TASS:

Russia welcomes remarks by Biden, Macron to stop imposing democracy globally — Lavrov

"MOSCOW, September 1. /TASS/. Russia welcomes the recent statements by US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the necessity to stop foisting democracy on other countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday."

""[That] point was made by US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron when both of them said, with an interval of one-two days, that it was time to stop intervening in the internal affairs of other states with the aim of imposing the West's brand of democracy on them. We welcome such statements, and for a long time we have been advocating that lessons must be learned from the adventures that our Western colleagues were getting themselves into over the last few decades," he explained."

I doubt that Russia and China welcome the US withdrawal from the Middle East quagmire. This withdrawal frees resources which allow Washington to focus on being the first empire to achieve AI supremacy. The ultra-liberals in woke Pentagon will then return to "democracy"-building in a third wave of globalization, with a little help of AI soft power and AI drone swarms.

The corrupt leaders in China and Russia may then be selfish and greedy enough to accept the status as second and third rank powers in a new system of Pax Silicon Valley. If that happens then we cultural conservatives are really screwed. But it may also perhaps lead to NZI in a distant future, so that's one reason why the naive optimist in me prevents despair and gloom when thinking about the possible extinction of cultural conservatism after humans are brain-chipped and gene-modified.