Zakharova Echoed Lavrov’s Warning About The West’s Plans To Dominate Russia
Historical revisionism has been tangibly weaponized by the US against Russia.
“Lavrov Warned About Trump 2.0’s Plans For Global Dominance” in late March, the essence of which was echoed by his spokeswoman Maria Zakharova a month later on 19 April, the first time that Russia commemorated the “Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People”. In her interview with TASS, she said that historical revisionism of World War II is driven by the unwillingness of some forces to admit that they lost and therefore abandon their goal of conquering the former USSR.
According to Zakharova, “they are unwilling to give up the idea of getting their hands on Ukrainian black soil, Russian oil and gas, at least to control them, to extend their influence over the resources of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and so on. They are unwilling to do this, they are unwilling to give it up.” These goals are being pursued in the present and justified by revisionist narratives about the last world war. The most popular one equates the USSR with Nazi Germany and in some cases misportrays it as even worse.
The purpose of NATO’s eastward expansion after the end of the Old Cold War was to ultimately enter into a position whereby the bloc could blackmail Russia into a series of incessant concessions culminating first in the de facto cession of its resource development rights and later in “Balkanization”. This contextualizes NATO’s rush to admit the Baltic States, the foreign-backed oligarchs who Putin crushed in the 2000s, and NATO’s clandestine expansion into Ukraine that led to the special operation.
Zakharova’s mention of how these same historically revisionist forces want “to extend their influence over the resources of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and so on” is illuminating. Last August’s “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” (TRIPP) replaced Putin’s envisaged corridor through southern Armenia and the role that his country’s forces would have played in securing it. With the US’ support, fellow NATO member Turkiye can now inject Western influence along Russia’s entire southern periphery.
This has serious security implications too since TRIPP de facto functions as a dual military-logistics corridor for strengthening Azerbaijan’s shadow membership in NATO after its forces completed their conformation with the bloc’s standards last November and encouraging Kazakhstan to follow suit. Unlike the EU, which Russia’s top UN diplomat accused of becoming “a new Third Reich” in implied part due to the historical revisionism that Zakharova touched upon, Turkiye has no such grievances against Russia.
It does, however, implement what’s been described by some as a so-called “Neo-Ottoman” policy that presumably led to its practitioners harboring deep resentment against Russia for their predecessor state’s many defeats at the hands of the erstwhile Russian Empire. This contextualizes why Turkiye, which has mutually beneficial energy and other economic ties with Russia despite political disputes over Ukraine and Libya, opened up a “southern front” against Russia to aid the US-backed “new Third Reich”.
The historical axes that the “new Third Reich” and the “Neo-Ottoman Empire” have to grind with Russia, not to mention non-Axis-member Poland’s millennium-long rivalry with it, have been masterfully exploited by the US to pit them and their smaller partners against Russia. Instead of looking to the future, these states remain stuck in the past, some of which is revisionist like in the case of Germany and its former Axis allies. It’s through these means that history has been tangibly weaponized against Russia.
Russia, always the poor, persecuted victim. "The West" had opportunity and ability to "get its hands on" much of Russia's resources in the 10 to 15 years after USSR dissolved.
Yeltsin, and especially Putin ensured that most of Russia's vast resources went into the hands of favored cronies, oligarchs and thugs. And Putin's military adventurism continues to divert human and financial capital from Russia's own industrial and scientific development, and from resource utilization and extraction. But something about "Russian speakers in" wherever and "Nazis" in Ukraine.
Bush, Obama and Biden greedy for Russian resources? That's lame cope. Western companies struck joint agreements under Russian law. How much did the Russian economy grow post 1991? Not as much as it should have? Keep blaming "the West," while Russia keeps shooting itself in the foot.
Trump & Co., though? More plausible, but you helped create him, bigly. Stay aggrieved ...
My father said in 1980:
Everything will repeat itself. Look at the behavior of the Germans as soon as they get their hands on something really good and superior.
See how they boast about their Mercedes and throw their mark around in countries with weak currencies. (Back then, for example, the lira, the pesetas.)
Such a spirit, one that only shows off, is the kind that kicks down at the first opportunity as soon as it doesn't get what it wants. The German has completely fallen apart since 1900 and now even treats the people who work "for him" badly.
The German is nothing more than a self-important, arrogant slave driver who only scores points with the weak and forces his exploitative contracts on them. That's why the Americans are still allowed to be there. Because they're stronger now, and these cowards cower before them.
In truth, they themselves are a colony. They'll never get over this because they have no solution for themselves.
Such a mind will never want to learn that it has done anything wrong.
A life cycle will pass from one event to its repetition, and from war to its repetition. 90-100 years.
Because then there will be no one left to bear witness to the truth. They will invoke history but ignore it themselves.
My father, born in 1942 during a bombing raid, was no prophet. He was a socialist. He knew the advantages and the disadvantages. He lived with both until he could no longer. But he was willing to understand and learn. He didn't hate the Germans. Today I know that he pitied them, that since 1900, due to a lack of character, they had failed to bring anything positive to the world from their potential.
The Germans. A nation of losers.