Arte’s documentary “Putin, the Bear Returns to Dance” gives us a very valuable clue to how the latter turned foreign policy into a deadly weapon and turned Russia into the center of the world chessboard.
February 2007. The 43rd edition of the Munich Security Conference is underway. Chosen theme of the year: “Global Crises, Global Responsibilities”. The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin goes to his desk to deliver a speech. His face is closed and he intends to send a warning shot condemning American imperialism:
“What is a unipolar world? You may want to embellish the term, but in reality it means only one thing: one center of power, one center of power, one center of decision-making. It is one lord of the world. One sovereign.”
A speech that strikes souls marks the return of a strong Russia that can stand up to the American giant. But the West, and especially the United States, will not take seriously the significance of this speech, which still determines the external action of the man who came to power seven years ago in the coming years. . The country, which was devastated in the early 2000s, was hated and isolated by the winners of the Cold War.
This is the host of the remarkable documentary Poutine: le retour de l’ours dans la danse, which airs March 11 at 9:25 a.m. at Arte and is available at: Repeat Until 16/03. Directed by experienced documentary filmmaker Frederick Tonol, who also won the prestigious Albert London Award in 1996, all the more fascinating and essential is that it provides a very valuable key to understanding the journey of a passionate former KGB officer. The secret. The obsession, at least, at the initial stage: to bring Russia back to the heart of the world chessboard.
Awakening of a Russian bear
The latter always said this: the disappearance of the USSR was a catastrophe. “Those who do not miss the Soviet Union do not have a heart, but those who want to restore it do not have a head” Said Putin, whose remarks were quoted in a documentary by former Foreign Minister and expert Hubert Vedrine.
“Promises were made at the highest level during German unification. NATO would not get closer to Russia. Despite its commitment to Gorbachev, NATO went further east.” For his part, Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the well-known investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. The newspaper, which, moreover, paid a terrible price in search of the truth, killed six journalists, most of them. Famous, Anna Politkovskaya, 2006.
Sovereign disgust with Russia over the years has aroused the Russian bear. The awakening will be brutal … When Putin sees that NATO is gradually approaching Russia’s borders thanks to the accession of the former Eastern Bloc countries, he feels threatened and betrayed. A tactician and opportunist, he strikes fast and hard with the hammer of his practice of diplomacy.
Annexation of Crimea in 2014, in the wake of the Ukrainian revolution; Support for Donbass separatists. Support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad was then immersed in the midst of the war in Syria, where the so-called By producing a “hybrid” war; Because it interferes with the troops sent by Russia to the mercenaries of the Wagner group. If the Kremlin has never officially acknowledged the existence of this group, it still remains a substantial lever in most of Russia’s interventions in foreign theaters.
Founded by Eugene Prigogine, nicknamed the “Putin Cook”, this group allows the latter to establish a Russian presence in areas previously considered reserves of countries such as the United States or France. Wagner’s 2,000 mercenaries will be sent to Libya to further Russia’s interests. Economic, of course.
Never has the USSR had as many friends in the Middle East and the Middle East as after Putin’s intervention in Syria. Commenting on Alexander Orlov, former Russian ambassador to France from 2008 to 2017. Russia has become an inevitable part of any peace talks or settlement in this region of the world. Thus, the documentary multiplies the examples of this new protein Russian interventionism: Africa, Georgia, Abkhazia, Russian interpositional forces during the war. The Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020… The Russian bear has returned to dance on the international stage, but at what price now?
Poutine: Bear Return to Dance – Available again on Arte TV until March 16th.
Source: allocine
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