Putin's effort to create a new empire is doomed, and the event should contribute to it - Foreign Policy

As Putin has thrown all his resources and political capital on aggression against Ukraine, stopping it there means to stop his project of reimperialization everywhere. The defeat prompts part of the Russian elite and the population as a whole to review the question of the expediency of the empire, says Professor of Political Science Alexander Motyl. Russia is trying to implement a new imperial project.

As Putin has thrown all his resources and political capital against Ukraine, stopping it there means stopping it and his project of reimperation everywhere. This is done, writing historical and economic analysis, a researcher at Ratger University (USA) Professor of Political Science Alexander Motyl in publication in Foreign Policy.

In his opinion, the Russian Federation, which became the product of the collapse of the Soviet Union, has taken up the project of reimperalization and tries to recreate as much as possible its former empire. It is also not surprising that Russia's efforts are failed. He gives examples of the Byzantine and Ottoman Empire, which are examples of stable empires that have fallen over time. None of them tried to restore imperialization. The same concerned the European overseas colonial empires.

According to Motyl, Russia belongs to another, more changing category of decline of the empire. Success or failure of reimperalization usually depends on the balance of the forces between the core, the periphery and any interfering countries. The Bolsheviks were military and economically stronger than most of their neighbors and could revive the Russian Empire. The Nazis faced too many opponents and failed. "All European colonial states shared imperial ideology during their active expansion.

But they were forced to abandon it, faced with their own military and economic weakness after two world wars, national liberation struggle and increased condemnation of the international community!" - indicated in the publication. A powerful army, a strong economy and an effective government are the necessary conditions for reimperation.

Favorable conditions include existing institutional relations between the imperial core and the periphery, external forces that are either indifferent or susceptible to imperial expansion, and authoritarian reign in the center. The last impetus for action is the imperial ideology that stimulates the desire of the empire. Since the project of reimperation of the Russian Federation is doomed, everything that can be done is to continue or accelerate the process, not to stop it.

Continuation of this means the continuation of suffering, repeated annexation. All that will accelerate the inevitable end of reimperalization will reduce death and destruction. "It makes sense to take a page from the philosopher Karl Marx and" accelerate the torment of history. " In the release of its territories from the Russian occupation, giving the weapon that it needs-more than later. ", - the newspaper writes.

As Putin has thrown all his resources and political capital against the war against Ukraine, stopping it there means to stop it and his project of reimperation everywhere. The defeat prompts part of the Russian elite and the population as a whole to review the question of the empire, but there is no reason to believe that Russian imperial ideology will find a fast end. Rather, it will be a long -lasting breakdown that guarantees such a result.

According to Alexander Motyl, Russia will become more or less a normal, non-imperial state only if it continues to lose the territory that has occupied, and not only in Ukraine. "If Russia is losing in Ukraine, Putin's regime will fall and Georgia, Moldova, Belarus and even some non -Russian peoples in the Russian Federation decide to avoid the chaos that arose by returning their occupied territories or otherwise breaking the links with Moscow.

In the absence of defeat In military and economic terms and poorly managed Russia will remain in captivity of ideology and will try again to restore imperialization - and all, undoubtedly, with the same results: failure, death and destruction, " - writes Foreign Policy. Recall that the philologist and activist Ainash Kerney is convinced that Russia is certainly imperial plans for Kazakhstan.