Paul Goble
Staunton, Jan. 18 – “Unfortunately,” Vladimir Pastukhov says, “we have reached the point where it is no longer possible to ignore the significant similarities between the political and philosophical foundations of the MAGA [Make America Great Again] ideology and the ideology of ‘the Russian World.”
“Their general ideological principles coincide,” the Russian analyst based in London says. First, they “prioritize ‘national interests over ‘universal human values, in which they do not believe.” Second, both consider “ultra-conservative clerical principles as universal and the only acceptable ones” (t.me/v_pastukhov/1791 reposted at echofm.online/opinions/ideologii-maga-i-russkogo-mira-shodstvo-politiko-filosofskih-osnovanij).
Moreover, third, “both view all other values as hostile and subject to eradication along with all media outlets which disseminate them.” Fourth, “both are inherently anti-democratic or rather democratic in the purely Leninist understanding of the world.” And fifth, “both are apologists for the right of force in both domestic and foreign policy.”
According to Pastukhov, the Russian World and MAGA ideologies are aligned even more closely when it comes “to solving specific political problems” as the cases of Crimea and Greenland show. Both argue that they are faced with a problem created by others that they must solve. Both treat the territory in question as something artificial and hostile. And both see a military solution as justified historically and in terms of national interests.
The Russian analyst says he wrote this to call attention to “the sad fact that the simultaneous dominance in both former superpowers of two ideologies with obviously similar nature can hardly be considered an historical accident,” that this situation isn’t going to “simply disappear” and that this is very much the case “when the sleep of reason produces monsters.”
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