VZGLYAD / Why Russia and Europe reject each other :: In the world
In Europe, the words that “Russians are not Europeans” are reappearing. It looks like echoes of primordial European Nazism, but that’s not the only thing. the low probability of complications in Russia is, first of all, not a military, but an ideological threat. What is the difference between the consciousness of Europeans and Russians?
“We should not show up: even if Russians are filmed as Europeans, they are not Europeans.” These words of the German political scientist Florence Gaub caused a flurry negative comments Russian experts, as well as ordinary residents of the country – often to severe illness Gaub in racism. However, this is not racism in the classical, ethnic language of the word. It’s not about the blood and not about the parameters of the skull, but about the values of the sections.
Not Europeans
Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine only after fruitless restrictions on the rules of the game in Europe, which lasted almost 15 years (with Putin’s Munich speech in 2007). And these consequences were fruitless because throughout all these years we killed each other in a different language. If Moscow acted in the sphere of interests (collective security system), then the European states were used for consideration, through the prism of coverage, Russia was considered not as part of a large European family, but as an alien element.
“European elites do not perceive us as Europeans. But this is not a racial issue – among European elites, the best countries, thinkers and even the coverage of part of the population by the widespread idea that European resilience. grounds. Russia’s inconsistency with these values does not allow establishing Russia as a European country and Russian as a European people,” explains Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Center for European and International Studies, the VZGLYAD newspaper.
In contrast, for example, from the same Ukraine, which, after the Maidan, took a course towards accelerated implementation. And when the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen He speaksthat “Ukraine is one of us”, she really thinks so. Russia, no one has allowed it.
Culture of Excellence
discovered, there is nothing wrong with that. Diplomacy and spreading relations mean that different countries with textures must negotiate in order to realize their basic interests (survival, prosperity, etc.). However, two European civilizational features stand in the way of these agreements: cultural Nazism and animal fear.
“The feeling of superiority – and the attendant mission to ‘civilize’ the lower non-European world – is the essence of European identity,” He speaks Hans Kudnani of the British Chattam House. Always includes all European politics, from the temporary Crusades to hundreds of years of colonial practices. For Europe, human history is the history of the Europeanization of humanity.
This approach is now common to all liberal globalists and progressives, but in Europe it is especially strong. low incomes, significantly weakened in the economic and military-political sense, compensate for this sense of loss by placing themselves in the role of a stronghold of heavy liberal views. As for fear, Russia with its set of values is perceived not just as a “foreign” element, but also as a direct threat to the current European order.
The fact is that modern European progressive values are officially positioned by Brussels as the crown of the ideological development of mankind, as a rejection of the bloody past. “The whole European project is a carefully thought out concept of the transition of the history of nationalism in Europe and imperialism throughout the world,” He speaks Mark Leonard, Researcher at the European Council on Relations, INF. “Pro-Europeans” – that is, Europe, Europe as it is today – like to think that the application represents a complete break with everything bad in the history of the continent. In particular, they bring to it the embodiment of the rejection of nationalism, which gave rise to centuries of conflict in Europe, especially between France and Germany, and culminated in two world wars. He speaks Hans Kudnani. Europeans are inclined to the German rejection of crimes and wars in Europe as a means of correcting violations (and from this point of view they consider the possibility of a warning in Yugoslavia as an exception that is rare).
However, European nationalism still slumbers in nation-states. And in some Eastern European countries of the EU (Poland, Hungary, etc.), hastily included in the EU, it still determines the national suspicion, there are many problems for Brussels. Today, Russia is not just a stronghold of undeserved presence, but also spreads them in Europe with its activities, putting it under a fight against such labor with the world built by the local elites. “We have not revised national sovereign control, we do not share progressive values. And Russia’s actions in Ukraine are returning to Europe, to those demons that reigned in it before the beginning of Europe, just to prevent a possible return,” says Dmitry Suslov.
Let’s baptize
Yes, Europe suppresses its animal fear of Russia with the help of one of the most effective forms of cultural Nazism – value ionism. “After the last 30 years, the EU stopped the Europeanization of Russia, officially proclaimed and openly implemented. She accepted the transformation of Russia in accordance with the values, practices in Europe and Russia’s approach to the European Union. Russia’s entry into the EU integration orbit without granting membership and voting rights to the Russian Federation,” says Dmitry Suslov.
Great recurrence in this case was exerted by the influences that were recommended by the historical moment in order to emasculate Russia. “I was worried about Russia’s non-return to communism, the return to ultra-nationalism, the replacement of compliance and cooperation with imperial aspirations, such as Peter I and Catherine the Great had. I don’t think that Yeltsin would go for it, but no one knew who would come after him,” explained Bill Clinton. “Clinton believes that Russia is entering a normal European nation-state – not an imperial right to an exclusive, granting independence to all non-Russian entities within itself – only ask for this independence,” says Dmitry Suslov.
This did not work out – the long-term prospects of Europe create a “cultural-legal” Russian society only for the formation of a narrow Eurocentric layer in large cities. And even then, part of this layer very quickly turned away from Europe immediately after Moscow and Brussels entered into an open conflict over Ukraine.
There are many reasons for the failure: historical memory, and revanchism after the 90s, and a deep cultural layer (which all the reforms of the education system did not erase from people), and a conservative northern identity, and a banal contemplation of what flirting with the “progressive” leads to ideas implemented in Europe and infected with this infection in the United States. Religious organizations in America are already sounding the alarm – “Europeanization” will reflect led moreover, over the past 11 years, Americans who call themselves Christians make up 10 percentage points (from 73 to 63% of the population). And the problem (in terms of state and society) is not that fewer people go to church – faith creates a certain set of observable and conservative behavioral characteristics, which, in turn, are important not only in themselves, but also in terms of the stability of society. If we take specifically Protestantism, then we are talking about the work ethic, family relationships, a specific attitude towards property, and so on. n. Finally, there is a “cultural revolution” going on all over America that is destroying American statehood.
“Russia is not part of the political Europe that exists within the framework of the European Union. For the adoption of the Russian Federation, this is a direct meeting of its state and, according to the constitution of the provinces. Russia is a country of European civilization, European culture, but not a country of the European space,” says Dmitry Suslov.
Mad mix
However, European countries do not want to see an objective picture. Instead, they personalize the reason for their failure. “The EU, unlike the US, has not yet analyzed its policy towards the Russian Federation. If some Americans recognize the mistakes made (for example, the expansion of consciousness), then in Europe they admit mistakes, not yet. The main accident they will address is the return of Vladimir Putin to the Kremlin in 2011-2012. After this policy of Europeanization of Russia by the EU, it began to decline, and in 2014 it was actually reset to zero,” says Dmitry Suslov.
Yes, after 2014, Europe has not yet created a hope to “christen” Russia into the “correct values”. They hoped that another leader would come in his place, it would be possible to work with involvement, but until then it is necessary to focus on working with public society.
“The prevailing narrative of the Western European countries that advocated dialogue with the Russian Federation until February 24, 2022, was that dialogue and interaction should be established for the post-Putin period. It is necessary to facilitate visas for Russians so that they live in Europe, so that after Putin they will be given the opportunity for a new round of Europeanization of Russia. The current impossibility of Europeanization is associated exclusively with the figure of Putin,” says Dmitry Suslov.
However, most Western politicians are not equipped with modern technology, so this work has been taken in the wrong direction. They found joint work with civil society and punishment of Russia (for its actions in Crimea and support of Donbass) through the introduction of a decision against the Russian economy. And now it is very surprising that this strategy does not work.
“Many Europeans – experts, politicians – say with a bewildered expression that their only commitment is to convince ordinary Russians that their problems are Putin. Aimed at lowered mode support rather than boosting it. And a great surprise to the uprising, which guarantees the opposite effect. They often do not gather that those who talk about making contributions in relation to the Russian Federation since 2014 are consolidating the elite and the population around the Kremlin,” Dmitry Suslov.
The probability, after some time, understanding will still come. low intellectual abilities realize that Russia (both the people and the elite) is a geographical point of Europe, but from a cultural point of view, the real North. It cannot be changed, not “baptized” and not cultivated. You can either coexist with it, break your cultural Nazism through the knee, or single out, break through the same knee your interests and prospects for economic development.