| | On July 7, 2022 President Putin met with a group of Russian State Duma parliamentarians to brief them on the Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine. In the course of the briefing, Putin noted: | | On July 7, 2022 President Putin met with a group of Russian State Duma parliamentarians to brief them on the Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine. In the course of the briefing, Putin noted: |
| − | {{quotebox-float|"They [the West] should have understood that they have already lost from the very beginning of our [[special military operation]], because its beginning means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the World Order in the American way. This is the beginning of the transition from [[liberal]]-[[globalist]] American egocentrism to a truly multipolar world – a world based not on selfish rules invented by someone for themselves, behind which there is nothing but the desire for hegemony, not on hypocritical double-standards, but on international law, on the true [[sovereignty]] of peoples and [[civilization]]s, on their will to live their historical destiny, their [[values]] and [[tradition]]s and build cooperation on the basis of [[democracy]], [[justice]] and [[equality]]. And we must understand that this process can no longer be stopped.”<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/dysfunction.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02a30d436d48200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a30d436d48200b Dysfunction] </ref>}} | + | {{quotebox-float|"They [the West] should have understood that they have already lost from the very beginning of our [[special military operation]], because its beginning means the beginning of a radical breakdown of the World Order in the American way. This is the beginning of the transition from [[liberal]]-[[globalist]] American [[ego]]centrism to a truly multipolar world – a world based not on selfish rules invented by someone for themselves, behind which there is nothing but the desire for hegemony, not on [[hypocrisy|hypocritical]] [[double standard]]s, but on [[international law]], on the true [[sovereignty]] of peoples and [[civilization]]s, on their will to live their historical destiny, their [[values]] and [[tradition]]s and build cooperation on the basis of [[democracy]], [[justice]] and [[equality]]. And we must understand that this process can no longer be stopped.”<ref>[https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/dysfunction.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02a30d436d48200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02a30d436d48200b Dysfunction] </ref>}} |