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Eurasianism of Russian Strategists, Ukraine War Caused by US Failure to Respond
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- The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine stems not only from Putin's personal ambitions but also from the Eurasianist ideology of Russian intellectuals.
- Eurasianism advocates for the creation of a vast empire centered on Russia, and it has become the ideological basis for the Russian leadership's desire to bring Ukraine into Russia's sphere of influence.
- The United States, overlooking Russia's security threats, pursued a policy of NATO eastward expansion, which triggered Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The start of a war always involves a complex process. The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, was no exception. This war was not simply due to Putin's personal ambition. Rather, it can be seen as based on Eurasianism, an ideology that has been accumulating for decades among Russian intellectuals.
Eurasianism is an ideology that advocates for the construction of a vast empire centered on Russia. Aleksandr Dugin, a leading figure in this ideology, presented a vision of a Eurasian empire spanning a vast territory from Ireland to Vladivostok in the Far East in his 1997 book "The Foundations of Geopolitics." He also argued for the promotion of ethnic and racial conflict and support for separatist movements to weaken American influence.
Dugin's ideas gradually gained influence among Russian government and military elites. Putin also highly valued Dugin, and in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, he used the term "Novorossiya (New Russia)," revealing Dugin's influence. Dugin himself took a hard line on Ukraine. After the Odessa incident in 2014, he did not hesitate to make extreme remarks such as "Ukraine must disappear from the planet and be rebuilt or stolen."
Thus, the Russian leadership's attempt to incorporate Ukraine into its sphere of influence was based on the ideological background of Eurasianism. The problem is that the United States overlooked this shift in Russia's course.
John Mearsheimer, a scholar of international politics, pointed out in a YouTube video in March 2022 that "the root cause of the Ukraine war is the United States and the West's NATO eastward expansion policy." The United States effectively brought Ukraine into NATO, but Russia perceived this as a serious threat to its national security.
In fact, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said in January 2022 that "NATO's eastward expansion and a series of military provocations related to Ukraine have brought the threat to Russia to a peak." Thus, the background of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was rooted in the ideology of Eurasianism and a sense of crisis over NATO's eastward expansion.
In the end, the West, overlooking the thinking of Russian strategists, pursued a policy that, from their perspective, seriously threatened their national security. This was the root cause of the Ukraine war. This incident allowed us to confirm once again how much the difference in strategy and ideology between nations can lead to conflict.
