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TIMOTI SNAYDER: RUSSIA ATTACKED UKRAINE, BECAUSE RUSSIANS STILL DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE
Yesterday at the Kiev Security Forum we released a video-performance of the world-renowned historian, professor of the Yelsky University Timothy Snyder.
His speech is a devastating reaction to Putin's article about "one people".
Wearing the main theses.
"As you are well known, this year Mr. Putin published an article in which he outlined his vision of the history of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Historically, this article has no value. When I read her as a historian, I feel like when at a party someone starts thinking about past events without understanding what they are talking about, but with hot beliefs. Usually in such situations historians nod, smile and find an excuse to walk away. But Mr. Putin is not just someone, but the head of an important state, - so his thoughts should be taken seriously. But not as for history - because in this sense his reasoning is ridiculous, - but as for politics.
The first thing to pay attention to in this article is that it is not about Ukraine at all. In fact she is about Russia. When we carefully read this article, we can notice that it is actually about the absence - the absence of the history of Russia. There is no history of Russia that Mr. Putin can tell. He can tell a story about certain relations with Ukraine, which for certain "mystic" reasons have gone wrong.
The second thing we notice in this article is that it is not about the future.
This is a story of the past. We see what is the characteristic of Putin's regime: in Mr. Putin's story about Russia there is no future, only the past, the "mythical past". This is the defining problem of his regime. In the oligarchy, kleptocracy, plutocracy, where all resources are concentrated in the hands of an elite regime close to the center, it is very difficult to talk about the future, very difficult to even imagine the future. So in this situation the kleptocratic regime produces myths about the past. A political space in which there is no future, it fills the past.
But the problem is that in such a story there is no room for Russians, no room for people. This story shows what actually early stage Russia is at in the sense of creating its national history. In the education of Putin Ukraine and Belarus in this story play the role of their own crutches. Russia can't tell a story about itself, so this story is based on other peoples...
... When we read this article in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the occupation of its territories, we conclude that Russia attacked Ukraine because the Russians still do not know who they are. Russia led by Putin invaded Ukraine in order to be able to tell something like a story about who the Russians are.
And this story that is terrible for Russia is totally negative. The story is: "We are people who do not understand the rest of the world. We are people who do not understand when we say that we and Ukrainians are one nation. We are people who do not understand Ukrainians when we tell them that we are one people."
So Putin is forming a mythological identity for Russia, focused on the past, completely negative, completely dependent on others who reject what Russia says about themselves and the rest of the world.
And here, according to my belief, the problem goes to the highest depth. This negative environment of Russia replaces the real foreign policy.
If Putin really had a real foreign policy that would aim to protect the long-term interests of the Russian Federation and its peoples, such international policy would have concentrated first on China, in the protection of Russian sovereignty stosovn about China.
Russia has existential problems in its relations with China. At the same time, she doesn't have such existential problems with the West. But the invasion of Ukraine and the narratives about this invasion create problems with the West, which could not have been.
In other words, Putin cut Russia from the West with this invasion and these narratives, which was absolutely unnecessary. At the same time, he brought Russia into a position under order of China. This is exactly what the "achievement" of the foreign policy of Mr. Putin looks like. And if you look at it sober, it's actually a failure of his foreign policy.
Today Russia has an influence in the world because it is located between the West and China. Attacking Ukraine, cutting itself off from the West, Russia seriously weakened its positions regarding China. This is the result of Putin's foreign policy.
We are approaching the final point. I will say what is not talked about in Russia, at least in political circles. Russia cut itself off from Ukraine. In the article, Mr. Putin claims that Russia and Ukraine should be together, but they are divided because of some "mystic" conspiracy of the West.
However, the truth is much simpler. The truth is right before us.
The reason why Ukraine and Russia are not close is because Russia attacked Ukraine. In other words, if Putin's purpose was actually good relations between Russia and Ukraine, then he and no one else made it impossible. Not only for the time of his regime, but also for years and decades later.
Word if he really cares about what he wrote - and I think that's true, his theses are historically ridiculous, but he believes it as a man - if he really cares to make Russia and Ukraine close, there is no person in the world that is would have been more to blame in the absence of this close relationship than Vladimir Putin himself...
... Why is this article, why did it appear now - 7 years after the attack on Ukraine? The answer is not related to the past, but with the present, not with Ukraine, but with Russia, in particular, with the late period of Putin's regime.
Mr. Putin is an aging leader of the despotic regime. Despotic regime that failed in its own aspirations. He could not make Russia an independent player of international politics, instead Russia became dependent on China. And he couldn't bring Russia and Ukraine closer. On the contrary - attacking Ukraine, Russia has become an enemy for a long time.
So at this stage in Putin's career all that remains is to hide these failures behind lies. "

the videolink from original  https://ksf.openukraine.org/en/news/2169-vistup-timoti-snajdera-istorika-profesora-jelysykogo-universitetu-na-kijivsykomu-bezpekovomu-forumi-video-tekst
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