International Relations: Russia Rises as World LeaderA Story by klarizvodlikMany are the references in the speeches of US Presidents about the need to "lead the world", an arrogant and intrusive approach from those elected by a percentage of their own people and nobody else.The Helsinki Final Act, or
Helsinki Declaration, of 1975, was perhaps the visible face of the stance of
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, looking for friendly relations with
the West while it brought generations and millions of oppressed persons
education, healthcare and decent public services, freeing them from the yoke of
imperialist tyranny. By 1989, the USSR was spending on
average 250 billion dollars - a quarter of a trillion USD - on development
projects overseas, implementing policies which guaranteed the right to basic
services in countries where imperialism and colonialist policies had syphoned
off the resources, placing corrupt political figures in power so as to
guarantee the one-way direction of resource flow - outwards. Scroll back seventy years, when
the Russian Revolution was for the first time bringing backward societies into
the front line of industrial development, guaranteeing housing, for free, free
public utilities, free or heavily subsidized communications, subsidized public
transportation, free primary and secondary education, free higher education,
free healthcare, free dental treatment, zero unemployment, safety on the
streets, security of the State, social mobility, indexed pensions, guaranteed
basic foodstuffs, leisure time activities, free sports facilities, free
cultural facilities... and back then we could already see the true mettle of
the west. The psyche of the United States
of America, its poodle-in-chief, the UK and in turn the ex-colonies of London,
principally Australia and the sickening clique of sycophants which crawl
around, licking Washington's legs and feet - namely France and to varying
degrees the NATO pack - is in essence Anglo-Saxonic, is based upon wanderlust,
imposition of cultural values in a top-down, holier-than-thou approach which
saw the same nations drawing lines on maps. No sooner had the Soviet
Revolution taken shape than there they were, interfering in the Russian Civil
War, arming White Russians, fomenting bloodshed, in the most shocking act of
intrusion. They lost because the Soviet peoples wanted the Revolution. Nobody
asked them in 1989-1991 if they wanted to action the clause in the Soviet
Constitution which gave the nations the option to withdraw voluntarily from the
Union as the political leadership unilaterally tried an experiment - monetarist
market economics. With this experiment came calls
to break up the Warsaw Pact, promises being delivered in a cynical fashion by
NATO member state leaders that NATO would not encroach eastwards if the Warsaw
Pact was folded. It was, and NATO did. To Poland, to the Czech Republic, to
Slovakia, to Romania, to Bulgaria, to the Baltic States, forming a ring around
Russian territory, a vice around Russia's throat. True, any concentration of
NATO troops would be obliterated by a salvo of missiles so thick that it would
blot out the Sun and a further salvo would send the States allowing such troops
to build up on its territory back to the Paleolithic Era. However, the point is
that NATO lied. Like all liars, NATO has
something to hide. It was patently obvious back in 1919, it has been patently
obvious since then with its numerous imperialistic ventures, installation of
Fascist repressive regimes, labeling progressive policies as dangerous when we
see today that a "dangerous" label from NATO is in fact a
humanitarian medal because those it derides have the best social political
records. With the USSR, there was a
counter-weight to NATO's evil; after 1989-1991, there was a twenty-year gap
while Russia found its feet. Now with Vladimir Putin back at the helm, we see
Russia today is calling the shots, while Washington flounders in the excrement
of its own policy-making - Iraq, today a failed state and far worse off than it
was under President Hussein, ditto Libya, where Muammar al-Qathafi was to
receive a UN prize in 2011 and which was leading the human development indices
for Africa. The Taleban was to all intents
and purposes a failed CIA experiment, Operation Condor turned Latin America
against the United States of America, Cuba comes across as the poor little good
guy, successfully implementing socially progressive policies and even exporting
excellent education and healthcare policies abroad despite an inhumane economic
blockade imposed by the worst perpetrator of human rights records on the island
- the USA and its Guantanamo Bay torture camp. Yet this comes after the CIA
torture flights, it comes after Abu Ghraib and it comes with Syria, where the
west's support for terrorists has destabilized vast swathes of territory, where
the west's darling "rebels" have committed the most shocking human
rights abuses, including decapitation of children and where the west's darling
terrorists have used chemical weaponry, trying to blame this on president
Assad. The fact that the FUKUS Axis
(France-UK-US) jumped to conclusions so early after months of trying to
incriminate President Assad, and the fact that Russia so masterfully managed to
stop NATO's next little war, speaks volumes about where Washington and its
poodles, and Moscow, stand today in the hearts and minds of the international
community. The former come across as greedy,
interfering warmongers without one iota of moral values, underlining their
collective history of massacres of innocent people striving only to preserve
their freedom, and the latter comes across as a balanced and responsible member
of the international community, backed up by the BRIC block and countless other
member states of the UNO increasingly sick and tired of Paris, London and
Washington, the FUKUS Axis. Today we can understand that the
Cold War was about the West trying to paint a grey picture of the USSR, yet in
this the West has failed miserably. Soviet values and ideals - fraternity,
peace, respect for sovereignty, development over deployment - live on and the
social and economic system which was successfully implemented over seventy
years shines like a beacon for today's repressed societies, struggling to put
food on the table, struggling to pay energy bills, struggling to find a house,
struggling to maintain a job, while the super-rich clique of corporate elitists
rub their hands in glee at their ever-increasing profit margins. This was predicted, seventy years
ago. How long will it take for the people of the world to discover than an
alternative exists, one that has been tried and tested and one which, by and
large, can work? Read more:
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