The West’s cultural foundations are crumbling, which may explain the attack on Russian culture. From Alastair Crooke at strategic-culture.su:
Can a West of shared, cultural like-mindedness ‘imagine itself’ into total cultural war against the values of Russia?
“The rules-based international order has not been this imperilled since the 1930s”, writes Professor of Foreign Affairs, Walter Russell Mead:
“The UN was supposed to be the crown jewel of the rules-based order … but lately [it] has sunk to new lows. Among the five permanent members of the Security Council, only Joe Biden bothered to show up for the General Assembly last week. Emmanuel Macron was too busy … [and] Rishi Sunak was the first [UK] prime minister in a decade to skip the annual meeting. Mr. Putin and China’s Xi Jinping also ditched the U.N. meeting …There was a time when people would have cared …”.
Had you been watching images broadcast from the General Assembly, when Zelensky was speaking, you would have seen the auditorium was almost entirely empty, or, at best, a third full. Prime Minister Netanyahu also addressed the GA, as did Chancellor Scholtz, who again addressed a bare handful of delegation note-takers.
The crux of it is, there is no excitement. No-one in the Global Majority is particularly interested to listen to western leaders, with their litany of cultural fixations, whilst their societies’ ‘Life’ problems spiral down into real crisis. “Boring” was how one commentator described western discourse; “the real excitement is in Asia”.
