West Paralyzed by Fear of Russia’s Strategic Defeat, League of Free Nations Activist Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Dec. 16 – Just as was the case before 1991 when some in the West suggested that the disintegration of the USSR would lead to “a Yugoslavia with nukes,” so now again many in the West now openly express the view that the strategic defeat of Russia and the coming apart of Moscow’s empire is more dangerous than the Kremlin is now, Kamil Sagaev says.

            The League of Free Nations activist who was trained in China and Great Britain notes that while most observers agree that “Russia has been a threat for centuries,” they continue to insist that “her defeat is ‘unacceptable’” and argue that “Russia must not lose or new state will take its place and could start wars with each other” (region.expert/west-afraid/).

            Driven by the belief that the world will have to continue to contend with “a single aggressive empire” or “the possibility of chaos” from the appearance of new states, the West is “taking the side of the empire” and “offered the people of Russia the role of ‘hostages for rent’” whose “freedom would be dangerous to the convenience” of the West.

            It is both reasonable and logical to ask, Sagaev says, “how is such thinking different from Russian imperial doctrine? The answer is an unpleasant one: “In no way” because “it is the same fear of the freedom of peoples just under a different flag,” even though those in the West promoting this notion are themselves the result of the demise of empires.

            And this question leads to another one that no one wants to have posed: “why did you [in the West] yourselves descendants of collapsed empires, appoint the peoples of Russia the role of eternal subjects?”

            “If Russia inevitably collapses economically in the coming years, what are you going to do? Pour money into her until the end? Frozen reserves to give away? Issue new loans from European banks to prolong the life of a dying empire?” the League of Free Nations activist asks rhetorically.

And he points out that “this is not politics anymore. This is fear elevated to the rank of doctrine. Freedom cannot be canceled by external fear” because “empire always fall. History knows no exceptions but every time before a breakup, there is someone who demands that its people wait because ‘this is not the time.’”

But of course, Sagayev says, “the time is always the same: the time of freedom comes when people stop asking for permission.”