Pink Floyd And "New Russian World" After Ukraine World Daily List Danas

The man who made this group really big and important to the history of rock and roll, bassist, singer and composer, Roger Waters, in an interview with the London Telegraph this week, admitted that he "perhaps unfairly" called Putin a "gangster" in the past In a January interview with Berliner Zeitung, Waters asked whether "Putin is a bigger gangster than Joe Biden and all those who have been in charge of American policy since World War II," and said that Putin "governs carefully, making decisions based on consensus in Russia Federation".

Roger Waters spoke on Wednesday, February 8, at the invitation of Russia, at the session of the UN Security Council, where he said that he did not consider the Russian operation in Ukraine "unprovoked" and called on the presidents of the USA, Russia and Ukraine to agree on a ceasefire in Ukraine .

Earlier, Waters spoke out against the delivery of Western weapons to Kiev On his page on social networks, he published a letter to the wife of Vladimir Zelensky, Elena, in which he criticizes "adding fuel to the fire" of Western countries in the situation with Ukraine.

Zelenskaya replied to the letter, but advised not to contact her in search of peace She managed, however, to cancel two of Waters' concerts in Poland, due to his accusations that "extreme nationalists" are behind the "catastrophic war" in Ukraine.

Waters is very close to the libertarian political views of Noam Chomsky and very critical of Israel's policy towards the Palestinians David Gilmour's current wife, Polly, harshly accused him of being "an anti-Semite in his rotten core", "also a Putin apologist and a liar, a thief and a tax-dodging hypocrite, a misogynist, sick with envy, a megalomaniac.

" WALL ): Waters parted ways with Pink Floyd in 1985, but his album Zid / ​​The Wall became a symbol of the historic end of the Cold War, which was shared by David Gilmour and Roger Waters Pink Floyd held five concerts in Moscow in 1989, and Waters only one in Berlin the following year.

But that concert is the biggest rock event ever organized in the world so far I was one of half a million attendees at that concert.

The sound system was stormy, but the stage and decor next to the Brandenburg Gate were almost impossible to see Waters invited the East German symphony orchestra and choir to perform, as well as the Soviet marching band.

To ensure that all of the Cold War powers were represented, Waters enlisted multiple helicopters from the US 7th Commando Squadron to fly over the stage and giant mannequins standing behind it, along with a 25-foot-tall brick wall and 170 meters long.

Waters admitted that he started listening to the podcast The Duran, in which the hosts comment on world news "from the position of political realism", and after that he began to "respect Putin" more "Perhaps he is leading his country for the benefit of all the peoples of Russia," he added.

Waters' evolution well illustrates the position of Western realists in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, a heterogeneous group that spreads across the spectrum from the left to the right, all the way to anarchist ideas, that the picture is not simply black and white, that Putin is not the only villain and that the most optimal is to seek negotiation, and not a military solution to this conflict However, this position is far from being widely understood and supported, rather it could be said that it is met with suspicion and rejected as an unjustified condescending attitude towards Putin and Russia.

But, this does not mean that caution has not crept into Western governments as well Despite US support and the Ukrainian struggle, the war is now approaching its second year, and several observers in the United States and Europe are increasingly worried about the consequences of a prolonged war.

Amid these concerns, some of the sharpest criticism of the Biden administration's Ukraine policy has come from realists The realist paradigm, widely taught in international relations courses, describes the international system as anarchic, with states ruthlessly pursuing their own interests.

He is critical of states and leaders who allow ideological commitments to stand in the way of this search for realpolitik Realism and realists are cautious by nature, wary of big "crusades" and aware of the fact that problems in international relations are rarely solved, but that they must be managed over time.

While these considerations have led many realists to call for greater restraint in helping Ukraine, a strong realist case can be made that the United States should continue its direct support of Ukraine's efforts to "drive the Russian occupiers from its territory " REALISTS: While Europe has a long tradition of realpolitik, in the United States realism has always been more present in the academic world than in administration.

In recent years, the US has experienced something of a renaissance in response to the ideological foreign policy exaggerations of "neocons" to justify the militarization of foreign policy, the US use of violence and the war on terror Today, "self-declared" realists - both scholars like Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, and practitioners, especially Henry Kissinger – warned of the potential risks posed by the administration's continued support for Kyiv.

Realists have questioned and conducted an important check on riskier ideas coming from proponents of stronger intervention, such as the idea of ​​imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine in the early stages of the war Their criticism centers on concerns about some combination of the potential for US support to escalate into a direct conflict between Moscow and NATO, or to divert resources from the higher-priority "urgent challenge" of China, or to trigger a broader Russian collapse that would defeat Russia and make its integration impossible.

into the new European security architecture None of these concerns should be dismissed.

A realistic view of aid to Ukraine accepts Mearsheimer's insight about the tragic structural nature of international politics, especially about the danger of a continuous period of great power competition with both Russia and China - as well as the constant threat that Vladimir Putin's Russia poses to peace and stability in Europe It recognizes that Ukraine's resilience and ingenuity provide an opportunity to, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin put it, "weaken Russia" and reshape the global balance of power in favor of the United States and its allies.

In providing aid and support to Ukraine, the United States should heed realists' warnings about the dangers of doing too much or taking unnecessary risks As the founder of academic realism, Hans Morgenthau, suggested, prudence is the primary realist virtue.

The Biden administration's insistence that US-provided weapons are not used for attacks on Russian soil is prudent such as her refusal to deploy US troops to Ukraine or impose a no-fly zone that would require the destruction of Russian targets.

Critics of realists believe that they do not have enough feelings for the importance of a moment and a turning point in history, as they consider Ukraine to be They also consider the initial rejection of Kiev's request for heavy armored tanks and longer-range artillery, which would enable it to conduct more effective offensive operations, to be wrong.

Regardless of Kissinger's career in government, realism struggled to gain a foothold in American foreign policy because of its sometimes blatantly vague, amoral nature Realists' belief in the permanent nature of international competition and rivalry can blind them to miss previously unimaginable opportunities, just as their calls for dispassionate analysis can obscure the importance of human factors like emotion and ideology.

Critics claim that much of the realist commentary on the war in Ukraine has fallen into this trap and demand that supporters of the realist tradition recognize that the war in Ukraine represents a turning point for Europe and for the global balance of power Because of all this, the United States should have been coy about seeking the defeat of Russia and the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine as a war objective.

THREE DIRECTIONS: But, almost everyone agrees that the Ukrainian conflict is entering the decisive six months when this conflict will take its final form It is assumed that three directions of development are possible in it.

The first is the eternal war, that is, the war of attrition, the second is the retreat, and the third is the advance of Russia If it is at the beginning of the conflict, immediately after the 24th.

In February, Russia defined broad military goals, such as the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine outside of NATO, along with the protection of Russian governorates in the Donbass, so far the goals have changed and become a kind of moving target Since four areas have already been annexed by Russia, in addition to Crimea, which experienced this in 2014, the minimum military goal is the conquest of Donbas, and then the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine.

After that, Russia's goal should probably be neutrality and complete demilitarization of the territories that remain under Kiev's control Russian realists, unlike the American ones, sharpened their position that Russia is not at war against Ukraine, but that it is at war against the West on the territory of Ukraine.

In addition, they point out that Russia's attempt to "Westernize" itself after the end of the Cold War, which was celebrated by Pink Floyd and Waters, was a mistake that should be corrected as much as possible Ukraine is an important but small part of the collapse of the old world order, which was dominated by global liberal imperialism imposed by the United States.

The Russian struggle is an expression of a wider movement towards a fairer and freer world of multipolarity and diversity of civilizations and cultures Russian strategists emphasize that one of the centers of such a world is being created in Eurasia, where there is a revival of great civilizations that were suppressed for several hundred years.

Russia should become the bearer of this new balance in the north of the north in this system Since the late Soviet era, Russian foreign policy has been aimed at rapprochement and integration with the West.

This, as is now abundantly clear, was a strategic mistake by the late Soviet leadership and the early Russian leadership Now everything came to an absolutely clear understanding.

Russia is not on the same path with the West for both ideological and geo-economic reasons And, among other things, the West, or the Western elites - not the West, reject the values ​​that they once shared with it: the values ​​of faith, love for the Motherland, for the family, the relationship between men and women - everything that is normal and that is the essence of man.

"From the point of view of where to participate and where not to participate, it is quite obvious that we stupidly and pointlessly stayed in such a corrupt organization as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, actually supporting this half-corpse The biggest mistake was trying to negotiate with NATO, legitimizing this organization and expanding it.

The second thing is that we were weak, but we were also stupid, so I think that issue has already been resolved," points out the leading ideologue of the new direction Sergey Karaganov He states that "it is probably worth participating in the G20, and, of course, it is worth participating in the UN.

" But one can simply close that part of Russian history that is called European or Western, reminding with gratitude that rapprochement with the West strengthened us in many ways, created great power for us by absorbing Western military and technical experience, created great literature "Now we need to calmly go to the new world, the world of the global majority, leaving with a sad smile, and, of course, cleaning up after ourselves this Western trail, which we have been dragging behind us for many years, which has long been outdated and is dragging us back for a long time" , concludes Karaganov.

It's a world in which, apparently, there is no room for Pink Floyd But one can simply close that part of Russian history that is called European or Western, reminding with gratitude that rapprochement with the West strengthened us in many ways, created great power for us by absorbing Western military and technical experience, created great literature.

"Now we need to calmly go to the new world, the world of the global majority, leaving with a sad smile, and, of course, cleaning up after ourselves this Western trail, which we have been dragging behind us for many years, which has long been outdated and is dragging us back for a long time" , concludes Karaganov It's a world where, obviously, there's no place for Pink Floyd.

But one can simply close that part of Russian history that is called European or Western, reminding with gratitude that rapprochement with the West strengthened us in many ways, created great power for us by absorbing Western military and technical experience, created great literature "Now we need to calmly go to the new world, the world of the global majority, leaving with a sad smile, and, of course, cleaning up after ourselves this Western trail, which we have been dragging behind us for many years, which has long been outdated and is dragging us back for a long time" , concludes Karaganov.

It's a world in which, apparently, there is no room for Pink Floyd "Now we need to calmly go to the new world, the world of the global majority, leaving with a sad smile, and, of course, cleaning up after ourselves this Western trail, which we have been dragging behind us for many years, which has long been outdated and is dragging us back for a long time" , concludes Karaganov.

It's a world where, obviously, there's no place for Pink Floyd "Now we need to calmly go to the new world, the world of the global majority, leaving with a sad smile, and, of course, cleaning up after ourselves this Western trail, which we have been dragging behind us for many years, which has long been outdated and is dragging us back for a long time" , concludes Karaganov.

It's a world where, obviously, there's no place for Pink Floyd .