Matt Brown
10/10/08
The President of Russia has called on Europe's leaders to create a new world order that would minimize the role of the United States. Medvedev arrived in France on Wednesday confident that the row between Russia and Europe caused by the Russian-Georgian conflict was over. Mr. Medvedev spoke of a Russia that was "absolutely not interested in confrontation", and outlined plans for a new security pact to ban the use of force in Europe. In a speech delivered to European leaders at a conference hosted by the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, to discuss the international financial crisis, Mr. Medvedev sought to show that the US was at the root of all the world's problems. He blamed Washington's "economic egotism" for the world's financial woes and then accused the Bush Administration of taking Europe to the brink of a new cold war by pursuing a deliberately divisive foreign policy. He also maintained that the US was once again trying to return to a policy of containing Russia. In order to end the "unipolar" model in which the world depended on the US, he proposed creating new financial systems to challenge the dominance of the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization, both of which had fallen under Washington's spell. The Russian President won praise from Mr. Sarkozy after he announced that all Russian troops had been withdrawn from buffer zones around Georgia's rebel enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia before today's deadline.
I have actually been waiting for this to happen. There is no way the rest of the world has been happy and content all of these years being in the shadow of America’s ego. Our administration has really messed things up globally, and we have been completely divisive. I thought that some global powerhouse would stand up to us at some point, but I imagined it would be sooner. I think Medvedev is speaking truthfully. He has a point.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/moscow-calls-for-antius-alliance/1330011.aspx
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