Russia's Messianic Quest

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Russia's Messianic Quest

Date 2014/7/23
Paris – July 23, 2014 – Events in Ukraine are a continuing and increasingly dangerous prolongation of a Cold War supposedly called off at the meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Chairman Mikhail Gorbatchev in January 1992.

These events may be read as driven by ideology and political ambition. It is difficult to otherwise interpret American policy with respect to the expansion of NATO and weakening of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, as sought by the adherents of a New American Century. This ambition expresses the exceptionalist millenarianism that has been a force at work in American foreign policy since the United States has had a foreign policy, and today it collides with a visionary nationalism in the new Russia.