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MINSK, 23 December (BelTA) – The film Time Chose Us on the Belarus 1 TV channel recalled the Munich Security Conference of 2007 and the speech of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, BelTA reports.
Political scientists called the 43rd edition of the Munich Security Conference the most important political event of the year. All eyes at the forum were on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“What is a unipolar world? No matter how one might embellish this term, at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation, namely one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And this is ultimately destructive not only for everyone within this system, but also for the sovereign itself. Because it destroys it from within,” Vladimir Putin said at the Munich Security Conference.
“The Munich speech by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin marked the beginning of a new world order,” explained Aleksei Avdonin, analyst with the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR).
The Russian president openly said that the United States and Western European countries are imposing their will and creating a unipolar world order. The USA’s plans to create a missile defense system in Europe can trigger a new arms race. Thus, the process of NATO expansion had nothing to do with upgrading the alliance or ensuring security in Europe.
“Putin’s Munich speech was a huge shock for Western political and corporate elites. Indeed, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they believed that they could pull the strings in the post-Soviet space, including in Russia, and go unchallenged. The West was so self-assured that it decided to show the whole world that it was the one to determine who could control certain territories and trade routes. But we see that every year the West suffers more and more defeats in geopolitics and the global economy,” Aleksei Avdonin is sure.
The West was indeed dumbfounded. Comments started to do rounds in the media that Vladimir Putin’s speech “contains the most aggressive statements that any Russian leader has ever made since the Cold War.”
Political scientists called the 43rd edition of the Munich Security Conference the most important political event of the year. All eyes at the forum were on Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
“What is a unipolar world? No matter how one might embellish this term, at the end of the day it refers to one type of situation, namely one center of authority, one center of force, one center of decision-making. It is a world in which there is one master, one sovereign. And this is ultimately destructive not only for everyone within this system, but also for the sovereign itself. Because it destroys it from within,” Vladimir Putin said at the Munich Security Conference.
“The Munich speech by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin marked the beginning of a new world order,” explained Aleksei Avdonin, analyst with the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research (BISR).
The Russian president openly said that the United States and Western European countries are imposing their will and creating a unipolar world order. The USA’s plans to create a missile defense system in Europe can trigger a new arms race. Thus, the process of NATO expansion had nothing to do with upgrading the alliance or ensuring security in Europe.
“Putin’s Munich speech was a huge shock for Western political and corporate elites. Indeed, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they believed that they could pull the strings in the post-Soviet space, including in Russia, and go unchallenged. The West was so self-assured that it decided to show the whole world that it was the one to determine who could control certain territories and trade routes. But we see that every year the West suffers more and more defeats in geopolitics and the global economy,” Aleksei Avdonin is sure.
The West was indeed dumbfounded. Comments started to do rounds in the media that Vladimir Putin’s speech “contains the most aggressive statements that any Russian leader has ever made since the Cold War.”
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