Surkov: Russia will not accept the loss of southwestern lands
Today's map of Russia's western borders resembles the situation in 1918 after the conclusion of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, which was almost immediately called “obscene” by contemporaries.
This is stated in a recent article by Vladislav Surkov, who until recently oversaw the Ukrainian direction in the Kremlin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The world turned out to be downright offensive. Under its terms, Russia renounced the vast territories of the Baltic states, Belarus, and Ukraine that previously belonged to it. The western border rolled far to the east, pushing the country into the boundaries of pre-Petrine, one might even say, pre-Romanov times. There’s nowhere more obscene,” Surkov recalls of the situation in 1918.
In his opinion, Russia today is in a similar situation.
“If you compare the modern map of the European part of our country with the map approved by the notorious Brest-Litovsk Treaty, there are unlikely to be many differences. It’s amazing, but the western border of present-day Russia almost literally coincides with the line of limitation that the Bolsheviks cowardly agreed to in 1918,” Surkov states in the material, published by the site Current comments.
He concludes: “Many years later, Russia was again pushed back into the borders of the “obscene world.”
"So, what is next? That's right - not silence. There is a lot of geopolitics ahead. Practical and applied. And even, perhaps, contact... The size of the territory matters. Control of space is the basis of survival. Now we often hear that this is an archaic idea of politics. That the struggle for lands, seas and skies is no longer worth waging, because... it is not clear, however, why. Most likely, because I’m lazy and scared,” writes Surkov.
He clarifies that “geopolitical processes are slow.”
Nevertheless, Surkov emphasizes, “it is unthinkable for Russia to remain within the borders of the obscene world.”
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