"Russia's Damaging Obsession with Cold War Myths" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 May 2020 9:15 p.m. PST |
"The Kremlin account of Russia's national interests is poisoned by assumptions formed in a world which passed away with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR. For instance, President Vladimir Putin praised the post-Second World War Yalta settlement in his address to the UN General Assembly on 28 September 2015 for providing decades of stability. That implausible claim was repeated and elaborated by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in his essay on the historical background of Russian foreign policies published in the March edition of Russia in Global Affairs, a journal sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These sorts of statements illustrate a set of beliefs held by present-day Russian policy-makers, apparently untroubled by serious examination as to their truth. Their influence on Western thinking is contagious, given the tendency to understand Russia as inheriting the imperial rights and interests of the defunct Soviet Union. The effect is to turn disagreements between the Kremlin and other European countries into contests between the ‘East' and the ‘West'. The West should respect, it is urged from time to time, Russia's interest in assuring itself of defence in depth beyond its borders. Countries like Ukraine which refuse to accept enforced subservience to the Kremlin are supposed, under this way of thinking, to endure it for the sake of a wider good…"
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 28 May 2020 7:14 a.m. PST |
Russia still stubbornly holds onto Cold War geopolitical concepts because it rejected the unipolar and liberal democratic world order led by the US. |
 Legion 4  | 28 May 2020 8:24 a.m. PST |
No surprise especially with a former KGB officer in charge … |
| Tango01 | 28 May 2020 11:58 a.m. PST |
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| Barin1 | 29 May 2020 4:51 a.m. PST |
well, you should not think that it is only Putin's way of thinking. Most of the Russians feel this way, therefore even with Putin out of the picture, as long as world is the same, this comcept will not change.
We had these discussions many times here, there's plenty of mutual distrust and recent years are not making the situation any better. |
| Legion 4 | 29 May 2020 9:02 a.m. PST |
Well I didn't want to say that as it might upset some … and get me in the dog house.   |
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