Nothing to Offer But Hegemony

by Stephen Lendman

In stark contrast to duplicitous US/Western officials — ones never to be trusted — preeminent world leader, Vladimir Putin, says what he means, means what he says, is a man of his word, and long ago proved his trustworthiness.

If the world community of nations had leadership like Putin, peace, equity and justice would reign supreme over perpetual US/Western wars on humanity and governance of, by and for the privileged few at the expense of all others.

During his Thursday Valdai Discussion Club 42-minute-long  address in Moscow — followed by a three-hour Q & A session with no crib notes, teleprompter or other aids — Vladimir Putin addressed the issue of "A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone."

Scores of representatives from 47 nations were present to hear his remarks.

A new multilateral world order is replaceing the US-dominated West's unipolar moment, Putin stressed.

And there's no going back to how things were throughout most of the post-WW II period.

It's gone, Putin noting:

"(A)ggressive, neo-colonial" officials throughout the US/West are mortal enemies of world peace, equity, justice and vast majority of everyone everywhere.

The US-dominated West has "nothing to offer the world except the preservation of dominance" — nothing but the scourge of "hegemony."

"We are standing on a historic frontier," Putin stressed, adding:

"Ahead is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable and, at the same time, important decade since the end of World War II."

Humanity is threatened by the US-dominated West's "dangerous, bloody and dirty" geopolitical aim to dominate the world community of nations by brute force and every dirty trick imaginable.

No one can "sit this one out."

"Whoever sows the wind will reap the storm."

"The (made-in-the-USA) crisis has taken on a truly global magnitude."

"It affects everyone, and we should not entertain any illusions otherwise."

In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn said "the West has a blindness of superiority."

Quoting him, Putin stressed that "(a)lmost half a century later, the blindness (he) spoke of…has become simply ugly, especially after the (post-WW II) emergence of the so-called unipolar world."

Operating by its "rules-based order" — in flagrant breach of international and its own constitutional law — the empire of lies and forever wars on invented enemies demands world community subservience to its diabolical aims.

Obey or we'll smash you is official hegemon USA policy.

So is "cancel culture." i

In similar fashion to how Nazi Germany burned books, the US/West banned all things Russian.

Their ruling regimes seek to eliminate "the creative potential (and) development of other civilizations," Putin explained.

Dissolution of Soviet Russia in 1991 was the origin of today's growing crisis.

It "destroyed the balance of political forces."

"The (collective) West felt like a winner and proclaimed a unipolar world order in which only its will, its culture, its interests had the right to exist."

In pursuit of their diabolical aims, (US/Western regimes) provoke and escalate one conflict after another.

They wage perpetual preemptive wars by hot and/or other means against invented enemies.

Notably they're ongoing on what relates to Russia and Ukraine, as well as to China and Taiwan.

US "provocations (include) destabiliz(ation) (of) the world food and energy markets," said Putin, adding:

Self-styled US/Western "infallibility" is a "very dangerous" delusion.

"The self-conceit of (their ruling regimes) is off the charts."

And this Putin reality check, saying:

"Americanophobia, Anglophobia, Francophobia, Germanophobia are forms of racism, just like Russophobia and Anti-Semitism or any manifestation of xenophobia."

The world community of nations is at a crossroads — "either to continue to accumulate the burden of problems which will inevitably crush us all, or try to find solutions…which may not be ideal, but which work, and which are capable of making our world more stable and safer."

Following the Cold War's end, Russia's "let's all get along" message to the US-dominated West was ignored.

On the likely made-in-the-USA Kiev plot to detonate a dirty bomb with falsely blaming Russia in mind, Putin welcomed a probe of Kiev's nuclear capabilities "as quickly as possible," adding:

"We know (that the US-controlled regime is) everything possible to cover up traces of (its) preparations."

In sharp contrast to the US drive for hegemony by virtually every dirty trick in the book, Russia prioritizes world peace, stability and cooperative relations with other nations, according to the rule of law.

The US-dominated West is a mortal enemy of ordinary people everywhere.

Russia is their ally, Putin saying:

"The future world order is being formed before our eyes."

"And in this world order, we must listen to everyone, take into account every point of view, every nation, society, culture, every system of worldviews, ideas and religious beliefs, without imposing a single truth on anyone, and only on this basis, understanding our responsibility for the fate of our peoples and the planet, to build a symphony of human civilization."

If the collective West embraced the above vision, imagine how different things would be instead of today's dismal state of things.

Imagine a world safe and fit to live in instead of the other way around because of pure evil infesting the collective West and unwillingness of their ruling regimes to change.