Grigory Yavlinsky’s web-site and Zhivoi Gvozd Youtube channel, 16.10.2023

Grigory Yavlinsky on the Hamas attack on Israel, repression in Russia and the future world order

Everything on which the world order was based after the end of World War II is losing significance before our eyes. After the extreme horrors of war and colossal sacrifices, the preservation of human life, human freedom and rights was proclaimed the main value of the united nations. The European Union was created on these principles.

Today Man falls out of the meanings and goals of so-called geopolitics. The life of a person – not an abstract one, but the life of every concrete person – loses value and is devalued.

At the same time, the obvious crisis and the gradual but steady collapse of the world political system have not yet been truly recognised as a global danger. Moreover, this is used for achieving purely tactical, backward-looking goals, and satisfying personal ambitions. A struggle, as if for a new world order called “multipolar”, is flaring up. This struggle turns into real military clashes and is accompanied by massive killings of people. The scale is growing.

What is this “multipolar” world? Is it when one can’t kill people at one pole, but can at the other? Is it when politicians are not allowed to systematically lie to people at one pole, but when it is a mandatory condition at the other? Is it when it is impossible to humiliate citizens at one pole, but when humiliation of a person by the state is an everyday practice at the other? It is when terrorism is a crime at one pole, and is a “brave struggle” at the other? But there is also something in common: at each of the “poles” there are enough nuclear weapons to destroy the “poles”, the “multipolarity”, and our entire planet.

Is this how you would like to see the world?

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Grigory Yavlinsky was asked about the Hamas attack on Israel, repression in Russia and the future world order in the recent broadcast of the Zhivoi Gvozd channel.