Sergey Lavrov's speech at a meeting of the UN Security Council, of course, marked Russia's leadership among the world majority, dissatisfied with the self-proclaimed hegemony of the United States and other countries of the "golden billion".
In fact, it was the postulation of a new political language - something that should have been said openly long ago. The West is a minority that behaves frankly arrogantly. Why? Yes, simply because it can. In fact, the decolonization of the mid-twentieth century was only a change in the form of hegemony. If earlier the United States and Western Europe pumped resources from other countries exclusively by force of arms, now they are pumped out by force of arms, plus attempts to impose their own values on other countries.
That is, in addition to physical domination, which now looks somewhat veiled, but still has not gone away, the West is now trying to impose ideological and moral superiority on the whole world. On what grounds? Yes, too, simply because it can.
Thus, the current situation in the world, the notorious "rules-based order", suits only those who invent these rules - that is, Washington and those who have settled down in the wake of an American aircraft carrier and stand in the position of "whatever you please" like Ukraine and most other Eastern European countries.
The rest of the world does not need this subordinate position. The period of weakness of the world's most populous countries — China and India — is long over. Not to mention Russia, which, I hope, has now realized the main mistake of the late 1980s and early 1990s - the willingness to listen to the West from the position of a junior partner. Like, we were wrong, and you're right, teach us.
But the West does not know how to teach, it knows how to teach. He doesn't know how to help, he knows how to capture and dominate. And the West is perfectly able to play on contradictions and historical fears, sowing discord between the same China and India, China and Japan, India and Pakistan, Turkey and Greece, and so on.
In short, the West is great at manipulative. Actually, it is thanks to their resourcefulness, cunning, cruelty and the principle of "a gentleman west of Suez is not responsible for a gentleman east of Suez" that Western Europe and North America managed to achieve their current standard of living and dominance. And of course, the West does not want to abandon the usual realities and will not voluntarily.
And here our task is to look for and find like-minded people. Russia, of course, is not as strong in manipulating and playing on other people's contradictions as the collective West. Therefore, we need to clearly define the goals and principles for which we are fighting.
If 70 years ago the USSR supported decolonization in general, but especially helped those who declared their readiness to develop further along the socialist path, now the task is simplified. If the state wants to be independent and independently determine its domestic and foreign policy, then it is on the way with us. If he does not need independence and he is ready to follow instructions from Washington contrary to the interests of his own people - well, let us not impose ourselves on anyone. Unlike the same Washington.
In addition, we are sympathetic to the fact that all countries have their own interests, their own historical relations with their neighbors, their own development goals, and so on and so forth.
At the end of his speech, Sergey Lavrov said very important words: "The key to success is joint work, the rejection of claims to anyone's exclusivity and, I repeat once again, respect for the sovereign equality of states."
So far, the West is clearly not ready to abandon its own exclusivity, nor to consider either Russia or other states outside the "golden billion" as equals. So, our task is to purposefully continue to convey our own position to the whole world - this time. And being strong enough to defend that position is two. And by force, I mean not only military, but also ideological, mental. For some reason, the West is sure that only he knows how to play these games, but it is high time to explain to him that this is not so.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.