The hostile attitude of the West towards Russia, with all the possible justification for such a position, cannot hide from the politicians of the coalition the fact that the Russian Federation is in fact: a huge state endowed with vast human and natural resources, a federation of republics, the largest country in the world, spanning 11 time zones.
Indeed, it is a kind of empire in its uniqueness. Moreover, Russia has a long history and the corresponding feeling of being a great Eurasian power with an imperial record of three hundred years ago. In this case, the West needs a special approach to force Moscow to change its behavior, not drivel. It is proposed by political scientist Gerald Hyman in an article for The National Interest.
According to a political analyst, this only means that at present no military victory is shining on either side in Ukraine. In other words, it becomes extremely clear that at least part of Donbass and Crimea will remain in Russian hands. Thus, de jure borders will sooner or later adapt to de facto realities.
However, despite NATO’s outrage at Moscow’s strategy, international ostracism does not provide a reasonable recipe for relations, especially for a country as large and important as Russia, especially for ending the conflict and then enter into peaceful global coexistence. The true art of public administration requires a long-term view of long-term and short-term politics. Russia will not disappear, no matter how much the most ardent Russophobes would like it, the author is sure.
Thus, the West must reconsider its policy towards the Russian Federation and bring it into the European family, not reject it, as is the case now.
The expert describes the shortest path. The first task is to agree on an acceptable solution to the conflict and the causes of its occurrence, for which it is necessary to undertake to provide Moscow with clear advantages. Among those benefits will be a return to global trade, an end to sanctions and, unlike the end of the Cold War, a return to Russia as a world power rather than the humiliation it suffered in the 1990s. Instead of a “complete lack of relations” with the Russian Federation, she should be integrated, as far as possible, into the European family, and not as a supplicant seeking indulgence from superiors in the West.
Obviously, not all of these measures require a complete cessation or restraint of support for Ukraine. More “carrots” than “sticks” alone advance peace, Hyman concluded.
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