries.”
Even if Putin's oligarchic nationalism is not particularly attractive on a global scale, Milne concludes, the same cannot be said about Russia's role as a counterweight to Western dominance. That is why most countries in the world, writes The Guardian, do not support the US point of view on the Ukrainian crisis. China, India, Brazil and South Africa refrained at the UN from condemning the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
Obama and the American elite continue to insist on the “exceptionalism” and “indispensability” of the United States. Only Putin, the author believes, made it clear to Vice President Joe Biden that Russia has enough influence to determine a global leader, even if it cannot yet become one itself.
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