22-02-2023, 08:28 AM
The Ukraine war, Putin suggested, is part of a global transition to a multipolar world in which the West will no longer be able to act as a hegemonic force.
Putin, driven by a historicist conception of himself as an actor of change in the inevitable transition to a multipolar world, reaffirmed he intends to stay the course on Ukraine unless and until the West becomes amenable to Russia’s core security demands.
Putin insisted that Moscow’s quarrel is not with the subset of the West rooted in “traditional, primarily Christian values, freedom, patriotism, great culture and now Islamic values as well.” Instead, he argued that Russia is asserting its sovereignty against the “aggressive, cosmopolitan, and neocolonial” impulses of some Western elites.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/%E2...rld-205630
Putin, driven by a historicist conception of himself as an actor of change in the inevitable transition to a multipolar world, reaffirmed he intends to stay the course on Ukraine unless and until the West becomes amenable to Russia’s core security demands.
Putin insisted that Moscow’s quarrel is not with the subset of the West rooted in “traditional, primarily Christian values, freedom, patriotism, great culture and now Islamic values as well.” Instead, he argued that Russia is asserting its sovereignty against the “aggressive, cosmopolitan, and neocolonial” impulses of some Western elites.
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/%E2...rld-205630