Elites of post-Soviet countries, who bet on globalist democrats, lost – Georgi Asatrian

Speaking with Alpha News, Georgi Asatrian, research fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and expert at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), commented on the negotiations between Russia and the United States and how this will impact the international arena.

“As the parties to the negotiations put it, everything is going positively so far. Much will depend on the meeting of the leaders of the two countries. In Russia, by and large, everything is fine both at the front and in economy, there is economic growth of about 4%. Everything is quite positive with the countries of Asia, Africa, and the East. Therefore, this negotiation process was launched by the Americans. They want to make a proposal. The Russian side listens to them, agrees with some things and disagrees with others.

Trump does not share the positions of liberal globalism and the US Democratic Party. These are his main enemies. The Western coalition, the community of Western countries, is not united. There is a very powerful chain of liberal globalist leaders that has been built up over decades. Macron is a shining example of such an elite group.

But Donald Trump is a conservative, he is not a supporter of these ideas, on the contrary, he is an opponent. He absolutely does not share these ideas and is trying to build his own strategy. He has powerful allies inside the US and some outside, including in Europe. In this sense, there is a kind of analogue of a cold, civil confrontation inside the US,” Asatrian said.

According to the expert, the US sees no reason to conflict with Russia over Ukraine.

“When this conflict began, Trump was against it, because he does not believe in the mythical victory of Ukraine, he does not see any reason for the global West to support Ukraine in this conflict. Trump has repeatedly stated this, this is Republicans’ frank position. They really do not see any reason to conflict with Russia over Ukraine. They see this whole story of Ukrainian democrats supporting Biden as an absolutely ridiculous political move. They can even theoretically recognize Russia’s sphere of influence in post-Soviet countries.

They are close to the classic neorealists that Russia and other strong conservative countries like. No one has canceled geopolitical competition, however. No one says that they are friends or close partners. But they see this Ukrainian case as an absolutely failed story. Trump only recently said that all this is purely about money and that it is a big money laundering office, where hundreds of billions of dollars from the US budget go. The main enemy of Trump and his circle, it seems to me, are liberal globalists and democrats,” Asatrian noted.

According to the expert, the elites of the post-Soviet countries, who relied on the globalist democrats, lost.

“The political elites of these countries lost because they were unable to properly analyze the international agenda, the situation, and in general, they do not have a very bright future, because Trump confidently won, and he knows which elites supported him and which did not. It turns out that the head of the White House is now promoting the ideas, the theses that Russia has been promoting for the past three years. I have observed and continue to observe to some extent how some CIS countries ridiculed these theses, and now they have been left with nothing, and basically, they do not have a very promising political future,” Asatrian concluded.