[lit-ideas] Re: Russia & chess
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:42:16 -0400
"Chess" is a clumsy metaphor for the situation, in my opinion.
The interview below offers a different perspective on Russia v. USA
relations. I tend to side with Gaddy's opinion.
[full interview at
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,572052,00.html]
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you think we are seeing the start of a new power
struggle between Washington and Moscow that could continue for years to
come?
Gaddy: No. The US has far too many other, more important concerns right
now, and Russia is not interested in a struggle with the US. But the
main reason there will not be a power struggle is that there is nothing
to struggle over. The US has already lost its former role as world
leader. Russia neither wants to, or is able to, to replace it. Russia's
goal is rather a negative one: to ensure that no threat to it can emerge
from the territory of the states closest to its borders. It will
therefore continue to bully its neighbors in various ways. Russia's
behavior will be morally unacceptable to the US, but it will not be
generally perceived as threatening to the US. In the end, the rhetoric
between Russia and the US. will become hotter, and relations will become
cooler. But there will not be a power struggle.
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