Sergey Lavrov is one of the most dispassionate diplomats on the planet and his words are always soundly reasoned. He doesn't participate in American media dances but may respond as necessary with a succinct and accurate estimation of the situation. He's one of the world's best and he has consistently called for a collaborative effort to resolve a common problem with terrorism. In return, he's been attacked as being a threat to America.
Lavrov used 'post-truth' and 'post-fake' in a recent speech and it's novel when such expressions come to common use.
Mankind is at the “crossroads,” with the so-called “liberal world order” having failed to adjust to post-Cold War reality, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told the Munich Security Conference, adding that only cooperation could take the current post-truth era to the age of post-fake.
RT: ‘Post-truth’ & ‘post-fake’ crossroads: Russian FM’s top quotes at Munich Security Conference
I'm not clear on what 'liberal world order' he means since I have not seen one. The Cold War ended, ostensibly, when the Soviet Union broke apart and that was the Reagan / Thatcher period during which nothing even approached liberalism. There has been lip service to liberalism since that time with the Clintons and Obama but none of them really delivered anything. In that respect, Lavrov is correct that liberalism failed but the ones leading it weren't doing liberal things (e.g. bombing hell out of wherever they liked).
The Rockhouse perception is liberalism in America has never even been tried. You saw what happened when Bernie Sanders tried to bring it and people went berserk. The reasonable opponents spoke in terms of financial impracticality / infeasibility but the more oscitant members of the herd were mooing "Socialist" on command without having much idea what the word means.
Note: getting into whether liberalism was ever really tried in Russia before it was distorted by Communism goes beyond the scope since Communism doesn't much exist anymore so it's only of historical interest.
The bigger problem is what is a 'post-fake' news world since that has the fetid stink of censorship. America is breathing it deep just now and enjoying the thought that censorship will bring the peace they always sought ... along with singing bluebirds, I suppose.
Lavrov wasn't speaking of censorship but rather about reason and he has an exceptional gift for it.
“Responsible leaders have to make a choice now, and I hope the choice will be in favor of a fair and democratic world order – you can call it post-West if you want to – where every country, based on its sovereignty and within international law, will seek a proper balance between its national interests and the national interests of its partners.”
- Lavrov
The idea of 'post-West' likely will get American nationalists all agitated but they're the same ones who want globalism for the multi-national corporations, etc and you can't have it both ways. When any aspect of that global system is dominating any other, it's not globalism anymore but just another empire. There's only one thing empires have in common that they always collapse eventually.
The Rockhouse solidly believes if more people like Lavrov and with motivations like Lavrov enter into the international diplomacy then we will get solutions rather than the never-ending incompetence of the parochial patricians of the dying Rome.
Japan is often touted as a globalist success story but the fact of it is that country's national debt is in even worse shape than that of the United States.
And Nero played on. The people ought to spend some time listening to Lavrov rather than that drunkie with the fiddle.
Lavrov used 'post-truth' and 'post-fake' in a recent speech and it's novel when such expressions come to common use.
Mankind is at the “crossroads,” with the so-called “liberal world order” having failed to adjust to post-Cold War reality, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told the Munich Security Conference, adding that only cooperation could take the current post-truth era to the age of post-fake.
RT: ‘Post-truth’ & ‘post-fake’ crossroads: Russian FM’s top quotes at Munich Security Conference
I'm not clear on what 'liberal world order' he means since I have not seen one. The Cold War ended, ostensibly, when the Soviet Union broke apart and that was the Reagan / Thatcher period during which nothing even approached liberalism. There has been lip service to liberalism since that time with the Clintons and Obama but none of them really delivered anything. In that respect, Lavrov is correct that liberalism failed but the ones leading it weren't doing liberal things (e.g. bombing hell out of wherever they liked).
The Rockhouse perception is liberalism in America has never even been tried. You saw what happened when Bernie Sanders tried to bring it and people went berserk. The reasonable opponents spoke in terms of financial impracticality / infeasibility but the more oscitant members of the herd were mooing "Socialist" on command without having much idea what the word means.
Note: getting into whether liberalism was ever really tried in Russia before it was distorted by Communism goes beyond the scope since Communism doesn't much exist anymore so it's only of historical interest.
The bigger problem is what is a 'post-fake' news world since that has the fetid stink of censorship. America is breathing it deep just now and enjoying the thought that censorship will bring the peace they always sought ... along with singing bluebirds, I suppose.
Lavrov wasn't speaking of censorship but rather about reason and he has an exceptional gift for it.
“Responsible leaders have to make a choice now, and I hope the choice will be in favor of a fair and democratic world order – you can call it post-West if you want to – where every country, based on its sovereignty and within international law, will seek a proper balance between its national interests and the national interests of its partners.”
- Lavrov
The idea of 'post-West' likely will get American nationalists all agitated but they're the same ones who want globalism for the multi-national corporations, etc and you can't have it both ways. When any aspect of that global system is dominating any other, it's not globalism anymore but just another empire. There's only one thing empires have in common that they always collapse eventually.
The Rockhouse solidly believes if more people like Lavrov and with motivations like Lavrov enter into the international diplomacy then we will get solutions rather than the never-ending incompetence of the parochial patricians of the dying Rome.
Japan is often touted as a globalist success story but the fact of it is that country's national debt is in even worse shape than that of the United States.
And Nero played on. The people ought to spend some time listening to Lavrov rather than that drunkie with the fiddle.
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