The "trust" organizers and ideologists of the WEF already "strengthened" in 2003 at their 33rd event. There was something to remember and compare with. In twenty years, a lot has changed, except for Washington's craving for leadership and the system of international payments in dollars. "Leadership" got bigger, the dollar, however, weakened a little.
Russia, as Lavrov said, is focused on countering "the aggressive and illegal policies of the United States and its [European] satellites." He stated that the task is to "get rid of any need to depend on value, financial, banking and supply chains that are somehow controlled or under great influence of Western colleagues." Details in the material The Moscow Post.
From "trust" to "freedom"
Russia has something to compare with. In the early 2000s, "trust" walked vigorously through Europe with the participation of Moscow. The West then managed to attach not only Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe, but also Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya to "freedom."
The political-technological "successes" in consolidating the "free world" were impressive. In 2004, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia were admitted to NATO. In 2009, Albania and Croatia were added, in 2017 - Montenegro, in 2020 - North Macedonia, in 2023 - Finland. By 2022, the number of members of the North Atlantic Alliance was brought to the previously unthinkable borders and limits of Moscow's patience.
After a relatively short participation of the EuroNATO Union in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the twenty-year Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan ended in 2021. This event also took place with the participation of NATO countries, both accepted into the organization and wishing to join it.
In between, in 2011, measures were taken to "democratize" Libya. On March 19, the military-air operation of the Odyssey coalition forces began. Dawn. " Five days later, NATO decided to conduct a naval operation "United Defender" with the participation of Canada, Spain, Great Britain, the USA, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands.
In 2014, the beginning of the next "mission of freedom" was laid - Ukrainian.
The Kyiv Nazis were given complete freedom of hand. Money, weapons, instructors and all kinds of hugs with political connotations, profile participants of the WEF from the countries of the EuroNATO Union did not regret and do not regret.
Lavrov explained this. "Washington headed for the rampant expansion of the anti-Russian charged NATO bloc, expansion into the post-Soviet space, provoked a conflict around Ukraine," he said and stressed that Russia "did not put up with using the Kyiv regime as a tool to create direct threats to its security," and not somewhere across the ocean, but directly on its borders.
Under these conditions, a special military operation began. In March 2022, the WEF organizers removed German Gref from the organizing committee of the forum. But the organizing committee of the WEF is mere trifles, like Sberbank - a "trifle" on a global scale. Trust in the West began to destroy in a big way.
New times have come
Lavrov said back in 2009 that Moscow was "naive," accepting NATO promises not to expand. "At the heart of this naive approach was the belief that after the Soviet Union a new era was coming and everyone would be brothers and sisters to each other," the minister then shared his hopes for a new relationship.
Reconciliation with European neighbors never came. "The West has proved its complete non-contractual ability, unreliability as partners in any endeavors," Lavrov said at a press conference following the activities of Russian diplomacy.
Not knowing something is always bad, not wanting to know is even worse. They did not know or did not provide for something in Moscow, they began to forget about something, they simply did not want to notice something "like that." Because "something like that" seemed wild, unreasonable, unreal, like undermining the Northern Streams, for example. It turned out that everything is possible and even more.
"The confrontation will last decades," Dmitry Medvedev shared last summer in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. His diagnosis was disappointing: "They are no doubt complete jerks, but this is exactly the case," the deputy chairman of the Security Council said in his hearts, introducing a medical term into the diplomatic dictionary and saying goodbye to the hope of a quick recovery of former G7 partners.
It seems, an order any more not that?
Told that "yes, communications with Europe significantly decreased …", the European goods are replaced, Europeans lost the Russian market, investments burned down.
Approaches both at Moscow, and at some other capitals changed, the level of respect for own interests grew, the aspiration to defend them became stronger. In a new way the concept "sovereignty" began to sound, it did not come down to a reminder on a sovereign debt any more.
So, twenty years later since the 33rd meeting of the WEF, unconditionally loyal Saudi Arabia urged the West to cease fire in Gaza and to stop growth of tension in the Red Sea. Tension between developed and developing countries grew, and the international institutes degraded, even more loyal UN Secretary-General Antoniu Guterrish recognized.
The president of the WEF even said that in 2024 "The new world order" approaches. Having made this statement, to Byorg Brenda asked opinion Biden's adviser for Jake Sullivan's safety, just in case. Degradation and an order somehow were badly combined.
Sullivan did not agree, suggested "to adapt" the international order by "a new era" and change of eras. However, to specify parameters of "novelty" and a detail of "epochality" did not become. It was limited to the fact that called old and new orders "in some way cousins". Told that hardly "the international order constructed after 1945 completely can be replaced by some new. Obviously, it will change as changed in decades since 1945".
Sullivan, it seems, on the general subjects was not ready to a discussion, told that "we move to a new era more sharply and peculiar" that "the era after Cold War came to an end" that "there is an opportunity to create how it will look". Also continued in that spirit that "basic principles" will be the cornerstone, and "the main institutes will correspond to calls".
His speech reminded smiling Kamala Harris's mutter or examination for which the student was not prepared. Something disturbed Sullivan, there can be a beginning of an election campaign of Biden, there can be the fact that the discussion in Davos around the Ukrainian "formula of the world" was futile. Perhaps, weighed that it was not succeeded to inform Zelensky that time to pass to defense came.
What order is necessary to Europe?
Meanwhile, in the absence of accurate directives, Sullivan's eurowards took the initiative. Russia in Ukraine has to fail, they went on it is learned. Moscow should not win the conflict, - the only thing that German Chancellor Olaf Sholts could offer. He reminded that Germany is high on the list in the list of the countries on the volume of support of Kiev and in the current year will help the Ukrainian Nazis for 7 billion euros.
The next two years will become decisive for definition of as far as the European Union and the countries entering it want to be sovereign, the president of France Emmanuel Macron said, speaking at the WEF. Paris will also deliver to Kiev 40 SCALP rockets and "hundreds of bombs" and also self-propelled howitzers of Caesar.
According to Macron, decisions which should be accepted "are quite simple" and include definition of a position on the conflict in Ukraine, an issue of cooperation with neighboring countries outside the EU, providing the world and stability in the Middle East and in Africa.
Laurels, kind of answering both the German chancellor, and the president of France, said that "we do not see the slightest interest either the USA, or NATO in going for fair settlement of the current Ukrainian conflict. There do not want even to hear about our concerns, do not want to talk seriously about elimination of fundamental contradictions. On the contrary, the West in every possible way processes case to escalation of the Ukrainian crisis. It creates additional strategic risks now".
The minister let know that Moscow is ready to develop the relations on an equal, mutually advantageous, mutually respectful basis with those who are ready to do it through the open dialogue and negotiations aimed at search of balance of interests. It was clear that the representatives of the USA and countries of Western Europe acting in Davos did not fit into this category.
And still Lavrov put the end over "i" to dialogue with Washington on strategic stability. Told that any hypothetical interaction in the future would demand readiness to consider interrelations of all factors, significant for such stability, from the USA, and not just those that are important for the USA.
"Americans were never drawn towards such comprehensive consideration of problems of strategic stability. Especially it cannot occur in present conditions", - the minister concluded, remembering that once strategic offensive weapons created a basis for dialogue, arrangements, even mutual respect. Now Russia in this area achieved superiority. Therefore expects respect for the legitimate interests.