Vladimir Putin: Davos Man
Remnant Review
As I have written, I think Klaus Schwab's Great Re-Set is an empty shell. It is verbiage without sanctions. The globalists are in desperation mode. Read my presentation here: https://www.garynorth.com/members/22084.cfm.
They are facing what Martin Gurri calls the revolt of the public. I have written about this repeatedly. (See the links at the bottom of this page.) Social media are creating centripetal social and political forces that are undermining the nation-state. The world is not heading for international cooperation. It is heading toward political breakdown and decentralization.
The globalists have a word for this: populism. They contrast populism with their favorite word: democracy. They refuse to face this reality: populism is democracy on steroids. Populism is the revolt of the public.
AN OLD AGENDA
On January 28, 2021, Putin made a keynote address to the World Economic Forum. It was a virtual presentation. There was no Davos gathering this year because of COVID-19. The speech was reprinted by the Russia Briefing site. It is here.
The speech was written by a committee of Russian bureaucrats. It was one of those bureaucratic speeches that offers broad generalizations, lots of politically correct slogans and catch phrases, and few specifics. It was a standard New World Order performance.
No politician speaks like this except when addressing other world leaders at a public relations showcase conference. I have read such puffery for over half a century. It is always without content. It never comes to grips with real-world issues.
I am going to dissect this speech. The speech would not be relevant except for these facts: (1) Putin gave it; (2) he gave it to the WEF.
What is significant is this: it was indistinguishable from hundreds of other speeches and articles by lesser figures in the West over the last eight decades. This is the Establishment line: the integration of Russia and the West. One-world government is coming.
In 1953, the Reece Committee investigated America's major tax-exempt foundations. The investigator, Norman Dodd, later reported on his interview of the head of the Ford Foundation, H. Rowan Gaither. He quoted Gaither.
Of course, you know that we at the executive level here were, at one time or another, active in either the OSS [predecessor of the CIA -- G.N.], the State Department, or the European Economic Administration. During those times, and without exception, we operated under directives issued by the White House. We are continuing to be guided by just such directives…. The substance [of these directives] was to the effect that we should make every effort to so alter life in the United States as to make possible a comfortable merger with the Soviet Union.
I knew Dodd. I had a meeting with him in the late 1960's. He still adhered to his story.
I have posted G. Edward Griffin's 1982 interview of Dodd. View it here.
Similar statements have come from other national leaders.
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." [David Rockefeller, Memoirs, p. 405]“Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail over disunity, integration over disintegration. In fact, I'll bet that within the next hundred years (I'm giving the world time for setbacks and myself time to be out of the betting game, just in case I lose this one), nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century – “citizen of the world” – will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.
“All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary. Through the ages, there has been an overall trend toward larger units claiming sovereignty and, paradoxically, a gradual diminution of how much true sovereignty any one country actually has.’ [Strobe Talbott, “America Abroad: The Birth of the Global Nation,” Time (July 20, 1992). He served as Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. That was the #2 job in the State Department.]
“Thus, while we will not see world government in the old-fashion sense of a single all-embracing global authority, key elements of planetary planning and planetary management will come about on those very specific problems where the facts of interdependence force nations, in their enlightened self-interest, to abandon unilateral decision-making in favor of multilateral processes.” [Richard N. Gardner, “Can the United Nations Be Revived?” Foreign Affairs (July 1970), p. 563. Foreign Affairs is the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as America’s ambassador to both Italy and Spain.]
This was Schwab's introduction.
Russia is an important global power, and there’s a long-standing tradition of Russia’s participation in the World Economic Forum. At this moment in history, where the world has a unique and short window of opportunity to move from an age of confrontation to an age of cooperation, the ability to hear your voice, the voice of the President of the Russian Federation, is essential.
Note the timeframe: short. It is always short. It is just like global warming: we are running out of time to take action. But we are never told that time has run out. That would end the NWO's calls for one-world government. So, time will never officially run out. It is like the doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Year to year, it varies from five minutes to midnight to 100 seconds, where it is these days. This has been going on ever since 1947.
Putin began with this.
I have been to Davos many times, attending the events organized by Mr. Schwab, even back in the 1990s. Klaus just recalled that we met in 1992. Indeed, during my time in St Petersburg, I visited this important forum many times. I would like to thank you for this opportunity today to convey my point of view to the expert community that gathers at this world-renowned platform thanks to the efforts of Mr. Schwab.
So, he and Schwab go back to 1992. The Soviet Union was dissolved by Gorbachev on December 25, 1991. Schwab did not waste any time in identifying a future leader in Russia. He recruited Putin early.
FRAGMENTATION
Putin sees what is happening: fragmentation, not unification. He is alarmed.
Indeed, it is difficult to overlook the fundamental changes in the global economy, politics, social life, and technology. The coronavirus pandemic, which Klaus just mentioned, which became a serious challenge for humankind, only spurred and accelerated the structural changes, the conditions for which had been created long ago. The pandemic has exacerbated the problems and imbalances that built up in the world before. There is every reason to believe that differences are likely to grow stronger. These trends may appear practically in all areas.
He identified key areas of confrontation. At bottom is . . . wait for it . . . populism!
We are seeing a crisis of the previous models and instruments of economic development. Social stratification is growing stronger both globally and in individual countries. We have spoken about this before as well. But this, in turn, is causing today a sharp polarization of public views, provoking the growth of populism, right- and left-wing radicalism and other extremes, and the exacerbation of domestic political processes including in the leading countries.All this is inevitably affecting the nature of international relations and is not making them more stable or predictable. International institutions are becoming weaker, regional conflicts are emerging one after another, and the system of global security is deteriorating.
He was saying that this time, time really is running out on the NWO.
There is a chance that we will face a formidable break-down in global development, which will be fraught with a war of all against all and attempts to deal with contradictions through the appointment of internal and external enemies and the destruction of not only traditional values such as the family, which we hold dear in Russia, but fundamental freedoms such as the right of choice and privacy.
Ah, yes, fundamental freedoms of the right of choice and privacy -- traditional Russian freedoms, he insisted. I mean, when people think of the right of choice and privacy, don't most of them think of Switzerland, the United States, and the nation formerly known as the Soviet Union? Of course they do.
He says that there are looming crises in three areas. As soon as I read them, I knew that some bureaucrat had written the speech. These three areas are socioeconomic, socio-political, and international problems.
He is extremely worried about economic inequality, as are Davos people generally. What is the solution? More state power, especially internationally. "An increasing role of the state in the socioeconomic sphere at the national level obviously implies greater responsibility and close interstate interaction when it comes to issues on the global agenda."
He is a Davos man.
He has a plan. His plan is the plan of every welfare state policy advocate in the West.
First, everyone must have comfortable living conditions, including housing and affordable transport, energy and public utility infrastructure. Plus environmental welfare, something that must not be overlooked.Second, everyone must be sure that they will have a job that can ensure sustainable growth of income and, hence, decent standards of living. Everyone must have access to an effective system of lifelong education, which is absolutely indispensable now and which will allow people to develop, make a career and receive a decent pension and social benefits upon retirement.
Third, people must be confident that they will receive high-quality and effective medical care whenever necessary, and that the national healthcare system will guarantee access to modern medical services.
Fourth, regardless of the family income, children must be able to receive a decent education and realize their potential. Every child has potential.
THE CASE OF THE MISSING BLUEPRINT
This is his plan for Russia.
A strategy, also being implemented by my country, hinges on precisely these approaches. Our priorities revolve around people, their families, and they aim to ensure demographic development, to protect the people, to improve their well-being and to protect their health. We are now working to create favorable conditions for worthy and cost-effective work and successful entrepreneurship and to ensure digital transformation as the foundation of a high-tech future for the entire country, rather than that of a narrow group of companies.We intend to focus the efforts of the state, the business community and civil society on these tasks and to implement a budgetary policy with the relevant incentives in the years ahead.
He offered no specifics.
It has been almost 30 years since the USSR was scrapped. Why did this plan take so long to launch?
He sees that national governments do not agree on these issues. So, the world needs harmony.
The reality is such that really different development centers with their distinctive models, political systems and public institutions have taken shape in the world. Today, it is very important to create mechanisms for harmonizing their interests to prevent the diversity and natural competition of the development poles from triggering anarchy and a series of protracted conflicts.To achieve this we must, in part, consolidate and develop universal institutions that bear special responsibility for ensuring stability and security in the world and for formulating and defining the rules of conduct both in the global economy and trade.
Problem: Who is going to "create mechanisms for harmonizing their interests to prevent the diversity and natural competition"? How? The United Nations is impotent. That was Richard Gardner's observation in 1970.
Putin did not say.
Schwab never says.
Davos never says.
The blueprint is missing.
He ended with this.
It is very important to honestly assess the situation, to concentrate on real rather than artificial global problems, on removing the imbalances that are critical for the entire international community. I am sure that in this way we will be able to achieve success and befittingly parry the challenges of the third decade of the 21st century.
There is nothing in his speech that offers specifics.
FINAL REMARKS
In a brief Q&A between Schwab and Putin, Putin added this.
Only one thing matters: we need to approach the dialogue with each other honestly. We need to discard the phobias of the past, stop using the problems that we inherited from past centuries in internal political processes and look to the future. If we can rise above these problems of the past and get rid of these phobias, then we will certainly enjoy a positive stage in our relations.
We have heard this for eight decades. There has to be dialogue. Dialogue is going to lead to the promised land. Talk, talk, talk. Jaw, jaw, jaw. Yada, yada, yada. Blah, blah, blah.
We also need to overcome the phobias of centuries. We need to do this Real Soon Now. Time is running out.
CONCLUSION
Schwab's Great Re-Set is not coming until there is a world government that can impose negative sanctions. Putin is correct. "The pandemic has exacerbated the problems and imbalances that built up in the world before. There is every reason to believe that differences are likely to grow stronger."
These people are tired old men. They replaced tired old men who grew tired trying to implement this vision.
Meanwhile, the free market is overcoming poverty on a scale that would have seemed utopian in 1991.