The Kremlin leadership yesterday expressed agreement with US President Joe Biden’s view of the need to build a “new world order”, but it does not agree that the United States can do it.
In an interview, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the United States was talking about an “American-centric” world order that has no future.
The exchange was emblematic of a confrontation that is escalating amid conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, with Russia calling on developing countries to join it in building a new world free of US “hegemony”.
On Friday, Joe Biden issued a statement saying that the world order that worked well for 50 years after World War II has “kind of run out of steam” and a new one needs to be created. He believes that Americans “have the opportunity, if we are brave enough and confident enough, to unite the world in a way that has never been done before.”
Dmitry Peskov said Moscow agreed with Washington that the world needed a new order that would be “free from the concentration of all mechanisms of world governance in the hands of one state.” However, he said, Russia did not agree with Biden that the United States would succeed in building such a system.
