Around the Spring Festival of 2024, the news about Russia's ** Putin's interview with the famous American journalist Carlson was released on China's Chinese New Year's Eve, causing a lot of repercussions. Among them, especially noticed by the Chinese, even during the Putin period, Russia had quite strong illusions about the United States and the West.
According to reports, in the interview, Putin himself described that not only the Yeltsin era of Russia's dream of being accepted by the Western bloc, but also the Putin era. He said that after I became ** in 2000, I thought that everything was in the past and that we had to try to restore relations, after all, to open the door that Russia had been trying to enter. When I met with outgoing Bill Clinton in the Kremlin, I asked him, and I said: Listen, Bill, do you think it's possible if Russia raises the issue of joining NATO? And he suddenly said: you know, it's funny, I think it's possible.
In the evening, when we had dinner together, he said: No, not now. The interviewer then asked Putin if it was really possible for Russia to join NATO, to which Putin replied that if he (referring to Clinton) said "yes", then the process of approaching would begin, which could eventually come to fruition, if we see that partners sincerely want to do so. Of course, today's Putin should thoroughly understand that all this has disappeared.
Frankly speaking, in the past few decades, there have been many lessons from the Soviet Union, a large northern power, and later Russia, and the help they have provided to China in this regard is even far greater than the material and technical support, and they have really played the role of negative teachers and trial and error in all aspects
First, the collapse and collapse of the Soviet Union. This case has made the whole of China fully realize the importance of maintaining a unified multi-ethnic state, and realize that China must follow its own path, and that changing its flag and taking the evil road of Westernization is a dead end. It should be said that this lesson has now been accepted and recognized by the majority of Chinese, and has played its due warning role.
Second, Russia is disillusioned with the United States and the West. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia, which became independent, once pinned almost all of its hopes for a new life on the United States and the West, copying the political plans of the West, trusting the economic prescriptions of the West, and having very ardent expectations for integrating into the West and becoming a member of it. The newly-born Russia is so persistent, even after these hopes have hit the wall, it still wants to become a strategic partner of the West, and also wants to get the West's understanding on the issue of the construction of the anti-missile defense system and the no further eastward expansion of NATO, counting on the West to strategically spare Russia, no longer support Russia's political opposition and ** forces, and let Russia go....These fantasies have been fully explained in the above-mentioned interview with Putin**.
But now all of this is in vain. At present, the conflict between Russia and the West is so serious that it is difficult not only to become a member of the Western world in the foreseeable historical period, but even in the foreseeable historical period, it is difficult to avoid a fierce confrontation with the West. The latest news is that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on NATO member states to increase defense production and prepare for a "confrontation" with Russia that could last for decades. I believe that such a statement is enough to make the whole of Russia "pull out the cold" and shatter all their previous unrealistic illusions.
This is another very vivid case. Theoretically and logically, this lesson from the Russian side should provide China with sufficient warnings and make all patriotic Chinese profoundly realize that the so-called integration into the Western world is a delusional illusion, and the hegemonic bloc is completely untrustworthy; whoever believes in them will be deceived, and in the end they will be forced to have no way out and fall into a difficult situation in which they cannot but fight to the death.
But is that really the case?
In fact, even in the face of the lessons of the collapse of the Soviet Union, there are still quite a few Chinese who are still stubborn. To this day, some people are still clamoring for China to follow the evil path of changing its banner like the Soviet Union, and are still trying to use Western political and economic solutions to transform China, and still want to copy and copy the Western path of modernization and imitate their social model. There is still a vast space for such people to operate in China today, and they have also formed a powerful power group, which is a reality that people cannot but face squarely.
Given such a reality, we cannot expect Russia's disillusionment with the United States and the West to be a shock and wake-up call to China. As people can see, the illusions and delusions of the United States and the West similar to those in Russia are still prevalent in today's Chinese society, and all kinds of performances and performances are quite adequate and in place, and they have the following characteristics:
First, it pins its hopes on cooperation from the United States, hoping to accelerate China's economic development and technological progress and help China realize its peaceful reunification.
Second, it hopes that the United States will recognize and recognize China's national rejuvenationSome people have frankly explained to the United States that they are trying to believe that China's development and growth will not challenge the United States, but will uphold the current international order and strengthen the United States' global leadership position, hoping that in exchange for the United States agreeing with and recognizing China's historical path and development model, and accepting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Third, it is hoped that the hegemon will be able to change evil from goodUnder China's tireless urging, we should abandon the Cold War mentality, abandon the established strategy of taking China as the number one opponent, give up the threat of force and war and aggression, change from evil to good, and lay down the butcher's knife to become a Buddha.
All of these delusional fantasies are quite seriously pervasive in China, and they seem to have the same similarities and interests as Putin's previous fantasies, so they probably will not undergo a turning point and subversive change because of the disillusionment on the part of Russia.
However, after all, there will be a day when China will encounter Russia's situation today, and there will eventually be a realization like Putin's. To this end, all patriotic Chinese should fully absorb the past and past experiences and lessons of Russia and Putin, and discard all illusions and delusions about the hegemonic bloc with the greatest determination and courage.
First, don't expect the hegemon to let China go. Now they have identified China as the number one adversary in their global strategy, and as Putin said, "the West is afraid of a strong China over a strong Russia", so they are determined to win a new victory through "strategic competition". The so-called "strategic competition" is now described by the hegemonic clique as sanctimonious and quite noble and just, but in fact it is a reproduction of the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the means and tricks used are no less than those of the past. It can be said that the hegemon's major policy aimed at China has been decided, and there is no possibility of changing its course, still less is it possible to abandon its abolition.
Second, promises from the hegemon cannot be trusted. The author has said many times that deception, deception and deception are the connotations that must be in any strategic plan, even in ordinary chess games, let alone the gladiatorial battles at the strategic level. The conspicuous method of strategic deception is to design and arrange all kinds of collusion transactions, and in the process it is full of all kinds of promises and promises; the promise made by the United States and the West to Russia that NATO will not expand eastward was a concrete application of such tricks, and now the hegemon's "four noes and one unintentional" against China is also the same, and the so-called recognition of "one China" is also the same. Similar promises and promises are really bullshit, worthless, whoever believes in them will be fooled, let alone expect these things to be implemented, as the chairman of the *** said and pointed out back then, "We must have a clear mind, including not believing in the 'good words' of imperialism and not being afraid of imperialist intimidation." Boris Yeltsin in Russia and Saddam Hussein in Iraq are all vivid cases.
Third, we must not show mercy to the United States and the West at the hands of the best people in China. One of the important reasons why the United States was able to bring down the Soviet Union and later deceived Russia very bitterly was that the United States and the West had planted a huge contingent of powerful people in the Soviet Union and Russia, who had stolen important positions and were active in all fields of social life. Nowadays, there is also such a situation in China, the ** forces and the fifth column are quite rampant, and the harm caused by this cannot be underestimated, let alone show mercy to these people. Some people are accustomed to blaming up this force in the name of pluralism and freedom of speech, and their hearts can be condemned.
In fact, the ideological struggles on the Internet again and again tell us that only by resolutely cracking down on the fifth column of the ** forces can we better protect freedom of speech, can we better mobilize and give play to China's patriotic enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and can we fundamentally safeguard the strategic security of the country and the nation, and there is no room for compromise or any luck at all.
You have deceived us" - now Putin ** has spoken openly about such feelings. I think that this should be regarded as the victory of the United States and the West and the defeat of Russia, because they are strategically gullible and deceived, and they can only blame themselves and blame others. It is believed that this lesson is enough for Russia to learn and digest for decades and hundreds of years. However, this lesson should not only be taught by Russia, and China should also get full enlightenment and warning from it.