A Russian Victory in Ukraine will Usher In a New Age of Empires that will Soon Collide with One Another, Surkov Says

Paul Goble

Saturday, December 28, 2024

 – Vladislav Surkov, a Kremlin advisor sometimes referred to as Putin’s brain and thus worth listening to fir insights into the latter’s thinking, says that a Russian victory in Ukraine will lead Russia to turn toward the West and usher in a new age of empires that will inevitably collide with one another.
    The first of these consequences, he says, won’t involve “the restoration of vulgar Westernism but only be about a reasonable reduction in the current Asian bias” and will mean that having defeated Ukraine, Russia will have “cut through another window on Europe”

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    The other major consequence of a Russian victory, Surkov continues, is that it will usher in a new era of imperialism as more and more leaders and peoples seek to acquire imperial possessions. That means that “bipolar disorder in international relations … is being replaced by multi-polar disorder, sometimes for some reason mistaken for recovery.”
    At present, “imperialism is an indecent, almost obscene term in the modern political lexicon.” And undoubtedly many will not call this new impulse imperialism. But using a different term does not change the essence of the situation: “empires are being revived, and empires will collide.”