| | | What do we do with the latest values of rejecting history, your homeland, gender, and beliefs, as well as aggressive LGBT and ultra-feminist movements? I respect the right to follow them, but I think they’re post-humanist. Should we treat this as just another stage of social evolution? I don’t think so. Should we try to ward it off, limit its spread, and wait till society lives through this moral epidemic? Or should we actively fight it, leading the majority of humanity that adheres to so-called “conservative” values or, to put it simply, normal human values? Should we get into the fight escalating an already dangerous confrontation with the Western elites?
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A translation of an essay by Karaganov, published a few days before the Ukraine war.
Russia is not our friend. Since the start of the Ukraine war, they’re rather closer to being enemies. But, it’s been said - and correctly - that nations don’t have friends - they have interests. From this point of view, it is certainly valuable to have some understanding of what they see as their interest.
Sounds like they’re deeply disappointed with Marxism (or any excessive authoritarianism) - but they have serious doubts about what we consider liberal democracy. They want to make their own path. At one point he rejects Zbigniew Brzezinski’s assertion that Russia cannot be a great power without Ukraine. He thinks that the opposite is true - since Ukraine has too many problems of it’s own.
The elephant in the room is China. He mentions it several times. One of Russia's concerns, he thinks, should be to avoid becoming China's “satellite country”. IMO, that may have been one of the factors in deciding to fight back against NATO expansion to Ukraine. |
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