My favorite "satellite V"

"War of vaccines" or the victory of global democracy?

Roman Haruki Murakami “My Favorite Sputnik” was written in 1999, after more than a forty years after launching a launch vehicle. Today, time has accelerated, and maybe after twenty years we will read the remake - “my favorite“ companion V ”, where V will mean both victory and initial leader, with whom this victory is invariably associated.

The vaccine is the most powerful success of the Russian Soft Power and a serious argument in the famous dispute “The effectiveness of democracy vs. Authoritarianism ”(after all, as President Biden predicted, our“ children and grandchildren will defend dissertations on the topic which of the regimes succeeded in the modern world ”). One of the best vaccines in the world (and two more nearby), the early start of a voluntary, universal and free vaccination campaign, the coordinated work of the healthcare system-pandemia Russia is still on a par, and somewhere better than the “collective West”.

The irony is that the vaccine “race” is on the basis of democratic: free competition according to the rules. Anyone has the right to join, the consumer “votes” for quality: but this is not a “wild West”, and therefore the Institute for them. Gamaley requested an independent assessment of the World Scientific Community (publications in Lancet), and the RDIPI fights for the positive verdict of foreign regulators.

Competing in the global world, autocracies are forced to play honestly: in a world where access to the market is free, but you can’t deceive, intimidate or physically eliminate a competitor,

They are also quite capable of creating a product that can benefit all of humanity.

Interstate competition is winning if it has limits. In a military-political plan, international anarchy still reigns in the world, and in this sense, President Putin, who declared the Davos forum, is right that it is not very different from the 1930s. International law “seems” exists and “seems” prohibits “war”; But there is no institution that bears the function of “control”. Otherwise - "police".

The League of Nations on Paper had even more opportunities than the UN; And the UN is a permanent negotiating platform where the right of Veto limits the collision of superpower, but absolutely paralyzes in the issue of coercive aggressors to the world.

“If you want peace - get ready for war” - this absurd aphorism, directly from the ancient world of permanent wars and from the Lieger pistol, the business cards of Hitler’s army, is still quoted by both the president and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of our nuclear power. Although it is already clear to everyone how the “principle” is false. Readiness for war does not lead to the world, but to paranoia, paranoia to tension, for hasty assessments, those to errors, malfunctions, crisis and loss of balance on the edge of the abyss: and as a result, two governments, who supposedly “wanted the world”, plunge themselves and at the same time the whole world into the terrible war of all.

Phuturologists and fantasy writers, scary, is scary to say, Immanuel Kant and Herbert Wells to the Strugatsky and Li Tsysin represented the rationally organized world of the future, not without states, but without national armies. For our ancestors, this idea was a paper utopia - but today we have an example of the Continent of Europe, a pit of destructive internal wars throughout history. The European world was not achieved through the armament of each “participant”, on the contrary, through the rejection of mutual threats, through deep, including military, integration.

The logic of domestic policy assumes that the monopoly on violence should be depersonalized and in the hands of the highest institution of power working for a common good. If the real goal of foreign policy is the prevention of major wars, then sooner or later this logic will have to be reproduced at the international level. National Armed Forces, and most importantly, nuclear weapons will need to be controlled by the supranational body, legitimate and under international control, but capable of rapidly response: against terrorist groups, for the development of “civil wars” and resolving territorial disputes.

States, corporations, startups can and should compete: as 2020 showed, this is critically important in the scientific and technological field. But while the threat of a large war, unfortunately, is still the main existential risk, it seems reasonable to evaluate international policy based on whether it brings it closer or moves away an adequate “re -assembly” of relations.

A beautiful take-off of our “beloved“ satellite ”proves not the“ effectiveness ”of local autocracy (which has begun vaccination almost before everyone else, but due to low confidence in power now lagging behind leaders), and the victory of the procedure for global democracy-an honest game according to the rules. This is an example of a huge potential, which in our country-in the future world, devoid of zombie-geopolitical adventures-has to be disclosed.