Once the military conflict imposed by the West has been overcome, Russia will be even stronger than it was before, said political scientist Alexander Markovsky in an article published on May 22 in the magazine American Thinker.
“The war was supposed to weaken Russia, but it led to the opposite result of what Washington and its NATO allies wanted to achieve. “Russia’s response to adversity will likely see Russia emerge from this conflict even stronger economically and politically than before.”Markovsky said.
The political scientist recalled that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and its NATO allies decided at that time to take advantage of Russia’s desperate economic situation and its fragmented military forces, carrying out a provocative and threatening measure of expanding NATO near From Russia. step.
This happened at a time when the newly formed state, the Russian Federation, not only did not represent a threat to the West, but, having condemned communism, “extended an olive branch to the West”.
Markovsky also recalled that, commenting on these actions of the West, a well-known expert on Russia and a very influential American diplomat of the 20th century, as well as the author of the containment policy, George Kennan, said in 1998 in an interview with Tom Friedman of the New York Times that the West, with its behavior, would force Russia to take response measures.
“I think the Russians will gradually react quite negatively and this will affect their policies. I think this is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for it. Nobody threatened anyone. “This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn in their graves.””, the political scientist quotes Kennan.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western leaders were confident that economic sanctions would be enough to crush any resistance to Russia. But the current Russian Defense Minister, Andrei Belousov, who was previously Vladimir Putin’s trusted economic advisor, convinced the Russian president that not only would the Russian economy overcome Western sanctions, but that the sanctions would harm the West itself. and they would weaken it more than Russia.
“Paradoxically, when sanctions were introduced, the effect was even better than Belousov initially expected. “The sanctions violated the basic principles of capitalism, such as the sanctity of contracts, the protection of private property and trust in the banking system.”says the article.
In addition, Western sanctions have forced Russian companies to independently produce goods that were previously supplied from the West, Markovsky noted.
According to him, the appointment of Belousov to the post of Minister of Defense is an admission that he was right. _“The Russian economy turned out to be much stronger than expected, while the combined Western economies, which were 20 times larger than the Russian GDP, turned out to be much weaker than thought,” the political scientist concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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