How Putin turned the course of world history

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Epigraph: "We are not going to fight with anyone, we are trying to create conditions so that no one would try to fight with us!" (V.V. Putin)

In 1989, the American philosopher and political scientist of Japanese origin Francis Fukuyama published his famous essay "The End of History?" In The National Interest magazine, which served as the basis for the book of the same name, published three years later. In this essay, he proclaimed the triumph of the liberal world order and left-liberal democracy. The Soviet Union collapsed two years later. The communist ideology lost its war to the liberal one. Did Fukuyama foresee this? Perhaps yes. But I would not discard in this whole story, the end of which we are now seeing, and the human (personal) factor. If Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov had not suddenly passed away in 1984, and he was not replaced at first by the amorphous seriously ill Chernenko, who after his death in 1985 at the post of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was replaced by the "active" Gorbachev, maybe we would now live with communism, at least in the Chinese version. The role of personality in history sometimes matters much more than we think.



My kingdom and a horse for boots


In May 1992, during the visit of ex-President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to the Californian ranch of ex-President of the United States Ronald Reagan, Gorbachev presented his former American colleague with a rare (1882) edition of Russian proverbs and sayings, in return he received a cowboy hat for $ 60 and boots with a beveled heel. Exactly such cowboy boots only with Russian symbols (with a tricolor on the bootleg) received a few months earlier during his first visit to the United States and the new Russian President Boris Yeltsin from his colleague, the then acting US President George W. Bush. Thus, Bush congratulated the first president of the Russian Federation on his birthday (Yeltsin was lucky to meet him on American soil, he turned 1 on February 61).

Such was the price paid by the white gentlemen for the collapse of the USSR and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The fact that boots with a beveled heel from the hands of the former president of America went to the famous henpecked Gorbachev adds a special piquancy to all this. By the way, Gorby again came to the Californian ranch of a little-known supporting actor who played his best role as the president of America, accompanied by his precious wife, who also did not leave there without gifts - from Reagan's wife Nancy Raisa Maksimovna received a collection of fashion magazines as a gift. The persons accompanying the Gorbachev couple did not receive anything, which, in fact, is correct - what did they have to do with the collapse of the USSR?

On May 4, 1626, the North American Indians sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch colonists for buttons, beads and other nonsense for a total of $ 24. This deal was considered the most disadvantageous in the history of mankind until December 11, 2013, when US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland acquired the territory of Ukraine from the natives in exchange for a bag of cookies, rolls and bread. Official Washington became the beneficiary (or, scientifically, the beneficiary) of that transaction. How he disposed of this acquisition, we were able to observe in the next 7 years.

The role of personality in history


Agree, little has changed in the world over the past 400 years. White gentlemen still consider us natives, and for cookies and cowboy boots they buy up our wealth and the sovereign right to dispose of them. Everything changed only in 1999 with the arrival of a seemingly insignificant former KGB lieutenant colonel in the building on Staraya Square 2/14. He quietly turned the course of history abruptly. Its end, predicted by Fukuyama in 1989, and the total victory of left liberal pseudo-democratic ideas over totalitarian communist ideas 30 years later ended in a revenge of the latter, unexpected for the West. In 2021, official Washington unexpectedly discovered that the time allotted to him by history and Fukuyama had expired, and at 12 o'clock in the morning the carriage again turned into a pumpkin, and the unipolar world again turned into a multipolar one, without even asking permission from Washington.

For 30 years, the West has weakened due to the absence of power competition, while Russia and China have restored their power and economic possibilities, and this is an objective scientifically proven fact. Now Beijing and Moscow dictate their will to Washington, and the latter, torn by internal contradictions, is making desperate attempts to rally the "free" world that remains under its boot in its confrontation with the notorious communist threat, while trampling at home all the vaunted democratic freedoms (the right to vote and the right of free choice). At the same time, all the satellites and henpecked Washington did not even notice the fact that the "communist threat" was replaced by a slight movement of the hegemon's hand by the "Chinese" and "Russian" ones, and the ideological confrontation turned into a phase of confrontation between life philosophies and spiritual values.

After 30 years of total domination, the decrepit hegemon suddenly discovered a sad fact for himself - the time of a universal arbiter who personally established the rules of the game and judged who was right and who was wrong had expired. The world, having unfolded at a higher turn of the spiral, returns to square one to a multipolar order with several poles of power. The forceful competition of several great powers is returning, for which it is not so much peace as such that is important, but the sovereign right to defend their interests and their civilizational values. In fact, peace, as the absence of war, is not an absolute value for them; they may even sacrifice it when it comes to their sovereignty and spiritual bonds. As Vladimir Putin said: "Why do we need such a world in which there will be no Russia?"

At the same time, the Russian Federation, through the mouth of its leader, negotiates not about peace with the collective West, but about the rules of war. The Kremlin, which has had fighting without rules for the past 30 years, proposes to replace it with fighting according to the rules, which will be established not by the hegemon alone in the presence of his power, but by a group of countries challenging this right, in the fact that they have a parity counterpower. The Kremlin proposes to establish a collective agreement on controlled confrontation as a framework for this. We are no longer talking about the peaceful coexistence of two nuclear superpowers, but about a controlled force confrontation, or, say in other words, about the forceful coexistence of a number of such states that can not stand up to the price (and their list is not limited only to the United States, the Russian Federation and the PRC), a pledge a world in which there will be no crime by the enemy of certain previously agreed red lines. At the same time, Putin immediately clearly marks the banks and establishes red lines that are unacceptable for Russia, after which death. And death is for everyone! Who wants to be convinced of this - welcome to hell. Putin proposes to consider the crime of the agreed red lines an act of aggression, and then, as they say, see paragraph 1. I am quoting the original source, point 1:

We are not afraid of anything at all! .. The aggressor must know that retribution is inevitable, he will be destroyed anyway! .. We, as victims of aggression, will go to heaven, and they will simply die, because they will not even have time to repent! Putin).

At the same time, it is no longer the war as such, but the crime of the red line, which may not consist in the conduct of direct direct hostilities against the country that designated these red lines, is considered a casus belli. All this was discussed at the recent summit of the top officials of the United States and the Russian Federation in Geneva. Biden took six months to think. We wait. Until the Biden-Zelensky meetings and what will follow. No one harbors any special illusions, but for the next six months, world peace is guaranteed.

So don't believe after that in the role of personality in history. Could this have been possible if Yeltsin in 1999 had not said his famous: “I'm tired! I'm leaving! ”I'm not sure. More precisely, I am sure that if a different person came to the office on Staraya Square then in 1999, it is not a fact that Russia would not repeat the current experience of Ukraine, which is in danger of disappearing soon from political world maps.

It is significant in this story that Putin and Fukuyama are practically the same age, both were born in 1952 with an interval of 20 days (Putin on October 7, and Fukuyama on October 27). And Putin, as the elder, is rewriting the history written by the younger.
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  1. +1
    25 June 2021 07: 11
    "Die Geschichte kennt kein Wenn". "History does not know the word if" - Karl Hampe.
  2. +1
    25 June 2021 08: 30
    Raika's boots should have been given, and not this smoldering - I would have kicked him more often !!!
  3. +4
    25 June 2021 08: 33
    The elections are approaching, halos are drawn ...
    1. -2
      25 June 2021 20: 09
      and only your finger is stuck in the phone ... you are an old man, you know this anecdote ...
      For those who don’t know, I’ll tell you: In the Soviet era, disk, not push-button telephones, a person calls the gas service 04 to call an ambulance (and the ambulance was 03), they say to him: “Why are you calling us? Call 03! ". He: "I can't - my finger is stuck in the 4-ke"
      Serge's finger is stuck on a number: RF - shit! But Putin is to blame for this!
      This is a clinic - medicine is powerless here!
      1. +2
        26 June 2021 00: 24
        Whatever you write, on what topic, Volkonsky has one comment on the manual: "The Russian Federation is shit! But Putin is to blame for this!"

        This is really a clinic - medicine is powerless here!
        1. -1
          26 June 2021 02: 07
          and did not try to write? Or is it your destiny to write in the margins of Volkonsky? you yourself are not interesting to anyone.
          1. +2
            26 June 2021 13: 55
            Well then the paragraph was rolled against half of my line
            "Not interesting" - do not write
  4. -1
    25 June 2021 16: 52
    In 1989, the American philosopher and political scientist of Japanese origin Francis Fukuyama published his famous essay "The End of History?" In The National Interest magazine, which served as the basis for the book of the same name, published three years later. In this essay, he proclaimed the triumph of the liberal world order and left-liberal democracy.

    Fukuyama was clearly mistaken with the "end of history", but it is difficult to argue with the fact that liberalism defeated the opposing ideologies (communism and fascism). There is still conservatism, but by and large it is a kind of liberalism, which says that the current achievements of liberalism are sufficient, and there is nothing to add. In short, there are no alternatives.

    This deal was considered the most disadvantageous in the history of mankind until December 11, 2013, when US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland acquired the territory of Ukraine from the natives in exchange for a bag of cookies, rolls and bread. Official Washington became the beneficiary (or, scientifically, the beneficiary) of that transaction. How he disposed of this acquisition, we were able to observe in the next 7 years.

    Curious about the benefits?

    Everything changed only in 1999 with the arrival of a seemingly insignificant former KGB lieutenant colonel in the building on Staraya Square 2/14.

    Again, curious what has changed? Before that, national wealth was sold for green candy wrappers and now we are selling for the same candy wrappers. The fact that the slegontsa of the Russian Federation bites the hand giving these candy wrappers, in my opinion, does not fundamentally change anything.

    Its end predicted by Fukuyama in 1989 and the total victory of the left liberal pseudo-democratic ideas over the totalitarian communist ideas 30 years later ended in a revenge of the latter, unexpected for the West.

    I wonder why "pseudo-democratic" ideas? And where did the author see the revenge of "totalitarian communist" ideas?

    For 30 years, the West has weakened due to the absence of power competition, while Russia and China have restored their power and economic capabilities, and this is an objective scientifically proven fact.

    I don't know where the author gets such facts, but today's RF is still a pale shadow of the USSR. The USSR was the second economy in the world, the Russian Federation the sixth. 20% of world industrial production came from the USSR, 1,5% from the Russian Federation (Mexico has more). And what has China rebuilt?

    Now Beijing and Moscow are dictating their will to Washington,

    And how is this dictation expressed?

    and the ideological confrontation passed into the phase of confrontation between life philosophies and spiritual values.

    In more detail, what kind of life philosophies and spiritual values ​​are? I don’t know about China, but living in the Russian Federation I don’t really notice any special "philosophies of life and spiritual values." The consumer society has won in the world. China and the Russian Federation are no exception. And the citizens of these countries are not ready to give up individual consumption for the sake of some mythical "spiritual" values.

    The forceful competition of several great powers is returning, for which it is not so much peace as such that is important, but the sovereign right to defend their interests and their civilizational values. In fact, peace, as the absence of war, is not an absolute value for them; they may even sacrifice it when it comes to their sovereignty and spiritual bonds.

    Again, what kind of civilizational values ​​are these? It is very bad that peace is not as valuable as the absence of war. Thank God it isn't. Especially for the mythical spiritual braces.

    The Kremlin proposes to establish a collective agreement on controlled confrontation as a framework for this.

    What nonsense is this?

    It is significant in this story that Putin and Fukuyama are practically the same age, both were born in 1952 with an interval of 20 days (Putin on October 7, and Fukuyama on October 27). And Putin, as the elder, is rewriting the history written by the younger.

    There is no need to compare the incomparable. Putin is an autocrat, who is a wagon and a small cart in the world now, and Fukuyama is the only one.
    1. +1
      25 June 2021 20: 22
      There is no need to compare the incomparable. Putin is an autocrat, who is a wagon and a small cart in the world now, and Fukuyama is the only one.

      But Olegov Piterskikh is a carriage - it is lazy to argue even if the name does not see the benefits of the United States from the use of Ukraine, like bats against the Russian Federation, if he is satisfied with parent No. 1 and No. 2 and the dominance of multiculturalism, if he is not jarred by parades of gays and lesbians and licking shoes to blacks, if he sees nothing wrong with transgender people and transvestites, then he clearly made a mistake with the country. He can see the revenge of communism by turning his stupid head to the east, and discover there the 1st economy in the world, and then looking at the Russian Federation, see there the 1st power in the military sense. Now the Russian Federation is imposing an arms race on the States, and they are asking for time to close the gap in technical matters. Oleg is dumb as a log. And I don’t argue with the logs.
      1. +2
        26 June 2021 17: 40
        On this site, you are not the first who, due to the paucity of knowledge or intelligence, is not able to reasonably defend your position and moves on to the last argument of not a smart person, rudeness.
        I can answer with the words of our president



        Quote: Volkonsky
        But Olegov Piterskikh wagon

        like Volkonskih even scoop up bast shoes.

        Quote: Volkonsky
        does not see the benefits of the United States from using Ukraine as beats against the Russian Federation

        Only the alternatively gifted see some kind of benefit, especially in the "bit against the Russian Federation", and frankly speaking, no State Department, together with Nuland's liver, can hold a candle to Vladimir Vladimirovich in turning Ukraine into an enemy of the Russian Federation. This is a medical fact, the foreign policy of the Russian Federation in Ukraine ended in a grandiose failure and Putin is responsible for this failure.

        Quote: Volkonsky
        if he is satisfied with parent # 1 and # 2 and the dominance of multiculturalism, if he is not jarred by parades of gays and lesbians and licking shoes to blacks, if he does not see anything bad in transgender and transvestites

        I asked you about "civilizational values", "philosophy of life" and "spiritual values", and in response I heard some kind of senile grumbling. If this grumbling is all you can offer as an alternative to "Western" values, I think the world will not appreciate it.

        Quote: Volkonsky
        He can see the revenge of communism by turning his dull head to the east, and find there the 1st economy in the world,

        If you turn your stupid one, then it is possible to see the revenge of communism in the first economy in the world. If we turn our normal head, then in the second economy of the world we will see an almost complete rejection of communist dogmas in this very economy (socialization of the means of production), a disregard for the environment in the "best" traditions of wild capitalism of the 19th century in Europe and minimal social protection and the level of wages working again in the "best" traditions of wild capitalism at the beginning of the 20th century. These are the main ingredients of the Chinese economic miracle. By and large, there is a rejection of communist ideas.
        And in China, after all, authoritarianism. Only North Korea can boast of totalitarian communism.

        Quote: Volkonsky
        and then looking at the Russian Federation, to see there the first militarily power.

        This is ridiculous.

        Quote: Volkonsky
        Now the Russian Federation is imposing an arms race on the States, and they ask for time to close the gap in technical matters.

        This is funny again. the sixth economy cannot impose an arms race on the first. And remember how this race ended for the second world economy of the USSR.

        And what are you hysteria about?
        1. -1
          26 June 2021 19: 33
          You lead, even our president considers you as dumb as a log.

          I see, not only stupid, but also an illiterate log, the word "drive" is written with "AND"

          as well as Volonskov at least scoop up bast shoes.

          I don’t know, maybe scoop up Volkonsk and bast shoes, but Volkonskys one or two and missed (old princely family)

          If you turn your stupid one, then it is possible to see the revenge of communism in the first economy in the world. If we turn our normal head, then in the second economy of the world we will see an almost complete rejection of communist dogmas in this very economy (socialization of the means of production), a disregard for the environment in the "best" traditions of wild capitalism of the 19th century in Europe and minimal social protection and the level of wages working again in the "best" traditions of wild capitalism at the beginning of the 20th century. These are the main ingredients of the Chinese economic miracle. By and large, there is a rejection of communist ideas.

          Nevertheless, China continues to build communism, and wages there have grown several times and equal to the European, it is for this reason that Western production, previously located there, moved to Vietnam, which, by the way, is also building socialism.

          Only the alternatively gifted see some kind of benefit, especially in the "bit against the Russian Federation", and frankly speaking, no State Department, together with Nuland's liver, can hold a candle to Vladimir Vladimirovich in turning Ukraine into an enemy of the Russian Federation. This is a medical fact, the foreign policy of the Russian Federation in Ukraine ended in a grandiose failure and Putin is responsible for this failure.

          I do not argue with the last statement, Putin personally is to blame for this, and regarding the first I will even refrain from commenting, if you do not see the benefits of the United States derived from the coup d'etat in Ukraine and the latter getting into the six of the collective West, then this is already a clinic, and I am with clinical idiots do not argue. And why did you even decide that I would argue with you? In such cases, I trust the old Samuel Clemens more, who said 150 years ago:

          Never argue with idiots. Risk it will fall to their level, where they will crush you with their experience
          1. 0
            29 June 2021 20: 31
            Quote: Volkonsky
            I don’t know, maybe scoop up Volkonsk and bast shoes, but Volkonskys one or two and missed (old princely family)

            Your rudeness speaks not only of gaps in your upbringing. As someone great said, "Insult is the arguments of the wrong." It is your rudeness to talk about the weakness of your positions.
            Don't forget, I'm from St. Petersburg. Here, at least scoop these Dons with bast shoes, at least chew on separate parts of the body. It is not clear to me who your background should impress.
            By the way, yes. Do not find that there is a continuity of generations. Your ancestors have lost RI, you mean ... the USSR.

            Quote: Volkonsky
            Nevertheless, China continues to build communism, and wages there have grown several times and equal to the European, it is for this reason that Western production, previously located there, moved to Vietnam, which, by the way, is also building socialism.

            But one cannot speak of a revenge of "totalitarian communist" ideas in China, there is a rejection of these ideas in the economy, and we know that politics is a process of upholding the economic interests of groups of people. So Chinese capitalists will want to have political influence for the foreseeable future, if they don't already. And salaries were compared not with Europe, but with the Russian Federation. And that is mainly in the industry, and in the agricultural wages are simply miserable. Their socialism painfully looks like wild capitalism. The same applies to Vietnam.

            if you do not see the benefits of the United States derived from the coup in Ukraine and the latter getting into the six of the collective West

            The benefit is making a profit. How has the United States benefited? And the collective west is a myth.

            Quote: Volkonsky
            In such cases, I trust the old Samuel Clemens more, who said 150 years ago:

            Never argue with idiots. Risk it will fall to their level, where they will crush you with their experience

            Are you all working on the same training manual? Do not worry. Your level is so low that there is nowhere to go down. Communication with me only increases your level (This is not my merit, but your trouble).
            1. +1
              29 June 2021 21: 49
              you have good logical thinking, which is, that is, only with grammar trouble, are you from Peter? there even homeless people speak crystal clear Russian with participles and participles, I suspect that they write without mistakes
      2. +1
        27 June 2021 22: 23
        Quote: Volkonsky
        if he sees nothing wrong with transgender and transvestites

        I don't see anything wrong. They don't touch me with their hands, they march in the capitals.
        And in my outback the roads are broken. Why weren't smooth roads included in the Constitution as a right of citizens? wink

        Quote: Volkonsky
        The Russian Federation imposes an arms race on the States, and they ask for time to close the gap

        Well, they will wait and catch up, tea is the first (albeit second) economy in the world. Or will we inflict a preemptive nuclear strike on them, so as not to leave time - no?
  5. +3
    25 June 2021 20: 41
    Great article! Bravo to the author!
    1. 0
      25 June 2021 23: 11
      madam, grand merci for the compliment!
  6. 0
    26 June 2021 17: 18
    And I was born on October 10, and I believe that all our Snakes, according to the horoscope, sting very painfully all those who attack us. So, do not get in our way, although we are bastards according to your classification, but bastards are proud and fair!
  7. +1
    27 June 2021 21: 51
    when US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland acquired the territory of Ukraine from the natives in exchange for a packet of cookies, buns and bread

    Another order before the elections?
    It was not the same Nuland who said that five yards of greenery were thrown into the Maidan, didn't they?

    Putin turned the course of world history

    And his predecessor, I remember, even commanded time - winter and summer Yes

    Who wants to be convinced of this - welcome to hell.

    And we go to heaven, yeah Yes And you can still live - or is it not tight?

    Putin, as a senior, is rewriting history

    And in twenty years they will rewrite his history. Because Someone, as he is now, will be outraged by what is written in the textbooks. And - they will take it under the visor.
    This is a tradition. It will be so.
  8. +1
    29 June 2021 23: 31
    Great article. Thanks.
  9. 0
    1 July 2021 12: 34

    Tellingly, these cowboy boots with a beveled heel are called "Cossacks" ...