Paul Goble
Staunton, Jan. 30 – To compensate at home for its failure to achieve victory over Ukraine, Moscow propagandists like Aleksandr Dugin have adopted increasingly imperialist rhetoric with regard to the other countries in the region which emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Serik Maleyev says.
But the editor of Kazakhstan’s Altyn-Orda portal says that this is backfiring and convincing these countries that that the only way they can have a secure future is for Russia to suffer a crushing defeat and disintegrate further (altyn-orda.kz/rossijskaya-ugroza-respublikam-tsentralnoj-azii-zachem-ideologi-kremlya-otmenyayut-suverenitet-sosedej/ reposted at region.expert/central-asia/).
Dugin, the chief megaphone for this rhetoric, Maleyev says, is not just some odious excentric. Rather, his words about the former Soviet republics not having the right to exist except as Russian client states is “the concentrated expression of imperial revanchism which long ago became part of the Russian propaganda mainstream.”
Moreover, Maleyev continues, “the louder that these imperial fantasies are sounded, the more obvious their compensatory character is” and the more the residents of neighboring countries see this language “not as an argument in favor of coming together but rather as a direct warning” and as a reason “to see Russia’s total defeat not as something radical but sensible.”
“The more insistently the ideologues of ‘the Russian world’ deny the right of that country’s neighbors to have an independent existence,” the Kazakhstan writer says, “the more quickly these neighbors will come to the simple conclusion that the source of the threat to them must be stripped of the possibility of carrying it out.”
And what this means, the editor continues, is that the words of Dugin and others like him “are not strengthening Russia and not broadening its influence but only stresses the difference imperial rhetoric and the real possibilities of a weakening state.”
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