Пол Гобл BY DEFENDING DICTATORS, MOSCOW WON’T SAVE ITSELF, RUSSIAN SAYS. Russian officials clearly believe that, by defending Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe at the United Nations, they are protecting themselves against international supervision of their own increasingly authoritarian political system, according to Pavel Svyatenkov. But such a belief is doubly mistaken, the Russian nationalist writer says. On the one hand, it leads to actions that cause many in the West to look even more critically at what Moscow is doing. And on the other hand, it creates real dangers for the future of the country: “It is stupid and dangerous,” Svyatenkov argues, “to try to come to the aid of all degraded regimes in the entire world.” When the Russian empire did so, it sparked the Crimean war, he argues. The Soviet Union collapsed after pursuing a policy of making friends “with African dictators.” And contemporary Russia could go the same way if it pursues the same policy, Svyatenkov insists. “Perhaps,” he says, “it is time to stop supporting dictators and reflect over what we ourselves can bring to this world that is truly revolutionary” rather than a reaction to the real progress the West promotes (www.apn.ru/column/article20332.htm).
Оказывается, Пол Гобл написал обо мне в своем
обзоре, а я не знал. Сохраняю для памяти.