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Moscow seeks to promote a multi-polar world predicated on the principles of respect for state sovereignty and non-interference in other states' internal affairs, the primacy of the United Nations, and a careful balance of power preventing one state or group of states from dominating the international order.According to DIA Russia wants an international order based on:
- respect for state sovereignty and non-interference
- the primacy of the United Nations
- no one state dominating the entire world with its cronies
With the possible exception of the principle of primacy of the UN this is pretty much what every civilized person should want from their world order. (Sadly the UN is as often an instrument of great power intervention in the affairs of smaller ones as it is a hindrance to it.)
The "resurgent Russia" you know from the western big media is a menace to international law bent on expansionist aggression to recarve the Soviet empire.
But it turns out Moscow's real sin is striving for a world where no single country—Russia included—rules the entire world, and where powerful countries don't get to use smaller ones as their regime-change playthings. How very non-evil of Russia!
If this is really what Moscow wants (and US military intelligence says so) where does one signs up?
H/T to Irrussianality for spotting this one first.
*The Answer is: the self-righteous bullies that are the right-wing and left-wing neo-Wilsonians, also known as neocons and liberal interventionists.
Is it too late to hope that the citizens of the U.S. will wake up to the fact that they are regarded by the rest of the world as pariah, a parasite on the scale of Israel?
Or do I put too much hope into the future? Too much stock in the belief that some intelligent, common-sense Americans might not like how their country is destroying the world and make a move to change that tune?
It won't be 'wonder woman', or captain kirk, or iron man or even g.i.joe that makes a change happen and I think Superman has already discarded his stars and stripes cape. What hero will rise to awaken the U.S. people to the fact that they are being played and milked and have become a target for the worlds hatred?