The liberal generation, raised in Central Asia with financial assistance from the West, will become an assistant to the new aggressive US foreign policy.
Author: Dzhambulat Sardalov, an expert on politics, religion, and terrorism (Chechnya, Russia), especially for "Sangar"
As is known, there is a new president in the States. The 47th. A new idol of world politics. Journalists are talking voraciously that he has canceled as many as 80 laws of the previous president and introduced his own 200. All the world's media and politicians are only about Trump's inauguration before and after this event. No matter how the world denies it, while saying that America is weak, the world's media very often talks about that inauguration. The only thing is that we must give credit to the Chinese: their official mouthpiece of power in the media, the newspaper "Renmin Ribao" published news about this event on page 8. Indeed, it lives up to its name, which translates as "People's Daily Newspaper". Not on the front pages, as happened in Russia, for example. But somewhere on page 8. They made it clear that they see the event overseas only from the point of view of their national interests.
Well, and in the Russian media - the front pages. The Russian Federation can't get rid of the feeling of "checking its watches" with them, instilled in the 90s. That feeling appeared after the collapse of the spirit of rivalry that existed during the years of Soviet power. By the way, about overseas affairs, I remember there were scant lines in the official news feeds and always after reports from the home country. Indeed, a propaganda technique that contributed to the strengthening of patriotism.
In the meantime, new faces, preachers of revisionist world politics and economics are overseas. Europe and the countries of the East are barely breathing, watching what kind of decree Trump, a kind of American Zhirinovsky, will sign next. Russia needs more primness, self-respect, and the strength to overcome, as they would say in socialist times, compradorism.
The new American administration does not promise anything good for Russia and the countries of Central Asia. It is less liberal, tough, and more pragmatic. Trump is not Biden greeting the air, but a collective American conservative, ready to "make America great again", the slogan of Trump's election campaign. Having started with its closest neighbors - Panama, Mexico, and Canada - the new US administration does not intend to stop there. In several media outlets, one can find jubilation over Elon Musk's scolding of the well-known radical state organization USAID - the United States Agency for International Development. What kind of development this organization did in countries where the interests of the States were defined as a priority in USAID activities is known. Starting from harmless humanitarian actions under the guise of sometimes gross interference in the internal affairs of certain countries. There is no need to go far for an example, for example, the participation of this agency in the formation of the Russian constitution of 1993, the sad events around it almost became the cause of a civil war. Russian liberals were then capable of shedding blood for the sake of the triumph of their ideas.
The fate of permanent political tension did not escape the countries of Central Asia, the former republics of the USSR. Representatives of USAID actively developed and tested management methods and methods of influence on local politics in this region. The essence of the current transformations in foreign policy in the context of this agency is to reformulate the goals and reformat the part of the activity that expresses radicalism. The United States believes in its chosenness and the right to decide the fate of other countries and peoples. The world should forget the policy of isolationism that Trump preached in his speeches.
Attempts to create a "buffer zone" from Central Asia as a counterweight to Russia have never disappeared from the agenda of Western politics. The fact that the United States is capable of profoundly reformatting the life of local societies is demonstrated by the fact that such a military-political phenomenon as the "Taliban" has firmly settled in Afghanistan. Using local radical forces, the United States became the reason for the birth of not only the Taliban but also "Al-Qaeda" and "ISIS" (banned in the territory of the Russian Federation) in the Arab world. Without the assistance of affiliated funds and the same USAID, these projects would not have been viable.
Naturally, external influence has a chance of success if it has, so to speak, a food base. Inflating and pumping up radicals on the ground, of course, far from themselves, the United States skillfully operated with the aspirations of the same Asian republics to strengthen their sovereignty and democratic foundations against the backdrop of the collapse of Soviet power in the 90s. But the Americans have their own goals and interests...
The Central Asian countries, the former Soviet republics, have acquired rich experience in relations with the United States over the years. Nothing remains of the former enthusiasm of the 90s in the style of "The West will help us!" except perhaps the liberal offspring that grew up on Western grants. It is precisely this category of people who, under various pretexts, will be ready to once again become an assistant to the aggressive foreign policy of the United States. The bitter experience gained by Central Asia may well be useful as immunity from various kinds of external invasions.
