Behind the Russian invasion, is played a struggle between two models of society. Autocratic regimes are gaining ground when Moscow hopes to introduce a “new world”.
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Analysis. The virtual summit for democracy convened by the US President Joe Biden in December 2021 disappointed. The list of guests, sometimes controversial, as the platitude of the traded remarks had led to classifying among the false good ideas the initiative advanced by the Democrat during the 2020 presidential campaign. This is that, three months later, the brutal assault Given by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to a sovereign state, Ukraine, after the temptation of his deceasement, illustrated by the recognition of separatist entities by Moscow, gives him a whole new meaning.
The separation of the world into two camps, that of democracies and that of autocracies, materializes dramatically in the blind bombing by the Russian army of the cities of a country that has never threatened its powerful neighbor. The vibrant plea of President Volodymyr Zelensky for an entry from Ukraine to the European Union, Tuesday 1 Er Mars, relativize the question remained virtual of the accession of his country to a NATO presented as expansionist. The trigger of the foreclosure of President Prorusse Viktor Yanukovich, in 2014, had already been his opposition to an association agreement with the Europeans.
Behind the current war is played that of the models, and the Ukrainians have chosen, for a long time, the set of standards that govern democracies. That of Ukraine is still imperfect, if we rely on the American organization Freedom House, funded by the federal state, but it is the goal that has been consistently for more than a decade , wanted to recall the Ukrainian president.
“Autocratic viral”
However, it is a model on the defensive, as regularly reminded the states of the place of the same American institution.
As Emmanuel Macron, on Wednesday, March 2, in his speech on the war in Ukraine, “democracy is no longer considered an undeniable diet, it is called into question, before our eyes.” The Russian conquest of Ukraine would mean a new decline.
The first sentence of a dispatch prematurely published by the Russian Agency Ria Novosti on February 26, on the faith of an instant collapse of Ukraine, confirms it in its own way. “A new world is born before our eyes,” begins this pushed text of ethnonationalism. This is, in any case, the Russian design, that of closing the parenthesis open by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Other powers, starting with China, also register in the questioning of democratic standards.
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