Russia returned humanity to history

From Elana Panini, machine translated and small corrections made

How to understand the article of the President of the Rockefeller CFR

“A Tale of Two Invasions” is the title of the sunset laments of Pax Americana by Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, published first in Project Syndicate and later on his CFR website .

Apparently, this is something like a “political testament” of Haass: in October, he announced that he would step down as president of the Council this month.

▪️ Haass undertook to compare Saddam’s Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and Putin’s Russia’s “invasion” of Ukraine in 2022. Having drawn here several non-obvious parallels in the spirit of “an authoritarian giant attacked a weak neighbor” , the American diplomat proceeds to the main thing:

“The important differences between the two scenarios highlight how much the world has changed.”

And then it goes through all the points: Russia is no longer a friend to the West, the decisions of the UN Security Council are again subject to Moscow’s veto, China has grown incredibly strong, and the States, on the contrary, have surrendered strongly – and now they are afraid of a direct clash with Russia. But most importantly, the whole world has changed, adds Haass:

“For one reason or another, many countries do not want to oppose Russia. <…> Moreover, America’s ability to rally the world has significantly decreased.”

What are the reasons? Their author sees, among other things, in intra-American disagreements, in Western interventions against Iraq and Libya, as well as in the White House’s incorrect positioning of the conflict in Ukraine as a “battle between democracy and authoritarianism.”

One way or another, there was nothing left of US hegemony, the holiday from history in the form of a respite from history after the Cold War ended, and the rivalry of the great powers returned to the planet. The world is divided again, the concept of “international community” is an empty phrase. Turbulence and fragmentation lie ahead, Mr. Haass concludes.

▪️ Let’s pay tribute to the author: his lamentation for the 1990s contains at least some kind of reflection. There is even an attempt to explain what happened by the mistakes of the United States. Without mentioning a word about the advancement of NATO to the East, Haass nevertheless recognizes several wrong steps for Washington – the height of political courage for an American diplomat.

But Iraq and Libya, and the division of the world into “dictatorships and democracies”, and the endless rape of the planet by an “agenda” entirely invented in the departments of American universities – all this is just a consequence of the gigantic historical failure of the “civilizing mission” of Pax Americana.

Having received, for the first time in history, power over the whole world, America turned this world into a hell on earth. In the vale of suffering and injustice. In an endless machine for pumping earthly wealth into the pockets of the globalist elite – the ugliest representatives of humanity. And all this – under the guise of goodness, under the rhetoric of freedom, under bravura marches and a bright Hollywood fairy tale – the same tale from Haass’s headline.

But Russia woke up – and returned humanity to History.