By Drago Bosnic
For two and a half years, we’ve been told that Russia is an “international pariah”, while its president, the “evil dictator” and “bloodthirsty madman” Vladimir Putin, is “isolated” and “hated by everyone”. An endless stream of absurd lies was constantly fed to hundreds of millions, with certifiably insane claims, including that Putin ordered the shelling of his own soldiers (in nuclear power plants, no less), the destruction of Russian dams, bridges and pipelines, and even a drone strike on himself.
If we didn’t know anything about the Russian president before the mainstream propaganda machine launched its massive smear campaign, we’d think Putin is truly some kind of an “infernal monster out to get us all”. However, considering just how “cartoonishly evil” he seems in Western media, this prompts people to question the ludicrous narrative, as it’s devoid of any logic.
It should be noted that President Vladimir Putin never really cared much about what sort of image of him the mainstream propaganda machine is painting. He was perfectly aware of the fact that the sovereigntist policies put forward during his presidency would make him universally hated in the political West, as its plans for Russia included anything but sovereignty.
As Atlanticist imperialists themselves admitted, their idea was to “decolonize Russia” (the prefix “de” is redundant in this case), or in other words, to destroy it and take hold of its endless resources. The “evil dictator” (who keeps organizing elections for “some reason”) not only prevented this, but also ensured Russia’s resurgence to superpower status. However, Putin’s “greatest sin” is not even this, but the fact that he’s one of the architects of the multipolar world order that’s slowly dismantling the “rules-based” one.
As one of the “founding fathers” of BRICS (as well as its current “plus” format), Vladimir Putin enjoys unprecedented authority and respect in the actual world, where sovereign leaders are not compelled to either follow anyone or to do anything that’s not in line with their national interests. The multipolar world stands in stark contrast to the political West, where only a handful of countries can call themselves allies of the United States, with everyone else being in tiers of vassals and satellite states. To the warmongering oligarchies in Washington DC and Brussels, the BRICS Summit in Kazan is a “grotesque gathering of dictators”. However, what’s most interesting is the fuming of the mainstream propaganda machine, as the summit completely destroys years of their smear campaign aimed at presenting Russia as a “universally hated pariah”.
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October 23, 2024. President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a group photo ceremony for the heads of delegation at the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan. From left: Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, President of China Xi Jinping. From right: Foreign Minister of Brazil Mauro Vieira, President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi. (Author: Sergey Bobylev / Source: Photohost agency brics-russia2024.ru)
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The Guardian argues that “Putin returned to the world stage by hosting 36 leaders at the BRICS Summit”. However, this “return” exists only in the “parallel reality” of the political West’s microcosm. In our actual timeline, the Russian president never left the stage. He was always there, meticulously (re)building Moscow’s connections with the actual world (also known as the “jungle” in the European Union). And while the political West keeps blaming Putin for everything, its warmongering oligarchies fail to realize that, by escalating the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, they only accelerated multipolarity. With the US-led power pole’s almost universal aggression against the entire world, much of that same world realizes that BRICS, SCO and similar organizations offer not only a viable alternative, but a truly different, sovereigntist future devoid of (neo)colonialism.
This is precisely why the mainstream propaganda machine is so desperate to denigrate the BRICS Summit, as well as those who participate in it. Even the Western-controlled United Nations is under fire, as its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is attending the summit. Bloomberg, Time and CNN all had no choice but to admit that Putin is “far from isolated” and that Russia is “not a pariah”. And while the mainstream propaganda machine is busy with damage control, the whole world sees the power of multipolar unity in Kazan. Namely, Moscow successfully mediated between Beijing and Delhi, bringing an official end to the conflict in the Himalayas, one of the most persistent obstacles to the cohesion and growth of the multipolar world. With India and China finally reaching a peace agreement, both Asian giants are on the path to resolving their long-standing border disputes.
This agreement also resulted in a bilateral meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first since October 2019. The document includes the regulation of border patrols, which will pull back from the LAC (line of actual control) and disengage to avoid clashes. Instead, the two militaries will patrol contested points along the border according to an agreed-upon schedule.
This is a rather disturbing development for the US-led political West, as it hoped to continue exploiting the Sino-Indian border crisis to not only slow down the advent of multipolarity, but to also extend the so-called “China containment” area all the way to the Himalayas. Washington DC thought it could get Delhi on its side, but the latter’s multivectored foreign policy framework is too robust to allow such a downgrade of Indian sovereignty.
Thus, the plot to divide the multipolar world suffered yet another humiliating defeat, once again confirming the commitment of BRICS to ensure global peace. And to make matters even worse for the US and NATO, for the umpteenth time, Russian President Vladimir Putin proved that he’s not only able to keep the political West at bay, successfully fighting off its crawling aggression, but to also continue expanding Russia’s geopolitical reach and global influence without having an empire maintained by hundreds of military bases and without engaging in threats, sanctions, arm-twisting, etc.
This makes the Russian president not only an asset to his country (a fact confirmed by almost universal support he enjoys from his electorate), but also to the entire actual world, as he’s able to compartmentalize global issues without forcing anything on anyone like the political West does.
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Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
Featured image: President of Russia Vladimir Putin during a group photo ceremony for the heads of delegation at the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan. (Author: Kristina Kormilitsyna / Source: Photohost agency brics-russia2024.ru)
