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Long Cliffs:
Michael Miller, the guest speaker, did his PhD in Putinist Eurasianism, and over the years has been translating Alexander Dugin’s (Putin’s brain as he puts it) works on geopolitics, political theory, philosophy and the like.
Miller makes the claim that the West’s inability to study primary source material (Alexander Dugin) of the enemy’s ideology is an abysmal failure of strategic empathy and of adequate analysis.
He then goes into Russia’s reasons for invading:
- Putin has requested that NATO not expand eastward to include Ukraine, otherwise NATO as an anti-Russian alliance would be right on Russia’s doorstep. Russia has also had long standing complaints about the expansion of NATO in general which was promised wouldn’t happen. It’s like they have a military geopolitical alliance creeping ever closer to their Western borders and Russia considers this to be a genuine military threat.
- Russia also has a concern with the nature of the current Ukrainian regime. Per Vladimir Putin’s 2021 essay titled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians”, the current Ukrainian government has raised a russophobic, hostile, anti-Russian regime. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
- The false values that the “empire of lies” has been using to try to undermine the cultural civilizational identity of Russia and other non-Western peoples. The role of America’s imposition of it’s anti-traditional, woke, anti-conservative to an extent, anti-continental, anti-Eurasian values on the countries and peoples of the world who would prefer to live according to their own traditional civilization and cultural understanding of things. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...televised-address-to-russia-on-ukraine-feb-24
The Russian Federation inherited the Soviet Union’s form or shape to a minor extent but minus a large portion of its territory and minus a large portion of the Russian-speaking citizens who were members of the Soviet Union. It was in a state of potential collapse, in a state of potential decay and an existential crisis. The RF found itself in a dire situation, especially with Chechen war and other kinds of operations that were threatening Moscow’s and Russia's territorial and political integrity. Putin stepped in and began to reverse the direction of Russia’s geopolitical and sociopolitical collapse. He sees to a certain extent the logic of his task as a Russian statesman to recover and reverse the spatial territorial geopolitical decline which includes parts of historic Russian lands.
In his speech about the military operation in Ukraine, Putin emphasized the condescension and willful deliberate blindness to acknowledging even any of Russia’s concerns. Hypocrisy, condescension and disrespect cannot help, but only can make the situation worse….you get this because the US is stronger, the West considers themselves victorious after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they were the last man standing in the great battle of ideologies, they won the cold war, it was the american century, etc, etc…..but the result, the effect, that it had on their conduct towards Russia could only have the effect of stoking a possibility of an imminent conflict rather than diplomatically holding it off as long as possible. That is a true failure of imagination, of understanding, and of diplomacy.
Ukraine could have set aside the question of joining NATO and entered negotiations with Russia and neighboring countries. Zelenskiy’s government, however, has been very insistent of joining NATO. NATO shouldn’t use Ukraine as its plaything and Ukraine shouldn’t dangle prospective NATO membership in front of Russia - something that makes it go blind with rage.
The easy moral rhetoric is to say everybody is free to do what they want but the harsh political political reality is in opposition to this stance. Zelenskiy has stated that he wants to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons - a hostile stance towards Russia.
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