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Natalia Narochnitskaya, President of the Paris Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, member of the Board of IOPS
It is clear that after the collapse of the bipolar system, after the collapse of the Soviet Union,
after a temporary, thank God, loss by present-day Russia of a sense of its geopolitical mission
and an understanding that to be a great power is not just a flash of the national dress one puts on on holidays,
but it is a certain obligation to be responsible for the safety structures
that we created in the world with its participation and that more or less kept the world in balance.
After that the West, especially the United States,
started to bring down regional security structures and regional balances one after another.
All of this takes time.
However, they are making a sacrifice in a state of some sort of ideological intoxication,
or maybe with a feeling of permissiveness and belief in their own power.
It is a typical manifestation of the arrogance of power.
Without realizing it, they are opening a Pandora’s box, because the current Arab world is not the Arab world it was,
for instance, 50 years ago.
It is the oil giants of the Middle East, financials, a huge demographic growth.
Despite all their efforts to prevent the growth of the region’s and Islamic world’s importance,
to spread chaos which they think they can control, it won’t do.
This is a factor of a future balance.
Instead of reasonably involving in international affairs those layers and structures of the Arab world
ready to be involved in the work, they actually rely on al-Qaeda.
Everyone writes about it.
I conclude that this absurd ideological doctrine is turning, like Khrushchev’s communist rhetoric, into a liberal cliche'.
It is so absurd.
How can you fail to see that a confessional, political, internal and regional balance
has been maintained in the world due to elements of authoritarian regimes.
An authoritarian regime is also a democracy in which some of the democratic rights of society
have been encroached on by the executive power reaching a certain disproportion,
but the foundations for the extension of democracy exist, they can be corrected.
Today there are no foundations for anything in Syria or Libya.
To save people’s lives somehow, basic order should be established in these countries in military conditions.
This is how it is.
The United States opened the Pandora’s box themselves and provided a significant impetus to militant,
most radical sects and dissident movements, who are also drug addicts, which destabilized the whole Middle East.”