Putin speaking about the collapse of Western civilization at the ValdaiInternational Discussion Club
Putin speaking about the collapse of Western civilization at the Valdai
International Discussion Club, September 19, 2013
“Another serious challenge to Russia’s identity is linked
to events taking place in the world. Here there are both foreign
policy and moral aspects. We can see how many
of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots,
including the Christian values that constitute the basis
of Western civilisation. They are denying moral principles and all
traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual.
They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex
partnerships, belief in God with the belief in Satan.
“The excesses of political correctness have reached
the point where people are seriously talking about registering political
parties whose aim is to promote paedophilia. People in many European
countries are embarrassed or afraid to talk about their religious
affiliations. Holidays are abolished or even called something different;
their essence is hidden away, as is their moral foundation.
And people are aggressively trying to export this model all over
the world. I am convinced that this opens a direct path
to degradation and primitivism, resulting in a profound
demographic and moral crisis.
“What else but the loss of the ability
to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony
of the moral crisis facing a human society? Today almost all
developed nations are no longer able to reproduce themselves, even with
the help of migration. Without the values embedded
in Christianity and other world religions, without the standards
of morality that have taken shape over millennia, people will inevitably
lose their human dignity. We consider it natural and right to defend
these values . One must respect every minority’s right to be different,
but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.
“At the same time we see attempts to somehow revive
a standardised model of a unipolar world and to blur
the institutions of international law and national sovereignty.
Such a unipolar, standardised world does not require sovereign states; it
requires vassals. In a historical sense this amounts
to a rejection of one’s own identity, of the God-given
diversity of the world.
“Russia agrees with those who believe that key decisions should be
worked out on a collective basis, rather than
at the discretion of and in the interests
of certain countries or groups of countries. Russia believes
that international law, not the right of the strong, must apply.
And we believe that every country, every nation is not exceptional, but
unique, original and benefits from equal rights, including the right
to independently choose their own development path.”
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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