Global Courant
The Kremlin supports US President Joe Biden’s call for a new order, but says any new system should not revolve around the US.
Russia has criticized the US president’s claim that Washington should be the driving force in a new “world order”, saying such an “America-centric” vision is outdated.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that while he agrees with the need for a “new world order,” he does not believe the US should be in charge. Any new system should be “free from the concentration of all mechanisms of world governance in the hands of one state,” he said.
Peskov responded to one speech US President Joe Biden delivered a speech on Friday addressing US involvement in foreign crises from Ukraine and Taiwan to Israel.
During his remarks, Biden said the “world order” of the past half century is “running out” and that America must “unite the world” in a new order to forge peace.
“I think we have a real opportunity to unite the world in a way that hasn’t been done in a long time, and to increase the prospect of peace, not decrease the prospect of peace,” Biden said.
Peskov replied: “In this part we disagree, because the United States, no matter what world order they talk about, they mean an American-centered world order, that is, a world that revolves around the United States. That will no longer be the case.”
Deepening of the gorge
The clash of words reflects a deepening rift between the two global superpowers, who are fiercely opposed to Russia’s war in Ukraine and Moscow’s blossoming alliances with US arch-rivals such as Iran and North Korea.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the US has imposed sweeping sanctions on Kremlin-linked individuals and entities, and provided Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars in humanitarian, financial and military aid.
Biden has also frequently drawn comparisons in recent remarks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls the Gaza Strip and has occupied the US. assigned a “terrorist” organization, which says they both pose a threat to neighboring democracies.
“Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they have this in common: They both want to destroy a neighboring democracy,” Biden said. said in an Oval Office speech on Thursday.
