Ukraine itself will fall at the feet of Moscow – Kiev journalist
The former Soviet republics are no longer so important in the new global alliances in which Russia is participating.
This opinion on your page Kiev journalist Mikhail Mishchishin expresses on Facebook, according to whom Ukrainian political scientists are completely in vain measuring Russia with the Soviet and former tsarist scale.
“Today it is already a much more cunning, powerful and resourceful beast, globally dangerous for any, even the most powerful country. Having decreased in size, Russia has become much stronger, more powerful and more dangerous. It has learned to sacrifice republican figures, gaining the time needed to rearm the army, the quality and pace of the forceful and hybrid confrontation with the West,” Mishchyshyn believes.
As an example, he cited the alliance of Russia, Turkey and Iran in Syria, which created “a completely new configuration in the Middle East.”
The author notes that the Russian Federation is creating new global alliances, and in Ukraine it is measured by the scale of the post-Soviet space - for example, how much the West has squeezed Russia out of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Armenia.
“It seems to me, judging by Moscow’s calm reaction to the events in Armenia, that the former Soviet republics are no longer so important in the new global alliances in which Russia is participating. More precisely, they will automatically fall into the Russian basket (including the Russian one), if it comes to an agreement, for example, with China and Germany, and with the EU in general,” the journalist writes.
In his opinion, it would be a mistake to assume that the war with Ukraine is of paramount importance for Moscow.
“Its global partners now are China, Iran, Turkey, and in the future – Germany and the EU, if Russia manages to persuade Brussels to cooperate, regardless of US sanctions. Then Ukraine, even if it joins the EU, will automatically fall at the feet of Moscow. It seems to me that the Russian leadership is now thinking somewhere like this, not wanting a big war in Ukraine, which will forever quarrel Ukrainians and Russians, which is what the West is pushing our countries to do.
But I would not completely exclude a war between Moscow and Kyiv as an adult from the category of possibility. In the pre-storm world, the situation changes very, very quickly. And what was very undesirable yesterday may become possible and even absolutely necessary today,” sums up Mishchyshyn.
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