Russia's New World Order

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Traveling to Berlin early this month on one of his first trips as president, Medvedev stressed the need for "a new world order."

Leaders call for the founding of a new world order only when they are convinced that their nation will dominate it. [snip]

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in a June 20 speech and a follow-up conversation I had with him here, outlined an ambitious agenda of change in a new era of "multipolar cooperation . . . and collective leadership" in international affairs.

A "new world order" cannot be based on "an Anglo-Saxon pattern that some have tried to establish for the rest of the world," Lavrov said. It would involve doing away with "the Cold War architecture for the security of Europe."

He proposed a European Security Conference to bring together the United States, Russia, the European Union and other regional organizations, such as NATO, to establish new controls on armies and alliances in the "Euro-Atlantic space." [snip]

But it does reflect a realization by Russian leaders that they are now seen by the rest of the world as a "veto power" to NATO... [snip]

[How did Russia get so influential?] Energy exports have earned Russia massive foreign reserves, and it is now intending an effort to bring other natural gas exporters into an international cartel similar to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Venezuela and Iran are also said to be pushing the cartel idea for an October unveiling...

[Europe will fold. Our energy insanity is handing influence to our enemies the world over.]

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