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Putin slams ‘golden billion’ idea as neocolonial, racist

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 20 Jul 2022 20:41
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According to Putin, the impression is that the West simply cannot offer the world a model of the future.

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin

Speaking at the Strong Ideas for a New Time forum on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the idea of total domination of the ‘golden billion’ is racist and neocolonial, as it splits the peoples into first and second-rate.

"The model of total domination of the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this ‘golden billion’ of all the population on the globe dominate over everyone and impose its own rules of behavior? Based on the illusion of exceptionalism, it [this model] divides the peoples into those of first or second-rate, and therefore it is racist and neocolonial in its essence, while the globalist, allegedly liberal ideology underlying it, is more and more acquiring the features of totalitarianism, restraining the creative search and free historical creativeness", Putin noted.

Putin believes that the West cannot offer the world a good example of the future.

"Of course, this 'golden billion' became golden for a reason. It has achieved a lot. But it not only took such positions thanks to some implemented ideas, to a large extent it took its positions by robbing other peoples: in Asia, and in Africa," the Russian head of state pointed out, "Indeed, it was like that. Look at how India has been plundered," he said.

Therefore, today the ‘golden billion’ elites are afraid that other world centers can present their global development visions, Putin added.

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