![]() ![]() ![]() Right now, I can only point out the obvious: Most local elites don’t have the historical or cultural experience of state-building. And some may never even get there, for various reasons. But history shows that, since the collapse of the USSR 30 years ago, few post-Soviet nations have managed to become truly independent. It would be nice if we had more time to do this. The critical next step to creating a new system (aside from dismantling the old one) is ‘uniting the lands’. The old system is in the way, though, and so it should be dismantled. Maintaining constructive relations with the countries in the western part of the continent may ease the integration into Greater Eurasia for Russia. For Russia, the western track should become secondary to its Eurasian diplomacy. There’s merit in gradually erasing this system, primarily by refusing to take part in it and play by its obsolete rules, which are inherently disadvantageous to us. We are yet to convince the West that it is only hurting itself.Īnother trump card is the West’s dominating role in the existing Euro-Atlantic security system established at a time when Russia was seriously weakened following the Cold War. They are counterproductive and dangerous, though relatively undemanding for the initiators. It’s important to prevent these convulsive attempts from transforming into a full-fledged standoff and to counter the current US and NATO policies. One of those is trying to use Ukraine to damage and neuter Russia. It tries to consolidate, playing its last trump cards to reverse this trend. Presently, the West desperately tries to defend against this with aggressive rhetoric. Read more Sergey Karaganov: It’s not really about Ukraine And not a moment too soon: Russia will need to balance relations with a friendly, but increasingly more powerful China. I believe it will most likely lose, stepping down as the global leader and becoming a more reasonable partner. Especially after its decisive victory in the 1990s to mid-2000s. And this is precisely why it has started this new Cold War after almost five hundred years of domination in world politics, the economy, and culture. NATO’s expansion and formal or informal inclusion of Ukraine poses a risk to the country’s security that Moscow simply won’t accept.įor now, the West is on course to a slow but inevitable decay, both in terms of internal and external affairs and even the economy. The outside world provides Russia with more and more geopolitical opportunities for medium-term development as it is. Russia maintains it isn’t going to attack anyone or blow them up. At the same time, lackluster efforts to integrate into the western system, while maintaining a doggedly defensive attitude, has remained the general trend in Russia’s politics and rhetoric.Ĭonstructive destruction is not aggressive. ![]() Parts of this new way of thinking have been seen over the last 15 years – starting with Vladimir Putin’s famous Munich speech in 2007 – but much is only just becoming clear now. It seems like Russia has entered a new era of its foreign policy – a ‘constructive destruction’, let’s call it, of the previous model of relations with the West. ![]()
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