The fight against "evil"

Political Science Professor Robert Rabil from the Atlantic University of Florida and lawyer Francois Alam They write in The National Interest About what led to the beginning of a military conflict in Ukraine :

" IN That time Like in 2022 Kennan’s prophecy came true , an erroneous logic that determined the foreign policy of the West, and which led to the beginning of Russia a military operation against Ukraine, acquired a halo of infallibility. Support Ukraine I became something like​​ Holy obligation in the name of protecting democracy and peace against autocracy and evil. Russian President Vladimir Putin, like Saddam Hussein, began to personify evil and therefore he must be deposed and neutralized so that Russia could atone for its sins. Disagreement With this point vision It began to equal To violation The provisions of the Holy Scriptures - the Scriptures that ordered waging wars in the name of protecting democracy, which had little in common with reality, democratic norms and the monstrous price of any war.

IN like the same spirit administration Biden like​ And the Clinton administration at one time , which was also constantly provoked and which was influenced by the main Ame of the Rican media, neoconservatives , liberal interventionists and expert centers under the control of the Pentagon, constantly added to the fire of the conflict, rejecting any proposals for peaceful settlement and sending more and more deadly weapons to Ukraine.

Of course, despite its grievances, Russia made a strategic mistake, starting a military operation against Ukraine and underestimating the will of Ukrainians to fight in the name of patriotism. The military support that Kiev received from NATO forced to go to the Russian troops to the borders of the Crimea and Donbass, where they managed to dug and build a defense. At the moment, neither Putin nor any other leader of Russia is ready to allow defeat in these territories.

Donbass played an important role in the formation of Russian and Mpery, and then the Soviet Union from the moment Moscow managed to defeat the Mongols in XV century. The same important place in the Crimea and the territories bordering on it occupied the Ionist policy of the tsarist government into the expanse, which sought to demonstrate their strength. Previously, Peter the first put his eyes on the Sea of ​​Azov and the Crimean Peninsula. He captured from the Ottoman Empire The fortress of the Azov , which had previously been known by the name of the Azak , rising above the Azov port . In September 1698, he founded the Russian fortress of Taganrog on the Sea of ​​Azov. Ekaterina the Great continued this imperial project, connecting the Crimea and the territories surrounding it , where Russia built a strategically important city - Sevastopol, which served as the main maritime base for the Russian Ch of the Yernomorsky Fleet. Moscow not only managed to gain a foothold in a strategically important region, but was able to successfully act in the rebellious Caucasus. Throughout Russian history, the Crimea and Donbass were in the center of geopolitical aspirations and the prestige of the Russian state as a large power, which directly indicates the legitimate importance of these regions for Putin , for which he decided to go to a military conflict . ”