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Authors: Artur Lyukmanov, senior counselor, Department for New Challenges and Threats, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Darya Kovalyova, attaché at the same Department
THE YEAR 2016 showed ever more graphically and
forcefully the depth of the value crisis of the Western
political system led by the United States and its allies,
regional and European. The remaining community
of non-Western states increasingly distrust and even
reject the West-imposed "gifts" of neoliberalism,
which, according to prominent U.S. philosopher
Noam Chomsky, has changed since Adam Smith's
days only in terms of the scope of its expansion. Pre-
viously, these "gifts" were touted by traders and in-
dustrialists who used state power to serve their interests despite the painful consequences for others,
including the British people ("others" are colonies, mandated territories and so on); now the goals
are more wide-ranging and ambitious: entire countries and regions of the world, as well as the entire
world itself.
THE WEST'S DISHONEST POLICY laid itself bare, showing its inherent duplicity to the maxi-
mum degree possible in 2016, amid the Syria crisis. Manipulating the slogans of democracy, human
rights and freedom of expression, and playing on the problems and aspirations of ordinary people,
the greater part of the U.S. ruling elite and their European and regional allies demonstrated that the
Middle East region is nothing but an arena and method of serving their own selfish, egoistic and
cynical interests. Directly encouraging the escalation and proliferation of conflicts, they have brazenly
and shamelessly appropriated the right to act as judges determining the fates of nations, deceiving
them with false promises about the bright future under Western skies.
There is no getting away from the fact that the West sponsors terrorist and extremist forces in order
to destabilize and overthrow uncooperative regimes.
In recent decades, the stage-managed coups and "color revolutions" in the Middle East, the Balkans
and East European countries show quite clearly what kind of forces Western politicians, with sup-
port from their ruling elites and multinational corporations, nurture in foreign political and economic
communities.
The key point of the new concept is that "violent extremists" should not necessarily be subjected
to criminal justice, especially given the high costs involved in collecting evidence and eyewitnesses.
HELPLESS in the face of millions of refugees fleeing from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa,
provoked by Western countries, our partners should realize that today they are losing all high moral
ground for lecturing to others.
If our Western colleagues are unable to cope with the threats of terrorism and extremism at home,
where civil society is supposed to play a crucial role, then what kind of prevention of terrorism and
extremism can they talk about in more complex societies in the space east of European civiliza-
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