Almost two decades ago now, while Russia was resurging from its post-Soviet time of troubles, the movers and shakers of the West chose to haughtily dismiss Moscow’s objections to the Western project of establishing a “unipolar world.” That was sheer hubris: such a world was never to be, but the obstinate Western attempt to impose it has proven highly destructive. More specifically, from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s much noted speech to the usual platitudes of the likes of Kaja Kallas and the conference’s chief organizer Wolfgang Ischinger – to name only a few – virtually everyone who is anyone (except China, obviously) agreed to pretend that the crisis of the old post-Cold War international disorder is fundamentally due to Russia. What should have happened at a security conference worth its name has, of course, not happened: a serious assessment of Western mistakes and failures since, at the very latest, 2007, a fundamental, radical reconsideration of the relationship with Russia and China, and only on that basis a real, not rhetorical, not gradual but again fundamental re-assessment of the relationship with the US, regardless of who happens to be in power in Washington.
Author: RT
Published at: 2026-02-16 22:31:01
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