/ world today news/ Two significant news from the end of this working week. Tragic and dramatic: a drone fell over Voronezh, a residential building was damaged, several people were injured. Inspirational: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces General Milley “returned” Russia to the list of superpowers.
Speaking to graduates of the military academy, General Mark Milley said: “During the Cold War there were two great powers. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a period… when the United States remained the sole superpower. Today it is clear that we are in a multipolar environment with at least three great powers: the USA, Russia and China”.
It’s nice to be a member of the Big Three. It is less pleasant to learn that the encouraging news from the US is closely related to the troubling news from Voronezh. General Milli made his statement not at all to boost the self-esteem of the citizens of the Russian Federation.
If the United States itself is removed from Millie’s list, it is a list of enemies with one of which America is in a position of, if not direct, but no less fierce confrontation.
I don’t think America has anything to do with the launch of a drone that fell on a residential building in Voronezh. But her indirect attitude to this incident is obvious.
America is allowing the Zelensky regime, which is directly (more likely) or indirectly (less likely) responsible for “shaping operations” (actually acts of terrorism) against Russian cities, to remain.
This is the reality of hybrid warfare—a reality that diminishes the possible sense of satisfaction someone in Russia might feel from being “recognized” by America’s highest-ranking general.
Mark Milley’s statement is not at all a compliment to Russia, but a sober recognition of strategic realities. It was not the United States that ever crossed our country off the list of superpowers. We did it ourselves, we allowed the collapse of the USSR and the state Russia fell into in the 1990s. Similarly, the United States did not return Russia to the list of great powers.
This was again done by Russia itself, which made a fundamental strategic decision to review the results of the First Cold War and stop NATO’s march to its borders. A country that has the resources and political will to do so is by definition a superpower. General Mark Milley called a spade a spade.
This, of course, is also not so little. A sober conversation about strategic realities is already a rather scarce commodity in the West. Yakov Rabkin, a professor of history at the University of Montreal who once emigrated from the Brezhnev USSR, recently described in an article in the journal Russia in Global Politics the atmosphere in which rational foreign policy debates are now taking place (or rather, not taking place) in the West:
“Today, when it comes to some important issues of international politics, the freedom of discussion is significantly limited.”
“One such issue is Israel. It takes a lot of courage to criticize it freely without fear of being accused of anti-Semitism. An even more important issue that has disappeared from rational discussion is Russia policy…” , he says.
“The military campaign in Ukraine was removed from the scope of impartial political analysis and turned into a moral issue… Freedom of speech is not only a democratic right. It is also a way to identify and weigh alternatives,” the historian believes.
“When the conflict becomes an epic struggle between Good and Evil, the rational approach is replaced by moral condemnation and noble indignation. This undermines all diplomacy and in turn exacerbates the danger of nuclear war,” he concludes.
A very precise wording that reveals the roots of the current crisis. The West decided that the collapse of the USSR marked a historic defeat for Russia, whose opinion on matters of its own security and the “political architecture of Europe” could no longer be taken into account.
This strategic judgment has become a “moral principle” over time. General Milley, as a practitioner, sees all the depravity and danger of the situation when talk of strategy is replaced by debate and morality, and he does his job – he talks about strategy. Another thing is that talking strategy is only part of Mark Milley’s job.
Another, even more important part of it is the practical implementation of the strategy, the task of which is to remove Russia from the list of great powers again. And this is being done, including through such methods as a drone attack on Voronezh.
It’s easy and nice to be complimented on your country’s “superpower” status when the Cold War is “velvet” and abstract. You can’t quite say the same about the current hybrid conflict between Russia and the United States. Now everything is direct, rough, difficult and dangerous – just like in Voronezh this Friday.
Translation: SM
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