VLADIMIR BROVKIN(ACEWA)
June 13, 2016

Political Scientists like to explain reality in terms of familiar mental constructs, such as search for legitimacy, priority of domestic policy, newly found military strength, etc. And so what we have in these articles is a standard traditional application of those to contemporary Russian foreign policy. What is wrong with this is that it misses the emotional side of things, the gut feeling, the sense of pride and national injury.

Most Russians today, as demonstrated by numerous public opinion polls, believe that the West has encroached on their traditional territory and in the case of Ukraine that the West usurped what many believe is a part of the nation, one nation.

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The analysis below was written by Dmitri Trenin, a seasoned expert in the field of US-Russia relations. Trenin is quite measured, has been in the field for decades and can be counted on for long-term analysis that is on target. His assessment amid the flurry of immediate news breaking out from multiple corners, is worthy of heeding.

Trenin makes it abundantly clear that this fierce and unpredictable battle going on between current U.S. leaders and Russia’s leadership is a “fight-to-death for dominance” in the new World Order of the 21st century. I’m bolding and underlining parts of it to emphasize his key points.

The question is,“Can we citizens chart courses of action that can effectively deal with ‘what is.'”  “What is” became clear to me after studying “The Wolfowitz Doctrine” in 2010.  At that time no one in my circles or reading material was even mentioning that the Doctrine existed. And quite honestly once I read it and understood what it meant to the short–term history in which I had been involved, I was afraid to discuss it in public. But Trenin is very clear about it in the article below, whether or not he mentions it by name.

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Dear Friends,

Following is Professor Richard Sakwa’s latest analysis of the predicament in which we find ourselves.

We in the West have been so taken in by propaganda and so shielded from the truth (or reality), that this scenario outlined by Sakwa will become a self-fufilling prophecy––unless somehow we awaken and demand to stop this blind nonsense masquerading as foreign policy.

Professor Sakwa is one of our world’s leading academic voices – Check his credentials and understand that he is dead serious about the escalating situation in which we are ALL involved.

Sharon

The Conversation

West could sleepwalk into a Doomsday war with Russia – it’s time to wake up

Richard Sakwa
Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent
May 26, 2016

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