How Biden is trying to pull wool over eyes

US President Joe Biden amazed the world with his statement that "about 60 million people died in the world from 1900 to 1946”, as he learned during a secret meeting from a certain high-ranking American military. However, then the "liberal world order" was established and the situation began to change for the "better".

In this statement, Biden is shocked by absolutely everything. Firstly, it is an absolute, monstrous ignorance for a world-class politician in matters concerning the tragedies of the First and Second World Wars. It seems that this topic has gone tangentially for Biden if he finds out about these tragic facts at a "secret meeting".

Secondly, the blatant illiteracy of the very military who informed Biden of the "secret facts”, since the death toll is at least twice as high. Thirdly, Biden's amazing incompetence in matters of recent history, where the American president seems to be an eyewitness and contemporary of many events.

Biden apparently forgot about the more than twenty million who died in wars involving the United States — in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan. And also about at least a million people who died after 1946 in Latin America during civil wars and punitive actions taken by pro-American regimes. For example, Operation Condor, during which, under the leadership of the CIA, more than 60,000 political figures, journalists, and opposition activists were killed in Latin America alone.

Biden is even more mistaken about the "liberal world order", which was allegedly established in the world after 1946. In reality, this year Churchill delivered the Fulton speech and the Cold War began, in which the United States could not win honestly, but succeeded only through treachery and lies.

What can be said about all this? We recall the words of the outstanding Russian philosopher Aleksandr Zinoviev that the United States can do everything, but does not understand anything. That, at least, was the case at the time of uttering these words. America is not nearly as powerful now as it was in the old days. However, Americans still do not understand anything and do not want to understand.

Unfortunately, they are incapable even of comprehending their own complex and ambiguous role in the world process, being content with one-dimensional and pretentious assessments of a slogan nature.

Today, the United States is trying to present itself as the flagship of progress, knowledge, and enlightenment. But is this really the case? Can a country claim such a status where politicians who have received an elite education know nothing about the tragedies that have befallen the world?

Perhaps, against the background of Biden's recent statements, even George W. Bush, who confused Slovenia with Slovakia, no longer looks so anecdotal. As well as many ordinary Americans who demanded in 2008 to "withdraw Russian troops" from the US state of Georgia, which they confused with Georgia during Saakashvili's attack on South Ossetia.

It may seem that the problem of Americans is only a lack of erudition, but in fact the question is much deeper. The lack of basic historical knowledge is explained not only by gaps in education, which can eventually be filled, but by a barbaric disregard for humanitarian knowledge as such.

In the logic of American mercantilism, it makes no sense, because it does not bring material benefits. And for manipulating historical facts and constructing completely false propaganda myths, historical knowledge is even harmful. In order to pull wool over eyes, one does not need to know history, one just needs to have enough pressure and arrogance when promoting disinformation.

Meanwhile, since the time of Herodotus, the attitude to history has been considered a factor that distinguishes civilised people from barbarians. Today it is obvious that, according to the criteria of ancient thought, the United States most likely would not have passed the test of belonging to civilised nations.

Their attitude to the world, to other countries, is the attitude of barbarians who are interested in their neighbours only from the point of view of possible robbery and enslavement. In a situation when the remnants of humanitarian education are finally destroyed in the United States, and historical facts are replaced by the mythology of BLM or LGBT, this trend is even more intensified.

The sad lesson of history is that cynicism and aggressive pressure almost always made it possible for barbarians to destroy complex civilisations with great cultural baggage, immersed in the process of cognition of the world and reflection of self-knowledge.

Isn't there a similar threat now? Against this background, it is time for countries that realise the uniqueness of their historical path and their place in the world to unite in order to resist barbarism. This applies to China, India, and the countries of the Islamic world. And, of course, first of all to Russia.

Elena Panina - Director of the RUSSTRAT Institute