Friday, August 2 2019 13:00

ArmInfo.  Relations between  Russia and the USA are far from even relations between the USA and  the USSR during the Cold War. Such an opinion at the meeting with  Armenian colleagues in the framework of the SputnikPro project in  Yerevan was expressed by Fedor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of the  journal "Russia in Global Affairs", director of scientific work of  the Development and Support Fund of the Valdai International  Discussion Club.

"During the Cold War, there was mutual respect and a very serious  perception of each other. Today there is no such respect and  perception, which in the light of the huge imbalance is very, very  dangerous. What surprises me on the current Russian-American agenda  is the establishment of Russia as internal factor of American  politics. In recent years, we have observed a completely opposite  trend, "he stressed.  At the same time, Lukyanov noted the complete  failure of the attempts of the winners of the Cold War to extend  after the collapse of the Soviet Union their own rules of the game to  yesterday's opponents.  According to him, Brexit became a landmark  event in this context.

The political scientist believes that in the light of fairly rapid  changes and transformations both within the United States and around  their foreign policy, we can already talk about their global  expansion in the past.  According to his estimates, the slogan  "America - first of all" will for a long time be the main leitmotif  of American politics. And in such conditions, of course, on a smaller  scale, it will immediately be projected onto the policies of other  states. Because it is the United States that continues to set the  tone in global politics.

In general, Lukyanov considers the past three decades as years of the  seemingly formation of a new system of world order. According to his  estimates, both the USA and Europe, and China with the post-Soviet  states experienced the expectation and sensation of this. However, 30  years after the end of the Cold War, a new world order, according to  his conviction, was never formed.

"Today's world is changing very quickly. It seemed unshakable  yesterday, the rules and norms are crumbling before our eyes. As a  result, yesterday's winners of the Cold War today were faced with a  choice of what to do now and which direction to go. And if earlier in  Europe, for example , it was believed that uncertainty is the  prerogative of Russia, now Europeans themselves are not in a position  to speak definitely about their own future, "summed up Lukyanov.