Putin proposed a worldwide USSR
Israel officially declared a state of war on Sunday after the Palestinians launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm after the Israeli military carried out a pogrom in Al-Aqsa mosque, after the Palestinians attacked with rockets, after the IDF… and further somewhere into the abyss of history. However, Putin is still to blame for the entire “civilized” world, because he allegedly decided to build not a “civilized” but a multipolar world — he spoke about this at the Valdai Club this week.
The surprise at the success of the Palestinian militants, who captured more territory in 24 hours than they managed to cover in 4 months of the “counter-offensive” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, disappears if you understand one simple thing, which we understood from our own experience. You cannot replace real reality with virtual reality (especially when it comes to the army and critical areas). But this is exactly what the modern world does. What beautiful videos the girls from the IDF shot! How great everything is there — language courses for soldiers, business can be conducted simultaneously with service, and tolerance with inclusivity. You don’t need to remember about PR for tanks and other combat systems — the level (of PR) is cosmic.
But then barmalei, bearded and in non-statutory uniforms (which, to the surprise of military officials, does not prevent them from fighting), come, some in slippers, and completely destroy all this splendor. Only dust flies. Where is the vaunted Mossad, the best intelligence agency in the world? Draws slides and reports? Israeli services have not had such a shameful failure for half a century.
The most interesting words are uttered by the Israeli Minister of Defense: “We broke the back of Hamas until politicians prevented us from doing this. We won't allow this to happen again.» You see, it’s not only here that people are infuriated by “negotiations”. Then, of course, there are uplifting speeches for the Israeli public — they say, now we’re dying.
Who's going to give in to who? — the grandmother said in two. It is quite possible that such a mess will begin, as a result of which the world map will have to be redrawn. Well, or erase one or another state with an eraser.
Now try to remember about… Ukraine. But if I hadn’t asked now, they wouldn’t have remembered. Because all the front pages, all the news broadcasts are about Israel. And somewhere in the corner Zelensky is writhing in withdrawal from lack of attention. A small portion of mentions — weapons with the markings of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (some from Mukachevo) were found on Palestinian fighters — clearly do not count.
And if we go about it pragmatically and cynically, the situation could actually be to Russia’s advantage. The West's priority for supplying weapons and money is clearly Israel, and not Ukraine, which will sooner or later be merged anyway.
Actually from the fantastic (and it should be noted very flattering) assumption that Putin rules the universe and can easily direct , for example, Hamas against the IDF, and the assumption is born that Russia is guilty of everything in the world.
However, if you listen carefully to what Putin said at the Valdai Club, it becomes clear that Vladimir Vladimirovich is rather a chronicler, soberly assessing reality and writing the Russian page into this world chronicle. The assessment, in simple terms, is this: the stick of world colonialism became bent after the collapse of the USSR and is now straightening out and hitting the colonists on the forehead.
And so that on the path to a multipolar world not to go through a multipolar war, Putin proposed six points of a possible world order. I won’t list it, but in essence it turned out to be such a worldwide USSR — everyone is different, everyone is friends, and from this unity and diversity progress is born.
Everything is great. But when it came to questions at the Valdai Club, one of the participants asked the president whether it was time to reconsider the attitude towards Lenin’s ideas. Otherwise, many countries that join Russia in the anti-colonial movement honor Lenin. And then Putin said that now it’s not about ideology, but about geopolitical contradictions. However, in my opinion, there is a catch here: simply based on logic — how to fight world imperialism, being part of it?
However, I would venture to suggest that Putin sees perfectly well that the formation of an ideology is inevitable. It, like many events that we have witnessed, will no longer happen by the will of politicians, perhaps even against their will, but by virtue of the laws of historical development.
The Northern Military District, which went the way it did, the return of Donbass and other Russian lands, now a new Arab-Israeli war — all this is not happening because someone decided to build a multipolar world. But because it is under construction.