Ngabe amaRiphabhulikhi, ama-neo-conservatives kanye nabezindaba abajwayelekile bebesitshela yonke le minyaka ukuthi iMelika yanqoba iMpi Yomshoshaphansi? Basheshe bakhuluma. Kusuka esaleni seSoviet Union endala, iRussia entsha eshisekela ubuzwe, ehlome ngezikhali zenuzi, necebile ngezinsiza isisukumile yaphonsela inselelo izimangalo zaseNtshonalanga zokunqoba. IMpi Yomshoshaphansi entsha isiphezu kwethu, futhi izikhulu zaseMelika azinazo iziphakamiso ngaphandle kokuthi zilwe futhi.
Uma ngicelwa ukuba ngithathe uhlangothi, ngima noPussy Riot. Ukuze uqonde ukuguqulwa kwabo okuhlakaniphile, bukela idokhumentari ye-HBO I-Pussy Riot: Umkhuleko wePunk. Kodwa i-Pussy Riot iyidlanzana kuze kube manje, isebenzisa uhlobo oluthile lokushaqeka kanye nokwesaba ezingeni lesiko. Basekelwa njalo ngabakhethekile baseMelika abangasoze bavumela uPussy Riot ukuthi angene, yithi, eNingizimu Carolina.
Leso isimo sasekhaya sobugqila, impi kanye noSenator wase-US uLindsey Graham. Egijima eqhudelana nombangi Wephathi Yetiye, uGraham akamkhulu kwabesifazane abanqunu ngokujwayelekile, ngisho nalabo abaklolodela ngobuhlakani u-Vladimir Putin kanye neSonto Lobu-Orthodox LaseRussia. UGraham washesha khuthaza kuleli sonto lapho, "sakha isizinda sentando yeningi eRussia kaPutin." Uma kubhekwa umlando we-Deep South's lynching, lokho kwaba ukukhetha okungalungile kwamagama nguGraham, nakuba ubani ongaqiniseka ngempela. Iphuzu lakhe elisobala ukuthi ngeke siyiqede iMpi Yomshoshaphansi kuze kube yilapho sithatha i-Ukraine futhi siminyanisa yonke iRussia nabalingani be-neo-liberal abahlomile baseNtshonalanga.
Okuvame ukunengqondo New York Times kwakubonakala kuwukuzulazula eningizimu kukaGraham, ebuza emakhasini ayo ezindaba ukuthi ngabe uMongameli uBarack Obama โunzima ngokwanele yini ukubhekana nowayenguColonel we-KGB e-Kremlin?โ I Times okungenani kuphawulwe, โAkuwona umsebenzi olula.โ
Lesi esinye isibonelo salokho uC. Wright Mills akubiza ngokuthi โi-crackpot realism.โ Abasekeli be-NATO kanye neo-liberalism yezinkampani abakwazi ukuyeka ukusunduza imingcele yaseRussia futhi bahlole izifunda zayo ezithandwa kakhulu. Sebevele bahlanganise iCroatia, i-Estonia, iLatvia, iLithuania, iHungary, iSlovenia, iPoland neCzech Republic, iningi lalokho abakubiza ngokuthi โindawo yangemva kweSoviet.โ Baxoshwa kwezempi lapho befuna ukubamba iGeorgia. Lokho bekufanele kwanelise ukoma kwabo kokubusa okugcwele. Kepha badlulela phambili, besekela imibhikisho yasentshonalanga ye-Ukraine eketule uhulumeni okhethiwe futhi manje sebephusha i-ajenda ye-International Monetary Fund, ezojulisa ubunzima bomnotho. Ngisho nangaphambi kwesiphithiphithi esikhona manje, uhulumeni waseKiev wadlala ngothando ne-NATO futhi wathumela amasosha e-Iraq nase-Afghanistan.
Ukungqubuzana kwamanje akufani neze neMpi Yomshoshaphansi ngomqondo owodwa: akukho โusongo lwamakhomanisi.โ Kukhona amaqembu amaKhomanisi e-Ukraine kunjalo; okushisayo ngezinkumbulo zabo zamaNazi kanye nama-fascists abalwa e-Ukraine, futhi inzalo yabo manje ekhuthele ku-Svoboda Party esekelwe eNtshonalanga, emele ngaphezu kwamaphesenti ayishumi evoti likazwelonke futhi kuze kufike kumaphesenti angu-40 entshonalanga ye-Ukraine.
Lokho amazwe aseNtshonalanga abhekane nakho entshonalanga ye-Ukraine, naseRussia ngokujwayelekile, amandla obuzwe, amasiko nenkolo anamandla asanda kuboniswa emidlalweni yama-Olympic eyimpumelelo. Noma yikuphi ukungenelela kwasentshonalanga, okuqondile noma okungaqondile, kugqugquzela lowo mthombo omkhulu wokumelana. Ingcindezi yangaphandle iqinisa ukuzimisela kwangaphakathi.
Lokhu akuwona neze ukuvikela iRussia kaPutin iyonke. Kodwa iNtshonalanga ibonakala ingakwazi ukunikeza izwe inhlonipho ebalulekile edingekayo ekubambisaneni nasekuxazululeni izingxabano, futhi iRussia iphendula ngokufanele, ngezikhathi nezindawo ezikhethiwe.
Ukuze uthole umbhalo ohlakaniphile nofundisayo ngeRussia phakathi namashumi eminyaka, bheka okukhanyisiwe kuka-Stephen F. Cohen Iziphetho zaseSoviet kanye Nezinye izindlela Ezilahlekile: Ukusuka ku-Stalinism kuya ku-New Cold War, i-Columbia University Press, ngo-2009.
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