Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued the assault by various Russian authorities over the last 24 hours, upon the self-destructive streak in the West, speaking to Russian media today: “If you look at the policies that the administration of Biden is pursuing, they want exactly this. They want the end of history to take place not just in the works of political analysts and political scientists, but for it to take place in real life.” Lavrov was referring to the infamous 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama. It argues that, as part of an evolutionary process, the world has arrived at the most perfect form of government which all nations sooner or later must adhere to: liberal democracy.
The Foreign Minister went on: “Everything that we see now … is all a reflection of the very attempt to establish the end of history, to establish the final, irrevocable dominance of that same ‘golden billion.’”
Lavrov addressed the fallacy in Fukuyama’s ideological creed, saying: “The course of history cannot be stopped, there is no and never will be an end to history,” and sooner or later the West will have to engage in genuine negotiations with other nations. “Humanity has already gone through attempts to subjugate it more than once by one or another force that intends to dictate everything on everyone.”
He concluded: “We are not going to run after the West.... They broke off almost all relations.... We will focus on those who have never let us down and with whom we achieved very difficult compromises without any deception.... With the West, everything is exactly the opposite.” (https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1845558/ )
