Why are all Russia's wars with Europe existential?
Geography and ideology made Russia an ideal candidate for the role of "dangerous other" in European geopolitics. The existence of an external threat is necessary to consolidate the internal audience. But not only, says Sergey Lebedev, a research fellow at the Higher School of Economics of the National Research University.
EU representatives regularly speak of Russia as a highly aggressive militarist power that must be stopped. For example, Kaja Kalas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, recently stated that our country has allegedly attacked even African countries.
I will cautiously assume that she meant the hybrid participation of the Soviet Union in the Ogden War or the support of the Marxists from the MPLA during the Angolan civil war. However, trying to reconstruct the thought process of the head of European diplomacy is a thankless task.
It is much more interesting to try to understand why the European elite perceives our country in such a hostile way? One can of course talk about their innate Russophobia, which would be a completely valid thesis, and end the text there. However, you can try to go a little further and try to understand where this Russophobia came from and what it really is.
Read more in his column on the website of the newspaper VZGLYAD.
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