Are Trump and Putin Right?

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

Monday, MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosted a spirited discussion with Donald Trump on whether he was right in asserting that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated as the towers came down on 9/11.

About Muslim celebrations in Berlin, however, there appears to be no doubt. In my chapter “Eurabia,” in “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” [2006] is this quote from The New York Times Magazine, exactly 10 years ago.

“Parallel to the declarations of ‘unconditional solidarity’ with Americans by the German majority, rallies of another sort were taking place in Neukolln and Kreuzberg. Bottle rockets were set off from building courtyards, a poor man’s fireworks, sporadic, sparse and joyful; two rockets here, three rockets there. Still, altogether, hundreds of rockets were shooting skyward in celebration of the attack, as most Berliners were searching for words to express their horror.”

Neukolln and Kreuzberg are neighborhoods of “gastarbeiters,” Muslim Turkish workers who came to Germany in the millions to work in menial jobs beginning around 1960.

While the flap over what Trump saw persists, a more serious question has arisen: Is Turkish strongman President Recep Erdogan trying to draw the United States in on his side in the war in Syria, and into a confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia?

A little history is in order. Not until 1952 did Turkey join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, all but two of whose original 12 members were on the Atlantic or North Sea.

Yet bringing in Turkey was a ten-strike, putting NATO on the Dardanelles and Bosporus and on the southern coast of the Black Sea, right up to the border of Stalin’s Soviet Union.

But the world that made Turkey such a strategic asset has vanished. Armenia and Georgia are no longer Soviet republics but free nations. The Soviet Empire, Warsaw Pact, and Soviet Union no longer exist, and Balkan nations as well as the Baltic States are members of the EU and NATO.

Turkey is no longer the secular nation-state of Kemal Ataturk, but increasingly hearkens to the Islamic Awakening. In Syria’s civil war, her behavior has not been what one might expect of an ally.

The Turks left the door open for jihadists to join ISIS. They are accused by two Turkish journalists, now facing life in prison, of shipping arms to ISIS. The Turks are charged with permitting ISIS to move oil from the Islamic State into and across Turkey.

Russia, which joined the U.S. in bombing the tanker trucks that move the oil, charges Erdogan’s son with being involved in the black market trade with the caliphate.

Instead of battling ISIS, Erdogan is fighting Kurds in Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan and is threatening to attack Syria’s Kurds if they cross to the west bank of the Euphrates.

Ankara is also becoming dictatorial and repressive.

Erdogan has dismal relations with Egypt and Israel and appears hell-bent on bringing down Bashar Assad in Syria. Yet, Assad’s army remains the sole force standing between ISIS and Damascus.

Erdogan’s Turkey has its own separate national agenda. While understandable, what is of concern is that Erdogan could escalate his clash with Assad’s regime into a clash with Putin’s Russia, which is backing the Syrian regime — and drag us into his war.

And the longer this war goes on, the greater the likelihood of something like this happening.

For the operative premise of NATO is that an attack against one is an attack against all. What do we do should Erdogan provoke a Russian attack on his aircraft, and then invoke Article V and call on all NATO nations to come to Turkey’s defense against Putin’s Russia in Assad’s Syria?

Turkey’s shoot-down of the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 makes this more than a hypothetical question.

While the Russians have indicated they are not going to make this a casus belli, Putin charges that the U.S. was given advance notice of the flight plan of the Russian plane.

Were we? Did we authorize, know about, or suspect Erdogan was planning to shoot that Russian plane down? This is no small matter. And Americans have a right to know.

Then there is the geostrategic question.

The world of 2015 is nothing like Truman’s world of 1952 or Reagan’s world of 1982. The adversary we confronted then, the Soviet Empire and Soviet Union, has not existed for a quarter century.

Why then does NATO, created to defend Western Europe against that adversary, still exist?

Why are we still committed to fight Russia not only to defend Germany, but Estonia and Erdogan’s Turkey, and if the neocons get their way, to be committed in perpetuity to fight Russia for Georgia, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Moldova, Ukraine, Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk?

If the history of the 20th century teaches anything, it is that war guarantees all too often lead to war.

But in this war against “radical Islamic terrorism,” who is the real ally: Erdogan, who has been aiding and abetting Islamic jihadists in Syria, or Putin, who has been bombing them?

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Tucci78

Strange as this might sound at first blush, why hasn’t Russia been invited to join NATO?

Don’t those who govern in Russia – not to mention the Russian people themselves – have an interest in a mutual defense pact that has been turned to the purpose of politically stabilizing the European subcontinent?

Sure, NATO was created as a check to Soviet imperial aggression.

But didn’t the Russians suffer under that aggression even more than did the people of the Germanies, the Balkan countries, Poland and the other Baltic states?

What’s wrong with setting them a place at the table and (pardon the mixing of metaphors) seating the bear at a point near the tent flap where we can have him pissing OUT rather than IN.

flash
flash

The truth about Turkey about to be laid bare and likely the US involvement in the support of ISIS as well.

Russia has ‘more proof’ ISIS oil routed through Turkey, Erdogan says he’ll resign if it’s true
https://www.rt.com/news/324045-putin-erdogan-su-downing/

Stucky

This sure as shit sounds plausible to me. Maybe our fighter pilot and AWACS babe can weigh in on this?

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BOMBSHELL: Ambush of Russian Bomber Was Guided by US Reconnaissance

A Russian military expert and columnist of the journal Arsenal of the Fatherland explains the details of the downing of the bomber and why not all went smoothly in an interview to the news agency Regnum

How did it all happen?

A U.S. Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS plane took off on 24 November from the Preveza airbase in Greece. A second E-3A of the Saudi Arabian air force took off from the Riyadh airbase. Both planes were executing a common task—determining the precise location of Russian aircraft. It is they that picked the “victim.”

The American E-3A was supposed to determine the activity of the Su-24M2’s onboard targeting radar, to determine if it was in search mode or if it had already locked on to a target and was processing launch data. It is known that the AWACS can direct the activity of aircraft in battle, conveying information to their avionics and flight computers.

That is, to determine how defenseless was our plane?

As it turns out, yes. As we know, the Su-24M2 was returning from its mission, and its flight computer was operating in “navigation” mode in tandem with the GLONASS [Russian GPS system.] It was returning to base and was not preparing for action. The whole time, the E-3s were transferring detailed information about the Su-24M2 to a pair of Turkish F-16CJ’s. This plane [the F-16CJ] had been specifically built for Turkey. Its distinctive feature is a computer that controls a new, AN/APG-68 radar system, and which fulfills the role of a copilot-navigator.

But this information is obviously not enough to precision-strike a small target. Was something else used?

Indeed, the interception accuracy of the F-16CJ fighters was augmented by ground-based U.S. Patriot air defense systems, which are deployed in Turkey, or more precisely, their multirole AN/MPQ-53 radars. The Patriot can work with an E-3 or with MENTOR spy satellites, and it can’t be ruled out that the satellite assets involved the Geosat space system as well.

The flight trajectory of the F-16CJ indicates a precision interception of its target by means of triangulation: A pair of E-3s plus the Patriot’s air defense radar plus the geostationary MENTOR spy satellites plus, possibly, the Geosat space system.

Besides which, the E-3s provided guidance as to the location of our plane in the air; they determined its route, speed, and the status of its weapons control systems; and the Patriot’s air defense radar together with the MENTOR spy satellite provided telemetry on the SU-24M2’s movement relative to the ground surface—that is, it provided a precise prediction as to where our plane would be visible relative to the mountainous terrain.

So it turns out that the Turkish fighters knew with absolutely certainty where to wait in ambush for our plane?

Of course. A pair of F-16CJ’s flew to the [missile] launch zone and, at a distance of 4-6 kilometers, practically point blank!, launched an AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missile into the rear hemisphere of our Russian bomber. Besides which, the AN/APG-68 onboard radar of the fighter which launched the missile, was working in “target illumination” mode. That is, it turned on at the moment of launch, and turned off as soon as the missile definitively locked on to its target.

Did our pilots have a chance to save their plane?

No. The Su-24M2 crew’s probability of escaping destruction was equal to zero…

…Turkey does not have its own capabilities for such a detailed and very precise operation. And don’t forget about the second E-3, from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The whole scenario was very fast-moving, lasting just seconds.

Did it really happen that smoothly?

The Turks nonetheless committed one mistake, which led to their provocation not quite working out. The F-16CJ went out on its interception two minutes late, when the Su-24M2 had already left the disputed 68-kilometer zone in the north of Syria [this may be referring to the Turk’s self-styled no-fly-zone against Assad]; to leave it required at most 1.5 minutes. But the “kill” command to the F-16CJ had not been revoked; thus the missile launch was carried out a bit further than the intended point. This is confirmed by the fact that the [Turkish TV] footage of the Su-24M2’s fall was planned to be filmed from both Syrian territory and Turkish territory; however, the “Syrian footage” is more detailed. It appears that this saved our navigator. He was able to go into the woods and wait for a rescue team.

http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bombshell-turkish-attack-russian-su-24-was-guided-us-and-saudis-reconnassaince-aircraft

flash
flash

For your ball busting hilarity of the day, the vile Republican lie of the day:

“As all of our candidates bloviate about the refugees, Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.”
John McCain

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/11/29/mccain-trumps-rhetoric-turning-muslims-against-the-u-s/

Remember when SSS attacked me for saying this back-stabbing puglican piece of anti-American dogshit should have been left in Hanoi? yes, now more than ever.

Lysander
Lysander

I remember the MSM coverage of the musloid celebrations all throughout the ME after 9/11, and here in CT the local goat fuckers celebrated that night in their neighborhoods and were filmed doing so, but all that video has disappeared into the black hole of PC.

And to sort of answer Tucci78’s question, I seem to recall that Russia was invited to join NATO, but politely declined. I also remember how outraged the Russians were at NATO initially recruiting all the former WARSAW Pact countries into NATO. Apparently, that wasn’t part of the deal.

Stucky…has John McInsane met a situation where he didn’t want to go to war? This fucktard wants to start WWIII before he dies, apparently.

Rife
Rife

Come on, Pat! No mention of the dancing Israelis….?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Lysander,

AI remember seeing and reading about Muslims celebrating as well, but can’t specifically recall where those celebrations were taking place (Muslims jumping up and down and howling their chants look pretty much the same everywhere).

But there is this still known (even after probable web scrubbing was done): http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/12/01/trump-card-new-report-points-to-dc-media-cover-up-of-911-nj-muslim-celebration/

suzanna

I am with Flash…McCain should have perished.

I believe he is insane…and gleeful at the prospect
of war. Perhaps he imagines the Syrian’s to be the VC?

Left a comment
Left a comment

Turkey has always been a thorn in Russia’s side. This feud has been going on since Peter the Great’s reign. Yes, it’s that old. If anyone is familiar with Russian history, you will know it is repeating itself.

Washington warned this country not to get involved with foreign entanglements and attaching itself to such countries/groups like NATO. This situation is the reason America should withdrawal from NATO and the UN.

The West should stretch out its hand to Russia in friendship and employ Ron Paul’s system of foreign policy. Why risk another Cold War and the possibility of a Russian governmental collapse that ushers in another Lenin or Stalin?

suzanna

http://www.woodpilereport.com/

“The Jihadists Down The Road

DHS knows of dozens of terrorist camps with a history of attacks on the US. Why are they off the target list? They’re here, in America, protected by DC. You got it, jihadist recruitment and terrorist training camps in the US get a pass. Sweet deal for them.”

Please go to the woodpile and see the examples given, and the details.
Not a week, actually a day, has gone by that we don’t get more evidence
that DC intends us harm from every quarter. Eight years of increasing
debt, financial crimes, gov. corruption, war mongering…hey the list will
get too long. Redouble your preps.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

Another False Flag failure for the NEOCONs trying to start a bigger war in the Mideast. They have many cards left to play: Fifth Column Terrorists Attacks, Fiat Dollar and Bank Collapse, Race War, Martial Law and POTUS Dictator’s Executive Orders, another False Flag that gets the dirty deed done causing WWIII. PS: The FEMA Camps for the Goy will be suicide shelters (you’ll need to be about 8 feet deep to survive fallout).

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Rife is right. The “dancing Israel’s” is what Trump was referencing. They were arrested, then deported. But they were ISRAEL’S, not ARABs. Big fucking difference.

Didius Julianus
Didius Julianus

I have probably 50+ hours of various news coverage from then recorded on tape. I need to convert it to digital and unleash it back on the internet. Who knows what I have that has been mostly erased. I think I actually have a recording of CNN or whoever it was announcing the building 7 collapse BEFORE it happened

Maggie
Maggie

Stucky, amazingly plausible.

Boeing asked for and received [shocker] the approval to sell 4 AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia in the mid-80s. THINK about that… AWACS only came online in 1978 and was still considered state of the art when the deal was made. Supposedly, the planes the Saudis got were to be “hardwired” to prevent upgrades or changes that would enable Satellite communications, but honestly, do we really believe that? My husband was a contract instructor for Boeing and went over there to “teach” their computer technicians the NEW PROCEDURES for the upgraded equipment they’d gotten. He got a big fat cash bonus for going (or he wouldn’t have gone) because it was right after the villas the workers were staying in were bombed by a suicide driver.

Anyway, Stucky, yes… that is what AWACS does working in concert with another AWACS (by the way, everyone calls them E3As but the nomenclature is no longer accurate. They are all either E3Bs or E3Cs (maritime capable). The Saudis were sold E3As, but hell, they probably have more upgrades than any of ours now, since Boeing got permission to put a permanent training facility there to “help” them train their crews and maintenance folks. What that means is that Boeing does it for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t just pay retired AWACers to fly their jets for them, the lazy ragheads. Oops? Did I say that out loud?

Maggie
Maggie

Oh, and I came across one of his training CDs from that trip the other day. This one asshole tried to turn him in for OPSEC violation for having training material on a CD ROM without it coming in under diplomatic seal. Idiots. Our government people are idiots.

Ghost

Now, if I were to go into specifics about how the data transfers occur via satellite links, then the whole blog might have to be shut down, so I just won’t do that.

Ghost

@stucky… were you talking to another awacs babe?

Ghost

Okay, Stucky, I will assume you were directing you question to another AWACS babe and this is my last attempt to rouse you from your December 2 slumber. 6 more months of winter.

Henry
Henry

It seems Pat and alot of western paleocons in general misunderstand the situation in Russia.

In the west we all think the west is ridden by political correctness, mass immigration and decayed morals while Russia has undergone a rebirth and is a cradle of white, Christian civilization.

It might suprise most westerners to know that Russia has one of the biggest Muslim populations in Europe- both from native minorities with Russian citizenship, like Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis, Circassians- and foreign immigrants from Central Asia like Kazakhs, Kygryzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.

The native Muslims with Russian citizenship are make up 14% of the population, a total of 12.5 million. But as millions of Central Asian Muslims are pouring into Russia, even native Muslims in Russia are starting to panic about the surge of foreign Central Asian Muslims who are repopulating Russia. One Russian Muslim named Abdullah Rinat Mukhametov wrote an article about this recently.

It would be as if native Muslims in Europe like Bosnians or Albanians starting to panic about foreign Middle Eastern Muslims moving in.

Russia also has other non-white minorities like Mongol Buryats, Kalmyks, and Mongoloid Tuvans.

The current Defence Minister of Russia is Sergei Shoigu- his father was a non-white Tuvan and his mother was a white Russian. Yes, Putin appoints non-white minorities to key positions.

Many Russian patriots in fact are also panicking and blaming Putin for the current influx of Muslims into Russia and their rising population. They find it funny how western nationalists and paleocons respect Putin for being non-PC, while Putin acts PC in Russia itself, Putin allows all these Muslim migrants to move into Russia, he builds new Mosques in Tatarstan, and he allows Ramzan Kadyrov to practice Sharia law in Chechnya, allowing polygamy and pays Chechnya a subsidy of over 2 billion rubles every year besides openly funding and patronizing Sufi religious orders.

One of the demands of some rightist Russian nationalists is in fact that Putin give independence to Chechnya and the other Caucasian republics, and ban all immigrants from those areas to the Slavic heartlands in order to preserve Russia’s Slavic, Orthodox character.

Putin is widely viewed as being pro-Muslim in Russia. Putin said that Islam and Orthodoxy are closer to each other of Catholicism while being interviewed on television. Putin organized protests by Russian Muslims against the Charlie Hebdo cartoons. He does not permit such cartoons to be published in Russian media. One of Putin’s advisors is the Chechen Muslim Vladislav Surkov. Half of Abkhazians are Muslims.

Putin’s idea of Russian nationalism, is not Pat’s idea of nationalism. Putin has been promoting a form of Russian cultural nationalism, where anyone of speaks Russian and is a citizen of Russia, is a Russian and is to be regarded as a Russian- not based on ethnicity. Putin speaks in politically correct language in regards to ethnicity. The word for ethnic Slavic Orthodox Russians is “Russkiye”. The word for all citizens of Russsia regardless of ethnicity or religion is “Rossiyane”. Putin always uses “Rossiyane” in his speech when talking about Russians. The only time he use the word “Russkiye” was talking about ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine- who are not Russian citizens. Putin has been promoting the inclusion of non-white citizens of Russia, like Buddhist Kalmyks and Buryats, Muslims like Chechens, Dagestanis, Circassians, Tatars, Bashkirs, and others, all as “Russians”. It is very much politically correct. Nothing like what Pat imagines as ethnic nationalism.

Russia has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. Its Slavic, White Christian population has the low fertility rate and is decreasing while non-white, and Muslim populations have bigger fertility rates and are increasing. Many white Russian women have abortions and don’t have more than two children.

So I have no idea how Pat can bash Europe for being PC and being hedonistic with a low fertility rate and having mass migration, when Russia is doing the same things at an even faster rate. Russia is mass importing non-white migrants and Russian women practice abortion and have a low fertility rate like European women do. Russians are not some supermen immune to hedonism.

Alot also misunderstand how Putin views the Soviet Union. Most people in the west think that Putin’s revival of Orthodoxy and Russian culture means that he is rejecting the Soviet Union. That is not what is happening.

Putin views the Soviet Union as akin to another dynasty in Russian history. Putin respects both the Tsarist past AND Soviet Union as being Russian accomplishments, praising the great accomplishments from both eras and rejecting the bad things and failures from both eras.

Just as the Chinese celebrate all their dynasties in their history, even though the succeeding dynasties violently overthrew and killed the preceding dynasties, Putin celebrates both the Soviet Union and Tsars.

Putin praised Stalin’s accomplishments while criticizing his failures and mistakes just as he praises Peter the Great’s or Catherine’s accomplishments. Putin didn’t trash Stalin or throw out his legacy. Neither did he dod that with Lenin. There are still statues of Stalin around Russia, and Lenin’s body is still entombed at the mausoleum in Red Square. In fact some new statues of Stalin were erected during Putin’s rule, Putin compared Stalin to Cromwell in praising him and defending the erection of the statues. You would have thought if he wanted to trash the Soviet legacy, he would have taken Lenin’s body out of Red Square and flushed it down the toilet instead of letting it remain there. There was also a move of Soviet Russian veterans to rename the city of Volgograd back to Staliningrad.

Putin has praised both the Soviet Generals and White Russian Tsarist Generals at the same time for their accomplishments and bravery.

The Soviet Union was the state with the most powerful nuclear weapon (Tsar Bomba), the biggest nuclear arsenal ever created, the first satellite in space (Sputnik), the first men in space (cosmonauts), the fighter jet (MIG) the first state in Russian history to be a global superpower with influence all over the world.

Did any of you really think that Putin was going to reject the legacy of a state which had accomplished all of those things I listed, and bequeathed Russia with its modern nuclear arsenal? If Putin trashed the Soviet Union that means he would also have to reject all their accomplishments.

Stalin is identified by Ossetians as one of their own. Stalin’s father is believed to be of Ossetian origin and Ossetians have clashed against Georgians in claiming him as their hero. Stalin was believed to hold a grudge against Ingush and Chechen Muslims because of his Ossetian background. So when Pat was citing Georgia as “Stalin’s birthplace” as a reason not to side with Georgia against Russia and Ossetians, it was a mystery as to what that was supposed to imply when both Ossetians and Russians admire Stalin and claim him as their champion There are legitimate reasons to not be involved in that war. The place of Stalin’s birth is not one of them.

Even during the days of the Tsars, Muslims were serving in the Russian army. There were Bashkir Muslims serving the Tsars against Napoleon and Azeri Muslims serving in the Tsarist Russian army against the Germans in World War I. The Muslim states like the Emirate of Bukhara and Khanate of Khiva were protectorates of the Russian Tsar.

Yes, Russian Tsarists were deploying swarthy Muslims from the Caucasus, and Mongoloid Muslims from Siberia, against fellow Christian White Europeans.

Alot of the Russian nobility had a small amount of Mongol-Tatar blood since the Russian Tsars converted some of the Mongol Princes of the Golden Horde’s scucesors (Khanate of Kazan, Khanate of Astrakhan) to Orthodox Christianity, made them nobles, and had them intermarry with Russian nobility. The Yusupov family (their name derives from “Yusuf”) is one of them. They intermarried with other Russian nobles and spread their Mongol genes around the White Russian nobles

flash
flash

@ Henry… excellent analysis of the rise Putin phenomena +1000 , admin should put your commitment up as a post.
Like Brandon smith noted here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-02/fall-america-signals-rise-new-world-order
Putin’s Russia is not our friend and it was rumored to be dropped by a Russian diplomat at a dinner party years before anyone had ever heard of Obongo , that he was indeed a Russian plant…makes perfect sense if you think about it and will bring great joy to Bea Lever as it will substantiate his incessant claim of the spectre of “controlled postilion” now haunting geopolitical machinations…if indeed this coming West versus East tunr out to be one big head fake, it will be the most brilliant play in the annuls of all statecraft that were ever written.

The Fall Of America Signals The Rise Of The New World Order

Putin continues to press the “U.S. as bumbling villain” narrative, while at the same time supporting globalist institutions and the internationalization of economic and political governance. While many people were overly focused on his “calling out” of the U.S. and its involvement in the creation of ISIS in his recent speech at the U.N., they seemed to have completely overlooked his adoration of the United Nations and the development of a global governing body. Putin often speaks at cross purposes just as Barack Obama does — one minute supporting sovereignty and freedom, the next minute calling for global centralization:

“Russia is ready to work together with its partners to develop the UN further on the basis of a broad consensus, but we consider any attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the United Nations as extremely dangerous. They may result in the collapse of the entire architecture of international relations, and then indeed there will be no rules left except for the rule of force.”

“Dear colleagues, ensuring peace and global and regional stability remains a key task for the international community guided by the United Nations. We believe this means creating an equal and indivisible security environment that would not serve a privileged few, but everyone.”

Putin also proclaimed his support for the UN’s fight against “climate change”, the same climate change which Secretary of State John Kerry argued was a “contributing factor” in the crisis in Syria and the rise of ISIS. I have written in the past on the fraud of “man made climate change (global warming)” and will not enter that tangent here now, but the point remains that Putin is fully on board with said fraud like all other puppet politicians around the globe:

“…One more issue that shall affect the future of the entire humankind is climate change. It is in our interest to ensure that the coming UN Climate Change Conference that will take place in Paris in December this year should deliver some feasible results. As part of our national contribution, we plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions to 70–75 percent of the 1990 levels by the year 2030.”

“It is indeed a challenge of global proportions. And I am confident that humanity does have the necessary intellectual capacity to respond to it. We need to join our efforts, primarily engaging countries that possess strong research and development capabilities, and have made significant advances in fundamental research. We propose convening a special forum under the auspices of the UN to comprehensively address issues related to the depletion of natural resources, habitat destruction, and climate change. Russia is willing to co-sponsor such a forum.”

one more issue that shall affect the future of the entire humankind is climate change. It is in our interest to ensure that the coming UN Climate Change Conference that will take place in Paris in December this year should deliver some feasible results. As part of our national contribution, we plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions to 70–75 percent of the 1990 levels by the year 2030. – See more at: http://www.russianmission.eu/en/news/president-vladimir-putin-addresses-
It is indeed a challenge of global proportions. And I am confident that humanity does have the necessary intellectual capacity to respond to it. We need to join our efforts, primarily engaging countries that possess strong research and development capabilities, and have made significant advances in fundamental research. We propose convening a special forum under the auspices of the UN to comprehensively address issues related to the depletion of natural resources, habitat destruction, and climate change. Russia is willing to co-sponsor such a forum. – See more at: http://www.russianmission.eu/en/news/president-vladimir-putin-addresses-

Indeed, it has been Putin’s intention all along to support and defend the internationalist framework while at the same time participating in the theatrical East versus West false paradigm:

“In the BRICS case we see a whole set of coinciding strategic interests.

First of all, this is the common intention to reform the international monetary and financial system. In the present form it is unjust to the BRICS countries and to new economies in general. We should take a more active part in the IMF and the World Bank’s decision-making system. The international monetary system itself depends a lot on the US dollar, or, to be precise, on the monetary and financial policy of the US authorities. The BRICS countries want to change this.”

The Chinese support the same agenda of an IMF managed economic world:

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