I will tell you the moment I was a little troubled in Putin's answers, and let me know if anyone else had the same impression. When Tucker was asking about the brain analogy....I thought Putin was going to say something like "Why do their have to be two halves...why cannot there be many people doing there own thing cooperating peacefully" More like a coral colony or something like that.
He went the other direction. That we needed a "new global security framework" - which sounded an aweful lot like global government still to me...just on Russia's terms or terms to be negotiated by the East and West - with the South still enslaved to the will of the great powers. That has always been my fear of BRICS as well - out with the Old Gods, in with the New Gods....and they give the world a new form of bullying - Chinese style.
Can't we just have a purely TRULY MULTIPOLAR framework where countries can go their own ways and not bother each other? No big brother telling others what to do? I suspect all these factions are working towards the same goal, and it is not in the best interests of all of us.
When I think of the alternative though, a world with many nuclear powers guided only by self-interest and no security framework (aka mutual deterrence and binding treaties) it basically sounds like lawlessness on the world stage. If we can take what Bukele has done in El Salvador as a microcosm, introducing harsh laws to incarcerate criminals, with clear social benefits, I think we can see in that the potential of a multipolar world order organized under international law. The same could be said for China's incarceration of financial parasites. I just don't think anarchy works on this planet, on a small scale or large.
I'm not opposed to global government if it's directed on the basis of actually respecting and enforcing human rights, upholding agreements, and a focus on trade and cross-cultural sharing, and win-win cooperation, reason, mutual respect, etc. This looks to me like what the BRICS+ is organizing, to the degree possible in 3D. Ideally this would a globalism amongst sovereigns, or a world-wide scale of the Musketeer's principle 'All for one, and one for all'. It'll sure be interesting to wait and see how it all unfolds. In the interview, Putin seemed confident that it is as inevitable as the rising of the sun.
The psychopaths and hyperdimensional overlords may go into full evil mode to subvert it all in the near future, but IMO the era we're entering sure looks a lot better than Team America World Police on the one hand, or global nuclear-armed anarchy on the other. We may actually be headed for a Peace of Westphalia redux!
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I don't know what the future will hold for China in particular. It seems to me that they've made pretty good on their path of Confucian ethics to maintain social harmony (banning porn and limiting video game time), and a blend of Marxist/Market economics. They've got a peaceful foreign policy, too, relatively speaking. They don't seem like they want to be the new hegemon. These all look like good signs to me, as I don't see the signs of outright ponerization in China, quite the opposite. I could be wrong, but a new evil China-led NWO just doesn't look to be in the cards to my eyes. At least not for a while.
My two cents.