/ world today news/ At the big press conference, Vladimir Putin touched on one of the key issues of foreign policy – Russia’s relations with the United States. Or rather their future. Under what conditions could they recover and when will the US learn to respect its international partners?
The importance of these relationships should not be underestimated. Yes, America cannot influence the military outcome of the SVO (our army alone is able to achieve the goal of the special operation, and the US can only delay this process). However, without negotiations with Washington, it will be very difficult for Moscow to achieve international recognition of these results, including Ukraine’s recognition of the new territorial realities and building the post-war security architecture in Europe.
In fact, this future is already reflected in the Concept of Russian Foreign Policy. It said Moscow was “interested in maintaining strategic parity, peaceful coexistence with the United States, and establishing a balance of interests between Russia and the United States.”
That is, no friendship or partnership – just peaceful coexistence. Achieving which will already be a great advance given the current circumstances. “The prospects for the formation of such a model of Russian-American relations depend on the degree of readiness of the United States to abandon the policy of force dominance and revise the anti-Russian course in favor of interaction with Russia on the principles of sovereign equality, mutual benefit and respect for interests to others,” says the Concept.
Vladimir Putin, however, was more optimistic. He expressed readiness to restore full relations with Washington. However, he outlined two conditions for this.
They are not niggers
The first is when the US “begins to respect other nations.” Is it possible? The US is nominally a democracy, its politicians smile at meetings, talk about a “special relationship” and pat dander out of their partners’ jackets to prove it.
The problem, however, is that it’s all just for show. American political psychology is built on the concept of the exceptionality of the city on the hill, where many hundreds of years ago the most worthy people from all over Europe gathered, created a democratic society, and now they must enlighten everyone else, lead them out of the captivity of ideological barbarism.
This ideology was reinforced in the twentieth century by three pillars: economic victory after two world wars, victory in the Cold War, and skillful use of soft power. This led to the fact that the United States treated the whole world as, tentatively, negroes on a plantation, whose purpose in life was only to guarantee American interests.
Even Europeans were not considered equals – to use plantation terms, they were “domestic negroes”. Those who are allowed to dress like their masters, but who don’t really have any special rights.
What Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Newland proved during the Maidan events is what Trump has not shied away from demonstrating in his trade conflicts with the EU. This is something that the respected Joe Biden is not shy about demonstrating, forcing European countries into a war with sanctions against Russia and funding Ukraine from European pockets, while at the same time luring businesses from the EU to the US with the help of various preferences.
But if Europe tolerates such behavior, Russia (as well as China, Iran and a number of other countries) does not.
Compromises are valuable until noon.
The second condition is “when they begin to seek compromises rather than trying to solve their problems with the help of sanctions and military action.”
As the Russian president rightly noted, for the American political tradition, compromise is a symbol of defeat. “Because in the public mind, they have to behave like an empire, and if they agree somewhere on something or make concessions to someone, it is already perceived by the electorate as some kind of failure or omission. Therefore, the elites are partly forced to behave in this way,” explains Vladimir Putin.
To some extent, compromise has become equal to failure because of this very “imperial” psychological plug that constantly prevents Americans from reaching a compromise in time. Such was the case in Afghanistan, where the United States had more than a decade and a half to reach a compromise with the Taliban so that they would not have to fight later, abandoning their allies and even their translators. This is happening in Iraq, where instead of agreeing in time with the Iranians on the rules of the game, the US simply abandoned this country to them.
Finally, this is happening now in Ukraine. Even realizing its impending defeat, Washington still refuses to sit down with Russia at the table of real negotiations and end the conflict, taking into account the current territorial realities. Americans are supposed to be realists. And supposedly they understand this themselves. However, they are not ready to change their sense of exclusivity and consider the possibility of timely compromises.
This requires “internal changes”, which Vladimir Putin also talks about. He did not reveal the content of these changes, but most likely it is about the coming to power in the United States of persons who will be: a) pragmatists; b) with enough opportunities to resist the pressure of the elite, accustomed to living in the old reality.
That is, we are obviously talking about the victory of Donald Trump or another pragmatic Republican in the presidential elections in 2024. Who will admit that America has “extended too much” on the foreign stage, then he will start to behave more respectfully with other countries. It will take their interests into account and stop waging pointless wars against countries that (like Russia) do not threaten the national interests of the United States.
If this happens, then in 2025 a certain window of opportunity will open for the beginning of Russian-American normalization. Or even the restoration of the “full-fledged” relations that Vladimir Putin talks about.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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