The country is different from the Soviet Union and will not repeat its fate, the political analyst has said<\/p>\n
The West should abandon the thought that the Ukraine conflict will cause Russia to collapse like the USSR did in 1991, foreign affairs expert and RT contributor Fyodor Lukyanov has said.
\nLukyanov, a program director at the Valdai International Discussion Club, moderated a more than three-hour-long session with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of the club\u2019s annual forum last week. Putin said at the event the current tensions with the US and EU stem from the fall of the Soviet Union. Since then, Moscow has repeatedly tried to build good relations with Western countries, but their leaders have persisted in doing \u201ceverything they could to truly isolate and further break apart Russia itself,\u201d Putin stressed.
\nDuring his appearance on RT\u2019s East Meets West podcast with Olga Bataman and Tara Reade, Lukyanov said that \u201cthere are a lot of grounds on our [Russian] side to believe that we can win\u2026 by military means\u201d in the conflict with Kiev.<\/p>\n
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\u201cParadoxically, Ukraine has the same idea based on another calculation, based on the expectation that the Western support will not stop and that on \u201ca very traditional, old, good belief that Russia at some point will suddenly collapse,\u201d he said.
\nAccording to the analyst, the same idea is also prevalent among the Western elites. It\u2019s being \u201cpartially inspired by what happened relatively recently in our history, 35 years ago. The collapse of the Soviet Union played a very negative role because they started to believe that it can be repeated,\u201d he noted.
\nLukyanov said that he has already given up explaining to his American and European interlocutors that Russia is \u201cdifferent\u201d and that it \u201cwill not collapse as the Soviet Union, but people in the West and now in Ukraine, they still believe it\u2019s possible.\u201d
\nThe analyst also suggested the EU\u2019s current hostility towards Russia should be explained by its leader\u2019s trying to \u201cfind a way how to consolidate societies\u201d amid \u201cenormous\u201d political, economic and social problems experienced by the bloc as a whole and its individual member-states.
\nThey seek \u201cto blame someone else and to find a menace which, as during the Cold War, can unify Europe,\u201d he stressed.
\nWatch the full podcast with Fyodor Lukyanov here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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