Disintegration by Andrei Martyanov

Author:Andrei Martyanov
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clarity Press
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

An Analytical Echo Chamber

The American Russian Studies field provides a classic example of an American analytical echo-chamber. As I have been writing for years—it is a wasteland of Solzhenitsified pseudo-history, rumor-mills and narratives delivered by people, both of Russian and foreign origins, who cannot be described as objective observers by a long shot. The situation gets even grimmer with the passage of time, leading to today’s Russian Studies being little more than a propaganda machine that doesn’t even bother actually studying Russia and its culture, as represented by the majority of Russia’s peoples of different ethnicities. What passes for “studying Russia” in the U.S. is the same old tired routine of imagining that Russia is still the Soviet Union and then trying to defeat it, not noticing that the times have changed dramatically.

But even the spectacular failure of a major, and utterly false, geopolitical stratagem introduced by Zbigniew Brzezinski, which served as one of the pillars of United States’ strategy toward, or rather against, Russia went almost unnoticed by U.S. establishment intellectuals—despite the fact that not only was the stratagem wrong but it also was one of the major drivers behind America’s precipitous decline across the board. For decades, Brzezinski, who passed in the United States as one of the main experts on the USSR/Russia, which he was not by a long shot, had promoted the idea that Ukraine was a primary battlefield that the United States must dominate in order to remain the sole superpower and prevent Russia from reconstituting itself as a Eurasian empire.27 Remarkably yet expectedly, this delusional drivel received wholesale praise from all quarters of the American and Western intelligentsia engaged in foreign policy issues. The delusion was best encapsulated in the New York Times praise for the Brzezinski’s magnum opus The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperative.

Brzezinski has now provided another scholarly blueprint for what he believes the United States should do in coming years to further America’s interests, maintain the hegemony it commands, and prevent global anarchy. For Brzezinski this is a strategic game, not unlike chess to outwit potential rivals…28

It’s no secret that many in Russia, from its political peak down to the average Ivan, were happy to see the entire Brzezinski worldview collapse on itself, especially considering his position as President Obama’s foreign policy advisor. Not only was Russia disinterested in the Ukraine as a battlefield, but after Crimea returned to Russia in 2014, the Russians didn’t want to have anything to do with Ukraine. In the short six years since the violent bloody Maidan coup, they have decoupled themselves economically from the increasingly dysfunctional regime in Kiev, even redirecting two pipelines to Europe so as to avoid their passing through Ukraine, thus simultaneously sentencing it to a slow economic death.

Brzezinski didn’t outwit anybody but himself, and the followers of his radically Russophobic views, because the Ukraine affair resulted in consequences reflecting a tectonic albeit unacknowledged geopolitical defeat for the West. It also released Russia from the debilitating burden of

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