If the French President, Emmanuel Macron, had told the country’s best diplomats in a closed-door meeting in August 2022 about the ‘changing world order’ in front of television cameras, Western unity in Ukraine would have crumbled.
‘I must say frankly that Western hegemony is coming to an end’ This is just one of Macron’s statements about the state of Western countries after the Ukraine war. A verbatim report of the statements and discussions there reached some of us in secret.
When I published the contents of this statement from a key member of the Western league described as ‘unshakable’, I expected boos. However, this story was not discussed much as the entire Indian media was covering the Western propaganda about the war in Ukraine.
An interview with Putin’s adviser, Valery Fadiyev a few months ago (the interview was published by ‘Media’) was seen by some not as an answer to doubts about what the Kremlin was thinking in the first months of the war, but as suspicions of ‘anti-Ukraine propaganda’.
A prominent editor described the interview with Fadiyev as ‘bad journalism’. That comment was attributed to the fact that the Russian army did not ask any questions about the massacre of innocent people in Buka.
However, Kalam revealed that the ‘Buka incident’ was fabricated by the Ukrainian propaganda department. The Ukrainian ambassador to India, who knew little about Indian history, compared the Russian invasion to Mughal atrocities against the Rajputs. Later, under some pressure, he moderated his exaggeration.
The war in Ukraine, the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the wars in Libya and Syria have all been missing from India’s perspective. Elections are near in Nepal.
The election results are of interest to both India and China. I wouldn’t be surprised if official Chinese media news centers started operating in the Himalayan foothills, but no Indian channel is known to have ventured out there to get the news firsthand.
Even as we shout from the rooftops that we are atmanirbhar (self-sufficient), the Indian media is completely dependent on western information sources for news. The dependence on those sources of information has increased since the fall of the Soviet Union, the world under one superpower, and India’s foreign policy leaning towards Western positions.
At one point I even doubted my sources when there was little response to the article published in August. Could a fake be planned to undermine the independent stance I had taken since the early stages of the conflict?
However, I am releasing those documents a second time. I know that the French Ambassador to India, Emmanuel Lenin, was also present at that meeting, as were the ambassadors of other countries. I am fully satisfied that these documents are completely authentic.
Here are some takeaways from Macron’s statement: With NATO in place, Europe cannot create another army of its own. As long as the ‘European Army’ does not come into existence, Europe will be controlled by the political orders of the United States.
And America is an ally, our longstanding ally. Meanwhile, this ally has kidnapped us and imprisoned us for a long time. Kicking Russia out of Europe could be an ill-advised strategy with far-reaching consequences.
If the West continues like this, can we say that Russia and China will not form an alliance soon? Do we have to see the enemy of our friend as our enemy? I mean, because Russia is the enemy of the United States, should they be the enemy of Europe?
We need to build our own security architecture for Europe, and if we do not facilitate relations with Russia, there will be no peace on the continent. Ultimately, the world will be torn between two poles: America and China, and Europe will have to choose between them. Only France can restore European civilization.
In the midst of a war where Western hegemony remains the global order, Macron’s ideas could be downright disastrous. But now things are moving more in line with Macron’s ideas.
The recent US elections did not make Biden look like a wounded deer, nor did they inspire confidence. Voters put it squarely in one place. Now until November 2024, the people have given him a messy domestic agenda.
Biden may encourage talks with Russia as a response to the referendum. The US Secretary of the Interior, Anthony Blinken, and the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, will be at the G20 Summit in Bali on the 15th and 16th of this month. Their body language will reveal how far Russia and the United States will go with the negotiations to leave Ukraine.
