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{{Cquote|''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.<ref>[https://rg.ru/2022/09/06/sovbez-rf-ssha-pytaiutsia-vydavit-rossiiu-iz-vseh-mezhdunarodnyh-antiterroristicheskih-formatov.html Security Council of the Russian Federation: The United States is trying to squeeze Russia out of all international anti-terrorist formats], ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'', September 9, 2022. rg.ru</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|''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.<ref>[https://rg.ru/2022/09/06/sovbez-rf-ssha-pytaiutsia-vydavit-rossiiu-iz-vseh-mezhdunarodnyh-antiterroristicheskih-formatov.html Security Council of the Russian Federation: The United States is trying to squeeze Russia out of all international anti-terrorist formats], ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'', September 9, 2022. rg.ru</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|''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.<ref>[https://www.rt.com/news/594819-russian-envoy-us-destroyed-counterterrorism-cooperation/ US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation – Moscow], ''[[RT]]'', March 24, 2024. rt.com</ref>}}
 
{{Cquote|''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.<ref>[https://www.rt.com/news/594819-russian-envoy-us-destroyed-counterterrorism-cooperation/ US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation – Moscow], ''[[RT]]'', March 24, 2024. rt.com</ref>}}
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This essay is an original work by RobSmith. Please comment only on the talk page.
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'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.
“ 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.[1]

“ 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.[2]

“ 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[3]

“ 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.[4]

“ 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.[5]

“ 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.[6]

“ 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 19, 2023.[7]

“ 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[8]

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.[9][10]
“ The era of Western domination has ended and a new world order is emerging. ”

—Victor Orban, March 4, 2024.[11]

“ 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.[12] www.ukrinform.net

“ The War in Ukraine has become a turning point in the history of civilization. ”

—Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, September 11, 2023[13]

“ 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. [1]

“ 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, 2023.[14]

“ 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.[15]

“ 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[16]

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 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.

Dmitri Yarosh, former head of the Pravy Sektor standing before the neo-Nazi black and red "Blood and Soil" flag.
“ 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. [2]

“ Just don’t invade Russia. It’s never a good idea. ”

—Elon Musk, January 4, 2024.[17]


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

The Atlantic press[18] 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.[19]

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”.[20]

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,[21] "a nuclear war is unwinnable and must never be fought" when Biden issued an updated version of the National Defense Strategy (NDS).[22]

On March 29, 2022, Tass reported[23] 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.[24]

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."[25]
“ 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[26]

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 Luhansk Peoples Republic, and Crimea off the table, as a gesture of good faith President Putin ordered the withdrawal of troops surrounding Kiev.[27] 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.[28]

Boris Johnson sabotaged a peace agreement between Putin and Zelensky in April 2022. Tens of thousands of people were needlessly killed in coming months.

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.[29]

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.[30] 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".[31]

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.[32]

President Vladimir Putin shows African leaders initialed copies of the draft treaty that was quashed by Biden and the UK.[33] The US bribed Zelensky with $100 billion in "aid" in early April 2022 not to make peace with Russia.
“ 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[34]

“ 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 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[35]

“ 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.

“ 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[36]

“ 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[37]

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.
“ 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[38]

“ 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 [3]

“ 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. [4]

“ 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[39]

“ 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

U.S. Dollar share of global reserve currencies since passage of the Magnitsky Act.[40]
“ 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.[41]

“ 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.[42]

“ 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.[43]

“ 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 [5]

“ 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 [6]

“ 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 [7]

“ 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]

“ 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. [9]

“ 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. [10]

“ 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 [11]

“ 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 Ukraine war signaled the end of Western hegemony. ”

—David Hearst, July 27, 2023 [12]

“ 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 [13]

“ 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 18, 2023[44]

“ 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[45]

“ 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[46]

“ 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.[47]

“ 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.[48]

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.[49]

“ A Russian victory will cause other nations to rethink their relations with Washington. ”

—Jake Sullivan, January 20, 2024.[50]

“ 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.[51]

“ 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.[52]

“ 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.[53]

“ 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.[54]

“ The political/geopolitical consequences of the West-promoted Ukrainian debacle will be immense. ”

—Aearnur’s Newsletter, February 29, 2024.[55]

“ 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.[56]

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“ 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.[57]

“ 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.[58]

References

  1. ↑ Thomas Friedman: What is happening in Ukraine is the real World War I, Teller Report, 4/4/2022. tellerreport.com
  2. ↑ Ukraine Is Just the Beginning. The Geopolitical Consequences of the Special Operation Will Change the Entire View of the World, Konstantin Sivkov, Translated and Foreword by Lt. Col. Charles K. Bartles, U.S. Army Reserve. May 2022. www.armyupress.army.mil
  3. ↑ John Mearsheimer: Ukraine war is a long-term danger, The Grayzone, Jul 30, 2023. YouTube
  4. ↑ Viscount Bernard Law Montgomery's Speech In the House of Lords, api.parliament.uk. May 30, 1962.
  5. ↑ European leaders brace for ‘some kind of a new cold war’ with Russia, By PAUL MCLEARY, Politico, 12/21/2023.
  6. ↑ Most dangerous and important decade since WWII lies ahead, Putin says, 27 OCT 2022. TASS. tass.com
  7. ↑ WaPo: Opinion Joe Biden: The U.S. won’t back down from the challenge of Putin and Hamas, By Joe Biden, November 18, 2023.
  8. ↑ Secretary Blinken's speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, U.S. Department of State, Sep 13, 2023. YouTube.
  9. ↑ Jews, Poles, & Russians Have United To Condemn Canada For Glorifying A Literal Nazi, ANDREW KORYBKO, SEP 25, 2023.
  10. ↑ From Applauding Nazis To Backing An Actual Genocide In Under A Month, CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, OCT 19, 2023.
  11. ↑ No More Hegemony of the West, a New World Order is Emerging, Warns Viktor Orbán, MTI-Hungary, March 6, 2024. hungarytoday.hu
  12. ↑ Tusk: Time of peace in EU is over, we live in pre-war times, Ukrinform, March 10, 2924.
  13. ↑ The War in Ukraine Has Become a Turning Point in the History of Civilization – Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, 11 SEPTEMBER, 2023. https://ucu.edu.ua
  14. ↑ Oleksiy Arestovych: Zelenskyy’s challenger, Unherd, January 15, 2024. unherd.com
  15. ↑ Leading Russian foreign policy expert expresses 3rd World War is underway, 11/1/2023. menafn.com
  16. ↑ JPMorgan Chase & Co. New Release, October 13, 2023
  17. ↑ Elon Musk, January 4, 2024. twitter.com
  18. ↑ "Atlantic press" is a French idiom for English language Angelo-American media outlets.
  19. ↑ Russia declares war on the Straussians, by Thierry Meyssan, VOLTAIRE NETWORK | PARIS (FRANCE) | 5 MARCH 2022.
  20. ↑ US-Led Drive to Isolate Russia and China Is Falling Short, By Alan Crawford, Jenni Marsh, and Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg News, August 5, 2022.
  21. ↑ The Reagan-Gorbachev Statement: Background, European Leadership Network, 17 November 2021.
  22. ↑ Biden Policy Allows First Use of Nuclear Weapons, Arms Control Association, April 2022.
  23. ↑ Kiev’s recognition of modern territorial realities on talks agenda — Foreign Ministry The Russian-Ukrainian negotiations began on February 28, March 29, 2022.
  24. ↑ The only ones who could settle the war against Ukraine are the Americans.
  25. ↑ Interview with Gerhard Schröder: How the peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia failed, Tomasz Kurianowicz and Moritz Eichhorn, Berliner Zeitung, 22.10.2023.
  26. ↑ KanekoaTheGreat, Oct 19, 2023. Original source: Prof. Mearsheimer interview with Judge Napolitano, October 12, 2023. YouTube.
  27. ↑ The Failed Ukrainian Peace Deal, By Abdul Rahman, Consortium News, June 22, 2023.
  28. ↑ Western Allies Led By UK's Johnson Sabotaged Tentative Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal... In April, Tyler Durden, AUG 31, 2022.
  29. ↑ Poland announced the deployment of US nuclear weapons in the country, Yuette Agude, Apr 5, 2022. YouTube. "Poland announced preparations for the deployment of US nuclear weapons on its territory. American nuclear weapons will be deployed on the territory of Poland. According to the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, agreements have now been fully reached allowing Washington to relocate its nuclear arsenals to the country in any required quantity. "Poland is open to the deployment of US nuclear weapons," says Jarosław Kaczynski, leader of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. In an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, the influential politician said that this "clearly strengthens the containment of Moscow." As far as we know, the Americans have no plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Poland, but according to Kaczynski, this could quickly change under the influence of Russia's special operation (ed.) in Ukraine. According to him, it would be a logical step to have nuclear weapons on the eastern border of the NATO zone.", according to the Teller Report. The deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of Poland could lead to an extremely serious escalation between NATO and Russia, since if even tactical nuclear weapons appeared in Poland, a very serious threat would appear both for the Kaliningrad region and for neighboring Belarus, which is not only a member of the Union State, but and a member of the CSTO. The Russian side has not yet responded to Poland's calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in the country."
  30. ↑ The Leaders of France, Germany, and Italy Favor Negotiations to End Ukraine War, by Dave DeCamp, May 16, 2022. antiwar.com
  31. ↑ Andromeda11711 tweet, Jun 18, 2023:💥 "I know for a fact that the war could have been stopped back in March." Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko on the Istanbul peace treaty: "A man from Zelensky's inner circle told me: 'We just got rid of the Russians in March. He bragged about it... Friends, I know them all personally. They are ruled by sociopaths. They don't understand the consequences. Yesterday, Putin gave the Kiev regime a real knockout blow. Imagine Zelensky beating his chest and assuring the Ukrainians that there are no agreements with Russia. That's exactly why the Bucha fake was staged: the Kiev regime needed to show that the Russians hadn't left on their own, but that the Kiev region had supposedly been liberated by the Ukrainian military. The provocation in Bucha was necessary to falsify the reason for the rejection of the agreements by making a fuss in the Western media. Britain, China, the USA, Turkey, France and Belarus were listed as security guarantors for Ukraine in the Istanbul Treaty, which Ukraine did not want to fulfil. Of course, Zelensky was forbidden by Washington and London to comply, but in this situation it does not matter, because it was Ukraine that violated the treaty. Yesterday's statement by Vladimir Putin completely destroys the myth of Ukraine's independence in decision-making and clearly shows the people of Ukraine what Zelensky got them into: he had an opportunity to avoid a disaster. There would have been no deaths or destruction. A viable Ukrainian economy would have been preserved. No one would have interfered with Ukraine's "independence"! But it was the Kiev regime that dragged Ukraine into a major war, and it can no longer stop what is happening. https://t.me/ukraine_watch/4397
  32. ↑ IN UKRAINE THE WESTERN POWERS HAVE CREATED A POISONOUS WEB OF LIES, AEARNUR, NOV 11, 2023. aearnur.substack.com
  33. ↑ Putin and the African Leaders - The Treaty of Istanbul, Jun 18, 2023. YouTube.
  34. ↑ WESTERN LEADERS CONTINUE TO TURN THE HANDLE OF THE UKRAINIAN MEATGRINDER, AEARNUR, SEP 16, 2023. aearnur.substack.com
  35. ↑ Rewriting the rules of globalization, By GAVIN BADE, Politico, 09/22/2023
  36. ↑ Viktor Orbán- "Everybody Knows Ukraine Cannot Win", Good Lawgic, Streamed live on Aug 30, 2023. YouTube
  37. ↑ Ukraine Sitrep - Reality Defeats The War Narrative, Moon of Alabama, July 18, 2023. moonofalabama.org
  38. ↑ Ukraine’s slow counteroffensive is a wake-up call for the West, By Maksym Skrypchenko, Atlantic Council ,August 7, 2023. atlanticcouncil.org
  39. ↑ Entangled in a Web of Deceit, interview with Larry C. Johnson, Dialogue works, Sep 10, 2023. YouTube
  40. ↑ Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency and USD Exchange Rates: Long, Slow, Uneven Decline Continues, January 2, 2024, By Wolf Richter, editor at Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street. www.nakedcapitalism.com
  41. ↑ In for a Pound, WILLIAM SCHRYVER, DEC 23, 2023. Originally published December 23, 2022.
  42. ↑ Empty Quiver, WILLIAM SCHRYVER, DEC 21, 2023.
  43. ↑ How Obama And Biden’s America-Last Ethos Demoted The U.S. From World Leader To Loser, SHAWN FLEETWOOD, The Federalist, NOVEMBER 14, 2023. thefederalist.com
  44. ↑ Rush by west to back Israel erodes developing countries’ support for Ukraine, Henry Foy, Financial Times, OCTOBER 17 2023. ft.com
  45. ↑ Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Reception, OCTOBER 20, 2023. www.whitehouse.gov
  46. ↑ Itapirkanmaa2, October 29, 2023, YouTube
  47. ↑ Sergei Ryabkov: Diplomatic relations with the United States are not a totem to be worshipped, 22 December 2023. www.interfax.ru
  48. ↑ BRICS Overtaking G7 In Economic Might, 13/11/2023.
  49. ↑ House Homeland Chair Green to warn US is at 'one of the most dangerous times' in history during threat hearing, By Brooke Singman , Adam Shaw, Fox News, November 15, 2023. foxnews.com
  50. ↑ 'Incredibly stark': Biden aides give lawmakers a grim assessment of Ukraine without more aid, By Monica Alba and Julie Tsirkin, NBC News, Jan. 20, 2024. nbcnews.com
  51. ↑ Why We're Interviewing Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson, Feb 6, 2024. YouTube.
  52. ↑ Ukraine’s Nazi foreign minister says ‘era of peace’ in Europe is over, Burç Eruygur, Giovanni Legorano, posted by INTEL-DROP, February 18, 2024. www.theinteldrop.org
  53. ↑ Why America Can’t Have It All, By Stephen Wertheim, February 14, 2024. foreignaffairs.com.
  54. ↑ Munich dispatch: Gaza 'wind blowing against the West', MARC MARTORELL JUNYENT, Responsible Statecraft, FEB 18, 2024. responsiblestatecraft.org
  55. ↑ UKRAINE: 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. Aearnur’s Newsletter, Feb 28, 2024.
  56. ↑ This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat, book review of Emmanuel Todd's La Défaite de L’Occident (The Defeat of the West), NYT, March 9, 2024.
  57. ↑ Security Council of the Russian Federation: The United States is trying to squeeze Russia out of all international anti-terrorist formats, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, September 9, 2022. rg.ru
  58. ↑ US destroyed anti-terrorism cooperation – Moscow, RT, March 24, 2024. rt.com

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