Carnegie Moscow Center Chief Rips Obama’s ‘Russia Is Isolated’ Myth

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Dmitri Trenin, the first Russian Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center (linked to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington), published an article in China’s official Global Times yesterday which thoroughly repudiated the massive lying by Obama and others in the West regarding Russia’s “isolation” from the “international community,” while presenting the reality that Russia, China, and the BRICS generally are on a course for transforming the world towards a development paradigm.

During Russia’s presidency of the BRICS this year, Trenin noted, the institution will

“take another step toward pushing for reforms in global governance and enhancing the member states’ impact on global issues. By hosting the leaders of the leading non-Western nations, Putin will demonstrate to the Russian people and the world that his country is anything but isolated. BRICS, after all, brings together countries whose combined population is 3 billion, 40% of the world’s total. They also account for a quarter of the global GDP and nearly a fifth of international trade”

Trenin noted that the BRICS countries all refused to condemn or sanction Russia over Crimea and other issues, and that Russia’s problems

“are primarily with the U.S. and its allies, while much of the world remains friendly to Russia and increases cooperation with it. After the Western countries abandoned the G8 formula last year, which included Russia, and reverted to the old G7, Moscow has dropped the notion of being a ‘bridge’ between the West and the non-West, and has begun to identify itself more with the latter.”

Russia sees the BRICS’ mission, wrote Trenin, as “an alliance of reformers,” intent to reform the existing international institutions like the IMF, but also to “raise the level of economic interaction among the group’s members and to promote modernization.”

He described the huge economic deals signed with China, Brazil and others, and the move to trade in local currencies to lessen dependence on the dollar.

On China:

“In close tandem with Beijing, Moscow has long been seeking to raise the primary role of the UN Security Council, to which both China and Russia belong, as the sole legitimizing organ within the global system. Russia and China have been coordinating their policies on some of the most important international issues, such as the Syrian conflict, the Iranian nuclear program and the nuclear conundrum on the Korean Peninsula.”

Trenin also pointed to the fact that both the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will also be meeting in Ufa this summer, with India and Pakistan likely to join the SCO. As a result of these two institutions, he wrote, “global competition in all fields, finance and economics, security and values, will get stronger, and the diversity of the world become more visible and palpable.”

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