Monday, June 14, 2021

The Western World Viewed From the East

By Vladimir Putin

We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilisation. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual. They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.

The excesses of political correctness have reached the point where people are seriously talking about registering political parties whose aim is to promote paedophilia. People in many European countries are embarrassed or afraid to talk about their religious affiliations. Holidays are abolished or even called something different; their essence is hidden away, as is their moral foundation. And people are aggressively trying to export this model all over the world. I am convinced that this opens a direct path to degradation and primitivism, resulting in a profound demographic and moral crisis.

What else but the loss of the ability to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony of the moral crisis facing a human society? Today almost all developed nations are no longer able to reproduce themselves, even with the help of migration. Without the values embedded in Christianity and other world religions, without the standards of morality that have taken shape over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. We consider it natural and right to defend these values. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.

At the same time we see attempts to somehow revive a standardised model of a unipolar world and to blur the institutions of international law and national sovereignty. Such a unipolar, standardised world does not require sovereign states; it requires vassals. In a historical sense this amounts to a rejection of one’s own identity, of the God-given diversity of the world.

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The West as seen by China:

The Last G7: A cartoon parody of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper featured in an article by the Communist Party mouthpiece, The Global Times, depicts the US, UK, Italy, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, India and Australia as various animals. Source

2 comments:

  1. The average Russian must be pleased with their leader -- he represents them well, he is a serious and calculating man, and a credit to his hemisphere.

    All the same I'd be happier if his cheering section in the US, and other Western nations, would be a little more realistic. While European leaders are often absurd and American leaders have been buffoons since the century started, it might be better if we all paused and considered how much worse it might be if we had charismatic leaders that really mean what they say about global warming, open borders, and all that.

    Seems like our leaders pay lip service to all the current causes but stay more or less pragmatic. Russians are lucky that their guy don't have to play world savior. They don't want that and they are right.

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  2. "it might be better if we all paused and considered how much worse it might be if we had charismatic leaders that really mean what they say about global warming, open borders, and all that."

    Yes, seeing Biden do one-eighties on arms for Ukraine, Nord Stream, the China virus, and open borders, makes clear that a doddering relic with knee-jerk reactions based on a life-time's experience may be preferable to a dynamic ideologue.

    BLM and woke professors should watch their backs.

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