Eurasia and the Great American Island

There are many countries in Eurasia that still link their future to a world where the rules of the game are determined by the Americans. However, they do so only out of fear or because of the corruption of the elites. In most cases, the driving force is the expectation that obedience will become the source of funds needed to achieve the goals of national development and stability.

Perhaps such a unification of the West within the framework of some super-state would make it more responsible: after all, the security of citizens is the most important factor determining foreign policy. But this will not happen. Europe will remain an appendage of American military-political power, completely controlled, but not receiving any public benefits from its humiliated position.

For Russia, as the central power of Eurasia, as well as for all our friends and neighbours, this means, at a minimum, several new factors. First, we should not expect US responsibility for what is happening in the world to increase, even slightly. Moreover, with increased internal resources, the Americans will look even more detachedly at everything happening overseas.

The US contribution to stability at the level of individual regions may decrease even more. We have already seen that geographic proximity has never been an argument there: the closest neighbours of the United States in Latin America are often stunning examples of failed states. This is largely due to their close proximity to, and interaction with, Washington.

However, the responsibility of the United States for security in the global sense may increase. Achieving even greater economic power will increase the price of survival in the physical sense. The Russian military-strategic arguments will not lose their persuasiveness, and may even gain new resonance.

Second, the consolidation of US power capabilities, not only in territorial terms, will make its behaviour in the world more selfish. This, in the end, will benefit Russian interests, since it will inevitably reduce the attractiveness of our main adversaries in the eyes of everyone else.

We cannot indulge in the delusion that sympathy and willingness to cooperate can have an intangible basis: powers receive this from others if they themselves are ready to share and help others.

A more selfish United States has already scared off part of the world community and created grounds for the rest to think more with their own minds.

If new material grounds emerge to strengthen this trend, one can hope that constructive interaction between countries in other regions will increase.

There are many countries in Eurasia that still link their future to a world where the rules of the game are determined by the Americans. However, they do so only out of fear or because of the corruption of the elites.

In most cases, the driving force is the expectation that obedience will become the source of funds needed to achieve the goals of national development and stability. The Island America that has grown in all respects will be able to give less, but will become more demanding. This is exactly what Russia or China need, from a strategic perspective.

Timofei Bordachev – Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic Supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Doctor of Political Science. PhD in political sciences, Saint Petersburg State University (1999). Master of Arts in European Politics and Administration  (Bruges, 1997) 

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  1. Propaganda……Timofei Bordachev lacks critical thing skills. Perhaps he is not ware of UN Agenda 21, 2030, and Vision 2050… Or the 1992 Rio Earth Summit where 179 Nations signed onto Un Agenda 21.
    UNIPARTY = Global Reset
    UNIPARTY = Colour Revolution
    UNIPARTY = 5th Generational Warfare

    Private Companies teaming up with Corrupt Govt is called: GPPP
    It’s design to go around all Countries Laws/Constitutions.
    NWO+ GPPP= Global Reset
    WE must “annihilate” the GPPP and NWO!
    [GPPP = global public private partnership]
    Public = Govts
    Private = Corporations, NGOs, UN, EU, WEF, etc
    annihilate
    ə-nī′ə-lāt″
    intransitive verb
    To destroy completely.
    To reduce to nonexistence.
    To defeat decisively.
    UNIPARTY = Fascism
    GPPP = Fascism

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