{"id":1491043,"date":"2024-09-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1491043"},"modified":"2024-09-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T13:00:00","slug":"the-resumption-of-russian-imf-ties-is-an-opportunity-to-correct-alt-medias-perceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-resumption-of-russian-imf-ties-is-an-opportunity-to-correct-alt-medias-perceptions\/1491043\/","title":{"rendered":"The Resumption Of Russian-IMF Ties Is An Opportunity To Correct Alt-Media’s Perceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Resumption Of Russian-IMF Ties Is An Opportunity To Correct Alt-Media’s Perceptions<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Politico headlined a piece earlier this week about how \u201cEuropean governments criticize IMF trip to Russia as \u2018propaganda win\u2019 for Putin<\/a>\u201d, which follows the resumption of those two\u2019s relations that was recently analyzed\u00a0here<\/a>. This is driven by Russia\u2019s belief in gradually reforming the global economic-financial system instead of radically reshaping it in order to not inadvertently destabilize its Chinese, Indian, and other Global South partners who have direct complex interdependencies with the West.<\/p>\n

From Moscow\u2019s perspective, the IMF accordingly has an integral role to play in this process, ergo the need to resume their relations with a view towards that end, which the IMF is also interested in advancing since it accepts that reforms are inevitable lest it become irrelevant in the new world order.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This logic is sound, but it\u2019s little-known outside of policy wonk circles, with the more popular but factually false narrative of Russia wanting to \u201ccrash the Western economy\u201d predominating instead.<\/p>\n

Despite supposedly being each other\u2019s rivals, the\u00a0Alt-Media Community<\/a>\u00a0(AMC) and the Mainstream Media (MSM) both push this claim since it meets each of their interests, albeit from opposite perspectives. The AMC sees this as something good and worth celebrating, while the MSM considers it something bad and worth condemning.<\/strong> The abovementioned mundane truth doesn\u2019t rally either of their targeted audiences and is therefore suppressed by each\u2019s gatekeepers since it goes against their agenda.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why those Central and Northern European governments who protested the resumption of Russian-IMF relations are overreacting since neither media camp should want to draw attention to this development. Many in the AMC consider this a \u201cbetrayal\u201d of Russia\u2019s interests since they\u2019re convinced that the IMF is an irredeemable evil, while many in the MSM consider this a \u201cbetrayal\u2019 of the West\u2019s interests since they\u2019re convinced that this lends Russia legitimacy on the international stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Neither of them can keep up the fa\u00e7ade that Russia wants to \u201ccrash the Western economy\u201d after what just happened, but it\u2019s only that handful of EU governments that\u2019s lashing out about it, not the AMC.<\/strong> They\u2019re behaving this way since they overexaggerate the impact that the MSM\u2019s narrative in which they\u2019ve so heavily invested has on popular perceptions. In their mind, a sea change in public opinion might soon follow, but that\u2019s very unlikely since most Westerners are indifferent to this.<\/p>\n

The average person who dislikes Russia doesn\u2019t hold that opinion because they really thought that Putin was going to \u201ccrash the Western economy\u201d, but because they think he\u2019s a \u201cdictator\u201d or a \u201cwar criminal\u201d. In fact, many of them think that it\u2019s the Russian economy that\u2019s collapsing and needs IMF support, which is why some of them are angry at their own side for not stopping them from resuming relations. Even so, their anger won\u2019t translate into any moderation of their anti-Russian sentiments.<\/p>\n

The situation is altogether different with the AMC, many of whose members like Russia so much because they truly thought that Putin would \u201ccrash the Western economy\u201d as a form of \u201chistorical justice\u201d. They\u2019re the ones whose anger should be managed since some are now prone to thinking that Russia \u201csold out\u201d after their unrealistic expectations of its policies inevitably led to this deep disappointment. The problem is that few in the AMC are able to articulate Russia\u2019s policy on this as it objectively exists.<\/p>\n

The usual cope that this is part of a \u201c5D chess master plan\u201d to \u201cpsyche out\u201d the West has been employed so often in the face of \u201cpolitically inconvenient\u201d developments as to lose its effect, become a meme of sorts, and thus be seen as intellectually insulting whenever someone references that explanation<\/strong>. What\u2019s needed is a \u201cGreat Media\/Perception Reset\u201d about Russian policy in all regards, from\u00a0Israel<\/a>–Hamas<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0special<\/a>\u00a0operation<\/a>\u00a0and its\u00a0grand strategy<\/a>\u00a0among other subjects, to comprehensively re-educate the AMC.<\/p>\n

Unless that happens, the resumption of Russian-IMF relations <\/strong>\u2013 which objectively exists, is voluntarily being undertaken by both sides, and is sincerely considered to be mutually beneficial by their decisionmakers <\/em>\u2013 risks being weaponized as a \u201cpropaganda loss\u201d for the Kremlin, not a win. <\/strong>The MSM is just so out of touch with the AMC that it doesn\u2019t realize how many members of the latter strongly dislike what just happened and are thus now susceptible to hostile narratives alleging that Russia \u201csold out\u201d.<\/p>\n

Instead of capitalizing on this, those earlier mentioned EU governments are trying to pressure the IMF into reconsidering the resumption of relations with Rusia, all because they overexaggerate the impact that their false narrative has on their targeted audience. The AMC\u2019s top influencers keenly understand the impact on theirs, however, which why they\u2019re circling the wagons to gatekeep any discussion about this since they know that it makes Russia \u201clook bad\u201d due to their audience\u2019s unrealistic expectations.<\/p>\n

Both media camps are making a mistake though.<\/strong> What they should do is use this opportunity to clarify the reality of Russian policy no matter how disappointed it makes their audience, not overreact like the MSM is doing or cover it up like many in the AMC are. Only the AMC has the political motive to do so, but it\u2019s unclear whether it will. In any case, readers should reflect on the insight from this analysis, and they\u2019re advised to reconsider a lot of the other alleged Russian policies that they took for granted.<\/p>\n

As was already written, the\u00a0truth is usually mundane<\/a>, not dramatic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0New Cold War<\/a>\u00a0at its most basic is a systemic competition between the US-led West and the rest of the world over the former\u2019s desire to retain unipolarity as much as is realistically possible and the latter\u2019s desire to accelerate multipolarity. While the first has a track record of resorting to radical measures, that\u2019s only because of its starting position in this competition, which endows it with systemic advantages for doing so.<\/p>\n

The same can\u2019t be said for the rest of the world, whose complex interdependence with the West has historically been lopsided in their counterpart\u2019s favor, thus restraining them from catalyzing any sudden systemic shocks that would prove counterproductive to their own interests. Even so-called \u201crogue states\u201d like Iran and North Korea, which have the least direct degree of complex interdependence with the West, are loath to do this since they know it\u2019ll blow back after harming their close non-Western partners.<\/p>\n

This insight is relevant when reconsidering a lot of the other Russian policies that members of the AMC took for granted such as its interest in\u00a0attacking NATO<\/a>\u00a0or helping the\u00a0Houthis<\/a>\u00a0blockade<\/a>\u00a0the Red Sea, the first of which trigger World War III while the second would harm China and India. Rhetoric from leading AMC influencers and hawkish Russian officials aside, the reality is that direct and indirect complex interdependencies with the non-West and the West respectively place limits on Russian policy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s indeed interest in and tangible movement towards greater self-sufficiency so as to hedge against these risks, which could also be manipulated by its adversaries, but Russia hasn\u2019t yet made enough progress on this to feel comfortable provoking sudden systemic shocks and won\u2019t for a while. Every \u201cgoodwill gesture<\/a>\u201d for perceived de-escalation purposes and the policy of\u00a0continuing to sell resources<\/a>\u00a0to officially \u201cunfriendly countries\u201d in the West derive from these \u201cpolitically inconvenient\u201d calculations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sooner that the AMC recognizes this, the sooner it can correct its members\u2019 perceptions and consequently reduce the chances that they\u2019ll become susceptible to hostile narratives alleging that Russia \u201csold out\u201d whenever something that would otherwise be seen as \u201cpolitically inconvenient\u201d occurs.\u00a0COVID<\/a>\u00a0and the Ukrainian Conflict have shed light on the shadowy ties between friends and foes alike, and while the AMC has wised up to the first, they\u2019ve yet to fully open their eyes to the second.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 09\/20\/2024 – 05:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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