Essay: April 2022 was a pivotal moment in the future of global politics for decades to come

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“	Between 2001 and 2021, the United State destroyed political orders in Iraq and Libya, prolonged civil wars in Afghanistan and Syria, and teetered on the brink of war with Iran. During the same period, by their own reckoning, their trade policies created a monster in the form of the far more powerful People's Republic of China…The wars have poisoned America, from its policies to its policing to the way the government surveils Americans. No one has been held accountable for the failures of the era.	”
—Justin Logan, September 2021.

'What Does This War Mean for the Future of Mankind and Today's Civilization?' panel discussion at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lvov with Thomas Friedman, Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin, Francis Fukuyama, Comfort Ero, and Yaroslav Hrytsak, Sept. 11, 2023.

“	The entire world will now suffer due to the catastrophic failure of Western leadership.	”
—Aearnur, March 26, 2022.

“	There are those in the West who don't mind a long war because it would mean exhausting Russia, even if this means the demise of Ukraine and comes at the cost of Ukrainian lives.	”
—Volodymyr Zelensky, March 27, 2022.

“	Ukraine is just the beginning. The geopolitical consequences of the Special Operation will change the entire view of the world.	”
—Dr. Konstantin Sivkov, First Vice President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, March 28, 2022.

“	Almost six weeks into the war between Russia and Ukraine, I’m beginning to wonder if this conflict isn’t our first true world war — much more than World War I or World War II ever was.	”
—Thomas Friedman, NYT, April 3, 2022.

“	The real special military operation didn't start on February 24, 2022. It started on April 3rd, 2022 almost a month and a half after. And the reason for that was, when Istanbul negotiations were sabotaged by the United States by means of this clown Boris Johnson, who basically came in and said, "No no no. We're going to support you. We're going to just provide everything, including command and control." So the negotiations broke down. This is when Russians realized, you cannot negotiate with these people.	”
—Andrei Martyanov, April 9, 2025.

Background

On the morning of January 1, 1992 when the Soviet Union was dissolved, some 25 million ethnic Russians and other Soviet peoples woke up to discover they were now residents of a foreign country outside the land of their birth, without being consulted at the ballot box in a free, fair, and democratic election. Many suffered a loss of rights, such as social security benefits or even the right to vote, as in the Baltic States, and were discriminated against as second class citizens. Since the earliest Bolshevik times, the Russian people themselves constituted the largest bloc of victims of Soviet communism; now they faced the wrath of Western fascism a second time as their fathers and grandfathers had five decades earlier.

“	Ukraine, or rather Eastern Ukraine, will come back in five, ten or fifteen years. Western Ukraine can go to hell.	”
—Anonymous Russian general quoted in Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order, 1996. p. 167. [1]

“	Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good.	”
—Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery, May 30, 1962.

“	Just don’t invade Russia. It’s never a good idea.	”
—Elon Musk, January 4, 2024.

2021

While Biden was abandoning $83 billion in weapons to Afghan terrorists, he was simultaneously delivering arms to Ukrainian Nazis for war with Russia.

As the Biden junta was simultaneously preparing for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and launching the NATO war in Ukraine, junta leader Joe Biden met with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin in June 2021 at a summit meeting in Geneva. Biden and the 16 member US intelligence community requested of the Russians an "off limits" ceasefire agreement on 16 "critical infrastructure" projects.

2022

Dmitri Yarosh, former head of the Pravy Sektor standing before the neo-Nazi black and red "Blood and Soil" flag.

During the night of February 25-26, 2022 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a ceasefire proposal to Russia via the Chinese embassy in Kiev. The Kremlin immediately responded by setting out its conditions:

• arrest of all Nazis (Dmitro Yarosh and the Azov Battalion, etc.)
• removal of all street names and destruction of monuments glorifying Nazi collaborators during the Second World War (Stepan Bandera, etc.),
• laying down of weapons.

The Atlantic press ignored this event, while the rest of the world, which knew about it, held its breath. The negotiation failed a few hours later after Washington intervened. Only then would Western public opinion be informed, but the Russian conditions would always be hidden from them.

Bloomberg News reported: “The US-led drive to isolate Russia through sanctions has not succeeded, as half the countries in the Group of Twenty leading global economies refused to sign on...Senior officials from leading Western nations are surprised by the lack of support within the wider G20, despite their efforts to make the case for restrictions against Russia...Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Turkey have not joined the sanctions that were adopted by the US, UK, EU, and their allies Australia, Canada, Japan, and South Korea...Some nations, like China and South Africa, have openly criticized the restrictions…The G20 nations account for around 85% of global economic output”.

On March 28, 2022 Joe Biden trashed the November 1985 joint declaration issued by President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the Geneva Summit which read, "a nuclear war is unwinnable and must never be fought" when Biden issued an updated version of the National Defense Strategy (NDS).

Despite US opposition, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was able to mediate an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to meet for peace negotiations in Istanbul.

On March 29, 2022, Tass reported negotiations in Istanbul with the Kyiv regime included:

• permanent neutrality and non-aligned status
• guarantees of security
• demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine
• recognition of contemporary territorial realities
• restoration of the status of Russian language and rights of Russian-speakers

How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed.

In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder explained how the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed:

"The only people who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans. During the peace negotiations in March 2022 in Istanbul with [then-Ukrainian chief negotiator] Rustem Umerov, the Ukrainians did not agree on peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed."

“	We've led the Ukrainians down the Primrose path. We pushed this country into this war. We're principally responsible for it because of our efforts to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia's borders. We encouraged the counter offensive. We forced them to attack week after week, when they were suffering enormous casualties. And now when they're in really deep trouble, we're pulling the plug on them. It just turns your stomach. It's really horrible.	”
—Prof. John J. Mearsheimer, October 12, 2023

As Ukraine and Russia neared conclusion of a ceasefire on Russia's Special Military Operation to end the Donbas conflict under terms largely along the lines of the Minsk Accords with the issues of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, the Lugansk Peoples Republic, and Crimea off the table, as a gesture of good faith President Putin ordered the withdrawal of troops surrounding Kiev. However UK prime minister Boris Johnson rushed to Kiev unannounced and convinced Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky not to accept the deal in exchange for promises of NATO aid to fight the Russians. Two months later, after thousands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine troops were ground down on the battlefield along with their NATO weapons, talk of resuming ceasefire negotiations was now encouraged by Western leaders. The Kremlin announced that the status of the Kherson and Zaporozhye republics would be off the table as well, if negotiations were to resume.

The visit of Boris Johnson with Zelensky in April 2022, carrying the joint message of all Western powers to sabotage the peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, was the most crucial and reprehensible of all, marking the beginning of the most horrendous loss of life since the end of Second World War.

On April 5, 2022 according to the Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, agreements were fully reached allowing Washington to relocate its nuclear arsenals to the country in any required quantity, the German newspaper Welt am Sontag reported.

Ukrainska Pravda reported in May 2022 on Boris Johnson's surprise visit to Kiev shortly after Russia and Ukraine had reached a peace settlement in their talks in Istanbul. The Russians had agreed to withdraw to the pre-February 2022 borders and Zelensky would implement the Minsk Accords. Putin's withdrawal from the Kiev environs was meant as a show of good faith.

While the Prime Ministers of France, Germany, Italy, and Romania urged Ukrainian dictator Vladimir Zelensky to pursue a negotiated settlement with Russia and end the slaughter of Ukrainian troops in a hopeless cause, Johnson urged Zelensky to continue the war and keep the gravy train of $53 billion in U.S. aid flowing. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov later said "We sat at the negotiating table with the Ukrainian delegation until the end of March [2022], when an approach to a settlement on the principles suggested by the Ukrainians at the time had been harmonized in Istanbul. These principles suited us for that moment, but the talks were stopped by direct order from Washington and London."

The sudden failure of the Istanbul agreement led to the immediate influx of mass amounts of the latest U.S. gear such as HIMARs. Zelensky was secretly promised unlimited funding and military support as bait. Stuck between the path of peace or the chance to go down in history as the one man who could do what Genghis Khan, Napoleon, and Hitler could not do. Zelensky chose to put his faith in NATO’s invincibility. Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko confirmed what happened: "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March. A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: We simply ditched the Russians in March. He boasted about it... Friends, I know them all personally. I appeal to Ukrainians. You are ruled by sociopaths who do not understand the consequences".

President Vladimir Putin shows African leaders initialed copies of the draft treaty that was quashed by Biden and the UK. The US bribed Zelensky with $100 billion in "aid" in early April 2022 not to make peace with Russia.

Only a month after Russia was forced by innumerable actions by the West to achieve the aims of protecting the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region and of itself from a malevolent Ukrainian regime via its becoming a NATO state on its border, Russia initiated peace negotiations. These bore fruit in March 2022 when significant progress was announced from Istanbul where the talks between the two sides where being held. Russia removed its troops from around the capital Kiev, sent there with the goal not of conquest but of bringing the regime there to its senses and to negotiate a peaceful outcome. This avenue toward a peaceful resolution of all areas of concern was swiftly blocked via a visit to Kiev by then British prime minister Boris Johnson. This one act condemned upwards of half a million Ukrainians to their deaths and the potential destruction of Ukraine as a viable state.

“	When Boris Johnson stepped in to stop negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul just a few weeks after the start of hostilities he set in motion the meatgrinder that has taken SO many lives.	”
—Aearnur, September 16, 2023

U.S. Dollar share of global reserve currencies since passage of the Magnitsky Act.

“	Russia's invasion of Ukraine, initiated on February 24, 2022, is among the most—if not the most—significant shocks to the global order since World War II.	”
—:::Russia, Ukraine, and the Future World Order, Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2022

“	The folly of arrogantly dismissing Russia's legitimate security demands, and the cynical act of using Ukraine as a proxy army to harm Russia — and ultimately attempt to effect its dismemberment — would, in the end, result only in the end of American hegemony, the end of NATO, and the rebirth of a multipolar world....many “veterans” of the empire's peak period (1991 – 2003) cannot grasp the cold hard reality that we are well into the story arc of an irreversible historical hinge-point. The lucre-drunken bankers are now gnawing at the carcass of the goose that laid the golden eggs: the hegemonic global dollar system which permitted the US to conjure ex nihilo unlimited amounts of “money” which they then used to purchase and consume the products of the world, and thereby export the inflationary monetary consequences across the globe.	”
—William Schryver, December 23, 2022.

2023

“	I learned a lot about Putin then. 'My dog is bigger than your dog.' The lesson is: Listen carefully to what others say, don’t prejudge their sentiments, and let them speak.	”
—George W. Bush, July 10, 2015. [2]

“	The U.S. and NATO will soon have lost their big proxy war against Russia. In light of this reality the much larger, centuries old narrative of the superior West is also breaking down. This will have global consequences for decades to come.	”
—Moon of Alabama, July 18, 2023

“	The Ukraine war signaled the end of Western hegemony.	”
—David Hearst, July 27, 2023 [3]

“	The empire has blundered itself to an existential war and, therefore, the last war of the empire. When the end comes, the empire will lie as usual and declare victory, but everyone else will know the truth, especially the vassals.	”
—Anonymous Chinese scholar [4]

“	The U.S.-dominated NATO alliance, the European Union, the rules-based international order and all the post-World War II structures, which held the Western world together for nearly eight decades. They are all now crumbling around us.	”
—Scott Ritter, Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare, July 28, 2023.

“	You're asking whether we can go back to where we were before the war broke out or maybe even where we were in March '22 shortly after the war broke out when the negotiations in Istanbul were ongoing...the mess that we have created here, the disaster we have created here cannot be underestimated in terms of its scope.	”
—Prof. John Mearsheimer, interview with Aaron Maté, August 2023.

“	Ukraine’s lack of progress over the past two months should serve as a wake-up call for Western leaders. Their response will shape the geopolitical landscape for decades to come.	”
—Maksym Skrypchenko, Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive is a wake-up call for the West, The Atlantic Council, August 7, 2023

“	The world stands at a critical juncture...Decisions made now will resonate for generations to come.	”
—Jai Hamid, The impact of US-Russia nuclear war on Americans, August 9, 2023

The 1991 borders of Ukraine were drawn by the Communist dictators Lenin, Stalin, and Khruschev without the democratic consent of the people living there. Advocates of so-called "Ukrainian independence" after 2022 sought to ratify the deeds of communist dictators as contemporary, standing international law without the democratic consent of the people living there.

“	Under cover of the Ukrainian war, vast sweeping changes are in order for the global architecture which has secured Western hegemony for the past century and a half. The events currently playing out in Africa and the ‘global south’ dare to eclipse the significance of the Ukrainian war, which acts merely as the frosting to the revolutionary layer cake of anti-imperialist sentiment bursting forth around the world.	”
—Simplicius the Thinker, August 15, 2023 [5]

“	We already live in a post-American and post-Western world. We're in a truly multipolar one, where the group of BRICS countries are larger than the group of G7 countries....The United States still believes this is ultimately a U.S. led world with two recalcitrant actors, Russia and China, and all the rest will come along and understand the realities. In my opinion, the U.S. is a quarter century out of date. And Europe is a big disappointment. There isn't one voice in Europe right now that has a geopolitical outlook that is even intelligible. What kind of world we are heading toward is really an open question; we could be heading toward a world of massive conflict and disaster, or we could head toward a world where some intelligent, non-octogenarian leader could arise in the United States who will say: 'NATO we don't need much anymore. We do need to have normal relations with China, India, Russia, Brazil, the EU.' And then suddenly things will look quite different.	”
—Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, August 25, 2023. [6]

Emmanuel Macron speaking at globalist conference with open display of a swastika.

“	As the war in Ukraine completely reshuffles the world order and threatens to destroy human civilization, it's frightening just how little information Americans are receiving about what happens there.	”
—Tucker Carlson, August 29, 2023

“	The expansion of BRICS shows the intention to build a world order alternative to the current one, which is seen as too Western.	”
—Emmanuel Macron, August 30, 2023 [7]

“	We're seeing a complete reordering of the international world. The world that was established basically by the United States, with the support of Europe in the aftermath of World War II, was an order that consisted of the United Nations, dominated by the United States, the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, & other organizations that the United States called the 'international rules-based order', and yet the United States controlled it primarily because the power of the dollar. What's happened as a result of the combination of economic sanctions against Russia and the heightened escalation and rhetoric, and threats against China, coupled with the threats against Russia - it's led Russia and China to work more diligently on creating a new world order.	”
— Larry Johnson, September 10, 2023

“	The fate of NATO and its credibility as a ‘defensive alliance’ is irrevocably intertwined with the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict, yet because NATO is, in reality, a political rather than military institution, these crucial issues will never be debated openly, as the answers would be akin to a priest announcing the nonexistence of God from the pulpit.	”
—Chay Bowes, September 10, 2023. [8]

“	The influence of the G20 is diminishing and the BRICS group is gaining strength. This is the context for the modern era geopolitical dynamic that is taking place.	”
—Sundance, September 10, 2023. [9]

“	The War in Ukraine has become a turning point in the history of civilization.	”
—Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, September 11, 2023.

“	It is now resoundingly clear that U.S. and NATO forces are going to be defeated by Russia, owing in part to the delusional arrogance and incompetence that now characterizes the political leadership of the US empire. The US military will fail, the dollar currency will fail, the Biden regime will fail and the world will denounce the dollar and the punitive weaponization of the reserve currency carried out by the US empire.	”
—Mike Adams, September 12, 2023

“	The old world order is over...One era is ending, a new one is beginning, and the decisions that we make now will shape the future for decades to come.	”
—Antony Blinken, September 13, 2023.

“	President Biden’s provocative foreign policy towards Russia and Communist China which I have denounced as a policy of national suicide has created the greatest existential threat the US has ever faced by pushing Russia and China into an ever closer military alliance and provoking them to attack us by attempting to expand America’s sphere of influence into their backyards in Eastern Europe and Taiwan.	”
—David T. Pyne, September 15, 2023 [10]

“	The Biden administration continued its campaign to rewrite the rules of global economics this week by taking steps to fix the leading institution of globalization: the World Trade Organization. The global trade body has been dysfunctional since 2019, when the Trump administration refused to name judges to its highest dispute-settlement body, rendering it unable to make decisions. Since then, the hobbled WTO has served as a symbol of how American populism has alienated the U.S. government from the rules-based international system that it helped create at the end of the (first) Cold War.	”
—Gavin Bade, Rewriting the rules of globalization, Politico, September 22, 2023

Volodymyr Zelensky, Justin Trudeau, and Chrystia Freeland applaud Yaroslav Hunka of the Waffen SS Galicia Division during a session of the Canadian Parliament, September 24, 2023.

“	Humanity is standing at a crossroads. It depends only on us how history will develop. It is in the common interest to prevent a slide into a big war and the final collapse of the mechanisms of international cooperation created by generations of predecessors.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, September 23, 2023 [11]

“	For the past 400 years, the international system has been shaped by an exclusive group of countries who have built an order designed to uphold their respective economic, commercial, technological, and military privileges. This order was built from European colonial empires, and later handed over to the US by the middle of the 20th century. It derives its power from exacerbating inequality and dominance over the states of the Global South, keeping access to capital conditional on ideological, military, and political subjugation. In maintaining this system, only states that have endorsed the order, such as for example Japan or South Korea, have been allowed to rise to prosperity, while states that have opposed it have been deliberately isolated from key financial and technological markets. The US sits atop the hierarchy, with a network of vassals who maintain their privileges by being part of the system, in particular the former empires of Britain, France, Germany and, as mentioned, Japan.	”
—Yang Sheng and Li Xuanmin, Sep 26, 2023 [12]

“	The war in Ukraine compounded by last week’s attacks on Israel may have far-reaching impacts on energy and food markets, global trade, and geopolitical relationships…This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades.	”
—Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, October 13, 2023

“	We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South. All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost . . . Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.	”
—Anonymouses senior G7 diplomat quoted in the Financial Times, October 17, 2023

“	We were in a post-war period for 50 years where it worked pretty damn well, but that’s sort of run out of steam. Sort of run out of steam. It needs a new — a new world order in a sense, like that was a world order.	”
—Joe Biden, October 20, 2023

“	We have arrived at a historic juncture. Perhaps, the most dangerous, unpredictable and, at the same time, the most important decade since the end of World War II lies ahead.	”
—Vladimir Putin, October 27, 2023.

“	The great powers will sooner or later agree on how they will live in the foreseeable future under new conditions. Washington cannot escape Russia, China and the countries of the Global South.	”
—Dmitri Medvedev, October 29, 2023

“	There is a chain of conflicts affecting the whole world...In fact, World War III is already underway...We instinctively expect that the war will begin just like the Great War or the Second World War...The international order is breaking down...It was an unpleasant one, based on the fear of mutual destruction, but manageable...Wars in the Middle East have erupted before, but the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America (USA) intervened and extinguished them until the next conflict...And now I don’t see even a temporary settlement mechanism.	”
—Fyodor Lukyanov, Presidium-Chairman of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP), October 31, 2023.

“	The United States and its NATO allies served notice Tuesday that they will formally suspend their participation in the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe, marking the demise of another landmark arms control agreement.	”
—U.S., NATO to Suspend Participation in Landmark Cold War Arms Treaty, Michael R. Gordon, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 7, 2023. www.wsj.com

“	The rapid rise of the BRICS is transforming the global economy, with the group’s share of world GDP in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) set to rise well beyond of that of the Group of Seven (G7) major advanced economies.	”
—Bloomberg News, November 2023.

“	The Obama-Biden foreign policy agenda has ushered in a new world order devoid of American strength and leadership.	”
—Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist, November 14, 2023.

THE LEADERS OF THE COLLECTIVE WEST WILL TWIST & TURN IN VAIN. Humiliation for all who worked to use Ukraine as a weapon against Russia is coming closer by the day. The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense.

“	This is one of the most dangerous times in the history of the United States.	”
—Rep. Mark Green, House DHS chair, November 15, 2023.

“	Today, the world faces an inflection point, where the choices we make — including in the crises in Europe and the Middle East — will determine the direction of our future for generations to come.	”
—Joe Biden, November 18, 2023.

“	Future historians will point to Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine and the ensuing effort led by the United States to destroy Russia economically through sanctions and militarily by using Ukraine as a proxy, as a watershed moment that changed the trajectory of world history.	”
—Larry Johnson, December 5, 2023. [13]

“	One of the most strategically significant battlefield humiliations inflicted upon NATO over the course of the Ukraine War: the progressively comprehensive defeat of their precision-guided strike missile inventory — ATACMS, HARMS, JDAMS, GMLRS fired from HIMARS, cruise missiles (Storm Shadow and SCALP). The Russians have demonstrated that they can routinely shoot down ANY species of strike missile the US/NATO can field against them — The significance of this battlefield development defies exaggeration. It alters the war-fighting calculus that has been assumed for many decades.	”
—William Schryver, December 21, 2023.

“	In the U.S. and in NATO countries, almost everyone knows that this is the end of the last 30 years [since the Soviet Union fell]. Now we’re going into some kind of a New Cold War.	”
—Antti Häkkänen, Finnish Defense Minister, December 21, 2023.

“	We need a generational change. I don't like to say "change of elites". People who have a different perception of what is happening around them should come to the leadership and decision-making centres. It's going to happen sooner or later....It is extremely difficult for the US ruling circles to come to terms with the changing world order. And many of them are simply organically incapable of moving away from thinking in terms of their own superiority. More and more states in the world are not inclined to ingratiate themselves with Washington.	”
—Sergey Ryabkov, Russian deputy foreign minister, December 22, 2023.

2024

“	I think it’s a World War. It looks to me like the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century. For me, the modern age started at this time. So for me it’s now, philosophically speaking, the end of the modern era. The modern era started with the Thirty Years’ War, and it will take another Thirty Years’ War to end it.	”
—Alexei Arestovich, January 14, 2024.

“	How somebody who has zero background in anything, literally, other than a compilation of a facts smugly known in the West as "the range of interpretations" can offer opinions on WW II, or somebody being "military historian" without having at least introductory course in Operational Research and Operational Planning and engineering defies my understanding. Especially, against the background of SMO, which produced a deadly shock for anyone in the West with IQ higher than the room temperature. We are talking about things of a scale of discarding most, not all, humanities studies in the West as degree mills for pseudo-scientific fraud.	”
—Andrei Martynov, January 16, 2024.

“	A Russian victory will cause other nations to rethink their relations with Washington.	”
—Jake Sullivan, January 20, 2024.

“	This war has utterly reshaped the global military and trade alliances, and the sanctions that followed have as well. And in total, they have upended the world economy. The post-world War II economic order, the system that guaranteed prosperity in the West for more than 80 years, is coming apart very fast, and along with it the dominance of the US dollar,	”
—Tucker Carlson, February 6, 2024.

“	To those who don’t want to find and spend money on the production of weapons, the era of peace in Europe is over.	”
—Ukraine foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba, February 16, 2024.

“	The unipolar era is over. Going forward, the options are stark: the United States can selectively retrench and control costs and risks, or it can stick with global primacy and lurch from crisis to crisis.	”
—Stephen Wertheim, author of Tomorrow, The World: The Birth Of U.S. Global Supremacy, February 14, 2024.

“	The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense.	”
—Aearnur’s Newsletter, February 29, 2024.

“	Russia is taking good advantage of our mistakes. The blame about double standards is something that we need to address and not only with nice words. It is clear that the wind is blowing against the West.	”
—Josep Borrell, EU minister for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, February 18. 2024.

“	The heretofore reigning global hegemon designed to inflict upon Russia — its long-time nemesis — a decisive strategic defeat that would deliver the greatest spoil ever taken, and thereby consolidate its power base into the foreseeable future and beyond....In its hubris-fueled determination to prove it could do what no western hegemon had been able to accomplish over the past five centuries, the rapidly eroding Anglo-American empire will now be compelled to swallow the bitter pill of decisive strategic defeat on the same eastern European steppes where its predecessors were served their own banquet of consequences. And the Russians, as is their wont, will pass down new hymns of victory to their children’s children's children, for generations to come.	”
—William Schryver, February 28, 2024.

“	The era of Western domination has ended and a new world order is emerging.	”
—Victor Orban, March 4, 2024.

“	The times of peace are over, the post-war era is over. We live in new times - in the pre-war era.	”
—Donald Tusk, March 9, 2024. www.ukrinform.net

“	One is constantly reading in the papers that Vladimir Putin is a threat to the Western order....But the larger threat to the Western order is the hubris of those who run it....Fighting a war based on values requires good values...At a bare minimum it requires an agreement on the values being spread, and the United States is further from such agreement than it has ever been in its history.	”
—Christopher Caldwell, March 9, 2024.

“	The United States has destroyed international cooperation on ant-terrorism. And it is all destroyed through no fault of our own.	”
—Anatoly Antonov, Russian Ambassador to the United States, March 24, 2024.

“	We are living in the most critical moment since the end of the second world war...I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era...The prewar era.	”
—Donald Tusk, March 29, 2024.

“	This new civilizational rise is increasingly replacing that unipolar world with what's called a multipolar world... the unipolar world is over. The sooner permanent Washington comes to terms with that, the sooner this tragedy of great power politics will come to an end.	”
—Dr. Steve Turley, April 4, 2024.

“	Recent events, however, may very well be creating risks that could eclipse anything since World War II - we should not take them lightly.	”
—Jamie Dimon, CEO JPMorgan Chase, April 9, 2024.

Antony Blinken observing his proudest accomplishment.

“	If Ukraine falls...it will be a turning point in history, the moment when the West finally loses its post-war hegemony.	”
—Boris Johnson, April 12, 2024.

“	The US Army's power to rapidly defeat enemies may be a thing of the past.	”
—Michael Peck, Business Insider, April 14, 2024.

“	The world you knew no longer exists.	”
—Sam Faddis, April 15, 2024.

“	Everything we're witnessing over the last 12 months is indicating that the international global system is on the brink of collapse.	”
—Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International Secretary General, April 23, 2024.

“	Europe is mortal, it can die...In the next decade, the risk is immense that we will be weakened, even relegated...The era of basing our production in China, of delegating our defense to the United States, and of getting our energy from Russia is over...The rules of the game have changed.	”
—Emmanuel Macron, April 25, 2024.

“	For years the order that has governed the global economy since the second world war has been eroded. Today it is close to collapse.	”
—The Economist, May 9, 2024.

“	The Pentagon will be the last to sing a requiem for the dearly departed unipolar world. May sanity prevail.	”
—Ray McGovern, May 17, 2024.

“	Europe as a partner is not relevant for us for at least one generation.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, Mau 18, 2024.

“	For years, the populations of the world have been fed on a diet of pseudo reality in which a Ukraine victory was so much taken for granted that it is difficult for most Westerners to digest the truth of the matter. Most have combined a morality desiring that Ukraine must (i.e. should) win with an assumption that, therefore, it will win. But morality comes out of reality; it doesn’t shape reality in the way that facts do. Just because someone believes that it is right for certain outcomes to be achieved; it doesn’t follow that these will be achieved. It is as if (many) human beings are now so childlike that they demand that reality fits their desires rather than accepting that they must adapt to the reality that embraces and engulfs them. I think this is one of the things that humanity in the West has forgotten. In the sense that it panders to peoples’ desires rather than what is possible for them. Wokeness is symptomatic of this error in thinking.	”
—Dr. Rob Campbell, May 24, 2024.

“	We are frankly at the end of what they affectionately call the post war liberal political order or World Order.	”
—Col. Douglas Macgregor, May 24, 2024.

“	It is evident that the entire system of Euro-Atlantic security is crumbling before our eyes. At present, it is practically non-existent and must be rebuilt. To achieve this, we must collaborate with interested countries, of which there are many, to develop our own strategies for ensuring security in Eurasia and then present them for broader international deliberation.	”
—Vladimir Putin, June 14, 2024.

“	Unfortunately, we are heading for a real world war, a full-blown war. The foundation of the old world system is bulging at the seams, and conflicts will break out. It is necessary to block the way leading to such a war … conflicts are already brewing and taking place in all areas.	”
—Sergei Karaganov, Honorary Chair of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, June 21, 2024.

“	The future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya.	”
—Pepe Escobar, July 9, 2024.

“	The first lesson is that society must agree to temporarily give up a range of freedoms for the sake of survival, because modern wars are total, requiring the efforts not only of the army, but also of society as a whole...Politicians can and should mobilize society.	”
—Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, July 22, 2024.

“	The United States confronts the most serious and the most challenging threats since the end of World War II. The United States could in short order be drawn into a war across multiple theaters with peer and near-peer adversaries, and it could lose.	”
—Commission on the National Defense Strategy Final Report, July 29, 2024.

“	We may be at an inflection point that will determine the fate of the free and democratic world for decades.	”
—Jamie Dimon, August 2, 2024.

“	This is the end of Bretton Woods.	”
—L. Todd Wood, August 5, 2024.

“	The life you had before is over.	”
—Micaherl Yon, August 8, 2024.

“	The world is changing like never before. We are currently witnessing the unraveling of over a hundred years of globalist infrastructure right before our very eyes. The tides of history are turning, and the age of empires, kingdoms and civilizations is rising. Ever since Russia's invasion Ukraine, we've been hearing terms like multipolarity and a new multi-polar world order every day, signifying the end of a unipolar liberal world order - a world that was governed by a single superpower.	”
—Dr. Steve Turley, August 12, 2024.

“	The conflict between Russia and the West won’t end after Kiev is no longer viable as a proxy...The "Ukraine crisis" is not actually an accurate name for what is happening now in relations between Russia and the West....This confrontation is global...It touches virtually every functional area – from finance to pharmaceuticals to sport – and spans many geographical regions...The current situation in the northwest is forcing Moscow to strengthen its strategy of military deterrence against the enemy...Official warnings have been issued that, under certain conditions, military facilities in the territory of NATO countries will become legitimate targets...A modernization of Russia's nuclear doctrine has been announced...Atomic deterrence is becoming a more active tool of Russian strategy...It should be borne in mind that Russia’s confrontation with the collective West will continue after the end of active military operations against Ukraine...From the Arctic, which is a separate area of rivalry, to the Black Sea, there is already a solid, unbroken dividing line...European security is no longer a relevant concept, and Eurasian security, including the European component, is a matter for the distant future...A long period of "non-world peace" lies ahead, during which Russia will have to rely on its own forces and capabilities rather than on agreements with Western states for its security.	”
—Dmitry Trenin, August 15, 2024.

“	Washington's eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its "rules-based order"....The massive destruction of the West's high-cost weaponry ensued, annulling their vaunted superiority. Western armaments, from anti-tank Javelins to APC Bradleys to air defense complexes such as the Patriot PAC3 or NASAMS, performed dismally and proved unready for what has become the largest military conflict in Europe since WWII. By 2023 the Kiev regime could no longer exist without the West's support, both financial and in war materiel. By 2024 Russia will have not just exhausted Ukraine, but also demilitarized NATO as a whole, exposing the industrial and military impotence of the US and its European vassals.... The finance and tech-based economy is not a real economy; expeditionary warfare and doctrine is not real war.	”
—America's Final War – by Andrei Martyanov (Author), August 15, 2024.

“	Western civilization appears to be on the cusp of a new Dark Age — for any government that arrests and locks up its own citizens for saying, writing, or thinking the “wrong” opinions or beliefs can no longer say it stands for freedom or human rights.	”
—Standing for Freedom Center Staff, August 16, 2024.

“	Look at what's happening in geopolitics. We're on the verge of World War III right now. We got a dementia patient sitting in the president's chair. You cannot trust the mainstream media or the political class or the big corporations out there because they've all got an agenda. Or more precisely, they're part of an aristocracy that is trying to bleed the peasants dry. And we're the peasants. You know, the US took centuries to accumulate $11 trillion of debt. Since 2020, we've taken on another $11 trillion. That is a death spiral. The financial system is ready to spin out of control. The experiment that began in 1971 when we went off the gold standard and gave everybody fiat currencies is ending. This is financial and economic history they're going to be writing textbooks about this for the next two centuries.	”
—John Robino, August 24, 2024.

“	Something fundamental has changed in the course of the last two and a half years. History will go back and mark this as a significant moment of transformation in the world order that would be comparable to the post-World War II period with the creation of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations, these other Western controlled institutions that have been the foundation for the existing international rules-based order.	”
—Larry Johnson, August 30, 2024.

“	In recent years, despite the complex nature of Russian-American relations, countering international terrorism has remained one of the few areas in which expert consultations and practical cooperation between special services have continued. At present, the United States has interrupted all bilateral contacts and is trying to squeeze Russia out of the established international formats of cooperation in this area.	”
—Yuri Kokov, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, September 9, 2022.

“	It seems that… Washington perfectly understands the situation on the battlefield when every day Russian troops liberate more and more settlements in Donbass. However, politicians are extremely pleased with the death of Slavs on both sides of the line of contact. They openly proclaim a simple task – to preserve the old system of international relations where America used to dominate.	”
—Anatoly Antonov, September 12, 2024.

“	Russians say there's nothing to talk about with Zelensky. What difference does it make? The talk is between Moscow and Washington. Period. All those European chihuahuas are absolutely inconsequential. They are nobodies. The only communication which can happen, and again it's not going to be negotiations, will be Russia dictating the terms of the surrender. Period. Because the United States in no position militarily, economically, psychologically, or morally to demand anything. They ran themselves into this dead end.	”
—Andrei Martyanov, September 26, 2024.

“	The rest of the non-Western world can see the coming disaster and is getting out of the splash zone. This is done by constructing a parallel international economic system with new supply chains, tech hubs, energy pipelines, a grain corridor, new commodity exchanges, new bimodal transportation corridors, development banks, digital currencies, payment systems, insurance systems and other important components of the international economy. Much of the decoupling from the US, including de-dollarisation, is being facilitated by BRICS which creates the economic institutions for a multipolar world order.	”
—Glenn Diesen, October 2, 2024.

“	Today the world is living through the 'multipolar moment'. Shifting towards the multi-polar world order is a natural part of power rebalancing, which reflects objective changes in the world economy, finance and geopolitics. The West waited longer than the others, yet it has also started to realize that this process is irreversible.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, October 7, 2024.

“	The most important question to be answered on Election Day is whether the United States will seek a negotiated settlement to its proxy war with Russia or pursue its current policy of serial escalation in Ukraine. That is the only choice that involves an immediate and potentially existential threat to the nation.	”
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, October 14, 2024.

“	The different media will have their work cut out for them in deciding how to cover the probable vast changes in geopolitics that appear to be coming fast. The Mainstream Media (MSM), Mainstream Alternative Media (M-ALT-M), and Alternative Alternative Media (A-ALT-M) will have to face judgment of their analytical prowess.	”
—Observer R, October 15, 2024.

“	Remember 1940. In three weeks, Americans will not have a comparably reassuring choice when they select the president who will determine the nation’s conduct during World War III, which has begun.	”
—George Will, October 16, 2024.

“	The world has changed significantly...The upcoming US presidential elections will not be the most important event of the year for the world community and will not determine the further course of history...No matter how much Washington would like it to be...The BRICS Summit will be that event.	”
—Valentina Matviyenko, October 16, 2024.

“	The BRICS countries are in fact the drivers of global economic growth. It is within BRICS that the main increase in global GDP will be generated in the foreseeable future.	”
—Vladimir Putin, October 19, 2024.

“	The US sanctions brought to bear on Russia at the start of the special military operation in February 2022 have accelerated the development of BRICS, which is what we're seeing today.	”
—Larry Johnson, October 22, 2024.

“	The world economy is set to rely even more heavily on the BRICS group of emerging economies to drive expansion, rather than their wealthier Western peers, according to the International Monetary Fund's latest forecasts.	”
—Bloomberg News, October 23, 2024.

“	World War III has never been closer.'	”
—Donald Trump, October 24, 2024.

“	World War III has already begun.	”
—Jamie Dimon, October 24, 2024.

“	Today it is clear that we are in a multipolar world,.	”
—Mark Milley, October 31, 2024.

“	The United States is no longer the hegemonic power in the world...You have had the rise of powerful states, like China and Russia...We've had the breakdown of the liberal international order...We don't have an agreement about what those rules are.	”
—Michael McFaul, November 3, 2024.

“	Pragmatists who recognize the fact of the transition to a new world economic order are coming to power in the USA. Brzezinski's strategy of defeating Russia, destroying Iran and isolating China, as expected, only strengthened China, which has become a global leader. Together with India, it will form a new bipolar center of the new world economic system. The USA can integrate into it as another center of the world economy if it abandons imperialism and stops the global hybrid war. It is in the US national interest that Trump liberate the US from the ostrich [ Straussian ] sect that has saddled it....The world will become polycentric and polycurrency, the significance of national sovereignty and international law will be restored.	”
—Sergey Glazyev, November 6, 2024.

At the Valdai Conference on November 7, 2024 Vladimir Putin reiterated six principles of international relations which he first articulated in October 2023.

• Openness to interaction is the most important value for the overwhelming majority of countries and peoples. Attempts to erect artificial barriers slow down normal and mutually beneficial economic development. The disruption of ties is especially dangerous in times of natural disasters and social upheavals.
• The diversity of the world is a prerequisite for its sustainable development. A model of one country or a relatively small part of humanity should not be imposed as something universal on the rest of the world.
• The world can successfully develop only under conditions of maximum representativeness. No one has the right to govern the world on behalf of others.
• Security for all without exception is a key principle. The security of some cannot be ensured at the expense of the security of others. The bloc approach, the legacy of the colonial era and the Cold War contradicts the nature of the new international system.
• Justice for all. The gap between the 'golden billion' and the rest of humanity is fraught with the growth of political contradictions and the deepening of migration problems.
• Equality. No one is going to submit and make their interests dependent on stronger states.

“	We are going into 2025 on a trip that is incalculable in terms of what's going to happen. It's going to be one wildcard played after another. It's going to be a radical time ahead. I have to tell you that in my 45 years of doing trends research, I have never seen such a volatile time in my life.	”
—Gerald Celente, November 15, 2024.

“	[T]oday a new version of the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Sphere of Nuclear Deterrence was approved. The use of the Alliance missiles in this way can now be qualified as an attack by the bloc countries on Russia. In this case, the right arises to launch a retaliatory strike with weapons of mass destruction on Kiev and the main NATO facilities, wherever they are. And this is already WWIII.	”
—Dmitri Medvedev, November 19, 2024.

“	The old regime is dying. The globalists have lost. The population everywhere doesn't want them, and it is they who are operating on borrowed time.	”
—Col. Douglas Macgregor, November 20, 2024.

“	I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely definitely consider that the third world war has begun.	”
—Valerii Zaluzhny, November 21, 2024.

“	US policymakers fail to learn the lessons of history and understand that great power alliances transformed two regional conflicts in Eastern Europe into unnecessary world wars that cost the lives of well over 100 million people and now US membership in NATO threatens to transform the war in Ukraine into a Third World War that could cost the lives of ten times more.	”
—David T. Pyne, November 21, 2024.

“	The clown puppet comedian actor who plays the piano with his penis has pulled the US and the UK into a conflict with Russia. Unbelievable.	”
—Alex Christoforou, November 22, 2024.

“	What started as two wars in two theaters is now one war in two separate theaters...We need to ensure that it does not expand into a third theater...How soon might that happen?...I think it’s actually 2025.	”
—Rahm Emanuel, December 3, 2024.

“	Are we headed toward an unprecedented conflict between Russia and the United States? Is there any way to peel Russia back from the east, from the sphere of China, back into the West? Is that alliance permanent? And does the election of Donald Trump mean an end to this war, which is reshaping the world, the US economy, the global economy, and risking the life of every person on this planet? Is that possible?	”
—Tucker Carlson, December 3, 2024.

“	The Russian military is now the single most potent and battle-hardened fighting force on the planet. The Russians will dictate the terms of surrender in this war because their strength affords them that privilege, and there is nothing the US and its impotent European vassals can do to alter that reality. That said, a decisive strategic defeat is going to be a very bitter pill to swallow for this second Trump administration. Hopefully they won't opt to set the world on fire in a fit of humiliated madness.	”
—Will Schryver, December 3, 2024.

“	The sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad's despotic regime in Syria this weekend highlights the interconnectedness of a growing number of global conflicts, revealing a hard truth that most of us would rather not think about too deeply: World War III has already begun.	”
—Bryce Hoffman, December 8, 2024.

“	Trump's administration has come to power in the United States. We will see how governance in the US will change under the Trump administration. The world is changing. The next 2-3 months are extremely important. We, as Turkiye, are doing our best and conveying our messages accordingly.	”
—Recep Erdogan, December 8, 2024.

2025

“	The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It's not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. "You can just do things", as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? It's not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It's not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America's vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities. The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this -- and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin'.	”
—Russian With Attitude, January 8, 2025.

“	We will never return to the state that was until 2022. Never. Everyone needs to understand that.	”
—Dmitri Rogozin, January 14, 2025.

“	World War 3 is already well underway, even though most don’t recognize it. Russia, China, and their allies want to transform the current US-led world order that has been in place since the end of World War 2 from unipolar to multipolar—giving themselves a bigger seat at the table in the process. The US and its allies want the unipolar status quo to prevail. World War 3 is unlikely to evolve into a direct kinetic war between the US, Russia, and China because that could invite nuclear Armageddon, where everyone loses. Instead, World War 3 is playing out on different levels—proxy wars, economic wars, financial wars, cyber wars, biological wars, deniable sabotage, and information wars. This is World War 3. It's happening right now and rapidly escalating.	”
—Nick Giambruno, January 21, 2025.

“	Having come to power, Trump blamed the previous elites, consisting of globalists and liberals, for the failure. The example of Russia made American conservatives realize the value of their own history, which was almost destroyed by the globalist agenda. We taught the US a lesson – and even Trump's "make America great again" echoes our "Russia is rising from its knees." The confrontation between the Russian Federation and the United States and Europe will continue. This will be a war for political and spiritual heritage, for the traditions of the Christian world. That is why it is important for Russians not to allow leftist, "red" ideas to take hold, which in the past almost destroyed our country. Globalists have been trying to demobilize the world for half a century, but the peoples have preserved their spiritual, cultural and scientific potential. Looking at us, they are ready to defend their independence themselves - it is against this background that the struggle for primogeniture between Russia and America will unfold. Russia has forced the collective West to respect the rules of the game or face the consequences. The Special Military Operation isn't just about Ukraine; it's the linchpin of a larger struggle for sovereignty against the hollow empire of globalism. Putin's 2007 Munich speech was prophetic that the West ignored at its peril. Now, the same elites who dismissed it find themselves floundering in a crisis of their own making. Trumpism and the conservative awakening in the West are echoes of Russia's defiance, a recognition that globalist elites, from Washington to Davos, have hollowed out traditions, sovereignty, and identity. The war isn't just territorial; it's cultural, spiritual, and civilizational. As Russia rises, it shows the world that independence isn't just possible, it's existential.	”
—Anton Belikov, January 23, 2025.

“	U.S. diplomacy has been active in crippling the political leadership of former labor and social democratic parties in Europe and other countries so thoroughly that it no longer seems to matter what voters want. That is what America's National Endowment Democracy (NED) is for, along with its mainstream media. But what is being shaken up is not merely America's unipolar dominance of the West and its sphere of influence, but the worldwide structure of international trade and financial relations – and inevitably, military relations and alliances as well.	”
—Michael Hudson, January 24, 2025.

“	The ultimate problem now—and the primary reason for why time is now on Russia's side—is because the only thing that can possibly save Ukraine at this point is the political will and unity of Europe. But the problem is: Europe is falling apart, with anti-establishment forces and parties quickly rising to depose the incumbent globalist tyrants. As such, the longer the war goes on, the more chance that Europe cracks and solidarity gets flushed down the drain, with Ukraine being left with no hope at salvation from their 'big brothers' at all.	”
—Simplicius, January 26, 2025.

“	It’s not normal for the world to simply have a unipolar power – that was an anomaly. It was a product of the end of the Cold War, but eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multipolar world, multi-great powers in different parts of the planet.	”
—Secretary of State Marco Rubio, January 30, 2025.

“	The United States has initiated a change that puts the whole Western world's system of arguments, value system, and way of thinking on a new track...This process is progressing much faster than many people thought...We call this the Trump Tornado.	”
—Victor Orban, February 14, 2025.

A European perspective.

“	I think we are in a new era where, by and large, international relations aren't going to be determined by rules and multilateral institutions. They're going to be determined by strongmen and deals. I think of the Yalta Treaty at the end of 1945 where three strong men as they were then, on behalf of the big countries, the strong countries, decided the fate of small countries. I think that's Donald Trump's mindset. It's certainly Putin's mindset. It's Xi Jinping's mindset. It's not Europe's mindset. That's the world we're going into for a whole set of reasons, and I don't think we're going back to the one we had before...the one we had before was based on the unipolar moment, where America had both the means and the will to assert itself across the world. It created what we call globalization, the international security structure. It's now a significantly smaller, relative player, relative to others than it was. And of course it's will to be that person has diminished. So it still remains a prodigious country - underestimate America at your peril. But its ability to make the rules across the world, that's not there now.	”
—Alex Younger, former MI6 chief, February 21, 2025.

“	The world is not returning to the old Cold War dynamic. Trump's attempts to redefine Western alliances are part of a broader, chaotic transformation of global politics. China, the European Union, and Russia all face internal and external pressures that will shape the coming decade. The United States, despite Trump's ambitions, cannot reshape the world alone.	”
—Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the Russian Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, February 26, 2025.

“	A direct blow to the heart of democracy worldwide!...I have one message left!...If democracy in Romania falls, the entire democratic world will fall!...This is just the beginning...It's that simple!...Europe is now a dictatorship; Romania is under tyranny!	”
—Calin Georgescu, March 9, 2025.

“	If we had made the deal in April of 2022 in the Istanbul deal, Ukraine would have had a far, far better deal than they're going to get now.	”
—Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, March 16, 2025.

“	Sanctions and restrictions are the reality of the existing new stage of development that the entire world, the entire global economy, has entered. The global competitive struggle has intensified, assuming increasingly sophisticated and uncompromising forms. Thus, literally before our eyes, a new spiral of economic rivalry is unfolding, and under these conditions, it is almost embarrassing to recall the norms and rules of the World Trade Organization, once zealously promoted by the West. Once… When? When these rules advantaged them… As soon as they became disadvantageous, everything began to change. And all these negotiations stalled. And, in fact, no one needs them anymore. This is evident, and I have emphasised it repeatedly: a return to pre-existing conditions is impossible. We should not anticipate fully unfettered trade, payments, or capital flows, nor rely on Western mechanisms to safeguard investor and entrepreneur rights.	”
—Vladimir Putin, March 18, 2025.

“	The globalists like [Jeffrey] Goldberg and his compatriots have gotten almost everything wrong about US foreign policy over the past 30 years.	”
—Laura Ingraham, March 26, 2025.

“	NATO? What’s that? If you were to ask in Washington these days, you shouldn’t be surprised to hear that it’s actually the North American Treaty Organization or even the North American Trump Organization. Certainly, many in Europe who, not so very long ago, imagined the United States as their prime protector and benefactor are now facing a distinctly new world.	”
—John Feffer, March 30, 2025.

“	We recognize the responsibility of Moscow and Beijing to maintain close coordination in the international arena...The majority of countries perceive this as perhaps the most significant stabilizing factor during these challenging times in global politics.	”
—Sergei Lavrov, April 1, 2025.

“	The world as we knew it is gone.	”
—Keir Starmer, April 5, 2025.

“	We see that the world is now being restructured...The world order we knew after the Second World War is now dead...The leaders of the new world order will be Russia, the United States and China.	”
—Javier Milei, Aoril 14, 2025.

“	The era of naïve globalization is over.	”
—Donald Tusk, April 16, 2025.

“	The West as we knew it no longer exists...The world has become a globe also geopolitically, and today our networks of friendship span the globe, as you can see in the debate about tariffs.	”
—Ursula von der Leyen, April 17, 2025.

“	From now on I say openly and with pride – the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia considers Iran a friend, brother, and honorable neighbor.	”
—Alfredo Jalife-Rahme , Saudi Minister of Defense, April 17, 2017.

External links

• FULL TEXT OF DRAFT UKRAINE-RUSSIA TREATY FROM APRIL 2022 REVEALED.
• Judging Freedom: Discussing Vladimir Putin’s latest moves on a 3-dimensional chessboard, Gilbert Doctorow on Judge Napolitano, June 20, 2024.

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