By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic<\/span><\/p>\n
A peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new dimension of global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russia, as a legal successor state of the USSR, was playing an inferior role in global politics when an American Neocon concept of Pax Americana<\/em> became the fundamental framework in international relations. Therefore, for instance, Boris Yeltsin\u2019s Russia capitulated in 1995 to the American design regarding an outcome of the USA\/EU policy of the destruction of ex-Yugoslavia in November 1995 (the Dayton Agreement<\/em>) followed by even worse political capitulation in the case of Washington\u2019s Kosovo policy that became ultimately implemented in June 1999 (the Kumanovo Agreement<\/em>). Russia in the 1990s was geopolitically humiliated by the USA and its West European clients to such an extent that we can call the period of Boris Yeltsin\u2019s servile policy toward the West a Dark Time<\/em> in the history of Russian international relations when the main losers became the Serbs who were and still are (since February 2022 together with Russians) extremely demonized by the Western mass-media and academic institutions.[i]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
The actual outcome of the Russian Liberals \u201ein the years following Yeltsin\u2019s election was catastrophic as, for instance, Russia\u2019s industrial production dropped by nearly 40%, over 80% of Russians experienced a reduction in their living standards, health care disintegrated, life expectancy fell along with the birth rate, and morale overall collapsed\u201c.[ii]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201eThe American liberties, as well as American wealth are determined by American geography. Our [Russia\u2019s] freedom and our wealth are determined by Russian geography. Thus, we\u2019ll never have the same freedoms as the British and Americans have, because their security is guaranteed by the seas and oceans, but ours could only be guaranteed by military conscription\u201c.[iii]<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
December 23, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n
[ii]<\/a> John Baylis, Steve Smith (eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations<\/em>, Second edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 124.<\/span><\/p>\n
[iii]<\/a> Irina Isakova, Russian Governance in the Twenty-First Century: Geo-strategy, Geopolitics and Governance<\/em>, London\u2212New York: Frank Cass, 2005, 12.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic<\/span><\/p>\n
A peaceful dissolution of the USSR according to the agreement between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1988 in Reykjavik brought a new dimension of global geopolitics in which up to 2008 Russia, as a legal successor state of the USSR, was playing an inferior role in global politics when an American Neocon concept of Pax Americana<\/em> became the fundamental framework in international relations. Therefore, for instance, Boris Yeltsin\u2019s Russia capitulated in 1995 to the American design regarding an outcome of the USA\/EU policy of the destruction of ex-Yugoslavia in November 1995 (the Dayton Agreement<\/em>) followed by even worse political capitulation in the case of Washington\u2019s Kosovo policy that became ultimately implemented in June 1999 (the Kumanovo Agreement<\/em>). Russia in the 1990s was geopolitically humiliated by the USA and its West European clients to such an extent that we can call the period of Boris Yeltsin\u2019s servile policy toward the West a Dark Time<\/em> in the history of Russian international relations when the main losers became the Serbs who were and still are (since February 2022 together with Russians) extremely demonized by the Western mass-media and academic institutions.[i]<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geopolitika"],"yoast_head":"\n