In a briefing held on the sidelines of the 12th International Legal Forum in St. Petersburg, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia is interested in forming a “new security architecture in Eurasia.”
To be drawn into a new confrontation between blocs, in the spirit of zero-sum games, is not the intention of the Russian Federation. The architecture formed on the basis of joint efforts will not be directed against anyone, its parameters will not only ensure long-lasting peace but also avoid major geopolitical upheavals caused by the globalization crisis, built according to Western patterns. It will make reliable military-political guarantees for the protection of both the Russian Federation and other countries in the macro-region from external threats. It will generate a conflict-free and development-friendly space and eliminate the destabilizing influence of extra-regional actors on Eurasian processes. In the future, it will result in the reduction of the military presence of external powers in Eurasia.
MARIA ZAKHAROVA
The spokeswoman recalled that the initiative of this new security architecture at the level of the entire Eurasian continent was proposed by President Vladimir Putin.
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The question that must be asked is whether the Russian Federation is ready to promote and, in fact, defend this initiative from the external and internal attacks that it will generate. There is no doubt that a peaceful Eurasian space, in which dialogue and cooperation prevail, is a nightmare for the hegemonic and racist mentalities of US political leaders.
Is it now time for such a project? Is Russia the most suitable state to promote such a plan? Of course, a single country cannot bear the entire burden, but a network of states is needed to succeed in rebalancing when events that generate instability occur. The European Union is such an example, at least that’s what the Russians considered when they decided to create the Eurasian Economic Union. [Recommendation: Stanislav Tkachenko | Russia and Central Asia: bilateral and multilateral relations]
As long as the European Union does not embrace the concept of a common Eurasian space, built on UN principles and without membership in extra-regional political-military groups, and as long as Japan and North Korea remain under American military occupation, the Eurasian project will not succeed. At the moment, the biggest impediment to its advance is the war between Russia and Ukraine and Moscow’s lack of capacity or initiative to neutralize the growing influence of the United States of America on Russia’s partners and former partners, such as Armenia (mainly through France), Kazakhstan and Vietnam.
Russia is eventually facing a conflict with the US. Because of this, she believes that all the problems come from the US and all the solutions consist of excluding the US. Of course, we can consider that other countries have the same approach, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Serbia as examples. A main aspect of the Eurasian military-political guarantees project is “the elimination of the destabilizing influence of extra-regional actors on Eurasian processes.” The only actor outside the region with a real capacity to destabilize is only the US.