What more did America for a celebration of its lifestyle in Russia, in addition to the permission for a handful of compradors to plunder our country and to take the revenue to the West, freezing at their accounts, in luxuries and football clubs? Should we consider, that the major result of the victory of the United States in the Cold war has become a trivial robbery in uranium transaction «Gore-Chernomyrdin» and the transformation of Russia into a raw materials appendage of the West? Did the creators among the Russian people have not found a better application?
Letʹs speak on China, which has become the global factory through the US-China agreements of 1971–1978 years, but till now has not got its own project. New silk road can be a trade and logistics device, but not a dream. The West made China the worldʹs major factory, however it did not simultaneously solve the corresponding pollution problem and did not weaken the dependence and strong relationship between Chinaʹs economy and external markets. At the moment China demonstrates its own plans of external takeovers those can cause a sharp conflict with the United States of America, Russia or India in Eurasia.
The general mistake of most of modern politicians is their intention to solve their native countryʹs problems at another partyʹs expense. It is impossible in the global world. No, it doesnʹt work any longer. Nowadays when Europe sneezes, the US measure the temperature, China wraps and Russia runs to the doctor.
We face common problems. The desire of North America to isolate itself from difficulties of Russia and China, and Vice versa, will only lead to the fact that other peopleʹs problems are attacking us with a vengeance.
In the new age we all face the cult of consumption, which begets the problem of waste and environmental pollution. This is a global challenge, as the safety of nuclear power and the availability of cheap electricity in General. Everything depends on the cheap energy: starting with heating, lighting, the provision of clean water, transport and in general all the infrastructure of modern urban agglomerations and finishing with the networks and IT of financial markets, the Internet and space stations.
We should elaborate common decisions for the whole world.
People in the new century in all our countries need a new dream. Dreams of the XX century were the vehicles, Aeronautics, computers and the Internet. Dream of the XXI century might be the Space. I am more than convinced that the future is not in confrontation or bilateral alliances of the United States, China, India, Mideast countries, Europe or Russia, but in the formation of the Union. Only the Strategic Union of our countries is able to create a real engine for the society of the future.
The unionʹs main task is not to solve everything for everyone, but to take the first step. We must move in a different paradigm. These are not the presidents who determine the future, these are the ideas. Who has ideas on how to deal with the energy problem? Someone might have the right vision of the future of man and the structure of his needs. We have to go from ideas. And we must reject any attempt to parasitize at the expense of someone in our global world.
The last century and all previous centuries showed us alliances with one leader, now it is the time when there should be at least three or five leaders and intermediaries for other countries at the same time.
Participation in this club is not a gift, it is the responsibility and additional obligations of the country to the entire planet.
Now in the world there are some informal brain centers in the form of clubs and associations of industrialists, bankers, and their invited scholars. And we have reached the time to create a formal global think tank. It will differ from the UN, the club of Rome or Bilderberg.
We have no shortage of money, technology or power. We have a deficit of the General ideas that are the real power as such.
Peoples are not united by people but by ideas.
In Europe the future mediator is Russia, certainly, in cooperation with the old European world, because only we have the area of the new development of the actual century and geographically our country lies between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Only the union of forces can create a global balance of interests. In the Middle East, it is Turkey, which can become a part of Europe.
Each merging party needs to think about common goals. And for this they must be determined. Instead, politicians are engaged in pulling blankets and playing poker, trying to deceive each other.
We need to remind. In 1991 it was possible to use the middle position of Russia for the Eurasian development, but the United States chose to plunder us by our kleptocrats, I suppose, in order to prevent the strengthening of Europe. It gave America a small gain in time, but made the situation worse in General.
Now, having lost more than a quarter century, the West (by sanctions) returns to fight those people whom it allowed to start the robbery in 1991.
Dear Sirs, all that you as leaders of the USA, Russia and China need to undertake is to make the first step. Set a task to define global problems and ways of their joint decision.
I believe that the future poses the following universal tasks:
• formation of the image of the human future in an egalitarian society, while preserving the nature of man as an image and likeness of God;
• replacement of consumerism by the society of knowledge and skills (replacement of material needs by non-material);
• energy and transport, based not on the combustion of hydrocarbons;
• research and development of near and far space (creation of interstellar space engines, probes and ships);
• solution to the problem of environmental pollution (emissions and waste).
All these tasks can be solved only by common efforts.
And remember: history shows that you cannot achieve a good deed by wrong means.
Then you will go from idea to a method, and then only involve general people with their ambitions, likes and dislikes into action. There is no other way, I suppose. In any other case, the weakening of America, as Zbigniew Brzezinski rightly believed, will lead to increased competition between countries and global confrontation.
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Недавно мне довелось прочитать книгу Збигнева Бжезинского «Стратегический взгляд: Америка и глобальный кризис», и в оценке текущей ситуации я почти полностью разделяю его взгляд на положение дел в мире.
Проведенный в ней критический анализ, лишенный почти всякой сентиментальности, заслуживает самого пристального внимания действующих администраций США, России и Китая.
Лишившись конкурента в лице СССР, Соединенные Штаты и их экономическая и социальная системы подверглись деградации. Америка, по мнению Бжезинского, сохранит глобальное лидерство до 2020 года, но затем стремительно утратит его. Общество Соединенных Штатов, зацикленное на потребительстве, угасает так же, как Старый Свет в Европе. У демократического мира нет своего образа будущего. Его разъедает самоубийственный эгоизм. То же самое мы видим и на верхушке российского общества.
