Vladimir Putin has for years presented himself as the champion of all those who resent Western cultural supremacy – including many Westerners.
Imagine looking at Russia and seeing not a blood-soaked tyranny, but an ally. Imagine thinking of Vladimir Putin not as a villain, but as a role model. Imagine being so marinated in anti-Western sentiment that, when Russia breaks a treaty to invade a nation it had promised to defend, you convince yourself that NATO started it.
A delighted Vladimir Putin, who could not attend in person because of a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court , addressed the meeting remotely. He blamed the Ukraine war on “a policy of continued neo-colonialism” through which Western countries sought to “preserve their global hegemony”.To accuse others of colonialism while you are literally annexing territory from a neighbour who offered you no threat takes some chutzpah.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Brazil’s then-president Jair Bolsonaro shake hands at the BRICS summit in Brazil in 2019.The idea that the West became rich through plunder, rather than through independent courts, free contract, private property and limited government, was sedulously spread across Asia, Africa and Latin America by Soviet propagandists.
How many of today’s activists are, without realising it, channelling a 60-year-old tract which was in turn directly inspired by Lenin? How twisted do you have to be to see Western civilisation, not simply as flawed but as inferior to that of Russia?
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