Putin’s Full Speech at Foreign Ministry: BRICS, NATO Expansion and Ukraine Peace Talk Conditions

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240614/putins-full-speech-at-foreign-ministry-brics-nato-expansion-and-ukraine-peace-talk-conditions-1118955280.html

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On Friday, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a seminal meeting headed by the head of state, where the Russian president outlined the historical background for the country’s foreign policy vectors in a conversation with senior Russian diplomats. Read the full text below.

Vladimir Putin’s 2024 Annual State of the Nation Address

Putin Says Naively Believed There Would Be No Confrontation Between West, Russia

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231217/putin-says-naively-believed-there-would-be-no-confrontation-between-west-russia-1115637536.html

Note by Fazal Rahman

Classist, racist, inter-capitalist and inter-imperialist conflicts and wars have been the norms in human history, including the two world wars.  US and Europe consider capitalist Russia and China even greater threats to their economic and military hegemony than under socialism.  That should have been obvious to any rational and objective observer of history.  Putin’s earlier illusions were the result of his wishful thinking, formed on the basis of betrayal of socialism and having become a beneficiary of restoration of capitalism.  Will he ever face up to these fundamental contradictions in his career? 

End of note

Critique of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the 2023 Valdai Discussion Club Conference

By Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.              October 8, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin spent almost four hours in his speech and answering questions at the Valdai Discussion Club. In those, he talked about numerous global, regional, and Russian issues. In the following passages, I will comment on some of the topics that he discussed.

His speech and discussion can be heard by clicking on the following link:

https://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/russian-president-vladimir-putins-speech-and-answers-to-questions-at-the-valdai-meeting/

1.  Re Civilizational Diversity.  He repeatedly talked about the diversity of civilizations and importance of preserving that diversity.  However, that diversity has been, and continues to be, drastically reduced and overwhelmed by the Western Capitalist-Imperialist Technological Civilization (WCITC), which has been developing and overwhelming the civilizational diversity during the previous few centuries.  With the success of Russian Socialist Revolution of 1917, the alternative Socialist Technological Civilization (STC) appeared on the world scene. However, with the Grand Betrayal of Socialism in the USSR, China, and Eastern Europe, it has currently vanished from the global stage.  WCITC is currently the only dominant civilization in the world, dominating and overwhelming all the cultural, linguistic, religious and other super-structural differences between various countries, peoples, and nations.  Putin being the leader of an important part of that civilization greatly exaggerates the existence and importance of civilizational diversity.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech and answers to questions at the Valdai meeting

Critique of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the 2023 Valdai Discussion Club Conference

By Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.              October 8, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin spent almost four hours in his speech and answering questions at the Valdai Discussion Club. In those, he talked about numerous global, regional, and Russian issues. In the following passages, I will comment on some of the topics that he discussed.

1.  Re Civilizational Diversity.  He repeatedly talked about the diversity of civilizations and importance of preserving that diversity.  However, that diversity has been, and continues to be, drastically reduced and overwhelmed by the Western Capitalist-Imperialist Technological Civilization (WCITC), which has been developing and overwhelming the civilizational diversity during the previous few centuries.  With the success of Russian Socialist Revolution of 1917, the alternative Socialist Technological Civilization (STC) appeared on the world scene. However, with the Grand Betrayal of Socialism in the USSR, China, and Eastern Europe, it has currently vanished from the global stage.  WCITC is currently the only dominant civilization in the world, dominating and overwhelming all the cultural, linguistic, religious and other super-structural differences between various countries, peoples, and nations.  Putin being the leader of an important part of that civilization greatly exaggerates the existence and importance of civilizational diversity.