Теорема Бжезинского

Сергей Лавров в новом интервью: "В конце 1990-х гг. З.Бжезинский говорил, что Россия при дружественной Украине – великая держава, при враждебной – это региональный игрок."
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1805134/

Напрашивается вывод, что Лавров вместе с остальным путинским правительством делает все от него зависящее, чтобы Россия ни за что не стала великой державой.



Между тем слова Збигнева Бжезинского безбожно перевраны. Вот что он на самом деле писал в марте 1994:

"Polling data indicates that the dissolution of the Soviet Union is viewed by roughly two-thirds of the Russian people, and even by the majority of democratic politicians, as a tragic mistake, something that must somehow be undone. Yet any effort to recreate some form of empire, repressing the awakened national aspirations of the non-Russians, would surely collide head-on with the effort to consolidate a democracy within Russia. The bottom line here is a simple but compelling axiom: Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both.
The non-Russians are no longer politically passive nor nationally unaware. Their nationalism is a reality that expresses itself through the strong desire for independent statehood. Efforts to suppress it would unavoidably affect the fabric and substance of any emerging Russian democracy. Moreover, efforts to recreate and maintain the empire by coercion and/or economic subsidy would condemn Russia not only to dictatorship but to poverty. <...>
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/1994-03-01/premature-partnership

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