Putin and the stability of the West

“Without regime change in Russia, there will be no stability in the West,” the author said, making clear what seems to evoke a recent statement by the US president. Joe Bidenon its Russian counterpart.

And he added: “The aggressor is trying to make changes in his favor in the global order that emerged in 1998,” thus accepting Francis Fukuyama’s discredited thesis that Western liberalism will represent the “end of history.”

According to Fukuyama, who has since revised their simplistic approach, it is the liberal global order in which all countries will sign up convinced of its superiority over any other system.

This should be added, voluntarily or not, given what has happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other attempts to export the liberal world order through arms. “USA made”.

According to the article I commented on, Russia “does not want to isolate itself, it wants to be the flag-bearer of a new international order that appeals to disillusioned sectors from Western democracies, to former clients of the USSR and developing countries.”

And that’s the crux of the matter: Russian President Vladimir Putin is now vindictively trying to fuel up after embracing the most corrupt version of capitalism because of Washington’s refusal to let his country become part of the new European security architecture. Social unrest in the West.

However, a deep discontent has a lot to do with something Oxfam denounced in a report released on the occasion of the meeting of the rich and powerful at the World Forum in Davos: the scandalous growth of inequality.

According to this report, the 2,153 billionaires in existence now have more wealth than 4,600 million people, or 60 percent of the planet’s population.

And inequality didn’t stop from crisis to crisis until it reached truly scandalous levels, demonstrated by the fact that the number of people with more than a billion dollars’ worth of assets has doubled over the past decade, as condemned by this NGO.

In short, what autocrat Putin will demagogically exploit weak spots Support the new national-populist parties emerging in Europe in the heat of Western democracy and crises and in the absence of solutions from the traditional left.

And coincidentally, after deciding to embargo Russian hydrocarbons in order not to continue their occupation of Ukraine, they are not afraid to replace them even more with those of other countries, to highlight the double standards of our politicians. More oppressive than the Russians, but yes, the allies of the West.

Stability in Europe will not be achieved for the sole purpose of what the columnist says. “The End of the Russian Crusade Against the West”But by ending the root causes of social unrest that is ubiquitous and for which Putin, who is so responsible for many things, is not to blame.

And with the mobilization of Western public opinion for “Putin’s war,” all-joined rearmament does not seem to make the task any easier.

Billions invested in weapons to please the military-industrial complex and the politicians it finances will undermine social programs and thus increase the discontent they want to fight.