The West is nurturing Ukrainian Nazism to drive Russia out of the Arctic - political scientist

The West is trying to limit Russia in the development of the Arctic - the first sanctions, which were introduced allegedly because of the annexation of Crimea, concerned technology in the field of oil production specifically in Arctic conditions.

In this regard, Russia should not count on outside help and should more actively develop its presence in the region.

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Political scientist Dmitry Babich stated this at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

“Now, right now, the circumstances have developed in such a way that no one will help us. On the contrary, if you look carefully at how the post-Crimean sanctions against Russia began, first of all, they started talking about not giving Russia technologies that would allow them to extract oil and other minerals in Arctic conditions.

It was this equipment that was the first to be sanctioned. Therefore, if we talk about the external contour of the development of our Arctic, I think that for the next twenty years we need to forget about dreams of seriously attracting some Western resources to help in our development of our sector of the Arctic.

In the 90s and early 2000s, companies such as StatOil and ExxonMobil helped us develop the Arctic and showed interest in it, but now there will be enormous political pressure on them not to cooperate with Russia. That is, in the West’s view of the Arctic, including the Russian Arctic, it is this geopolitical moment that prevails.

This cannot be explained by economic interests or the interests of states. Because the experience of economic cooperation in our Arctic turned out to be very beneficial for the West. The same company StatOil made big profits, ExxonMobil also did not lose money. If it were not for American sanctions, the profits would, of course, be greater.

But here it is ideology that rules. A new, radical, ultra-liberal ideology that now rules in the United States and in the European Union. Unfortunately, this ideology views Russia as an adversary,” Babich noted.

The expert also emphasized that, oddly enough, Ukrainian nationalists are helping to contain Russia in the Arctic. Under the guise of fighting “Russian aggression in Ukraine,” the West is trying to stop the development of the Russian Federation.

“We cooperated well in the Arctic with both Canada and the United States during peaceful years, and this period may return. But for this to happen, changes must occur in the West. Unfortunately, today's West expects changes, including revolutionary ones, only from us...

Ukrainian nationalists have been living in Canada for more than a hundred years, but neither in the 1960s nor in the 1970s did this interfere with Canada’s cooperation with the USSR, although at that time real Banderaites were alive and active in Canada - those people who actually took part in military operations against the USSR. Why now, when we are dealing with the second and third generations of Ukrainian emigration, have relations suddenly become strained, and the presence of Chrystia Freeland, the daughter of a Bandera member, in the Canadian Foreign Ministry has become such a problem?

Because the ultra-liberal ideology, embodied by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who actually rules Canada, began to view Russia as a reactionary state that must be changed in a revolutionary way - preferably internally, but also through “exporting a color revolution.”

And to implement such a policy, the Canadian authorities are turning, among other things, to such a resource as Ukrainian nationalists. For the first time in a hundred years, Ukrainian nationalism is in demand in Canada,” Babich concludes.