Unfortunately, the collapse of the Soviet empire took place with minimal US involvement. Because neither the political nor the military leadership of the USA set as a goal the defeat of the communist Russian empire through the destruction of its integrity.
Moreover, thanks to the personal contacts of President Bush and Gorbachev, precisely for the sake of the latter, US diplomacy sought an answer to the following question: how to save its partner in the USSR?
That is why Bush’s trip was entirely devoted to the preservation of the Soviet empire, not its destruction. Although Bush gave a Christmas speech in 1991 that the Cold War was over, it was typical political bravado. The KGB did not plan to end the Cold War.
Because the death of the external empire did not yet mean the death of Russian imperialism or the internal empire. Bush took advantage of Gorbachev’s willingness to reduce the shagreen skin of the empire and advance the interests of the Soviet military industry and hawks from the Ministry of Defense. The fact is that it was these concessions that provoked the putschists to go against Gorbachev.
It was the longing for the empire, and frank revanchism, both political and historical, that came to the fore. It is not known how the coup attempt could have ended if its participants had had more support and resources. However, the destruction of the empire took place.
Contrary to the expectations and wishes of the US leadership.
The fact that the American people were congratulated on the victory was an act of political show, not the result of painstaking work by American diplomats or intelligence officers.
But according to the principles of the genre, self-suggestion plays a wicked joke on the one who deceives himself. Lies repeated by respected speakers can determine foreign policy. And to form the next generations, who want long authoritarian regimes to exist and supposedly provide predictable relations for a longer period of time.
However, the conclusion is unexpected. The head of the Soviet empire was forced to limit the means of nuclear destruction in exchange for money from the United States. \So, the collapse of the empire took place at a time when a part of the political leadership of the empire had no choice but to stop social, economic and national discontent with the help of the IMF. It was a rare coincidence that an empire was forced to leave its imperial possessions in Europe because it did not have the resources to support so many problems.
Retaining the nuclear status is a false status quo that gives the empire another chance at imperialism as a “normal” form of foreign policy.
The fall of the empire was connected not only with national movements or dissidents in the republics but also with the transit of power from the center to the regions and the loss of the monopoly of the ruling party. This is an important conclusion for today – without the dictates of Moscow, the repressive apparatus and the faceless ruling party, colonized nations and regions receive not only sovereignty but also the complete under-disintegration of the empire, which was stopped by Yeltsin and restored by Putin.
The 11th Free Nations of PostRussia Forum, which took place yesterday in Vilnius, showed that the idea of a strategic defeat of Russia has many more friends and allies.
Emperor Lugovoi, who proposed to hit Vilnius with a “Sudoplatov missile” for holding the Forum, is a real reaction, genuine. They prefer to destroy everyone who stands for freedom from the empire. But all empires will fall. The time for Russian has long run out.
Stanislav Fedorchuk
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