Putin System’s ‘World Historical Mission’ is to Destroy Western Democracy, Skobov Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, May 3 – The Soviet system had as its world historical mission a plan to spread its system throughout the world, Aleksandr Skobov says. Putin’s system also has such a mission but it entails not promoting a vision of the future but rather destroying Western democracy as an alternative to authoritarianism.

           

            As such, the Russian analyst says, the Putin system today is “the most dangerous thrat to civilization. More dangerous than aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, and more immediate than totalitarian China” because it is prepared to use the illnesses that all democracies suffer from to metasticize into them (graniru.org/opinion/skobov/m.276187.html).

            And because this is the case, Skobov argues, “there is nothing more mistaken than the declarations of Western leaders about it being undesirable to build a common international home without Russia and against Russia. It is possible to build one only without Putin’s Russia and against Putin’s Russia.” 

            “Either the cancerous tumor of Putinism will kill civilization or civilization will find in itself the strength to rip out this tumor by decisively isolating it” from still-healthy democracies. Under conditions of real isolation,” the commentator continues, “the Putinist vampire-parasite will not survive.”

            The Putin regime or “pakhanate” is prepared to support all authoritarian leaders who want to rule their peoples and remain in power forever.  Putin and his cronies see that as entirely appropriate behavior and see anyone who is prepared to give up power through free elections as worthy only of disdain.

            This desire for securing the benefits of criminal activities has its origins in the way in which Putin and his mafia rose to power: they seized things illegally inside Russia and then they wanted to be sure that no one could challenge them for control.  What is happening now is they are extending this approach to other countries, Skobov continues.

            “This is not only because Russia has practically nothing else to offer. The promotion of this good on the world market has become for the Putinist pakhanate its chief strategic task and a goal in itself.” The mafia methods and values that they have used to solidify power in Russia are now the agenda they have for dealing with all other countries.

            According to Skobov, “the Putinist kleptocracy is built around the idea of control, control exclusively from above, on the principle of the mafia and carried out by the methods of the mafia.”  Its foreign policy is no different.  Moscow “fears anything that undermines” control from on top.

            That makes it the friend of all dictators and authoritarian want-to-bes, and the opponent of democracy as such.  The Putin regime wants the world to be one with all other countries animated and organized by the same principles as it is. From its perspective, “Western law-based liberal democracy is wrong.”

            Because it is wrong in the eyes of the Putinists, “Western democracy must not exist.” And the Putin regime feels that its “world-historical mission is to pull up by the roots incorrect and harmful Western democracy” and thus make everyone like Putin’s Russia now is, the Moscow commentator says.

            “The relations of the Putin pakhanate with the West are the relations of the mafia with the police. The mafia seeks to penetrate them, to take them under control, and to use them in its own interests. The mafia strives in short to mafia-zize them. The Putin pakhanate is a vampire whose bite turns its victim into something like itself.”

            The Putin system “strives to transform Western democratic institutions into exactly the same dead imitation of them that it has transformed them in Russia. It hates them as the dead hate everything living. It will transform into something dead everything that it touches” and it must be fought.

            “Western society, like any other living organism,” Skobov says, “suffers from all kinds of illnesses.” There are infections and weakness which are dangerous for it. And if it doesn’t struggle against them, “it will degenerate into an imitation” of the real thing as in Russia. There is thus “nothing more dangerous” in the West than any complacency.”