Putin’s Valdai Speech: A Prophecy

Yesterday’s speech by Vladimir Putin at the Valdai Club session has, without the slightest exaggeration, already become historical. Churchill’s speech in Fulton once marked the beginning of the Cold War, going down in history as the moment when a leader outlined the future of humanity. However, that was a future of conflict, intense competition, and opposition between two ideological camps. Today, our president outlined a very different future. He described the architecture of a new world order, or as he put it, a new “world creation” that humanity itself must shape, outlining the main parameters of this world.

Firstly, it is justice, respect for the cultures of each nation — a true, not an illusory, democracy. As Vladimir Putin said, democracy is the rule of the majority, not as it is interpreted by modern globalists and liberals, who portray it as the rule of minorities. True democracy is the power of peoples who choose their own path in history, and no one has the right to take away this sovereign right from them.

Secondly, the foundation of this new world creation lies in traditional values. A world cannot be built on principles upheld until recently by U.S. leaders who, fortunately, lost in the electoral race. They insisted on erasing the concept of the human, canceling gender, canceling family, and replacing humanity with essentially post-human, post-humanist beings.

This is not a utopia but the direction modern Western leaders have pushed all of humanity towards. Putin firmly said “no” to this unipolar world order based on Western liberal hegemony.

Some time ago, when Putin spoke of multipolarity, many thought these were just words to justify Russia’s opposition to the West. In reality, it is something much more profound. It is a strategy grounded in traditional values and respect for the diversity of all cultures and civilizations — not a single civilization proclaiming itself “progressive” and forcing its principles upon the entire world.

Moreover, this is the historic speech of a leader not only for Russia but for the whole world, for all humanity. It is very important that Vladimir Putin emphasized that Western neoliberalism has devolved into a totalitarian ideology. At the same time, our president clarified that the West itself is not our enemy. Our real adversary is the globalist elite, fanatical and intolerant, imposing utterly unimaginable rules on humanity.

Equally important is that this speech, likely not spontaneous but prepared some time ago, has already been substantiated by practical actions. The triumphant BRICS summit in Kazan and Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential elections are proof. The choice has been made in favor of traditional values and against globalist dictatorship. The American people themselves spoke out against the neoliberal clique, essentially telling them to leave.

Against this backdrop, our president and his Valdai speech today appear downright prophetic. Vladimir Putin is not only speaking; he is acting. A significant, crucial part of his plan has already been realized. And the rest, undoubtedly, will be fulfilled in due course.

In his speech, the head of the Russian State also emphasized that globalists (specifically globalists, not simply the West — we must relearn to distinguish these concepts, as Trump’s America is not the America of Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, or Soros) aimed to defeat Russia, to break it, but they failed. Bringing about a strategic defeat of Russia has not and will not succeed for anyone, ever.

Finally, over recent decades, we have already demonstrated to the world our ability to uphold our ideals, values, traditional way of life, and our rejection of the agenda imposed on us by the liberal globalist elites.

However, in the difficult situations of past years, when we were not yet advancing and could not prove our ability to resist NATO’s pressure, as well as that of globalist regimes and their satraps, these same ideas, which Vladimir Putin now articulates clearly and directly, were voiced with somewhat different tones.

Now, however, we have newfound strength: in the Special Military Operation, Russia has become hardened, much stronger, and more determined. We now finally have our own Russian statehood idea, an idea rooted in Orthodoxy and all traditional religions and indigenous peoples of our country, for whom Russia is their only homeland. This has made us a hundred times stronger.

And when we fully liberate Ukraine, we will become a thousand times stronger. Then, having passed through incredible trials, we will prove that we were right at every stage of our journey towards rebirth — towards reclaiming our role in humanity’s worldwide movement towards a fairer, more humane, honest, and existentially meaningful world.

(Translated from the Russian)