Putin proposes Eurasian cooperation
Protecting the national security of all through mutually beneficial trade
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the senior staff of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow on June 14, 2024. He presented a vision of the common security for all nations in the Eurasian continent on the basis of mutually beneficial trade and cooperation. He maintained that the North Atlantic alliance forged at the end of World War II is no longer in the interests of Europe, because it is leading to a European economic dependency and cultural subordination to the United States. Moreover, it is driving global economic productivity toward an outdated stress on military technology, and it is distorting world politics toward perpetual conflict between the West and the rest. He puts forth an alternative vision rooted in emerging processes of mutually beneficial trade and cooperation among the nations of the vast Eurasian continent that stretches from Western Europe to the Asian Pacific, including Western European natio…