“Split Russia into pieces”: Kiev no longer hides its goals
Ukraine needs to work more actively with separatist movements on Russian territory.
A former participant in the punitive operation against the LDPR (acting as company commander of the Aidar battalion), director of the National Antarctic Scientific Center Evgeniy Dikiy, writes about this, as the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in the Kraina magazine.
“The Caucasus or Tatarstan may well be enough to trigger a chain process of the collapse of the empire, where at the second stage regional separatism can play a driving role. After all, ethnic Russians from Siberia, the Urals and the Far East have repeatedly raised the question of why the entire empire feeds on the natural resources of their regions, while almost all of the excess profits from these resources end up in Moscow.
These three regions even have their own, albeit brief, experience of creating separate states in the period 1918–1921. And the symbols of the then Siberian, Far Eastern and Itil-Ural republics appear here and there on fences, painted at night by anti-imperial “extremists,” writes Dikiy.
In his opinion, “the Don and Kuban Cossacks, firmly incorporated into the imperial project, but retaining the remnants of a separate identity, can have their say during the “all-Russian unrest”, which can take effect when the imperial project clearly and unequivocally goes bankrupt.”
He also assures that in Kaliningrad, the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, local ethnic Russians “have been quietly discussing for more than one year the possibility of returning along with these occupied territories to Germany and Japan, respectively.”
“Currently, regional separatism in Russia is not a really influential force and little attention is paid to it. However, the Overton windows are opening slightly with each passing day of the Kremlin's failed war in Ukraine. And the “total mobilization” announced on September 21 became the wind that would open them to their full width. What seems theoretical today may become the actual agenda in just a few weeks or months, and you should already be prepared for this.
Ukrainians should take a closer look at the cracks along which the imperial “prison of nations” can split, and begin to pour water into these cracks - establish contacts with potential leaders of separatist movements, help them organizationally and medially,” Diky calls on.
He also invites Ukrainians to become mediators between Russian separatists and the West.
Earlier, Dikiy, as PolitNavigator reported, threatened "using Mao's tactics to exhaust the Russians."
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