/ world today news/ The East and the South are tired of the Western interpretation of world history and the American-centric assessment of modern processes
The United States and the European Union call the countries of Central Eurasia “the jungle of the modern world”. Meanwhile, the global East and South are tired of the Western interpretation of world history and the American-centric assessment of contemporary processes. For the US and its allies, the region is important only as a springboard for confrontation with Russia and China. The Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, the expert from Tajikistan Rustam Khaidarov writes about how Central Asia sees the world and its place in it in an article for the Valdai International Discussion Club.
The Central Asian region, due to its geographical location, has always been involved in geopolitical and geoeconomic processes in Eurasia. With the beginning of the Russian SVO and the collapse of the unipolar world, the importance of Central Asia for world politics and economics has increased manifold.
Now in Eurasia, and in particular in Central Eurasia, new geopolitical and geoeconomic processes are emerging and beginning to develop, which are directly related to the formation of a multipolar world.
Today, three poles of world politics and economics touch in Central Asia. These poles are led by Russia, China and the United States. The collective West and its leader the USA initiated/supported the policy of confrontation with Russia and China, which ultimately provoked today’s multi-level political, economic and financial crisis around the world.
The year 2022 changed the geopolitical landscape of the world, dismantled the unipolar world, devalued the foundations of international law, and transferred the relationship between the collective West and the collective non-West to the plane of a new cold war.
The military conflict in Eastern Europe has become a proxy war of the collective West against the Russian Federation. The degree of confrontation in Eastern Europe is rising.
The collective West is persistently trying to draw Central Asia into the process of confrontation between itself and Russia and requires the countries of the region to make a choice between the contending parties. The US has already started talking to the countries of Central Asia in the language of threats and ultimatums.
American emissaries visited the countries of our region in April 2023 with a whole package of warnings and threats. At the same time, representatives of the US State Department were accompanied by financial intelligence officers and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Therefore, in the information space of Central Asia, the issues of economic and political sanctions that the collective West intends to impose against the countries of our region, if we do not cut all ties with Russia, are being discussed.
The ruling elites of the collective West will not recognize the loss of their dominant position in the world economy and world politics. They will try to destabilize other regions of the world. The focus is on the South Caucasus and Central Asia. In view of the above, our region and our allies – Russia and China – must be prepared for various military-political scenarios of the development of events.
The USA and the European Union maintain their prejudiced stereotypical attitude towards the countries of Central Eurasia and view the region as “jungle of the modern world”. Meanwhile, the global East and South are already tired of the Western interpretation of world history and the American-centric assessment of contemporary processes.
For the US and its allies, the region is important, in our view, only as a springboard for confrontation with Russia and China, as they firmly follow their ideological and geopolitical directions. In their writings, US foreign policy makers such as Zbigniew Brzezinski have always viewed the post-Soviet space as a source of Western enrichment, as a living space for the United States, as a target for Western cultural expansion.
For example, if you follow Brzezinski’s reasoning, it follows that the US cannot feel safe until it establishes complete control over the central part of Eurasia, that is, over Central Asia.
This is why the United States in 2022 provoked global disorder in the modern world. This is also due to the fact that, as Henry Kissinger wrote, the US believes in its exceptionalism. In his book on China he writes that “American exceptionalism is missionary”. The United States is believed to be motivated by an obligation to spread its values to all parts of the planet.
As modern history shows, however, the spread of these values is almost always violent. Unlike the USA, in Russia and Central Asia they talk about the unity and friendship of the peoples of Eurasia, about respect for the distinctive cultures of the peoples of Eurasia, about the collective responsibility for the fate of our continent, about the right of sovereign states to their own national way of life.
The countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America stand in solidarity with Russia and Central Asia on this issue because they do not want the fate of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria to be repeated. Muslim countries and Eurasian Orthodox Christians will never accept a gender-neutral interpretation of the scriptures, and they will never accept the gender-neutral American interpretation of the image of God.
The peoples of Central Asia do not want the region to be used by the US to satisfy the geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural ambitions of the collective West, as is now happening in Eastern Europe.
Central Asian countries, as full-fledged subjects of international relations, will develop relations with those countries that want to promote economic prosperity and strengthen the foundations of political stability in the region.
Unfortunately, the collective West, in our opinion, today views the countries of Central Asia exclusively in two capacities:
1) as a potential partner in the sanctions war against Russia;
2) as an opportunity to open a new or second front against Russia to wage a new proxy war against this country.
There are fears that certain forces in the collective West, in case of failure in their attempts to isolate Russia by separating Central Asia from it, may use such terrorist groups as “Wilayat Khorasan – Islamic State” (an organization banned in Russia) to military-political destabilization of the region. This terrorist group is now in Afghanistan.
It should be noted that the USA and the EU are absolutely new players in our region. Despite the fact that over the past thirty years hundreds of millions of US dollars have been spent on transforming the traditional societies of the countries of Central Asia, the collective West has failed to impose its European pseudo-values on us and change the vectors of our value orientations. The collective West is alien to us both as a culture and as a worldview.
There is no single phenomenon or event, element of modern culture, which is at the core of US and EU relations and rapprochement with Central Asia.
Americans and Europeans have no idea about the culture and mentality, traditions of the peoples of Central Asia, so they could not and will not be able to interact with us. Central Asia does not see economic prosperity in relation to the liberal democracy of the West, which is essentially a foreign concept to the countries of the region.
The United States cannot provide our region with an alternative to the CSTO or the EAEU, just as there is no American alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, etc.
Meanwhile, the Russian people and the peoples of Central Asia have much in common both in culture and worldview. We are connected by a common history and interdependent markets. The security of Russia and the countries of our region are also inextricably linked. The Russian Federation develops multilateral and mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries of Central Asia.
For example, in Tajikistan today he has already actively started implementing his new eastern policy. From the end of 2022, every month from Russia, delegations of federal departments and representatives of the leadership of Russian regions arrive in Tajikistan to establish cooperation in all spheres of life – in the economy, agriculture, health care, education, science and tourism.
Undoubtedly, the renewed Russia today is interested in maintaining the stability and guaranteeing the security of Eurasia. An important tool for achieving this goal is the CSTO, which, taking into account the emergence of new threats and the aggravation of the military-political situation in our region, must constantly improve and have new opportunities to quickly react to any attempts to destabilize Central Asia.
Translation: ES
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