Most welcome, Pete. I ought to point out, 'twaran't a leak. The Putin-Xi document is entirely public--the intent being to make it as public as possible everywhere, an announcement to the world. We, assuming if I may you're American or of the Anglosphere somewhere, were simply not supposed to see it or even hear of it.
Good enough you have. It is 5,000 words and well worth the time. I hesitated when I wrote, "...one of the essential texts of our time..." Is this so, I wondered. And then on a read through made it, "...one of the essential political texts of our time..." This it is.
I had heard of it last year and seen summaries, but hadn't looked to read the whole thing. I wish I had. I enjoyed their definition of democracy as will as the condemnation of NATO and its agression.
I suspect that this document is providing the incentive to BRICS and would be BRICS to consider breaking out of the Atlantic based order.
Back in 92, I really hoped for a true multipolar order would develop. I even went to grad school to study early multipolar systems to better understand them. I soon realized that Western leaders wouldn't let that happen.
Well understood and stated, PL. Thanks yet again for saying it, though! Last night here in Australia I simply could not stand to watch the ABC (national broadcaster) News and follow-up current affairs program "7.30" nor even the news when I switched over to SBS. Nor the "Foreign Correspondent" program - wall to wall pro-US/pro-Zelenskiy propaganda. Or one-sided - that "evil Putin" - these Russian writers (now anti-Putin) having left Russia - in one of the former Baltic countries - this mother and daughter here in Australia - having suffered the displacement - father? - where - on the front lines as fodder to the US/Nato/Zelenskiy Stepan Banderistas objectives? The ramping up of pro-War (military aid to Ukraine - prep. for a war against China) nonsense here - is everywhere! And nowhere does the mainstream press present any of the nuanced understanding for these things from anywhere else in the world - South America, Africa, East and South Asia - nor of the tens of thousands of Australians who have signed anti-war petitions in the past weeks. Blanket censorship it seems to me. JK
Thank you for your article. It really helped me right now to mitigate my depression when I read that “the U.N. General Assembly approved a nonbinding resolution that calls for Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces”, which, if I am correct, was proposed or worked out with Ukraine. Will this celebration of khaki clad Zelenskiy and the killings of Ukrainians end? Sorry and thank you for your clear analysis.
Thank you for this enlightening piece, Mr. Lawrence. As a former journalist (many years ago), I am disgusted by how low the news media has sunk - and sure that it will keep sinking even lower.
On the other hand, it's good to see the masks falling. European audiences don't see it and most of them never will - the conditioning has gone too far already - but the world (not "the rest of the world" anymore) is taking notes.
European media is a barren landscape. Not only alleged "journalists", but also, and especially, a large number of pundits and "analysts" who are at the same time embarrassingly ignorant and unjustifiably arrogant. Whoever dissents, even slightly, is viciously attacked.
Actually, as incredible as it may seem, there's much more diversity and debate in the US - not in the mainstream media, of course (even though some snippets of criticism or even real news surface from time to time). The American public seems to be much more sceptical than the Europeans (in full herd mode), and hopefully the tide will turn. If the US changes course, its vassals will follow.
Finally (and to finish this rather long comment), it's nevertheless fascinating to see how, despite all the talk about sophisticated propaganda methods, what we're seeing is a World-War-I level of gross manipulation.
Well, my dear Harrison. Is the stuff so dense it requires all those reads? Or is it just so damn good? Pleased it passed the famous Northern Idaho Good Sense Test, of course.
We watched the hour plus UN Security Council meeting where Jeffery Sachs and Ray McGovern kicked things off in urging the Council to launch an independent investigation into the Nord Stream destruction. Their point were compelling to say the least. Then we heard from various other members’ “prepared statements.” Sadly predictable was how such compelling calls from the likes of Sachs and McGovern make zero difference. The clarion call was clear: allow the current investigations with Sweden, Denmark and Germany to continue. I was curious to see what the “brokers of peace,” Switzerland, would do with their new seat on the Council. My expectations were low given how I’ve seen their collective outrage against Russia while always ignoring US illegal wars. (They are all in on sanctions, of course, which wouldn’t bother me if they sanctioned the US as well for all our evils. ) Well, they delivered as I feared—yet another rubber stamp for NATO members and Sweden salivating to join NATO to tell us what happened. There is little doubt the final report will be anything but “inconclusive.”
As so concisely noted in this post we tell the world we are the great leaders of negotiation while being the absolute saboteur of honest, brokered diplomacy. (On display in all its glory at the Council meeting.) Putin is certainly right to pause this sole remaining agreement. Given the 2024 presidential prospects, it would appear the last nuclear agreement is headed to the scrapheap. Anyone out there who could persuade Dennis Kucinich (or someone with some integrity) to run as an independent and to get a campaign moving sooner rather than later? It would be nice to bring some sanity back before we set off nuclear winter.
LOL, Blinken and Austin could stand up in the UN Security Council and demonstrate how they personally blew up NordStream 1 and 2,0 and not only would their admissions get zero MSM coverage, the collective response in Europe would be more muted than if Nuland totally bogarted the beer at the annual keg party.
Europeans would prevaricate, mumble something about how attacking them was obviously justified, stare at their shoes, jam their proverbial fingers in their ears, do whatever it takes to avoid having to admit the obvious.
“This is a time of radical, irreversible change in the entire world...”
There is no road back !
Stand with Russia -- it is on the right side of history and -- it fights for us all.
Thanks for leaking to the Declaration. I had never read the entire document previously. It is a full throttle endorsement of sovereignty.
Most welcome, Pete. I ought to point out, 'twaran't a leak. The Putin-Xi document is entirely public--the intent being to make it as public as possible everywhere, an announcement to the world. We, assuming if I may you're American or of the Anglosphere somewhere, were simply not supposed to see it or even hear of it.
Good enough you have. It is 5,000 words and well worth the time. I hesitated when I wrote, "...one of the essential texts of our time..." Is this so, I wondered. And then on a read through made it, "...one of the essential political texts of our time..." This it is.
Thanks for reading and taking a moment to write.
P. L.
I had heard of it last year and seen summaries, but hadn't looked to read the whole thing. I wish I had. I enjoyed their definition of democracy as will as the condemnation of NATO and its agression.
I suspect that this document is providing the incentive to BRICS and would be BRICS to consider breaking out of the Atlantic based order.
Back in 92, I really hoped for a true multipolar order would develop. I even went to grad school to study early multipolar systems to better understand them. I soon realized that Western leaders wouldn't let that happen.
Well understood and stated, PL. Thanks yet again for saying it, though! Last night here in Australia I simply could not stand to watch the ABC (national broadcaster) News and follow-up current affairs program "7.30" nor even the news when I switched over to SBS. Nor the "Foreign Correspondent" program - wall to wall pro-US/pro-Zelenskiy propaganda. Or one-sided - that "evil Putin" - these Russian writers (now anti-Putin) having left Russia - in one of the former Baltic countries - this mother and daughter here in Australia - having suffered the displacement - father? - where - on the front lines as fodder to the US/Nato/Zelenskiy Stepan Banderistas objectives? The ramping up of pro-War (military aid to Ukraine - prep. for a war against China) nonsense here - is everywhere! And nowhere does the mainstream press present any of the nuanced understanding for these things from anywhere else in the world - South America, Africa, East and South Asia - nor of the tens of thousands of Australians who have signed anti-war petitions in the past weeks. Blanket censorship it seems to me. JK
James.
It is always good to hear from you and you're of course most welcome the work. Keep the faith, friend.
P.L.
Thank you for your article. It really helped me right now to mitigate my depression when I read that “the U.N. General Assembly approved a nonbinding resolution that calls for Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces”, which, if I am correct, was proposed or worked out with Ukraine. Will this celebration of khaki clad Zelenskiy and the killings of Ukrainians end? Sorry and thank you for your clear analysis.
Thank you for this enlightening piece, Mr. Lawrence. As a former journalist (many years ago), I am disgusted by how low the news media has sunk - and sure that it will keep sinking even lower.
On the other hand, it's good to see the masks falling. European audiences don't see it and most of them never will - the conditioning has gone too far already - but the world (not "the rest of the world" anymore) is taking notes.
European media is a barren landscape. Not only alleged "journalists", but also, and especially, a large number of pundits and "analysts" who are at the same time embarrassingly ignorant and unjustifiably arrogant. Whoever dissents, even slightly, is viciously attacked.
Actually, as incredible as it may seem, there's much more diversity and debate in the US - not in the mainstream media, of course (even though some snippets of criticism or even real news surface from time to time). The American public seems to be much more sceptical than the Europeans (in full herd mode), and hopefully the tide will turn. If the US changes course, its vassals will follow.
Finally (and to finish this rather long comment), it's nevertheless fascinating to see how, despite all the talk about sophisticated propaganda methods, what we're seeing is a World-War-I level of gross manipulation.
Thank you again for your invaluable work.
The “partners” days are done -- PERIOD.
Unfortunately -- but -- a new era is starting and surely coming
It's good, Patrick.On the third or fourth read, the big picture structure of this piece comes through loud and clear.
Well, my dear Harrison. Is the stuff so dense it requires all those reads? Or is it just so damn good? Pleased it passed the famous Northern Idaho Good Sense Test, of course.
Stay well and warm.
P.L.
We watched the hour plus UN Security Council meeting where Jeffery Sachs and Ray McGovern kicked things off in urging the Council to launch an independent investigation into the Nord Stream destruction. Their point were compelling to say the least. Then we heard from various other members’ “prepared statements.” Sadly predictable was how such compelling calls from the likes of Sachs and McGovern make zero difference. The clarion call was clear: allow the current investigations with Sweden, Denmark and Germany to continue. I was curious to see what the “brokers of peace,” Switzerland, would do with their new seat on the Council. My expectations were low given how I’ve seen their collective outrage against Russia while always ignoring US illegal wars. (They are all in on sanctions, of course, which wouldn’t bother me if they sanctioned the US as well for all our evils. ) Well, they delivered as I feared—yet another rubber stamp for NATO members and Sweden salivating to join NATO to tell us what happened. There is little doubt the final report will be anything but “inconclusive.”
As so concisely noted in this post we tell the world we are the great leaders of negotiation while being the absolute saboteur of honest, brokered diplomacy. (On display in all its glory at the Council meeting.) Putin is certainly right to pause this sole remaining agreement. Given the 2024 presidential prospects, it would appear the last nuclear agreement is headed to the scrapheap. Anyone out there who could persuade Dennis Kucinich (or someone with some integrity) to run as an independent and to get a campaign moving sooner rather than later? It would be nice to bring some sanity back before we set off nuclear winter.
LOL, Blinken and Austin could stand up in the UN Security Council and demonstrate how they personally blew up NordStream 1 and 2,0 and not only would their admissions get zero MSM coverage, the collective response in Europe would be more muted than if Nuland totally bogarted the beer at the annual keg party.
Europeans would prevaricate, mumble something about how attacking them was obviously justified, stare at their shoes, jam their proverbial fingers in their ears, do whatever it takes to avoid having to admit the obvious.
They are that weak and that cowed.
I like the aptly descriptive "The Scrum".
We've heard this one before. "Don't make me use this!"
It is abundantly obvious that Russia does not want to fight this war, while the West is absolutely spoiling for a fight to the last Ukrainian.
Russian Air Power “Mystery” Explained -- Dreizinreport -February 22, 2023
https://thedreizinreport.com/author/dreizinreport/