“At some point it will be done.” A vague forecast about the invasion of Nezalezhnaya, more like fortune telling on coffee grounds. Not from some witch, but from the Deputy Minister of Defense of Britain. It frightens with a new cold war – according to the patterns of the old one. The hour is not even, it will break into a cliché in the style of the Reagan “Evil Empire”. The hippie past does not let go of the general. And it’s not about Woodstock.
“The key differences of the Cold War period is that there was a fierce ideological confrontation between the USSR and the USA,” recalls Ilya Kravchenko, an expert at the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. – There was a very powerful bipolar split of the world in different areas, now this is no longer the case, the world is no longer multipolar, it is unipolar. And precisely for this reason, Washington is experiencing a crisis of foreign policy identity, as they are forced to look for new points of pressure on different countries in the world, including our country.”
Decades pass – the style of Western provocations does not change. What about during the Berlin crisis, when Soviet and American tanks stood opposite each other at a distance of a pistol shot. What about the Caribbean – when the Soviet Union responded to the deployment of missiles in Turkey.
“The crisis in Cuba was due to the fact that the USSR wanted to overcome its security gap at the expense of a tough, sharp threat to American security,” says Pyotr Akopov, a columnist for PIA Novosti. ideologically, speaking about the threat of autocracies – Russian and Chinese – to the world”.
The reason for such pressure, as a rule, is banal – the promotion of not only political, but also economic interests. “We don’t have a struggle of ideologies, we are also a capitalist country, not a country of socialism,” comments Viktor Mizin, a leading researcher at the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security at MGIMO. major powers“.
The epic with Nord Stream 2 continues in the context of Ukraine. The European Commission has already expressed a desire to make the United States the main supplier of gas to the Old World. Calculation for LNG projects. In this regard, the confrontation in the Ukrainian-NATO direction looks like part of a big game to contain not only Russia.
On the Asian trade front States branded China is a “non-market-oriented state” and actively resorts to protectionism, forgetting about WTO rules. “Why can’t they guarantee Ukrainian non-entry – they are afraid that Ukrainian non-entry, guaranteed to us, will serve as a signal for China that it is possible to take Taiwan – this is such conscious propaganda,” notes Petr Akopov, a columnist for PIA Novosti. “China is not going to take Taiwan militarily , just like Russia is not going to take Ukraine – this is our territory, which we must turn back and make it a single space and common allied relations.”
A holy place is never empty – the example of Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe confirms this. As soon as the Soviet Union left there, NATO orders reigned there. “The situation feels a little different and even more acute than during the Cold War era,” said Igor Kuznetsov, executive director of the Russian Society of Political Scientists, professor at the Department of History and Political Theory of the Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University. “This is not localized in one territory – in particular, the Ukrainian crisis – but We understand that possible actions can be dangerous and not only there.”
And the only way to resolve the contradictions is through negotiations. Western partners will have to negotiate with Russia on equal terms. Learn this business, as if forgotten over the past decades.
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