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Sergei Karaganov has been an adviser to both Yeltsin and Putin. PHOTO: Wikipedia
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Sergei Karaganov allows the creation of two Ukrainians in front of the Corriere della Sera
In an interview with Corriere della Sera, former Yeltsin and Putin adviser Sergei Karaganov said an escalation of the war was becoming more likely. “The Americans and their NATO partners continue to send weapons to Ukraine. If this continues, targets in Europe will be hit in order to cut off communication lines. “
Karaganov, who is still a close friend of the Russian president, told the Italian newspaper that there was “an increase in neo-Nazism in Ukraine, that it became like Germany in 1936-37, and that war was inevitable.” “We decided to strike before the threat became even more deadly.” Asked by the newspaper how Ukraine could be called Nazi after having a Jewish president, Karaganov said that “Nazism is not just about being against the Jews, but also about” one nation’s supremacy over another, humiliation of other nations. ” According to the Russian political and military expert, it was a mistake at the time to admit the countries of Central and Eastern Europe to NATO, because Russia was poor at the time. “This is an enlargement of an aggressive union. It’s a tumor and we wanted to stop the metastases. “
Karaganov believes that there will be no change of leadership in Russia, because we are waging a war of survival against the West, in which people are uniting around the leader. “In the United States, no one paid for the war in Iraq, so we have doubts about democracy.”
The former Putin adviser also spoke of “Western expansion in action, as well as Russophobia, resembling anti-Semitism between the two wars.”
“We have witnessed visions and structural problems in Western societies, so the Kremlin has decided to strike first. By the way, this military operation will be used to rebuild Russian society – it will become more militant, pushing non-patriotic elements out of the elite.
Whether the war aims to overturn NATO’s presence in Central and Eastern Europe, Corriere della Sera asks. “Most of the instructions for us are illegitimate and one-sided, threatening Russia and Eastern Europe. The greed and stupidity of the Americans and the short-sightedness of the Europeans have revealed to us that these actors do not want a just peace. We have to correct their mistakes “, Karaganov is convinced.
For him, demilitarization means “the destruction of Ukrainian forces.” “If Ukraine is helped, it prolongs its agony.”
Russian troops are withdrawing from Kyiv, the newspaper commented, to which Karaganov replied with a question: “What if the operation in Kyiv aims to disperse the Ukrainian parts of the theater to the south and southeast? The way out may be a new contract, maybe with Zelenski still there. It will lead to the creation of one country, a friend of Russia, to the south and southeast, and maybe there will be two Ukrainians.
Karaganov added that Russia had started the war, but that it was now on the same ground in the West. “The West is unleashing various aggressions. Now we are on the same moral ground, we are the same. I am sorry that we have lost our moral supremacy, but we are waging a war for our existence. “
The political scientist admits that Russia will be more dependent on China and that he is not afraid of becoming its pawn.
“We will win because the Russians always win. But we will lose a lot, we will lose people, resources, we will become poor. We are ready to make sacrifices to build a fairer international system. We want to build Fortress Russia to protect ourselves from chaos, even at the risk of becoming poorer. And chaos can flood Europe if it does not react on the basis of its interests. What he is doing now is suicidal, “he added.
Sergei Karaganov heads Russia’s Foreign and Defense Policy Council. He is also the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Politics at the Moscow Higher School of Economics. In the past, Karaganov was a close ally of Evgeni Primakov.
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