a speech from President Putin<\/a>\u00a0that outlined the reasons behind Russia\u2019s current struggles, the character and identify of its foes and, more importantly, laid the groundwork for Russia\u2019s next level of confrontation with the West beyond the ongoing military conflict in Ukraine. \u00a0In his speech, Putin clearly defined the present fight as a worldwide battle in which Russia plays a leading role against the Deep State that ultimately runs the West and which uses all available tools – including military, economic, cultural, and social \u2013 in its attempt to preserve unipolar world domination.<\/p>\nPutin\u2019s words were directed to three distinctive audiences: the collective West, the Global South and Russia. He went back to Middle Ages history to remind the origins and impact of Western resource exploitation and colonialism in the Americas, Asia and Africa through imperialistic wars, racism, and slavery. \u00a0He touched upon the military exploits of the 20th\u00a0century led primarily by the US and its allies and its impact in Germany and Japan at the end of the Second World War, Korea in the 1950s, Vietnam in the 1960-70s and its latest failed adventures in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. He also highlighted the dire days of Russia during the 1990s and the Western powers\u2019 attempts to turn it into a dismembered and passive cheap natural resources outlet. Putin\u2019s message to Russians had nationalistic and religious tones, touching on the defence of traditional family values as a call to arms against the threat caused by dwindling population growth. He also named US monetary printing as one of the key tools used by the Western establishment to achieve its self-preservation and supremacy goals, reminding that paper doesn\u2019t feed nor warms human beings.<\/p>\n
It would be tempting to see this speech narrowly as just another manifestation of Russia\u2019s position in the big geopolitical battles, but what Putin has done is setting international rivalry in deep historical and cultural terms which have an undoubted appeal across the globe. Critics will see Putin\u2019s benign characterization of Russia as a cynical ploy that hides the country\u2019s role, through its commanding post in the Soviet Union, in the subjugation of Eastern European countries after World War II, but nevertheless the Global South will see things differently.<\/p>\n
Putin\u2019s scathing attack against the West is a multi-headed weapon as it rallied to the conservative segments of a population dismayed by globalism imposing a deeply disturbing agenda that goes against traditional views on family, marriage and sex, but it also has leftist tones, as his criticism also goes against the same globalism that is worsening wealth disparity, and even a libertarian appeal as he referred to the imposition of states of emergency, media control and sanctions on other societies as examples of Western made totalitarianism. Putin\u2019s primary target was the Anglo-Saxon establishment, mainly the US and Great Britain, and he attempted to build a wedge within the West as he focused on sovereignty, a cry with resonance in countries like Hungary and Italy, and on traditional anti-war sentiments in Germany and Japan by remembering the horrors of the World War II bombings in Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.<\/p>\n
An immediate consequence of Putin\u2019s rhetorical escalation will be increased US pressure on the Global South to follow anti-Russian sanctions. \u00a0To successfully counter this menace, and as Russia needs its continuous support, it will have to combine ideology with pragmatic and tangible support in terms of access to critical energy and food resources to the poorer countries. The recent abstentions of China, India and Brazil on a UN Security Council\u00a0resolution calling for condemnation of the Ukraine referenda no doubt were driven by these countries\u2019 expectations on Russia\u2019s future actions.<\/p>\n
Following the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and as it gradually abandoned socialism, Russia lost the powerful ideological appeal that it had during decades in the Global South and in the West\u2019s anti-establishment segments. \u00a0The most remarkable aspect of Putin\u2019s recent speech is bringing back ideological confrontation into the forefront. This new battle looks to present the West\u2019s defence of democracy, freedom, and sovereignty as hollow and hypocritical. A combined message of anti-colonialism and conservatism is a powerful tool but Putin\u2019s indirect and subtle appeal to people power as the only way to finally counter the Deep State is even stronger. Putin\u2019s identification of the Deep State as humanity\u2019s foe may be his ultimate ideological legacy, something avoidable if the\u00a0US would have resigned itself to be just a normal country and to focus primarily on its people\u2019s prosperity.<\/p>\n
Oscar Silva-Valladares is a former investment banker that has lived and worked in North and Latin America, Western & Eastern Europe, Saudi Arabia, Japan, the Philippines and Western Africa. He currently chairs Davos International Advisory, an advisory firm focused on strategic consulting across emerging markets.<\/em><\/p>\n
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